英汉翻译练习

Hand-in Exercise 6

1. You may feel silly reading to your cat (or to no one at all), but once you get into the rhythm of the author’s voice, you will begin to read more accurately and with better vocal expression（声音表现力）. Try listening to the author reading their own work—you’ll be surprised to find how clearly it comes through on the page.

2. Writing and reading go hand-in-hand: how and what you read affects how and what you write, and the best readers often make the best writers. But while much can be learned from close, repeated readings, there are many secretive pleasures to language that can only be experienced through the practice of writing. This is why certain authors are labeled “writer’s writers”; another level of meaning and intense appreciation exists for those who create rather than simply observe. Try writing every day for a month; you will never read the same again.

3.According to the National Sleep Foundation, 95 percent of Americans use some device, whether it's a TV, laptop, cell phone or other gadget, within an hour of hitting the hay. "Artificial light exposure between dusk and the time we go to bed at night ... shifts circadian rhythms to a later hour -- making it more difficult to fall asleep," Charles Czeisler, Ph.D., M.D., chief of the division of sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and professor and director of the division of sleep

medicine at Harvard Medical School said in a statement.

4.The growth of class consciousness among the workers was inhibited by continued high levels of employment and rising earnings for almost 15 years, combined with the propaganda of views in the labor movement reflecting the influence of Keynesian theories (凯恩斯理论）about the ability of capitalism to solve permanently the problem of “boom and bust” through a “managed economy” of built-in stabilizers.

5.I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do, opinions of a charcter very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely, and without reserve. （Patrick Henry;s speech in the Virginia convention of delegates)

6.The great difficulty of introducing radically new computer architectures which requires customers to rewrite most of their software excluded the possibility for these techniques to find their way to the commercial marketplace.

7.The monitor was checking all of the door and windows, when he heard somebody crying in the corner of the classroom.

8.Turn off the switch when anything goes wrong with the machine.

9.Since you have known thecause of the fire, I won’t speak more of it in the report.

10.Decision must be made very rapidly because any delay of time may cause danger to the workers involved in the accident.

11.As I am an adult now, I can make decisions on my own.

12.Sunrays filtered in where they could, driving out darkness and choking the shadow.

13.I’m going tomorrow whether it is raining or not.

14.Please confirm ASAP so that we can start our mass production.

15.Americans have a great range of customs and habits that at first may seem puzzling to a visitor.

16.University applicants who had worked at a job would receive preference over those who had not.

17.Anyone who works hard and never gives up will succeed.

18.A new product which has beautiful packing, good quality and advertising may very likely be a hit in the market.

19.Penny wise, pound foolish.

20.They quarreled with each other everyday, which led to their dicorce.

21.Bernard Shaw was a world-famous playwriter, who wote many good plays.

22.He rejected the job, which is very inviting to many others in terms of income.