英语复合句的翻译)译文

Translation Exercises: (英语复合句的翻译)

1.Although television was developed for broadcasting, many important uses have been found that have nothing to do with it.

虽然电视是为了广播而发明的, 但是电视还有许多与广播无关的重要用途。

2. This happens when a fact is discovered which seems to contra dict what the “law” would lead one to expect.

每当发现一个事实使人感到与该定律应得出的预期结论相矛盾的时候, 就发生这种情况。3. There’s a possibility we will go, but it all depends on the weather.

我们可能去，但要看天气如何。

4. Why he left wasn’t important.

他为什么走并不重要。

5. It was uncertain whether he would come or not.

他来不来还不肯定。

6. It’s strange that he knows nothing about it.

很奇怪他对此竟不无所知。

7. When he’ll be back depends much on the weather.

他什么时候回来很大程度上取决于天气。

8. Whether we’ll succeed remains to be seen.

我们能否成功还要拭目以待。

9. It hasn’t been announced who are the wi nners.

谁获胜还没有宣布。

10. It’s no business of yours where I spend my summer.

我在哪儿过夏天不干你的事。

11. It’s amazing that he should have said nothing about the murder.

对这起谋杀案他竟然只字未抻真令人惊讶。

12. It was a mystery how the burglar got in.

小偷怎么进去的是一个谜。

13. It’s a puzzle how li fe began.

生命如何开始的是一个谜。

14. What will be, will be.

该发生的事总会发生.

15. Whoever come will be welcome.

谁来都欢迎。

16. Whichever of you comes in first will receive a prize.

不管你们谁第一个到都可以得到一份奖品。

17. Their first idea was that he had hidden it.

他们的第一个想法是他把它藏起来了。

18. The reason that Hollywood was a good place for making movies was that the sun shines there every day.

好莱坞是拍电影的好地方,原因是那里天天有太阳。

19. The question is who is responsible for what has happened.

问题是发生了这事该谁负责。

20. That is why the sound of an approaching train can be heard in the steelrails long before its being heard through the air.

这就是为什么人们通过钢轨听到一列驶近的火车的声言比由空气中传来的早得多。

为什么人们通过钢轨听到一列驶近的火车的声言比由空气中传来的早得多，道理就在这里。

21. The reason that the light from the flashlight will not bounce off a rough brick wall, as it does from a smooth wooden wall, is that the light is sent off in different directions by the uneven surface of the bricks.

手电筒的光从粗糙的砖墙反射出来（的情况），不像它从平滑的板墙上反射出来那样，其原因是光线被砖的不平的表面从不同的方向反射出来。

22. There was no doubt that he was a fine scholar.

毫无疑问，他是位优秀的学者。

23. We received a message that he would be absent.

我们收到了他将缺席的消息。

24. We have proof that this man committed the crime.

我们有证据说明是这个人犯的罪。

25. I had impression that she chose her words with care.

我有印象,她选词很小心。

26. He presented evidence that his thesis was based on original research.

他提交证据表明,他的论文是根据原告的研究写成的。

27. I’ve come to the conclusion that it won’t be wise to do so.

我得出结论这样做是不明智的。

28. There is rumour that you have resigned.

有谣言说你辞职了。

29. They received assurance that the Union would stand by them.

他们得到保证工会将支持他们。

30. Kate begged them to give the money to Tom, who must want it, while she lacked for nothing. 凯特恳求他们把钱送给汤姆，因为汤姆确实需要钱用，而她什么都有。

31. The idea of a fish being able to generate electricity strong enough to light small bulbs, even to run an electric motor, is almost unbelievable.

鱼能发电，而且发的电力足够小灯泡照明，甚至驱动马达，这种设想几乎难以置信。

32. Since the molecules of a gas are much too far from each other to repel or attract each other, it is very easy to compress a gas, while a solid or liquid is almost incompressibble, because the repulsion of the electrical charges of which its atoms are made up are far stronger than any force we can apply.

由于气体分子相隔太远, 不能相互排斥或吸引, 所以气体很容易压缩, 而固体或液体几乎是不可压缩的, 因为其原子的电荷斥力比我们所施加的压力都要强得多。

33. The resistance of any length of a conducting wire is easily measured by finding the potential difference in volts between its ends when a known current is flowing.

已知导线中的电流，只要求出导线两端电位差的伏特数，就不难测出任何长度导线的电阻。

34. You must fixe in mind the symbols and formulas, definitions and laws of physics, no matter how complex they may be, when you come in contact with them, in order that you may understand the subject better and lay a solid foundation for further study.

为了更好地了解物理学，并为进一步学习打好扎实的基础，当你接触到物理学上的符号、公式、定义和定律的时候，不管它们是多么复杂，你都必须把它们牢牢记住。

35. In reality, the lines of division between sciences are becoming blurred, and science is again approaching the “unity” that it had two centuries ago---although the accumulated knowledge is enormously greater now, and no one person can hope to comprehend more than a fracton of it.

虽然现在积累起来的知识要多得多，而且任何人也只可望了解其中的一小部分，但事实上，各学科之间界线都变得模糊不清，科学再次近似于两百年前那样的“单一整体”。

36. A student of mathematics must become familiar with all the signs and symbols commonly used

in mathematics and bear them in mind firmly, and be well versed in the field of mathematics, in order that he may be able to build up the foundation of the mathematical subject and master it well for pursuing advanced study.

为了打好数学基础，掌握好数学以便进一步深造，一个学数学的大学生必须熟记和牢记数学中常用的记号、符号、定义、公式以及术语。

37. How these two things---energy and matter---behave, how they interact one with the other, and how people control them to serve themselves make up the substance of two basic physical sciences, physics and chemistry.

能和物质这两种东西如何起作用，它们如何相互影响, 人们如何控制它们使之为自己服务, 这些问题构成两门基础自然科学---物理和化学的主要内容。

38. We are finally led to the conclusion that if the resistance of the floor could be entirely removed any horizontal force could start the box moving and once started, it would continue to move indefinitely unless a force were exerted to stop it.

我们最终得出结论：如果地板的阻力可以完全取掉的话，那么任何一个水平力都会使箱子运动了；箱子一旦开始运动，就会无止境地运动下去，直到施加力停止施力为止。

39. The first method is to give a synonym, a word that has nearly the same meaning as the word you wish to define: face for countenance, nervousness for anxiety.

第一种方法是同义词法, 即给出一个与需要释义的词在意义上几乎相同的词, 用face表示countenance, 用nervousness表示anxiety.

40. Behaviourists, in contrast, say that difference in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy.

(90年考题) 相反, 行为主义者认为, 成绩的差异是由于黑人常常被剥夺了白人在教育及其他外界环境方面所享有的许多有利条件而造成的。

41. The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food. (91年考题) 食品的供应将赶不上人口的增长, 这就意味着我们在粮食的生产和购销方面正陷入危机。

42. Anyone who thinks that rational knowledge need not be derived from perceptual knowledge is an idealist.

如果认为理性知识不必由感性知识得来, 那他就是一个唯心主义者。

43. In office, figures, lists and information are compiled which tell the managers or heads of the business what is happening in their shops or factories. （85年考题) 在办公室里, 工作人员将各种数据﹑表格和信息加以汇编, 以便让经理或主管人员了解他们的商店或工厂目前正在发生的情况。