长句翻译

We are faced with a choice between using technology to provide and fulfill needs which have been regarded as unnecessary or, on the other hand, using technology to reduce the number of hours of work which a man must do in order to earn a given standard of living.

我们面临着一种选择：要么利用技术来提供并满足一直被视为并无必要的各种需求，要么利用技术来缩短人们为了维持一定的生活水准而必须工作的时数。

你们将要进行考察的这座城市，曾经是闻名世界的四大文明古城之一。摆在你们面前的印刷品，会使你们对该城市有个基本概念：它如何形成；从初具雏形它就带着何种与生俱来的发展趋势；而这些趋势又如何使它在建筑风格上形成今天这种格局。

You will have a general idea from the handout which you have in front of you of how this city originated, which had once been one of the world’s four famous civilized cities and into which an investigation is going to be made; of what developmental trends were built into it, as it were, from the very outset; and of how these trends have made what it is today in its architectural style.

In reading, we appear to enter into a world of imagination, a few people seek refuge from reality in this and always prefer it to the world of everyday, but they are missing the full significance if they do so.

读书时，我们进入了一个想象的世界，一些人在那个世界中寻求现实的避难所，并总以为那个世界比现实世界好，但是，他们如果这样做的话，就失去了读书的全部意义。

We sincerely hope that your congratulations will be matched by your collective effort to seek a just and practical solution to the problem which has challenged the United Nations for so many years.

我们诚恳地希望，你们在表示祝贺之后，能采取与之呼应的共同行动，以寻求一个公正合理又切实可行的方案，来解决这个多年来一直困扰着联合国的难题。

The global economy that boomed in the 1960s, growing at an average of 5.5 percent a year, and pushed ahead at a 4.5 percent-a-year rate in the mid-1970s, simply stopped growing from

1981 to 1982.

世界经济在60年代迅速繁荣，以年均5.5%的速度增长；到了70年代中期仍以年均4.5%的速度向前推进；但是从1981年到1982年增长就完全停滞。

The number of young people in the United States who cannot read is incredible --- about one in four.（单词拆译）

大约四分之一的美国年轻人不具备阅读能力，这简直令人难以置信。

Let us admit, and regret, that he honestly believes it impossible to differ from him.（单词拆译）

我们不得不承认，他真的相信凡与他抱不同见解的人不可能是一个正人君子，这是令人遗憾的事

There is a tide taken at the flood in the affairs not only of men but of women too, which leads on to fortune.（词组拆译）

人生在世，有时会走运，抓住时机，就能飞黄腾达，不但男性如

此，女性也一样。

With the fear of, largely imaginary, plots against his leadership, his self-confidence seemed totally to desert him.

由于害怕有人阴谋推翻他的领导地位，他似乎完全丧失了自信，但是所谓的阴谋在很大程度上是他自己凭空想象出来的。

A friendly correspondence as neighbors and old acquaintances had continued between me and Mrs. Read’s family, who all had a regard for me from the time of my first lodging in their house.（从句拆译）从我第一次入住他们家开始，里德太太一家人就一直对我很关心，我们像是友好的邻居，又像是相识多年的老朋友那样，书信来往始终未断。

This land, which once barred the way of weary travelers, now has become a land for winter and summer vacations, a land of magic and wonder.（从句拆译）

现在此处已经成为冬夏两季的度假胜地，风光景物，蔚为奇观；而从前，筋疲力尽的旅游者到此只得止步。

Some men have been virtuous blindly, others have speculated fantastically, and others have been shrewd to bad purposes. （单词拆译）

有些人品行端正，但却不去推究为什么要这样做；有些人深思熟虑，但却流于脱离现实；有些人非常精明，但却把精明用于邪道。

Next door, a larger-than-expected audience of 300 attended the Fifteenth International Conference on Environment Protection.（词组拆译）

隔壁大厅里，参加“第十五届国际环境保护大会”的人数竟达300名之多，这真是出乎意料。

On behalf of all of your American guests, I wish to thank you for the incomparable hospitality for which the Chinese people are justly famous throughout the world.（从句拆译）

我谨代表所有美国客人向你们表示感谢，感谢你们无可比拟的盛情款待，中国人民以这种热情好客而闻名于世。

It is extraordinary that in all the years the British spent in Egypt they never got to know the real people of Egypt. （部分倒置）

英国人在埃及消磨的岁月如此之长，而对真正的埃及人民却一无

所知，这点颇不寻常。

Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers.（部分倒置）

许多人常常宁愿牺牲较高的工资以换取白领工人的社会地位，这在西方倒是人之常情。

And he knew how ashamed he would have been ①if his girl friend had known ②his mother ③and the kind of place where he was born, and ④the kind of people among whom he was born. ⑤（全部倒置）

他出生在这类人中间，⑤出生在这样的地方，④他有这样的母亲，③这些如果让他女朋友知道了的话，②他明白有多么丢人。①

A great number of graduate students were driven into the intellectual slums when in the United States the intellectual poor ①became the classic poor, the poor under the rather romantic guise of the Beat Generation, ②a real phenomenon in the late fifties. ③（全部倒置）

50年代后期，美国出现了一种任何人都不可能视而不见的现象，

③穷知识分子以“垮掉的一代”这种颇为浪漫的姿态出现而成为美国典型的穷人②：正是在这个时候，大批大学毕业生被赶进知识分子贫民窟。①。

Any man on the street scarcely realizes that whereas the disappearance, or even what we see in some quarters, the continuous neglect and degradation of the teaching profession, must mean a disaster to the entire nation. （部分倒置）

如果没有教师这一职业，或者像在某些地区那样，教育事业长期不受重视并且每况愈下，那么就整个国家而言，这必将是一场灾难。这一点一般人很少认识到。

Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; ①they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, ②if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. ③（全部倒置）

假如没有那些以昆虫为食的动物保护我们，①昆虫会吞噬我们所有的庄稼，害死我们的牛羊家畜，②使我们不能生存于世。③

The big problem of comprehension of the English text and the bigger problem of how to express it in rich, present-day Chinese,

which ranges from the classical to the oral, both have to be solved in the course of translation.

理解英语文本是一个大问题。既然现代汉语文言口语兼收并蓄，如何运用如此丰富多彩的文字来表达英语原文含义是一个更大的问题。这两个问题在翻译过程中都要得到解决。

Learning is, in too many cases, a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles with which to look at nature, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and lazy persons.

书本理应是人们观察自然的透视镜，却常常被视力不佳和生性懒惰的人用来遮光护眼，好使他们对自然的光芒和变化的景色视而不见。那种以学识替代真知的人真是太多了。

Law-and-order is the longest-running and probably the best-loved political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are increasingly taking liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect them and their society.

法律和秩序是美国历史上持续时间最长、也可能是政治上最热门

的话题。然而，如今数以百万计的美国人尽管从来不认为自己会违反法律，更不用说会成为罪犯，却在越来越随意地践踏那些专为保护他们和他们的社会而制定的法规。显而易见，这不能不使人痛心疾首。