英汉翻译练习

Unit 2 词语翻译：增词法与减词法

Business was rather slow last month.

The book is rather slow.

You’d better go slow in reaching a conclusion.

He is slow of understanding.

He is so slow that I have to explain everything several times.

Be slow to promise but quick to practice.

He is slow at speech with women yet.

Oh, what a story.

To make a long story short.

It is another story.

He storied about his academic career and his professional career.

Once the story got abroad, I would never hear the last of it.

You put me on the spot. I have to cook up a story this time.

It was reported that the general was dead, but officials refused to confirm the story.

to launch a movement, campaign, drive

to launch a training program, class, course

to launch a satellite

to launch a loan

Their people have always been available to offer assistance and answer technical questions.

You have a creative edge in business.

In every Chinese city, we got into the streets, shops, parks, theatres and restaurants.

In the evening, after the banquet, the concerts and the table tennis exhibitions, he would work on the drafting of the final communiqué.

The war made a man of him.

Deflation has now reached unprecedented level.

The crowds melted away.

As he sat down and began talking, words poured out.

First you borrow, then you beg.

Day after day he came to his work—sweeping, scrubbing, cleaning.

This typewriter is indeed cheap and fine.

He is a complicated man—moody, mercurial, with a melancholy streak.

He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge, and declared his own son guilty.

Flowers bloom all over the yard

The lion is the king of animals

The ASIAN countries have designated 1992 as “Asian Tourism Year”, and are cooperating in a drive to convince the world’s pleasure-and-culture-seekers of their attractions.

A red sun rose slowly from the calm sea

A stream is winding its way through the valley into the river.

Don’t take it seriously. I’m just making fun of you.

As for me, I didn’t agree from the very beginning.

Sino-British links have multiplied—political, commercial, educational, cultural, defense, science and technology.

The thesis summed up the new achievements made in electronic computers, artificial satellites and

rockets.

Yes, I like Chinese food. Lots of people do these days, sort of fashion.

Men and nations working apart created these problems, men and nations working together must solve them.

Any excuse will serve if one has not a mind to do it.

We assure you of our reciprocation your courtesy at any time.

He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.

It was just growing dark, as she shut the garden gate.

It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house.

He looked gloomy and troubled.

Because departure is not easy we made it brief.

China is changing, and the changes in China, if they continue, may profoundly change the world. Smoking is prohibited in public places.

On the 13th of May, 1956, I became a civilian again.

University applicants who had worked at a job would receive preference over those who had not. Domestic lighting circuits should be at least two in number.

自选：

1. He glanced at his watch; it was 7:15.

2. She felt the flowers were in her fingers, on her lips, growing in her breast.

3. In my childhood I learned a great deal about Russia.

4. It is only shallow people who judge by appearance.

Domestic lighting circuits should be at least two in number.

Unit 3 重复法词类转换

We have to analyze and solve problems.

Marketing economy is itself the product of long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange.

We talked of ourselves, of our prospects, of the journey, of the weather, of each other—of everything but our host and hostess.

You may go with them if you want to.

He needs assistants in his research work, but he hasn’t yet got a competent one.

It is possible to convert energy from one form into another

Nylon is nearly twice as strong as natural silk.

In spite of the growth of other kinds of transport, railroads continue to be, as they used to be over years, the backbone of the transportation industry.

The developed countries are full of skilled labor and capital, while developing countries which are lack of skilled workers and capital need to import technology-intensive products from these countries.

You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying.

The following plan may become available during the next decade.

He asked me for a full account of myself and family.

His style is characterized by brevity.

Trade union leaders claimed that some of their members had been victimized by being dismissed. 自选：

He was a regular visitor.

He is no smoker, but his father is a chain-smoker.

An acquaintance of world history is helpful to the study of current affairs.

Talking with the his son, the old man was the forgiver of the young man’s past wrong doings.

We are especially thankful to you for arranging the meeting for us with the Machinery Trading Delegation at such short notice.

They were not content with their present achievements.

He was eloquent and elegant-but soft。

This course of study is designed to help those wishing to teach abroad

The earth on which we live is shaped a ball.

Rockets have found application for the exploration of the universe.

One way an organization can find staff for job vacancies is to recruit outside the company. It may opt to put an advertisement in a newspaper or magazine which gives a short description of the job and invites introductory letters from applicants.

Since the company would not desire applicants who do not have a good profile, it is important that an application form sent to a prospective applicant should request clear information about such things as the applicant’s age, qualifications and work experience as well as references from other individuals who know the applicant well.

This information assists the company’s management in making a final decision on those applicants they can short-list for an interview.

The staff conducting an interview together are called an “interview panel”, who, prior to the interview, carefully review the job descriptions, personnel specifications, and applications. To help the panel in their selection, an interview assessment form is often used during the interview when each applicant is checked according to a number of criteria indicated on the form.

Unit 4. 词义的引申与正反表达

It is all very well, again, to have a tiger in the tank, but to have one in the driver's seat is another matter altogether.

Every life has its roses and thorns.

we have progressed a long way from the early days of electrical engineering。

She sailed into the room

The new father wore a proud smile.

He started to his feet with the intention of awaking the sleepers, for there was no time to lose. Cleverer heads than mine might have seen his drift.

Sea-sawing between partly good and faintly ominous, the news for the next four weeks was never distinct.

If you wish to be the best man, you must suffer the bitterest of the bitter.

Even after Black Friday, most bulls remained, well, bullish.

This problem has been little studied.

Scarcely anybody believes that

His statement was entirely out of place on such an occasion.

Mr. Williams Robert was blind to his son’s faults.

Life is far from being abed of roses

The man is too selfish to help others.

The river is too broad for us to swim across.

Suits was the last thing he would like to wear.

Our mayor is the last man to accept a bribe.

The wooden bridge is anything but safe.

He is anything but a scholar.

He is the most ungenerous I know, you will get damn all out of him.

Bionics is all Greek to me.

I’m all thumbs as far as drawing is concerned.

自选：

将下列句子翻译成汉语，注意形式否定，意义肯定的现象。

1. The wooden bridge is anything but safe .

2. He is anything but a scholar.

3. How he managed to live is more than I can tell.

4. Don’t tell him more than you can help.

5. I’m wise than to believe what you call money talks.

6. You ought to know better than to go swimming immediately after a big meal.

7. Bionics is all Greek to me.

8. I’m all thumbs as far as drawing is concerned.

Unit 5 被动语态

The crops were washed away by the flood.

The whole horde of enemy soldiers was wiped out by the guerrillas.

You’ve guessed right.

The difficulties have been overcome, the work has been finished and the problem solved.

Other questions will be discussed briefly.

Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety, and even life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation.

It is generally accepted that the experiences of the child in his first years largely determine his character and later personality.

It could be argued that the radio performs this service as well, but on television everything is much more living, much more real.

By the end of the war, 800 people had been saved by the organization, but at a cost of 200 Belgian and French lives.

Great efforts should be made to inform young people especially the dreadful consequences of taking up the habit of smoking.

The decision to attack was not taken lightly.

In the old society，women were looked down upon.

Early fires on the earth were certainly caused by nature, not by Man.

The window pane was broken by the child.

I was so impressed by these words that I used them later for a Christmas card.

The famous hotel had been practically destroyed by the big fire.

The plan is going to be examined first by the research group.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is inundated with up to four million e-mails a day - most of them junk.

自选

The English language is being destroyed by a "deadly virus of management speak" which has infected the mouths and minds of politicians like Tony Blair and George W. Bush, a leading UK journalist said recently.

Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen by many Israelis as a ruthless terrorist and a roadblock to peace, died early Thursday in Paris.

Arafat had been sick with an unknown illness that had been variously described as the flu, a stomach virus or gallstones.

In 1994, Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for their work on the Oslo accords, seen at the time as a breakthrough toward an independent Palestinian state and a permanent peace with Israel.

Unit 6各种从句的翻译

This is a universally accepted principle of international law that the territory sovereignty doesn’t admit of infringement.

Canada has long subscribed to the view that no state should use its territory or allow it to be used in such a way as to injure the environment of another state or of the "international commons".

But considered realistically, we had to face the fact that our prospects were less than good.

I told him that because of the last condition, I’d have to turn it down.

I also told him how appealing I found the offer.

He would remind people again that it was decided not only by himself but by lots of others.

I made it clear to them that they must hand in their papers before 10 o'clock in the morning. These three colors, red, green, and violet, when combined, produced white.

Where there is nothing in the path of beam of light, nothing is seen.

Because he was convinced of the accuracy of this fact, he stuck to his opinion.

While she spoke, the tears were running down.

Please turn off the lights when you leave the room.

When censorship laws are relaxed, dishonest people are given a chance to produce virtually anything in the name of “art”

He had hardly rushed into the room when he shouted, “Fire! Fire！”

He had scarcely handed me the letter when he asked me to read it.

He shouted as he ran.

They set him free when his ransom had not yet been paid.

The crops failed because the season was dry.

We have to put the meeting off since so many people were absent.

Because he was convinced of the accuracy of this fact, he stuck to his opinion.

After all, it did not matter much, because in 24 hours, they were going to be free.

He was not only surprised but, to start with, extremely suspicious, as he had every reason to be.

It was better in case they were captured.

If one of them collapsed, as they often did, the guide used to carry him over the mountains.

You can drive tonight if you are ready.

Although he seems hearty and outgoing in public, Mr. Cooks is a withdrawn, introverted man. While I grant his honesty, I suspect his memory.

No matter what misfortune befell him, he always squared his shoulders and said: “Never mind, I’ll work harder.”

He pushed open the door gently and stole out of the room for fear that he should awake her.

The murderer ran away as fast as he could, so that he might not be caught red-handed.

The people who worked for him lived in mortal fear of him.

He managed to raise a crop of 200 miracle tomatoes that weighed up to two ponds each.

It is he who received the letter that announced the death of your uncle.

“We are a nation that must beg to stay alive,” said a foreign economist.

There is a man downstairs who wants to see you.

He did not remember his father who died when he was three years old.

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

They are striving for the ideal which is close to the heart of every Chinese and for which, in the past, many Chinese have laid down their lives.

And someone with a history of doing more rather than less will go into old age more cognitively sound than someone who has not had an active mind.

The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak.

A contrast is often made between business, which is competitive, and government, which is a monopoly.

In 1872 Thomson led a scientific expedition, which lasted for four years and brought home thousands of samples from the sea.

For every course that he follows a student is given a grade, which is recorded, and the record is available for the student to show to prospective employers.

Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion.

A resolution was passed on enforcing sanctions upon Iraq, which extends support to Kuwait in safeguarding its sovereignty.

A serious earthquake took place in Los Angeles last week which caused heavy losses of property. He made the sound of sympathy which comes so readily from those who have an independent income.

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

There was something original in his thesis proposal, which pleased the professors.

Professor Wang, who has a good command of several foreign languages, is qualified to be an interpreter on that occasion.

A serious earthquake took place in Los Angeles last week which caused heavy losses of property. It does not alter the fact that he is the man responsible for the delay.

They set him free when his ransom had not yet been paid.

Unit 7长句和难句

The General Assembly may call the attention of the Security Council to situations which are likely to endanger international peace and security.

You are the representative of a country and of a continent to which China feels particularly close. That is the single monetary policy which will be discussed at the next European Union Conference.

This is particularly true of the countries of the commonwealth, who see Britain’s membership of the Community a guarantee that the policies of the community will take their interests into account.

I believe strongly that it is in the interest of my countrymen that Britain should remain an active and energetic member of the European Community.

At this moment, through the wonder of telecommunications, more people are seeing and hearing what we say than on any other occasions in the whole history of the world.

If the announcement of the recovery of Hong Kong would bring about, as Madam put it, “disastrous effects,” we will face that disaster squarely and make a new pol icy decision.

自选

New ideas are an old tradition at Siemens.

The company that grew out of the original Siemens & Halske is today a highly innovative leader in the world electrical and electronics market.

Composed of Siemens AG and an array of domestic and foreign subsidiaries, the contemporary Siemens organization continues to set milestones on the road to progress.

Siemens maintains its own production facilities in 35 countries and operates a world-wide sales network.

With more than 300,000 employees, it is one of the largest companies in the world electrical/electronics industry, having recorded annual sales of DM 54 billion in the 1986/87 fiscal year.

Reliable and farsighted management is united with the youthful dynamism and zest for innovation that typify the company.