英汉互译 中译英

Hangzhou scenery

杭州位于浙江省北部，钱塘江北岸，大运河的南端，是中国古老的风景名城。Hangzhou, an ancient renowned city for its picturesque scenery, is situated in the northern part of Zhejiang province, along the northern bank of the Qiantang River and at the southern terminus of the Grand Canal

蜿蜒曲折的钱塘江，穿过浙西的崇山峻岭到这里之后，江面开阔，景色壮丽After winding through high| lofty mountain ridges of the western part of Zhejiang, the Qiantang River becomes wider with a majestic scenery.

特别是每年中秋前后有钱塘江潮，怒涛奔腾，激流汹涌，蔚为天下大观Especially around the Mid-Autumn Day every year comes the Qiantang tide, billows raging with great fury, which presents a splendid sight.

美丽迷人的西湖，位于市区的西面，总面积5.6平方公里。

In the west part of the city lies the charming West Lake which covers a total area of 5.6 square kms.

纵贯南北的苏堤和横列东西的白堤，把全湖分成外湖、里湖、岳湖、西里湖和小南湖五个部分。

The Su Causeway running north and south and the Bai Causeway going east and west divide the whole lake into five sections: Outer Lake, Inner Lake, Yue Lake, West Inner Lake and Less South Lake.

The lake is divided by… into…

湖面波光闪闪，湖边茂林修竹，景色四季宜人。

With glistening water and luxuriant trees and bamboo groves along its bank, the West Lake has attractive landscape all the year round.

西湖又名“西子湖”。北宋苏东坡在咏潮的诗篇中，把西湖比作古代美女西施，西湖就更加名扬四海了。

Su Dongpo, a celebrated poet of the Northern Song Dynasty (960—1127 AD), once in a poem compared the lake to an ancient Chinese beauty named Xizi. Hence comes the name—Xi Zi Lake. Since then it has enjoyed a high reputation in the whole country.

杭州不仅风景奇异，名胜古迹众多，她的传说和故事也甚为美丽动人。Hangzhou has many scenery spots and historical sites as well as a lot of moving legends and stories.

In addition to …, Hangzhou has more to recommend itself. Its legends and stories are moving as well.

…; however, Hangzhou has more to recommend itself than the above-mentioned scenic spots. Its legends and stories are moving as well.

Hong Kong

香港坐落在中国南端的一个弹丸小岛上。在日趋全球化的经济中，香港正扮演着一个非常重要的角色。由于香港的战略位置，面向国际的商业氛围，和优越的通讯条件，使她成为世界贸易的活动中心和亚太地区的神经中枢。

Hong Kong, a tiny island at the tip of South China, plays a pivotal role in an increasingly globalized economy / in the ongoing economic globalization.

Thanks to / Given its strategic location, internationally-oriented business culture and excellent communications, it(Hong Kong) has become / been established as a crossroads of world trade and the pivot / nerve center of the Asia-Pacific region.

香港已和世界上170个国家和地区的公司有商业往来，与亚洲其他国家和地区的贸易大幅度增长。香港的集装箱港口是世界上最繁忙的，而且还在进一步扩建。Hong Kong has commercial links with corporations in over 170 countries and regions, its trade with the rest of Asia increasing substantially.

The container port here, which is undergoing further expansion, is one of the busiest in the world.

虽然香港开始成为世界金融中心还是最近二十年的事，但现在海外贷款已占到香港银行提供的总贷款的一半以上

Although Hong Kong?s emergence as a world financial center came in recent 20 years, offshore loans account for more than half of the total loans provided by its banks / the local banks.

It has been no more than 20 years since Hong Kong emerged as a world financial center…

当这颗东方明珠重新回到中国的掌上时，中国人民眼中的香港未来比过去任何时候都更加光明灿烂。

As the “Oriental Pearl” returns once again to China?s palm, its people see her future as brighter than ever.

This Oriental Pearl will have a future brighter than ever before when it returns to the motherland?s arms / after the restoration of China?s sovereignty over it.

Who Cooks Supper?

“男耕女织”、“男主外女主内”

?Men tilling the farm and women weaving

?Men do farm work and women engage in spinning and weaving

?The men plough and the women weave

?The man is responsible for important decisions; the woman for housework.“男耕女织”、“男主外女主内”这种中国世代沿袭的男女分工，在二十世纪五十年代开始发生变化。当时，新中国刚诞生，社会提倡男女平等.

For a long time tradition said, “T he man plows, the woman weaves; the man is responsible for important decisions, the woman for housework.”This began to change in China in the 1950s when New China was just founded and equality between men and women was encouraged.

千百年来围着锅台转的家庭妇女被当作强大的人力资源解放出来参加社会生产。Women chained to the kitchen sink in former days were considered important human resources and liberated to take part in social construction.

一九四○年，中国就业妇女占妇女总数的百分之九，到一九八七年已达到百分之四十九点六八。

●In 1940 professional women accounted for 9 percent of Chinese women; in 1987

the proportion reached 49.68 percent.

●Only 9% of Chinese women had jobs in 1940 while 40% in 1987.

●The percentage of working women in the total female population rose from 9% in

1940 to 49.68% in 1987.

●The percentage of working women in the total female population in 1987 is

49.68% compared with 9% in 1940.

妇女与丈夫共同承担起供养家庭的职责，同时男人们也一道肩负起教育子女、操持家务的担子

●Women began to take on more responsibility for family support, and men began

sharing the load in both raising children and managing household affairs.

●Women began to take on… with their husbands who also began sharing…

●Women helped their husband in… while men also played their role in … / assume

the obligation of…

今天承担家务的一些男人还在怀念昔日以男子为中心的年代。那时，他们下了班回家，热腾腾的晚餐已摆好在桌上，妻子儿女围上来问寒问暖；家中大事小事多由自己作主，因为男人作为一家之主承担了全家经济生活的来源。

Some men who have to deal with the household chores still miss the good old days when the man was the center of the family.

At that time when the husband came home from work, he was greeted with a delicious meal and the warm greetings of his wife and children.Moreover, everything in the family, big or small, was decided by the husband, because he held the purse strings.

妇女走出家门就业后，男人的供养职责相对减少，在家庭的地位也变得不像从前那么举足轻重了

●After women began to take jobs in society, men?s responsibility for family

support was reduced and their status in the family was no longer so dominant.

●With the wife working / With a working wife, the husband shouldered less

responsibility for family support and he was no longer the dominant figure in the family as before.

夫妻双方都有职业，在社会化服务并不发达的中国，繁重的家务事自然应落在夫妻二人身上。

●Household tasks should reasonably be shared by the husband and wife who

both have jobs in China where social service not so developed.

●In a double-income family, husband and wife should reasonably share the

household tasks for there is no well-developed social service in China.

Deng Xiaoping on “One Country, Two Systems”

在中国的某些地区，如香港和台湾，虽然允许资本主义存在，但社会主义依然是中国的主体。

Although capitalism is allowed in certain regions of China, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan, socialism remains dominant in China.

在解决香港问题上已经证明行之有效的“一国两制”构想也可用于解决国际问题。The concept of “One country, two systems”, which has been proved successful/effective in solving Hong Kong issue, could be used to settle international problems.

（该杂志）引用邓和外宾及港澳人士的一系列谈话，追述了这类构想在1978年中国共产党“十一届三中全会”上首次讨论以来的形成过程。

Using a collection of Deng?s talks with foreign guests and people from Hong Kong and Macao, the article traces the formation of these ideas since they were first discussed in the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Chinese Communist Party Central Committee in 1978.

引用邓的话说，如果资本主义制度在港台得不到保障，那里的繁荣与稳定就不能维持，和平解决问题也就不可能了。

If the capitalist system is not guaranteed in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Deng is quoted as saying,prosperity and stability there cannot be maintained and a peaceful settlement will become impossible.

邓说，之所以提出自1997年维持香港的资本主义制度50年不变的构想，是因为中国需要50到60年才能实现现代化。

The idea that the capitalist system in Hong Kong / Hong Kong?s existing capitalist system should remain unchanged for 50 years after 1997, Deng said, was advanced because China needs 50 to 60 years to realize modernization.

据邓所说，采取“一国两制”适合中国国情，并非权宜之计。

According to Deng, the “one country, two systems” is a policy which has been adopted to suit China?s position rather than an expedient measure.

文章引用邓的话说，统一中国是全民族的愿望，即使要一千年也是要实现统一的。(The article quotes Deng saying that) the reunification of China is a national desire and will be realized even if it takes a thousand years

邓说：“‘一国两制’构想并非我个人的想法，而是由全国人民代表大会通过的原则与法律，因此是不会改变的。

The …one country, two systems? concept is not my personal idea but a principle and law adopted by the National People?s Congress and therefore it will not change.” Deng has said.

杂志还引用邓的话说，其他国家亦可使用这一构想解决困难问题。

The magazine also quoted Deng as saying that it was possible for other countries to use the same concept to settle difficult problems.

解决难题有两种办法：和平的与非和平的。由于许多问题无法用传统办法解决，他说就不得不去寻求新的办法

There are two ways to settle problems: peacefully or non-peacefully.

Since there are many issues that cannot be settled in traditional ways, new methods will have to be found.

Festival-celebrating

孩提时住在农村，常常盼望过节。记得最有乐趣的节，莫过于年终的“谢天地”。

I always looked forward to festivals in my childhood when I was living in the countryside. As I now recall it, no other festival held greater fascination for me than the “Thanksgiving” ceremony held at the end of the Chinese lunar year.

那谢完天地之后，母亲用福礼汤（鸡、肉汤）下的银丝面条，其鲜美无比至今还留下十分美好的记忆。

To express gratitude to Heaven and Earth, Mother would use, among other dishes, “Thanks-for-Happiness Soup” (chicken and meat soup) as one of the offerings,

and, the rituals over, she would cook the whitest and finest noodles (called

“silver-thread noodles”) in the broth.

The delicious taste lingers to this day!

工作之后，我却渐渐对过节不感兴趣了，原因是当我单身时，我喜欢看书，笔耕。在写文章时经常需要随时查阅文献资料，如果遇上节日放假，图书馆关门，我就只好干着急，眼看时间白白流失，所以我讨厌过节。

After I graduated and started my career, my interest in festival-celebrating began to fade. When I was single, I loved reading and writing, which necessitated frequent trips to libraries to consult the relevant data. When such a need should arise during the holidays when the libraries were usually not open, I?d feel much dismayed, being absolutely unable to make use of the valuable time that flew by.

在诸多家务中，每天买菜是我的任务。

Of the many household duties after my marriage, going marketing everyday is my job.

中国人过节，吃是主要内容，为了显示过节的气氛和水平，少说也要搞它个十菜八肴的。这样一来，节前的紧张采购暂且不说，节后的剩菜处理也落在我一个人身上，妻孩们是不愿吃隔天菜的，自幼来自农村且深受“谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦”陶冶的我，是断然不肯将能吃的剩菜倒掉的，于是节后天天吃剩菜，所以我不喜欢过节。

Festival celebration for us Chinese chiefly consists in eating. To help create the festival atmosphere and show off the level of the festivities, at least a score of（meat and vegetable）dishes should be laid out.

So, besides the frantic pre-festival shopping, the post-festival disposal of the leftovers fell to my lot, my wife and children being loath to touch the leavings. Born in the countryside and understanding the hardships borne by farmers, I flatly refuse to throw away the leftovers. Therefore, in the days immediately following the festival I had to finish up the scraps one by one. Hence, my distaste for the festivals.

The development of China-US Economic and Trade ties and

the overall China-US relationship

The economic and trade ties have been an important component of China-US relations and the most active element in the contacts between the two countries. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979,the two countries' economic and trade relationship has been growing rapidly despite a number of twists and turns in their overall relations over the years.

As the economies of China and the United States become increasingly interdependent, economic and trade relationship has functioned as a stabilizer for relations between the 2 countries. With the deepening of China's reform and opening up, especially after its accession to the WTO, the economic and trade contacts between China and the US will play an even bigger role in the development of their bilateral relations.

Firstly, China and the US, important trade partners to each other, enjoy a quite close economic and trade relationship. Since the establishment of diplomatic relationship, especially in the past 10 years, the two countries have witnessed a rapid development in their economic and trade cooperation. Currently, China is the fourth largest trade partner of the US which, in turn, is China's second largest trade partner, and the second largest investor in China.

Secondly, the two countries are highly complementary in economic and trade areas, making it possible for them to share each other's huge market. Given their big differences in the level of development and structure of resources, as well as their respective comparative advantages in labor, capital and technology, the development of China-Us, economic and trade relationship helps the two economies to reinforce each other's strengths.

It is true that frictions and disputes still remain in the economic and trade relationship between China and the United States, such minor issues should not affect the main trend of the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, still less the overall China-US relations.

中美关系；中美；中美经贸关系；关系

China and the US

China-US ;

Sino-US

China and the united states

The two countries

The two economics

They ;their ;bilateral; both; relations; relationship;ties;

contacts;cooperations;

Exchanges; partnership; bond