课外练习材料(学生).doc

第一部分 英译汉PART I STARTING POINTHYPOTAXIS & PARATAXIS (VERY VERY VERY IMPORTAT)1. Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smell television, and digital age will have arrived.2. Interest in historical methods had arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.3. In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors.4. On the whole such a conclusion can be drawn with a certain degree of confidence but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the other with whom he is compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possessed.5. Can you answer a question which I want to ask and which is puzzling me？6. There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.7. And it is imagined by many that the operations of the common mind can by no means be compared with these processes, and that they have to be required by a sort of special training.8. New sources of energy must be found, and this will take time, but is not likely to result in any situation that will ever restore that sense of cheap and plentiful energy we have had in the past time.9. You have all heard it repeated that men of science work by means of induction and deduction, which by the help of these operations, they, in a sort of sense, manage to extract from Nature certain natural laws, and that out of these, by some special skill of their own, they build up their theories.10. Until such time as mankind has the sense to lower its population to the points where the planet can provide a comfortable support for all, people will have to accept more unnatural food.11. While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.12. I was all the more delighted when, as a result of the initiative of your Government it proved possible to reinstate the visit so quickly.13. The assertion that it was difficult, if not impossible, for a people to enjoy its basic rights unless it was able to determine freely its political status and to ensure freely its economic, social and cultural development was now scarcely contested.14. This will be particularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continue agriculture in the high energy American fashion that makes it possible to combine few farmers with high yields.15. Behaviorists, in contrast, say that differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy.16We expected the order to be smaller.17Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environments where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses will experience greater intellectual development.18Someone once remarked that the British and the Americans are two peoples separated by the same language.19. Absence of honesty on the part of the American trade delegation has resulted in repeated failures of the Sino-US trade talks.20. Many foreign retailers such as Wal-Mart are too wise not to grasp the Chinese market. TRANSLATION SKILLS ON LEXICAL LEVELDICTION1. A shy, retiring man known to his own Columbia University students as a dull lecturer, he had the brilliance of mind that made him the teacher of his time, respected by presidents and philosophers alike.2. The standard for beauty seems to be less defined for men than for women, perhaps partly because many women say that in choosing a boyfriend or a husband they are more concerned with a mans job and earning potential than with his appearance.3. The price quoted include a progressive commission to be calculated on FOB basis of 2% for a single order for 10 dozen or up, 3% for 30 dozen or up.4. Party B is commissioned by the manufactures to buy steel plates and this contract shall supersede all previous commitments. 5. I should not have paid any particular attention to her but that she possessed a quality that may be common enough in women, but nowadays is not obvious in their demeanor.8. The best conductor has the least resistance and the poorest the greatest.9. All the wit and learning in this field are to be present at the symposium held next week.11. The beauty of laser is that they can do machining without physically touching the material.12. The thread of the screw work hard.13. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.14. The consequences of SARS over China cannot be overestimated.15. This machine tool is good in quality and small in size.16. Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man. (Francis Bacon) 17. Arbitration of all questions in dispute under this contract shall be at the choice of either party and shall be in accordance with the International Arbitration Rules of American Arbitration Association.20. The Contractor shall be responsible for and shall carry out all maintenance work during commissioning period.21. Electronic computers, which have many advantages, cannot carry out creative work and replace man.22. For any machine whose input and output forces are known, its mechanical advantage can be easily calculated.24. Every factory whose chimneys puff out dirty and harmful smoke should do something to stop the pollution.25. Japan is the last country to invent radar, but Britain.26. If the buyer fails to pay any account when due, the buyer shall be liable to pay the seller overdue interest on such unpaid amount from the due date until the actual date of payment at the rate of five percent per annum, such overdue interest shall be paid upon demand of the seller.28. The premium rates vary with differed interests insured.31. In order to be eligible to attend and vote at the SGM of the Company, all transfers of shares (with the relevant share certificates) must be lodged with the branch share registrar of the Company in Hong Kong by 4: 00 p.m. on Friday, 29 November 2005.32. We eat what we can and can what we cant.33. It has raised its JV equity to 70% to gain management control. It has trebled its initial investment and is now expanding its product range and manufacturing capacity to meet growing demands.34. These days, the U.S. economy isnt “graduating enough scientists to fill the need of the coming decades,” frets Charles C. Leighton, “Thats a real concern.” 35. The factors which are likely to influence investment spending do not stop here. 36. And until recently this hostile attitude towards daydreaming was the most common one. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming, some think it may be a very healthy thing to do.37. As a result of those immediate measures, and aided by the tremendous effort which they evoked from the British people, we weathered the storm and moved on into calmer water and a period of economic expansion and social reorganization.38. No war has ever started with such a victory for one side at the very beginning of the hostilities.39. Our products, if maintained properly and regularly, can at least see twenty years service. 40. Americans who stem from generations which left their old people behind and never closed their parents eyelids in death, and who have experienced the additional distance from death provided by two world wars fought far from our shores are today pushing away from them both a recognition of death and a recognition of the tremendous significance - for the future - of the way we live our lives. 41. Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies, among which the rates paid to labor figure prominently.45. Now that the merger of “dot” and “com” has created so many young millionaires, theres a new topic: venture capital. 46. There is more to their life than political and social and economic problems, more than transient everydayness.47. The Board tried its best to improve the balance sheet of the company.48. He founded the University of Chicago Laboratory School, the first of its kind, around the turn of the century.51. But the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost-for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.52. The sun sets gradually on the Union Jack, but never on the English language.Negation52. How the United States dealt with that unfolding crisis is a story not so much of a failed policy as an administration unprepared for the aftermath of a war.53. The success of the governments anti-inflation efforts will depend as much upon political will as upon economic policy.54. Hitlers mistake gave Roosevelt the victory; just as at Waterloo it was less Wellington who won than Napoleon who lost.55. Thousands of red, beautiful roses that blossom at the same time make the park the green resort for people in spring.Diction & Polysemy II56. He is well known in the local community.57. There is a large Jewish Spanish Chinese community living in this municipality.58. Her speech caused great outrage among the gay community.59. Drug trafficking is a matter of considerable concern of the international community.60. There is a real sense of community in this neighborhood.61. The presence of many outsiders has ruined the spirit of community.62. My teacher told me that, as an English major, I should read Major Barbara, one of the major plays written by G. Benald Shaw.63. The interest rates have see-sawed between 10 and 15 per cent.64. The EECs common agricultural policy is a dinosaur which is adding 13.50 week to the food bill of the average British family.65. The fair price connected with the superiority of varieties of our products will be able to guarantee our competitive edge in the international market.66. For 20 years we were passive witnesses to the deterioration of prices of our raw materials and an excessive increase of the prices of manufactured goods.67. Party A shall have a right of first refusal whenever party B wishes to sell any of its shares in the Group. 68. The supermarket designated quite a few pick-up points in some comparatively densely populated communities in suburban areas.69. With Silicon Valleys unbelievable housing prices in mind, I expected to see a much worse house.70. We thank you very much for the warm hospitality accorded to our trade delegation during this visit to your country and for the close co-operation in the business discussions.71. Histories make men wise; poets witty, the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep, moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. (Bacon)72. He became as exhilarated as if his tender for building a mansion had been accepted.73. Managers with stock options may be using their firms resources to increase the short-term value of their own holdings. 74. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.75. It treats futures and options uniformly while recognizing the unique features of options.76. At the end of April this year, China had 1,170 listed companies with a total stock market capitalization of 4,546.223 billion RMB.Conversion77. Language does not exit isolately - it is the preservation of our past and the record of our present civilization.78. Today we are still stirred by the sight of each flower and each tree in the courtyard and each thing used by Premier Zhou.79. For students who intend to learn English writing, an awareness that rhetorical patterns differ from one culture to another can help them become more quickly proficient in the writing pattern that is still quite different from their native tongue.80. The No 4431 UN document calls for the peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict on the basis of Israelis withdrawal from occupied territories and Arab acknowledgement of Israelis right of existence.Negation 81. All is not gold that glitters.(Shakespeare)82. Offering these benefits did not make him widely popular with his stockholders.83. The canals were arteries of communication - they were not built to carry pleasure boats, but barges; the barges were not made to carry luxuries, but all the common things that people could buy by penny worth.84. His failure to commit his obligation has led his accusation by the boss.85. There is a popular belief among consumers that goods are no longer in high quality as before. 88. His being higher in learning and birth than others is anything but a proof of his worth.90. Shocking disclosures of unsanitary conditions in meat-packing plants, the use of poisonous preservatives and dyes in foods, and cure-all claims for worthless and dangerous patent medicines were the major problems leading to the enactment of these laws.92a. Tobacco addicts are often hopelessly blind to signs that read NO SMOKING.92b. Dialogs are seldom held between the two parities due to a lack of sincerity on the part of one party.92c. The inflation distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. 92d. Asia was passed over by the industrial revolution.92e. The United Nations has not so far justified the hopes that the people of the world set on it. 92f. During the 1980s the large premiums paid in acquisition often resulted in prices that greatly exceeded the value of tangible assets.92g. I can read every word that Mr. Qian Zhougshu wrote with delight, for he had good sense, charm and wit.92h. It is commonplace that a society reveals its reverence or contempt for history by the respect or disregard that it displays for older people.92i. Scientific discoveries and inventions do not always influence the language in proportion to their importance.92j. .The American trade delegation was strongly criticized for having left Beijing before saying goodbye.TRANSLATION SKILLS ON SYNTACTICAL LEVELDivision & Relative Clause93. Im not the first person who has made mistake.94. She put on her clothes by the light of a half moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near the crib.95. Flying from America to Hong Kong, the tourist team then traveled thousands of interest-filled miles through Mainland China by train or by bus.96. The person who knows how will have a job, but the person who knows why will be his boss.97. A floating object displaces an amount of water whose weight equals that of the object itself.98. Westminster Abbey, which is one of the oldest churches in Britain, contains the graves of many famous Englishmen.99. The Chinese textile goods were denied entry into the European ports.100. Roosevelt wanted changes, and those changes would benefit not the rich to whose schools he had gone and in whose circles he had moved, but the oppressed.101. None of the 11 parties competing for the 300 seats in the Assembly reached the 40% mark that might have provided a working majority.102. Some small and medium-sized enterprises have turned their attention to the rural areas to avoid competition from more powerful rivals.103.For any machine whose input and output forces are known, its mechanical advantage can be easily calculated.Revision109. A thousand mustaches can live together, but never can four breasts.110. When it came to reading, they were as good as blind.112. Unemployment has stubbornly refused to contract for more than a decade.113. Companies with a big staff in Silicon Valley find themselves squeezed between high cost and shrinking business.116. His delegation agreed with the Executive Director that the fund should continue working for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic, social and demographic factors.117. Mr. Smith welcomed the confirmation of the UNs tendency to intensify its efforts in favor of the countries most seriously affected by current crisis.119. Three rains had passed, and it was that lean season when the villages store of grain and other dried foods from the last harvest was almost gone.120. In a dispute between two countries with which one is friendly, the very country should try not to get involved.121. There are many wonderful stories to tell about the places I visited and the people I met.122. The Civil War, lasting for four years and costing at least a million lives, civilian and military, was the most extensive war ever fought on the soil of the New World, a war that proved to the planters in a revolutionary way that human beings in America could no longer be bought or sold, worked and killed at will to serve the profit of parasitic landowners.123. Computer language may range from detailed low level that can only be immediately understood by the particular computer, to the sophisticated high level that can be rendered automatically acceptable to a wide range of computers.PART IIIA COMPREHENSIVE APPLICION OF TRANSLATION SKILLS 1. The merits of competition by examination are somewhat questionable, but competition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively harmful.2. “In short,” a leader of the new school contends, “the scientific revolution, as we call it, was largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions.”3. To determine the consequences of sleep deficit, research