现代大学英语翻译1.doc

UNIT 1 1. Virtue is.self-centered.By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.3. .the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration.It was not the rich caused the poor, and it is not their duty to solve it.4. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God.It is only the effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to the nature and to human society.5.It declined in popularity, and references to it acquired a condemnatory tone.Social Darwinism become not popular, people will be blamed when mentioning it.9. Belief can be the servant of truth-but even more of convenience.Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but its often accepted because its convenient.UNIT 33. The technosphere has become sufficiently large and intense to alter the natural processes that govern the ecosphere. Human activities has covered larger areas with greater intensity, which have harmful effect to the environment.5. Defined so narrowly, it is no surprise that cars have properties that are hostile to their environment. When cars are produced to serve such narrow purposes, it is not surprising that some of their characteristic qualities are harmful to the environment.6. Yields rose, but not in proportion to the rate of fertilizer application.The farmer applied wore and more fertilizer, and the production did rise, but did not increase at the same rate of the fertilizer.8. Left to their own devices, ecosystems are conservative.If the ecosystems are not upset by outside intrusion, they will remain the same with very little change.10. But this is done only at the cost of understanding.If we take one side in the war of the two worlds, we are doing so at the risk of failing to have a clear understanding of the nature.UNIT 8 2. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity.ItwouldnotbetruetosaythatMissEmilywouldhaveacceptedcharity.3.Just as if a man-any man could keep a kitchen properly, the ladies said.The ladies didnt believe a man could keep the kitchen clean.4.It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.In the past, Miss Emily didnt contact with the ordinary people because she thought she was more important than others. Now the odor forces her to get in touch with the ordinary people, so it becomes the link.7.Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.Her mood would be influenced by how much money she had because she is poor now.9.We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.Weweregladbecausethetwocousinswereevenmorestubbornand self-importantthanMissEmily.UNIT 9 2. Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away; where it crusts, they dissolve it; wherever it drips, flowers, or cling, they find it and fight it until it dies.They will fight against things related things related to black people, the habit, life-style, gesture, expression which the women think not elegant.4. She had seen this little girl all of her life.She often saw such girl her life.5. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything.They are ignorant, and want to have everything.6.The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between .Here is not any hope in their eyes.Unit 103. Note the word “bankrupt”. I spoke as a member of a prudent middle-class nation, always anxious to meet my liabilities.Im afraid to use up my emotions5. “True love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away”. If we share true love, it will never diminish.7. Such a combination is fruitful, and anyone who possesses it has gone a long way toward being brave.The Englishmans nervous system acts promptly and feels slowly. The combination of the two qualities is useful, and anyone who has this combination is meet likely to be brave. 8.Since literature always rests upon national character, there must be in the English mature hidden springs of fire to produce the fire we see.As literature is based on national character