英译汉技巧练习

Dictionrun1. The idea runs in his mind. 2. The machine runs well.3. The street runs north. 4. The news runs rapidly in the town.poor5. Cuba is indeed a poor country, but it intends to catch up.6. The water is poor in oxygen.7. The Department of Justice was reluctant to bring poor cases into court.8. The outlook for dtente is poor over the short time.9. In my poor opinion, youve made a great mistake.10. Other media closer to the scene dismissed Carter as a poor loser.11. “Poor Mexico”, an old saying goes, “so distant from God, so close to The United States.”12. She told me that she was a poor sailor and always went to bed immediately on getting on the boat.develop13. This fear is that these minor clashes may develop into all-out confrontation.14. When started out as a short story eventually developed into a full-scale novel.15. Their casual acquaintance developed over time into a lasting friendship.16. The whole project developed out of an idea that I had while I was in the States.17. The government is going to develop a new strategy to deal with the problem.18. Theyve just developed a new drug that will cure the illness if its caught in the earliest stages.19. Shes developed some very strange habits since she started living on her own.20. The company is spending $ 650 million on the development of new products.21. Large cracks have begun to develop in the wall of the house.22. This exercise is designed to develop the shoulder and back muscles.23. For some reason, the last film I took didnt develop properly.24. The study showed that one in twelve women is likely to develop breast cancer.25. A good diet is essential for a childs healthy growth and development.26. Theres been a lot of housing development in the area.27. Needing some light to see by, the burglar crossed the room with a light step to light the light with the light green shade.28. In this book he presents his hero with an Arabs voice, and not with the usual Western voice.29. Bright red costumes, with hats, shoes, and stockings to match, are to be all the craze in the Spring. Smart women will have to be careful not to yawn in the streets in case some short sighted person is on his way to post a letter.30. The elevator boys ooze the spit and polish of West Point cadets and in polite English remind you that you must not smoke inside their lifts.词义褒贬1. Hitlers ambition to conquer the whole of Europe was doomed to fail.2. Although he is very young, he is very ambitious in his research work.3. He is fidgety and restless.4. All the inventors have a restless mind.5. She was vexed by the persistent ringing of the phone.6. The old couple made a persistent effort to search for their daughter lost in the war.7. He is respected by his people for his farsightedness.8. I always consider him calculating and mercenary and did my best to avoid him.9. Ford found that Zhou Enlai was a charming, polished, shrewd host. “Calculating,” Ford added, “Strong, Extremely well-informed.”10. To be something and somebody was Harrimans fondest wish for his son.11. When he hosted a grand party to celebrate the nations 2500th anniversary, heinvited actually everybody who was anybody, but mostly nobodies showed up.12. When everybody is somebody, then nobody is anybody.13. He found it difficult to get a job because a cloud always hung over his reputation.14. Then, just as Chinese friends arrived who might secure my journey, the Russians arrested me as a “spy” and sent me out through Poland. (Anna Louise Strong)15. His splendid new car was the envy of all his friends.16. They say such scandalous things about you out of envy.17. The adoption of the new policies will surely lead to some striking results.18. There would have been more painful result but for the drastic measures.19. John was an aggressive salesman who did his job quite well.20. Hitler pursued an aggressive policy after he seized power.词义引申A. 1. It is regrettable that our appeal remains a dead letter.2. Such conduct is known in all languages as piracy.3. During the war, he was an embryo surgeon, and joined the mobile medical team.4. I was not one to let my heart rule my head.5. Application of laser in medicine is still in its infancy.6. The wedding, which Heyward still remembered with pride, was attended by a Whos Who of Boston society.7. The invention of machinery had brought into the world a new erathe Industrial Age. Money had become King.8. I was practically on my knees but he still refused.9. Since I only got the news at second hand, I took it with a grain of salt. 10. I must bare my heart to someone, or I shall go mad!11. The two sisters were usually in agreement on most issues, but they were at swords point on the matter of abortion.12. The matter was finally settled under the table.13. I have no head for music.14. Please dont wake a sleeping dog. 15. If you dare to play the fox with me, Ill shoot you at once.16. Words once reserved for rest-room walls are now common stuff in films, plays, books and even on television.17. I hope this concession of ours will set the ball rolling.18. Sometimes, walking the street at night, Ive been so desperate that Ive made up my mind to win the horse or lose the saddle.19. Why are you rushing around like a chicken with its head cut off?20. He gets up very early and sits up very late and is burning the candle at both ends.21. Id love to go out to lunch, but you know Im living on a shoestring.22. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, nothing upstairs.23. The actress has her head turned.24. Alice was a girl who always seemed to be in the clouds. When she got wind that a third exam was in the wind, a cloud immediately passed over her face.For she had failed the last two and was under a cloud. She knew for sure that she could not pass this one in a breeze either.“Oh, dear me!” she said to herself. “It never rains but it pours.” But one second thought, she cried, “Maybe every cloud has a silver lining. So I must have another try, rain or shine.”B.25. The car in front of me stalled and I missed the green.26. She is a valuable acquisition to the firm.27. We are eager to benefit from your curiosity.28. The hotel is a massive effort of stone, wood and concrete.29. The Great Wall is a must for most foreign visitors to Beijing.30. Action and foresight will be needed as well as brightness and ambition.31. There are three steps which must be taken before we graduate from the integrated circuit technology.C.32. When Edison tried to make the first carbon filament, he did not have the cards in his hands.33. Promise me not to let the cat out of the bag and Ill tell you.34. Every day since I last wrote has been like its neighbor.35. Last night I didnt sleep well. I heard him driving his pigs to market.36. She found the key she had lost last month, which was like a bolt from the blue.37. A good dog deserves a good bone.38. I wonder whether he is a Trojan Horse.39. The enemys Achilles heel was his harbour defense.增 译A. 1. The best conductor has the least resistance and the poorest the greatest.2. Better be wise by the defeat of others than by your own.3. At the time of Kennedys assassination, Kissinger felt that a second term would have led either to greatness or to disaster.4. In the evening, after the banquets, the concerts and the table tennis exhibitions, he would work on the drafting of the final communiqu.5. There were no speeches, no foreign diplomats, no“ordinary Chinese” with paper flags and bouquets of flowers.6. He dismissed the meeting without a closing speech.7. Mary washed for a living after her husband died of acute pneumonia.8. Day after day he came to his worksweeping, scrubbing, cleaning.9. Kissinger felt that Rogers was quibbling, but the lawyer in Nixon supported the quibble of a fellow lawyer.10. As he sat down and began talking, words poured out.11. The blond boy quickly crossed himself.12. In April, there was the “ping” heard around the world. In July, the ping “ponged.” 13. As a result, a few token meetings were being set up through Foggy Bottom, the more-than-ever appropriate nickname for the Department of State. It describes Secretary Rogers influence foggy and at the bottom.14. Reading makes (maketh) a full man; conference a ready man and writing an exact man. (Francis Bacon)15. This great scientist was born in New England.16. She went home in a sedan chair and a flood of tears. 17. They talked for almost eight hours, through dinner and well into the night.18. Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.19. Geologists, scientists who study rocks, indicate the likely places to the oil drillers.20. Then lieutenant Grub launched into the old recruiting routine, “See, save and serve! Hannigan, free tour to all the ports in the world. A fine ship for a home. Three meals a day without charge you mustnt let such a golden opportunity slip by.B.21. The thesis summed up the new achievements made in electronic computers, artificial satellites and rockets.22. The Americans and the Japanese conducted a completely secret exchange of message.23. After all preparations were made, the plane took off.24. Thus he grew in body and soul.25. Our place in the flows of global capital is equally central.26. In the summer of 1969, the Administration publicly urged an easing of tensions with China.27. He was a patriotic, adventurous and romantic writer.28. Both sides are willing to hold face-to-face talks in order to ease tension in the Middle East.29. He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge, and declared his own son guilty.30. The advantages of the hall are bright, spacious, fashionable and without echo.31. From the evaporation of water people know that liquids can turn into gases under certain condition.32. She was more royal than the royals.C. 33. For mistakes had been made, bad ones.34. Two, we heard later, were sent to college, at the government expense, while one, itwas rumored, had attempted to blackmail the Agency (CIA). Unsuccessfully.35. Her family of 13 was so poor that a brother once tried to mold a Thanks-giving turkey out of a couple of pounds of hamburger.D.36. I was, and remain, grateful for the part he played in my release.37. Whereas Kissinger had once needed Nixon as a channel to power, Nixon now needed Kissinger to help him remain in power.38. He wished that he had asked her to dance, and that he knew her name.39. Dont take it seriously, I am just making fun of you.40. Their host carved, poured, served, cut bread, talked, laughed, proposed healths. 41. Large as the room was, there was not floor space for all the puppies, so they were jumping onto tables and chairs and piling up on top of each other.42. Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor.43. The curtain has parted; the mystery is being dispelled.重 复A. Repetition for clearness(1) Repetition of nouns1. The signs of Chinas influence and success abound in America. (Reagon)2. I had experienced oxygen and / or engine trouble.3. He became an oil baronall by himself.4. This has been our positionbut not theirs.5. It is our duty to build and defend our homeland.6. A good play serves to educate and inspire the people.7. Practically every river has an upper, a middle and a lower part.8. The President announced, with obvious relish, that the planes took off from “Shangri-la”, the fictional, remote retreat in the Himalayas.9. Allof these arrangements were a prelude to the ball, the hostess ultimate prize.10. The use of poison gas is a clear violation of international lawin particular of the Geneva Convention.11. It is important that all states should participate on the basis of full equality in the consideration of the whole range of disarmament problems, relating to both nuclear and conventional weapons.(2) Repetition of verbs12. They covered the 19th century foreign intervention in China, Maos Long March in the mid-1930s, the French and American revolutions.13. But his wife kept dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.14. I owned a town house, a summer lodge in the mountains, a winter cabin in the desert, a car and a drivers license to take myself about.15. He hopes, no doubt, that all this may be accomplished before the winter comes, and that he can overwhelm Great Britain before the Fleet and air-power of the United States may intervene.(3) Repetition of nouns to which pronouns refer16. Jesse opened his eyes. They were filled with tears.17. Happy families also had their own troubles.18. Big powers have their strategies while small countries also have their own lines.19. Each country has its own customs.20. Whoever violates the disciplines should be criticized.21. Wherever severe oppression existed, there would be revolution.22. Some have entered college and others have gone to the countryside.23. On Sunday afternoon, some reviewed their lessons, and others helped the cooks in their work.24. Smith seemed ill at ease with power, Ball sought it.25. Whoever works hard will be respected.26. Whoever drives through the red light should be fined.27. It may seem strange to put into the same packet an industrial revolution and two political revolutions. But the fact is that they all social revolutions. 28. Several factors accounted for this extraordinary achievement. One was the expansion into the west. Another was the application of machinery to farming.B. Repetition for emphasis29. Gentlemen may cry peace, peacebut there is no peace.30. Prominent among the most prominent upon the most prominent shelf were series of splendidly bound volumes entitled “Skinners Works.”31. Blood must atone for blood.32. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.33. Out of sight, out of mind.34. Home is home, be it ever so homely.35. No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.36. That is our policy and that is our declaration.(Churchills speech)37. I have written in bed and written out of it, written day and night.38. Loyal to every great cause and work he was engaged in, loyal to his friend, loyal to his family, loyal to his country, loyal to his God39. If once virtue is lost, all is lost.40. Year after year century after century the moon goes through its cycles.C. Repetition for vividness41. But there had been too much publicity about my case.42. His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody.43. Only a very slight and very scattering ripples of half-hearted hand-clapping greeted him.44. The toasts were flat.45. I wasnt evasive in my reply.46. Once he took up his pen, writings began pouring down.47. I was admittedly shy.48. It was bright September afternoon, and streets of Now York were brilliant with moving men.49. Whatever initial worries we had about the plane soon vanished.省 译A.1. He was thin and haggard and he looked miserable. 2. But its the way I am, and try as I might, I havent been able to change it.3. We live and learn.4. Outside it was pitch dark and it was raining cats and dogs.5. It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house. 6. He looked gloomy and troubled.7. The sun is bright, and the sky is clear.8. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?9. John rose gloomily as the train stopped, for he was thinking of his ailing mother.10. Modesty helps a person to make progress whereas conceit makes a person lag behind.11. No matter whether you believe me or not, I saw it with my own eyes.12. There must be some people in the room, for I heard a voice.13. If you want to kill a snake you must hit it first on the head and if you want to catch a band of robbers you must first catch their leader.14. William Sidney Porter, who is known under his pen name, O. Henry, is one of the best known writer of America.15. Everything is good when new, but friends when old.16. Like charges repel each other while opposite charges attract.17. If you give him an inch, he will take a mile.18. Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble troubles you.19. The true joy of joys is the joy that joys in the joy of others.20. A boy is always a boy.21. Any substance is made of atoms whether it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas.22. Rumours had already spread along the streets and lanes.23. I should like to make a brief statement regarding some of the considerations leading to our affirmative vote.24. One hundred thousand citizens in Hiroshima of Japan were killed by the first atomic bomb in the world.25. To use microwave communication has many advantages, for example, the capacity is large, the guarantee for secrecy is better, and the cost is low.B. 26. University applicants who had worked at a job would receive preference over those who had not.27. Scientific exploration, the search for knowledge has given man the practical result of being able to shield himself from the calamities of nature and the calamities imposed by others.28. Radioactivity may cause illness that could be passed on to our children and grandchildren.29. Patients with influenza must be separated from the well