unit 4 -5 translation exercise

1、Translation ExercisesUnit 4Network DesignerSentence Translation1. 如果你上因特网，接上网就可以在线查询各种有关时事、教育、科技、金融、卫生、娱乐等信息。If you have access to the Internet and log on it, you can get information online about current affairs, education, science and technology, finance, public health and entertainment.2 由于现代话电信手段

2、的快速发展，国际间通信基本上可以不受时空的限制。Thanks to the rapid development of modern means of telecommunication, international communication is generally unencumbered by time or space.3. 她是一个少说话多做事的科学家。譬如，这个实验小组里没有一个成员像她那样在这项研究中花费了这么多的时间，倾注了这么多的精力。 She is a scientist of action. For one thing, she more than any else in

3、 the experiment group has devoted so much time and energy to this project.4. 我真弄不懂他为什么整天在摆弄那台老掉牙的电脑。I really dont understand why he noodles around that antiquated/outmoded/old-fashioned computer all day long. 5. 万一你无法进入中央数据库，可以打电话给我们的技术服务部请求帮助。 In case you fail to get into the central database, you

4、can call our Technical Support Service Department for help.6. 语言中的介词和冠词是有限的，而名词和动词是无限的，每天都有新的名词和动词诞生。A language has a limited number of propositions and articles, but its nouns and verbs are open-ended and infinitenew words are born every day.7. 越来越多的年轻人意识到英语是通行全球的语言，所以都在业余学习英语。With the awareness th

5、at the English language is the lingua franca of the world, an increasing number of young people try to learn English so much as they can in their sparetime.8. 这个小伙子的与众不同之处在于，他喜欢以非常规的方式进行思考，不愿同传统观念作妥协。What distinguishes this young man from others is that he is inclined to think unconventionally, and

6、would make no compromise with traditional ideas.9. 这家研究所是一家非赢利性的机构，其科研项目通常都由一些跨国公司资助。This research institute is a non-profit institution whose research projects are usually funded by some multi-national corporations.10. 我公司的总经理是一个以市场经济为取向的人。公司发展每到转折关头，他总是选择市场的道路。Our general manage is one who is comp

7、letely oriented toward the market economy. At every critical juncture in the business development of the corporation, he would choose nothing but the market road.Passage TranslationIn this electronic age, information grows at a phenomenal speed. Some knowledge of computer network is required of an a

8、verage person. With a computer that is equipped with a mouse and a modem, you can get information unencumbered by time or space. All you need to do is turn on your computer and log it on to the Internet. Launch a search engine and you find nearly anything online. As a matter of fact, you have access

9、 to all the information that is non-proprietary and free. The World Wide Web has made the world no more than a global village. You can easily keep track of the news and current events around the world, and order what you need by e-mail. What if you are Internet illiterate and know nothing about such

10、 things as Hyper Text Transfer Protocol? Its simple: you take a computer lesson and learn about the lingua franca of this age. You know, life on the Internet is not at all a life of dreary and tedious work, but a life full of excitement and new discovery.Translation ExercisesUnit 5ANTARCTICASentence

11、 TranslationI cant drive a car, let alone fly an airplane.The Arctic is populated with people of different nationalities. The Antarctic, in contrast, has no permanent residents because the climate there is unfavorable to human survival.3. Although she felt like a normal person after the heart surger

12、y, the doctor insisted that she should go to the hospital for examination every other day.4. Small wonder they lost the games time and again; they had been out of training for quite some time.5. I am inclined to think that there will be strong opposition to our reform plan among quite a few board me

13、mbers.6. The employees of the company at all levels think of their new manager as farsighted, resourceful and highly competitive.7. No matter who he is or where he is from, we cannot tolerate anyones behavior that is injurious to social order.8. Those who claimed to have set eyes on the mysterious s

14、avage in the forest all affirmed that the most distinctive feature of the savage was its huge size.9. As regards the quality of the drinking water on that small island, the explorers who set foot on the island reported that it was sweet, pleasant and refreshing.10. As far as the business profits are

15、 concerned, the main drawback of the publication of academic treatises is that they usually do not sell well, with an average number of only several hundred copies for each printing.Passage TranslationVenus, the most brilliant planet in the solar system, is about the same size as Earth. It is closer

16、 to the sun than any other planet except Mercury. While its average distance from Earth is nearly 93 million miles, its path brings Venus closer to Earth than any other heavenly body except the moon.Because of the yellowish layer of clouds that continually obscures the planet, scientists long tended

17、 to believe that Venus was very humid and fertile and that living things were able to survive and live in comfort there. In 1962, however, the U.S. spacecraft Mariner II sent back information that the surface of Venus was dry, sandy, and hot.Since then the science of astronomy has made great strides. It has been confirmed that Venus has temperatures as high as 536 F, almost equal to the melting point of lead, a