大学英语翻译练习.doc

Exercise Unit 1
热身运动：发挥译语优势，改进以下译文：
1) extremely urgent
2) underestimate one’s capabilities
3) commit the same error
4) full of conceit
5) miss a good chance
6) fellow sufferers
7) make a superficial change
8) The dishes from Chinese cuisine are meant to be both visually appealing and
flavorous
9）The evil which they did lives after them.
Exercise Unit 2
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1) Some Americans pop across the border simply to fuel up on (to add fuel, 原意为“加燃料”，后隐身为“吃喝，填肚子”) flavorful Mexican food and beer.
2) Make up your mind before you make up your face. (make up).
3) Jack has become Jack of all trades and master of none.
4) Part-time barman wanted. Hours and salary negotiable.
5) This Bill of Lading (lade v. 装载货物) is issued in a negotiable form, so it shall constitute title to the goods and the holder, by endorsement (背书，签注文件) of this B/L.
6) We must bring the chairman around to our point of view.
7) The Asian countries along the coast of the Pacific all came out against the US new military base in Japan.
8) Though they are running out of food and drink, the men are cheerful and confident that they will get out soon.
Exercise Unit 3
Translate the following passage into Chinese.
Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a sense of ease and grace were the mother and daughters. Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. By comparison with the narrow, ironclad days of fathers, there was an expansiveness, I thought, in the days of mothers. They went to see neighbours, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. (Scott Russell Sanders, Women and Men)

l Fret: become unhappy, bad-tempered or anxious about something; worry
Scrimp: manage to spend little money
Ironclad: rigid, fixed,刻板的，固定不变的
Errands：short journey to take a message, get or deliver goods
Exercise Unit 4
Translate the following passages into Chinese
To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion. And yet in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries, and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
Momentous: very important, serious

Mr. President, I want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this tradition. By your gracious cooperation in the transition process, you have shown a watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other. And I thank you and your people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of our Republic.
Bulwark: person or thing that support

The business of our nation goes forward. These United States are confronted with an economic affection of greater proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people.
Affection: disease

Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.

But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children’s future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheaval.
Exercise Unit 5
1. His achievement in his study was the envy of all his classmates.
2. They say such scandalous things about you out of envy.
3. London is a city invaded by tourists.
4. Guangzhou boasts an enormous airport.
5. He had lied to me and made me the tool of his wicked deeds.
6. John’s father sent him to the university and was eager to have him distinguish himself. （deserve to be noticed by doing something well）
7. His plane developed engine trouble only seven miles after takeoff.
8. Modern aircraft are so heavy that the wings must develop a very large lift force in order to sustain the aircraft.
9. Inspired by these ideas, in 1752 Franklin developed a practical lightning rod.
10. Most of the money came from selling the secret of a new type of potato he had developed.
11. Unfortunately, he developed tuberculosis.
12. In Sichuan, people are developing the rich resources which can make them rich.
13. It was a girl with good manners.
14. These were all labeled as good eggs.
15. Dogs are often regarded as man’s good friends.
16. He was told, when complaining that he could not follow Nasser’s moves, that Nasser was a good chess player.
17. … yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs his life, who is really deserving of the praises the stone-cutter carves over his bones; who is a good Christian, a good parent, a good child, a good wife or a good husband; who actually does have a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; …(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) ……
18. The prospect is for more and more undernourishment, progressive deterioration of the environment (particularly from the use of wood for heating and cooking) and irresistible pressure to emigrate.
19. She viewed the prospect of a week alone in the house without much enthusiasm.
Prospect: picture in mind or imagination, esp. of a future event.
Exercise Unit 6

Put the following sentences into Chinese, using the technique of conversion.
1. With the passage of time, her admiration for him grew more and more.
2. We are enemies of all wars.
3. My suggestion is that he should quit smoking at once.
4. The thief made a trembling confession of his wrongdoing.
5. Observers have commented favorably on the achievement you have made.
6. He is a lover of Chinese paintings.
7. Most students behave respectfully towards their teacher.
8. At the sight and sound of our jet planes filled me with special longing.
9. He is a perfect stranger in the city.
10. They gave him a hearty welcome.
11. Please give an accurate translation of this sentence.
12. He came to me with a luggage.
13. She came to my home for help.
14. These chemical engineers don’t guarantee anything.
15. Originally he was from Sweden.
16. Mr. White with great cheerfulness told her that he had good news to communicate.
17. Numerous abstentions marked the French elections.
18. These handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.
19. The old hunter is a good skier.
20. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as they can look after themselves.
21. The victory of justice over arbitrary acts, of reason over decadence and blindness, of democracy over imperialism, of good over evil, our victory of 25 of October will represent one of the glorious pages of our history, and we shall be able to leave it to our heirs.
Exercise Unit 7
1. Mary washed for a living after her husband died of acute pneumonia.
2. First you borrow. Then you beg.
3. This computer is fine and cheap.
4. He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray hair.
5. He is a complicated man---moody, mercurial (活泼善变的), with a melancholy streak (痕迹, 条纹).
6. The president’s report summarized the achievements made in industries, agriculture and foreign trade.
7. The Americans and the Japanese conducted a completely secrete exchange of messages.
8. After all preparations were made, the planes were flown across the U.S. to San Francisco.
9. Profanity was tacitly given up.
10. He felt the patriot rise within his breast.
11. He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge, and declared his own son guilty.
12. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before.
13. Most were absorbed into the Russian empire through colonial expansion under the Tsars.
14. In every Chinese city, we got into the streets, shops, parks, theatres and restaurants.
15. Inflation has now reached unprecedented level.
16. John tiptoed into the stable.
17. The sea is nice.
18. The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.
19. He was a teacher, but now he is a lawyer now.
20. But that airy stylishness and cool wit is not as effortless to achieve as it is to watch.
21. It is a sort of heavy food.
22. The man approached unsteadily the water side, shouting an English street song.
Exercise Unit 8
1. These developing countries cover vast territories, encompass a large population and abound in natural resources.
2. 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.
3. There was no haste or restlessness in his manner but a poised friendliness.
4. Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble troubles you.
5. The true joy of joys is the joy that joys in the joy of others.
6. In order survive, to feed, clothe and shelter himself and his children, man is engaged in a constant struggle with the nature.
7. Peter has always enjoyed claiming that it was he and not George, who was the first to reach the summit of the mountain.
8. In ancient Rome, we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves…
9. If you want to kill a snake, you must hit it first on the head and it you want to catch a band of robbers you must first catch their leader.
10. He was a non-smoker and a teetotaller. （绝对禁酒者）
11. Since he lost his job, he’s been a loner.
12. He had surfaced with less visibility in the policy decisions.
13. He spoke with firmness, but his face was very sad and his eyes at times were dim.
14. We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
15．One must make painstaking effort before one could succeed in mastering a foreign language.
Exercise Unit 9
Part 1
1) All that flatter you too much are not faithful friends.
2) Mr. White has refrained from making an official comment on the coup in that country.
3) That served to strengthen instead of weaken our determination.
4) The evidence is conclusive, excluding all possibilities of doubt.
5) Please tender exact fare.
6) You should seize the opportune moment to put in a good word for me.

Part 2
1. Mattie’s hand was underneath, and Ethan kept his clasped on it a moment longer than was necessary.
2. Please tender exact fare.
3. Keep in line.
4. Only three customers remained in the bar.
5. I will be here for good this time.
6. Wait, he is serious.
7. Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!
8. If all three of you take part in it, there can be no further questioning of your courage.
9. I was sitting behind a pint.
10. After you.
11. He was 75, but he carried his years lightly.
12. I know all about him. A nasty piece of work.
13. Asia was passed over by the Industrial Revolution.
14. Siegfried did his best, but his charm bounded off the little man.

Exercise Unit 10
1. He visited many places, in all of which he was received with the usual enthusiasm which attended his arduous labors.
2．They try to stamp out the revolt, which spread all the more furiously throughout the country.
3．July and August are the months when the weather is hot.
4．But, occasionally, through haste and carelessness, mistakes were made, so that at the end of the business day one teller would be short on cash, the other long.
5． But they had become nomads of the desert, living on the ground and under the sky, and they loved it.
6． The answer had been there all of the time just out of reach.
7． Home after seven years. Home. The word had meant so much to him.
8． While I came to the summit, I became very excited.
9． He is dead and gone.
10. She shook and trembled with fear.
11. We must reach our goals and aims.
12. The room is cozy and comfortable.
13. She went back home to take care of her husband. He was seriously ill.
14. They sat down in the waiting-room to do some reading. People came to and fro there.
15. Darkness fell. An explosion shook the earth. It did not shake his determination to go to the front.
16. She is very busy at home. She has to take care of the children and to do the kitchen work.
17. Her father became the mayor of the city. He was a murderer in the Second World War.
18. It is right and proper to try it.
Exercise Unit 11
1. Nuclear power’s danger to health, safety，and even life itself can be summed up in one word:
radiation.
2. The picture was painted by Professor Smith.
3. It has been demonstrated that the quality of leadership matters in determining the motivation of teachers and the quality of teaching in the classroom.
4. As soon as all the facts have been found out, we can begin to formulate a systematic theory.
5. Over the years, tools and technology themselves as a source of fundamental innovation have
been largely ignored by historians and philosophers of science.
6. As you can see, much can be learned from such discussions.
7. Wage and price controls are used in wartime in many countries.
8. He was set upon by two masked men.
9. The behavior of a fluid flowing through a pipe is affected by a number of factors, including the viscosity of the fluid and the speed at which it is pumped.
10. He was never allowed to make such an attempt.
11. All this needs to be considered in detail.
12. Efforts must be made to turn out premium and novel products or the so-called “hard-punch” items that can edge into foreign markets.
13. It has been realized that genes can sometimes influence the chromosome or gamete in which they find themselves so that the gamete will be more likely to participate in fertilization.
14. Communications satellites are used for international living transmission throughout the world.
Exercise Unit 12
1. Give me the book you bought me, not the one I bought you.
2. Nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time.
3. Chemistry deals with changes in matter as a result of which it is possible to form a new substance.
4. He decided to take this difficult course, which has made him extremely busy during the summer.
5. The boys who wanted to play football were disappointed when it rained.
6. The boys, who wanted to play football, were disappointed when it rained.
7. The Chinese people invented the compass and used