翻译练习一(英译汉):monga
一、将下列句子译成汉语:
1. It's more a poem than a picture.
2. He drank himlf out of the best lines.
3. He pretends to be as modest as anything.
4. Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft.
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5. The room was easily traced by the noi that was coming from it.
6. Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus
to Hattiesburg.
7. If you feel depresd at a social gathering, keep it a cret.
8. The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of
age.
9. He wants a lawyer who understands his ca, who sympathizes with him and who has been there himlf.
10. World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity.
11. She couldn't have come at a better time.
12. She has been a widow only six months.
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雅思报名13. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn.ambrosia
14. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too.
1divided5. The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality.
16. From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colours as
there are different wave lengths.myhappyending
17. But the next century we'll be able to alter our DNA radically,
encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms.
18. As a human being, we should demonstrate our intellectual and
moral superiority by respecting others for who they are -- instead
of rejecting them for who/what they are not.
19. He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death.
20. No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a tyrant.
printing 21. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.
22. The expectation of collision informed British frontier policy in this period.
23. Every day now, the suppression of truth and the organizing of public ignorance shame journalism.
24. I walked to the ticket counter. When the ticket-ller saw me, her otherwi attractive face turned sour, violently so.
25. Accident may put a decisive blunderer in the right, but eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man of the best parts, if curd with indecision.
26. In their rush, the companies have neglected the hardest part of doing business in China: the people part. The result is that many have jeopardized their performance in the long run.
27. Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it can not deceive them too much.
28. We shall never get anywhere with all the criticism and fault finding. I believe in the principle "Live and let live".
29. He said that no one could beat him at tennis, but he had to eat his word after losing veral games.
30. I had read too many novels and had learned too much at school not to know a good deal about love.
31. In fact, one office-system expert recently said that he had yet to encounter a business work place that was functioning at more than 60 percent efficiency.
32. Nobody with any n expects to find the whole truth in advertiment any more than he expects a man applying for a job to describe his shortcomings and rious faults.
33. There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness and variety of the English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare ud it.
34. We are human and human beings are far from perfect. To be human implies that we will make mistakes. But it's more than that we feel human. We now feel entitled.
35. She showered us with telegrams.
36. Your comment is more bravely made than correct.
37. The man, more dead than alive, was brought in and locked in the cellar.
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38. Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.
39. There was something original, independent, and heroic about the plan that plead all of them.
40. It was a dry, cold hand, and the grip was vere, with more a feeling of bones in it than friendliness.
二、将下列语段译成汉语:
1. Transplant surgeons work miracles. They take organs from one body and integrate them into another, granting the lucky recipient a longer, better life. Sadly, every year thousands of other people are less fortunate, dying while they wait for suitable organs to
be found. The terrible constraint on organ transplantation is that every life extended depends on the death of someone young enough and healthy enough to have organs worth transplanting. Such donors are few. The waiting lists are long, and getting longer.