英汉笔译期末“短句翻译”复习提纲

1. Today the electronic computer is widely used in solving mathematical problems having to do with weather forecasting and putting satellites into orbit.

译文：今天, 电子计算机广泛地运用于解决一些数学问题, 这些问题与天气预报、把卫星送入轨道有关。

2. No reference books are to be taken out of the reading-room without permission

译文：本阅览室的任何参考书都不得擅自带出。

3. Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

译文：青春不是人生的一个阶段，而是一种心境。青春是生命深处的一泓清泉。

4. The isolation of the rural world because of distance and the lack of transport facilities is compounded by the paucity of the information media.

译文：因为距离远，又缺乏交通工具，农村社会是与外界隔绝的。这种隔绝状态由于通信工具不足，就变得更加严重了。

5. You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

译文：骗人一夕一事易，欺众一生一世难。

6. Care should be taken at all times to protect these sophisticated instruments from dust and damp.

译文：应当始终注意保护这些精密仪器，不使其沾染灰尘，不让他们受潮。

7. The study found that non-smoking wives of men who smoke cigarettes face a much greater than normal danger of developing lung cancer．The more cigarettes smoked by the husband，the greater the threat faced by his non．smoking wife．

译文：这项研究表明，妻子不抽烟丈夫抽烟，妻子的肺癌的危险性比一般人大的多。丈夫抽的烟越多，妻子受到的威胁也就越大。

8. For the first time in the annals of space, a piloted ship had succeeded in launching an earth satellite.

译文：载人飞船成功地发射了一颗人造地球卫星，这在航天史上尚属首次。

9. The first point about chores is that they are repetitive. They come every day or thereabouts, and once done they require after a certain time to be done again.

译文：家务事的第一个特点，是反反复复。几乎天天都有，而且做完之后，过一段时间又要重做一番。

10. With determination, with luck, and with the help from lots of good people, I was able to rise from the ashes.

译文：凭着我的决心和运气，还有许多善良之人的帮助，我终于获得新生。11. That substances expand when heated and contract when cooled is a common physical phenomenon.

译文：物体热胀冷缩是普遍的物理现象。

12. There is no such thing as an ever victorious general in actual life. Sometimes they may meet their waterloo.

译文：事实上的常胜将军是没有的。常胜将军也有遭遇惨败的时候。

13. The fat woman rushed into his room, her heavy body falling into the protesting chair.

译文：这个胖女人风风火火地闯进他的房间，一屁股坐在椅子上，把椅子压得吱吱作响。

14. Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.

译文：许多人常常宁愿牺牲比较高的工资以换取成为白领工人的社会地位，这在西方倒是人之常情。

15. Party officials worked long hour on meager food, in cold caves, by dim lamps.

译文：党的干部吃着粗茶淡饭，住着寒冷的窑洞，点着昏暗的油灯，长时间地工作。

16. A solid fuel, like coal or wood, can only burn at the surface, where it comes in to contact with the air.

译文：固体燃料，如煤和木材，只能在表面燃烧，因为表面接触空气。

17. It is extraordinary that in all the years the British spent in Egypt they never got to know the real people of Egypt.

译文：英国人在埃及消磨的岁月这么长久，而对真正的埃及人民却一无所知，这是颇不寻常的。

18. Let’s forget the matter. It’s water over the dam and there’s no way for anyone to change it.

译文：忘了那件事吧。木已成舟，谁都无法改变。

19. Out of a deep and dreamless sleep he was awakened by the thumping on the door. 译文：他正睡得沉，连梦都没有，突然间，一阵砰砰的敲门声把他吵醒了。20. The molecules of a liquid are much different from grains of sand in that they attract one another with considerable force.

译文：液体的分子和沙子的颗粒有很大的不同，因为液体的各个分子以很大的力

相互吸引。

21. This is not only because the tablecloths are good in quality and beautiful in design, but also because they are handmade.

译文：这不只是因为台布质地好而又设计精美，而且也是因为是手工绣的。22. She had traveled a road from a lonely obscure teenager to glamorous, self-assured celebrity and all in the space of less than ten years.

译文：在不足十年的时间里，她从一个寂寂无闻的孤独少女成长为艳光四射、信心十足的巨星。

23. The Chairman summed up the work of the sub-committee composed of the representatives of the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, and France.

译文：主席总结了美、俄、中、英、法五国代表所组成的小组委员会的工作。24. I wish I could also speak Chinese. The language is so expressive and so compact that I could speak more succinctly, but unfortunately I am not cultured enough.

译文：要是我也能讲中国话就好了。中国话这种语言十分简洁，又富有表达力。要是用中国话讲，我就可以讲得更简练了。可惜，我的文化素养还不够。

25. The Chinese remind one of the English in their love of compromise and in their habit of bowing to public opinions.

译文：中国人喜欢妥协，习惯屈从于公众舆论，这让人想起英国人。

26. Underground water reserves are much larger than those on the surface, but as they are unseen we tend to underestimate them.

译文：地下水的储量比地表水大得多，但是由于看不见，人们往往会低估地下水的储量。

27. When the lady ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so.

译文：女售票员一见到我，原本颇为动人的面孔刷地一沉，变得煞是难看。28. That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

译文：这个民有、民治、民享的政府将永世长存。

29. Some had beautiful eyes, others a beautiful nose, others a beautiful mouth and figure: few, if any, had all.

译文：她们有的长着漂亮的眼睛，有的生着俏丽的鼻子，有的有着妩媚的嘴巴、

婀娜的身段；但是，这样样都美的，虽然不能说一个没有，却也是寥寥无几。

30. Generally, she accepted the family life in all its crowded inadequacy.

译文：尽管家庭生活上住房拥挤，生活寒酸，她大体上还是能够接受。