《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习

《商务翻译》第1次翻译练习及参考译文

（一）句子翻译练习

1.Nippon Steel Corp. and Shanghai Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., China’s largest steelmaker,

signed an agreement to set up a joint venture to manufacture sheet steel for automobiles.

2.Buyers have to bear all risks of the goods from the time when they shall have effectively

passed the ship’s rail at the port of shipment.

3.The two airlines plan to use the loans mainly to finance their planned capital investment and

bond redemptions for the first half of fiscal 2009.

4.The Bank of Japan decided to implement special loans to the bank to enable it to maintain

sufficient cash flow.

5.Currently, cell phone users are required to change the phone numbers if they switch their cell

phone service provider.

6.We all understand that Chinese slippers are very popular in your market on account of their

superior quality and competitive price.

7.Customer value is the unique combination of benefits received by target buyers, such as

quality, price, convenience, on-time delivery, and both before-sale and after-sale service.

8.The European Union and other seven nations were determined to impose retaliatory tariffs on

U.S. imports if Washington refused to abide by the WTO decision.

9.Executives of the two companies repeatedly held talks to consider tie-ups limited to product

development and sales activities.

10.The critical issue is how to expand the sale of cultivation in order to streamline the farming

management and enhance its international competitiveness.

（二）篇章翻译练习

These are tough times for Wal-Mart, America’s biggest retailer. Long accused of wrecking small-town America and condemned for the stinginess of its pay, the company has lately come under fire for its meanness over employees’ health-care benefits.The charge is arguably unfair: the firm’s health cover age, while admittedly less extensive than the average for big companies, is on a par with other retailers’. But bad publicity, coupled with rising costs, has stirred the Bentonville giant to action. Wal-Mart is making changes that should shift the ground i n America’s health-care debate.

One strategy is to slash the prices of many generic, or out-of-patent, prescription drugs. Wal-Mart recently announced that its Florida stores would sell a list of some 300 generic drugs at $4 for a month’s supply; other st ates will follow. That is above cost but far less than the prices charged by many pharmacy chains, which get profits from fat margins on generics.

Wal-Mart’s critics dismiss the move as a publicity stunt. The list of drugs includes only 143 different medicines and excludes many popular generics. True, but short-sighted. Wal-Mart has transformed retailing by using its size to squeeze suppliers and passing the gains on to consumers. It could do the same with drugs. Target, another big retailer, has already announced that it will match the new pricing. A “Wal-Mart effect” in drugs will not solve America’s health-costs problem: generics account for only a small share of drug costs, which in turn make up only 10% of overall health spending.But it would help. (High risk, high reward (excerpt), The Economist, Oct 12th 2006)

最新关于难忘的第一次英语作文800字带翻译

关于难忘的第一次英语作文800字带翻译 岁月匆匆，如今的我已步入初中，一路走来，经历着不少磨难，每当步入困境，总会忆起那颗葱葱杨树下，静静等待的少女，心中便翻涌起温暖的浪涛，带给我前进的勇气。 Years in a hurry, now I have entered junior high school, along the way, experienced a lot of tribulations, whenever I step into difficulties, I always remember the young girl waiting quietly under the lush poplar, and the warm waves in my heart, bring me the courage to move forward. 校园中静悄悄的，我独自走在空无一人的长廊上，时而扭头望向那空荡荡的操场，心中如死水一般，一种莫名的孤独侵袭而来，使整个人落寞无比。今日的我在参加了校园竞赛，比赛时间直至六点才结束，如今的校园，只有我一人了吧。 In the quiet campus, I walk alone on the empty corridor, and sometimes turn my head to the empty playground. My heart is like stagnant water. A kind of inexplicable loneliness invades and makes the whole person lonely. Today, I took part in the campus competition. The competition time didn＇t end until six o＇clock. Now, I＇m the only one on campus. 我慢步走下一楼，路过往日喧闹的教室。我停下脚步，探头

段落翻译练习-汉译英答案

汉译英： 1徐霞客一生周游考察了十六个省，足迹几乎遍及全 国。他在考察的过程中，从来不盲目迷信书 本上的结论。他发现前人研究地理的记载有许多很不可靠的地方。为了进行真实细致的考察，他很少乘车坐船，几乎全 靠双脚翻山越岭，长途跋涉；为了弄清大自然的真相，他总是挑选道路艰险的山区，人迹稀少的森林进行考察，发现了许多 奇山秀景；他常常选择不同的时间和季节，多次重游各地名 山，反复观察变换的奇景。 Xu Xiake toured and investigated 16 provinces in his lifetime, covering almost the whole of China/ the whole country. When he was carrying out his investigations, he never took blind belief in the conclusions in the books. Instead he found a lot of unreliable points in the geographic records taken by his predecessors. In order to make his investigations reliable and thorough, he seldom traveled by carriage or boat. Instead, he took long, arduous trips on foot almost all the time, climbing mountains and hills. In order to learn about the truth of nature, he always chose to conduct investigations in mountainous areas with dangerous roads and in lonely / untraveled woods, where he discovered a lot of magnificent peaks and beautiful sights. ( During his life time, Xu Xiake visited and explored 16 provinces, leaving his footprints in nearly every corner of the country. He never blindly accepted the conclusions given in books in his exploration. He found that many of the geographical records by other people before him were inaccurate ( He found many inaccuracies in the travel notes on geography written by his predecessors ) . He seldom traveled by horse cart or boat but climbed mountains and ridges and took long, difficult journeys most of the time

课文翻译综合英语

The pearl 吉纳，一位穷渔夫，刚发现了一颗非常大而且非常珍贵的珍珠，准备去最近的城镇把它卖掉。他急切需要钱给刚给蝎子螫伤的孩子看病。吉纳发现珍珠前，他---一位可以看病的医生拒绝给孩子治病，因为吉纳付不起治疗费。 一个小镇就像个集群动物，有神经系统头肩膀和肢。它与其他城镇不想连。因此没有两座城镇是相似的。城镇里还有完整的感情。要知道消息是怎样传遍整个小镇的可是个难解之谜。消息传得似乎比小男孩冲出去告诉别人的速度还快，比女人隔着篱笆大声说消息的速度还要快。? 在吉纳胡安纳和其他渔夫回到吉纳的茅草屋前，小镇的神经正随着消息--吉纳发现了世界上最大的珍珠--传播而奔腾，跳动。跑得气喘吁吁的小男孩还没说出这个消息，母亲们早已知晓了。消息席卷而过茅草屋，激起波浪泡沫，然后冲进镇里的石头灰泥瓦房里。消息传到正在花园里散步的牧师，他的眼中露出若有所思的表情，他想起教堂的有些地方该维修了，他纳闷珍珠值多少钱。他想知道是否为吉纳的婴儿施过洗礼，或是否主持过他的结婚仪式。消息传到零售商那儿的时候，他们看着卖的不太好的男式衣服。?? 消息传到医生那儿的时候，他正在给一位妇人看病，这位夫人的疾病其实就是“年龄太老的问题”，尽管他们两人都不承认这点。弄清楚谁是吉纳后，医生变得严肃认真而又明智起来。医生说，“他是我的一个病人，我在给他的孩子治疗被蝎子螫伤的伤口。”眼珠在肿眼泡的眼眶内转来转去，医生想起巴黎，想起那他住过的既宽敞又豪华的房间。越过他的老年病人，医生仿佛看见自己坐在巴黎的一家餐馆，男侍者正在打开酒瓶。 消息早早地传到了教堂前乞讨者，他们咯咯地高兴地笑着，因为他们知道没有比突然

1484745756第一次句子翻译作业 (1)

第一次作业 1.翻译下面的句子 1). 在家工作的人可以灵活安排时间。 2). 政府应该审查媒体的内容。(用基础的主谓宾句型来翻译) 3). 应该有政府对媒体内容的审查。(用there be句型来翻译) 4). 政府对媒体内容的审查是非常有必要的。(用主系表句型翻译) 5). 燃烧化石燃料的汽车是空气污染的主要来源。 6). 通过参加社区服务，青少年能培养宽泛的能力。(介词短语) 7). 当孩子们读书的时候，他们会尝试理解每个单词，这能增加他们的词汇量。(状语从句) 8).不应该禁止孩子看电视，家长应该建议他们看什么和看多久。(用Instead of在句首的句型翻译)

9). 有很多的争论关于孩子应该被送去寄宿还是走读学校。(用there be句型翻译) 10). 然而，这并不意味着所有的幸福都来源于金钱。 11). 一方面，有人认为大学课程应该由专家来制定因为他们更了解学生需要哪些知识和技能。(状语从句) 12). 另一方面，支持学生自己选择课程的人们认为这能增加他们学习的动力。(定语从句的考察) 13). 学生们可以通过艺术课程来提高自己的表达能力。(注意中文惯性翻译错误问题，不要直接字面翻译) 14). 有一个大幅的增长在老年人比例上，从1990年的13%增长到了2010年的37%。(用there be句型来翻译，注意时态) 15). 上寄宿学校的孩子比走读学校的孩子更加独立，因为他们有更多机会自己来解决问题。 16). 政府应该做的是对电影和游戏进行分级。(用what….的主语从句来翻译)

17). 体重的增加可以由如下原因来解释。(用被动句，主语用抽象名词短语) 18). 有更多的耐心是一个主要原因为什么小学里有更多女老师。 19). 不可否认金钱和幸福之间有紧密的联系。(It is 句型翻译) 20). 学生的学习能力有很大的差别。(用there be句型翻译) 21). 我认为虽然孩子们可以从电脑游戏里得到很多好处，但是他们花在这些游戏上的时间应该被合理控制。(用although的从句来翻译)

综合英语(一)课文及翻译

Lesson One: The Time Message Elwood N, Chapman 新的学习任务开始之际，千头万绪，最重要的是安排好时间，做时间的主人。本文作者提出了7点具体建议，或许对你有所启迪。 1 Time is tricky. It is difficult to control and easy to waste. When you look a head, you think you have more time than you need. For Example,at the beginning of a semester, you may feel that you have plenty of time on your hands, but toward the end of the term you may suddenly find that time is running out. You don't have enough time to cover all your duties (duty), so you get worried. What is the answer? Control! 译：时间真是不好对付，既难以控制好，又很容易浪费掉，当你向前看时，你觉得你的时间用不完。例如，在一个学期的开始，你或许觉得你有许多时间，但到学期快要结束时，你会突然发现时间快用光了，你甚至找不出时间把所有你必须干的事情干完，这样你就紧张了。答案是什么呢？控制。 2 Time is dangerous. If you don't control it, it will control you. I f you don't make it work fo r you, it will work against you. So you must become the master of time, not its servant. As a first-year college student, time management will be your number one Problem. 译：时间是危险的，如果你控制不了时间，时间就会控制你，如果你不能让时间为你服务，它就会起反作用。所以，你必须成为时间的主人，而不是它的奴仆，作为刚入学的大学生，妥善安排时间是你的头等大事。 3 Time is valuable. Wasting time is a bad habit. It is like a drug. The more time you waste,the easier it is to go on wasting time. If seriously wish to get the most out of college, you must put the time message into practice. 译：时间是珍贵的，浪费时间是个坏习惯，这就像毒品一样，你越浪费时间，就越容易继续浪费下去，如果你真的想充分利用上大学的机会，你就应该把利用时间的要旨付诸实践。 Message1. Control time from the beginning. 4 Time is today, not tomorrow or next week. Start your plan at the Beginning of the term. 译：抓紧时间就是抓紧当前的时间，不要把事情推到明天或是下周，在学期开始就开始计划。 Message2. Get the notebook habit. 5 Go and buy a notebook today, Use it to plan your study time each day. Once a weekly study plan is prepared, follow the same pattern every week with small changes. Sunday is a good day to make the Plan for the following week.

英语第一次总结

am I am 动词Be is(单数) He is/She is/It is are We are/You are/They are 除第一句、第五句要特别注意，其余都是将主谓调换，后面的照抄即可。 1.I am a student. 改成一般疑问句：Are you a student? Yes, I am./No, I am not. 2.He is a student.改成一般疑问句：Is he a student? Yes, he is./No, he isn’t.(is not的缩写) 3.She is a student.改成一般疑问句：Is she a student? Yes, she is./No, she isn’t. 4.It is a dog.改成一般疑问句：Is it a dog. Yes, it is./No, it isn’t. 5.We are students.改成一般疑问句：Are you students? Yes, we are./No, we aren’t(are not的缩写) 6.You are students.改成一般疑问句：Are you students? Yes, you are./No, you aren’t. 7.They are students.改成一般疑问句：Are they students? Yes, they are./No, they aren’t. This 这个，这This is a dog. That 那个，那That is a dog. These 这些These are dogs. Those 那些Those are dogs. 名词变复数的规则 1.一般情况直接在单词末尾加“s” 2.以s或sh或ch或x结尾的单词，在单词末尾加“es” 3.以辅音字母（除去元音字母a,e,i,o,u外的字母）+y结尾的单词，将“y”变成“i”,再加“es” 4.以f或fe结尾的单词，将“f”或“fe”变为“v”，再加“es” There be 句型一般用来表示“……地方有……”改为一般疑问句时，将be与there 调换位置即可 后面的名词是单数时用“there is”,是复数时用“th ere are” There is an apple on the desk. 一般疑问句：Is there an apple on the desk? Yes, there is./No, there isn’t. There are many dogs in the park.一般疑问句:Are there many dogs in the park? Yes, there are./No, there aren’t. 冠词：a/an（一……）的用法当单词的第一个发音是元音（音标中）时，用an, 如an apple, an orange 当单词的第一个发音不是元音时，用a, 如 a dog, a cat

综合英语 1 课后翻译答案精编版

Unit 1 1.他对这次面试中可能提到的问题作好了准备。（confront） He has prepared answers to the questions that he may confront during the interview. 2.他悲惨的遭遇深深打动了我们，使我们几乎哭出声来。（touch） His sad experience touched us so deeply that we nearly cried. 3.他们俩手挽着手沿着河边散步，有说有笑。(hand in hand) The two of them are walking hand in hand along the riverbank, chatting and laughing. 4.听到这令人激动的消息之后，他眼睛里涌出欢乐的泪水。(well up) When he heard the exciting news, tears of joy welled up in his eyes. 5.上海人容易听懂苏州话，因为上海话和苏州话有许多共同之处。(in common) People from Shanghai can understand Suzhou dialect with ease, for Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect have much in common. 6.亨利和妻子正在考虑能不能在3年内买一幢新房子。(look into) Henry and his wife are looking into the possibility of buying a new house within three years. 7.女儿再三请求到国外去深造，他最终让步了。（give in to） He finally gave in to his daughter’s repeated requests to further her education abroad. 8.我们在动身去度假之前把所有的贵重物品都锁好了。（lock away） We locked all our valuables away before we went on holiday. 9.虽然咱们分手了，但我希望咱们依然是好朋友，像以前一样互相关心，互相帮助。(part) Although we have parted from each other, I hope that we will remain good friends and that we will care for and help each other just as we used to. 10.在紧急关头，军长召集全体军官开会，制定新的克敌战略战术。（summon） At the critical moment, the army commander summoned all the officers to work out new strategies and tactics to conquer the enemy. Unit 2 1.一个由外交部长率领的政府代表团昨天抵达南非，开始对该国进行为期3天的友好访问。（head） A government delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in South Africa yesterday, starting a three-day friendly visit to the country. 2.看看这些讽刺社会弊端的漫画实在好笑。（awfully funny） It is awfully funny to look at these caricatures which satirize social ills. 3.计算机是最有用的教学工具之一，所有的功课以及所有的问题和答案都可在屏幕上显示出来。（show on a screen） Computers are one of the most useful teaching tools, for all your lessons as well as all the questions and all the answers can be shown on a screen. 4.张利的母亲前天突然病倒，他赶紧派人请来医生。（send for） Zhang Li’s mother fell ill the day before yesterday, so he sent for a doctor immediately.

英语第一次阅读(英汉对照)

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