大学高级英语下册翻译
Lesson One
1. This picture brings back many pleasant
memories of her Spanish holiday.
2. News and weather forecasts reports are
staples of radio programmes.
3. By mere accident Tom met in a bar his
long-lost brother who was thought to have been killed in action during the war.
4. Bill intuited something criminal in their
plan.
5. They think that obsessive tidiness in
factory is a bad sign .
6. Yesterday his mother sold several years’
worth of paper and magazines.
7. His heartening speech impelled us to
(work with) greater efforts.
8. Those who enjoy pulling off a miracle
often fail.
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9. As language students we should have a
sense of nuances of plain words and expressions. 10. The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylor’s ado pted son
is driving her into a nervous breakdown.
11. I like to see films in general, and American
Western and horrors in particular.
12. In some sense Mary saw in her aunt a surrogate
of her mother.
13. My father never equivocated, and he always gave
some brief but poignant opinions.
14. Though he disabled, he never tries of helping
people.
15. In any country, those who are remiss in their duty
must be severely punished.
16. Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger
impelled the policeman to action.
Lesson 2
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1. A. The chances are that they will be held
up by traffic on their way to the airport.
B. the plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldn’t make it.
2. Another popular notion which is in fact
a misconception is that expensive clothes invariably
raise one’s status.
3. Can you imagine what kind of life a man
has lived who aspires to excellence and abhors
mediocrity?
4. A copy of our latest product catalogue
will be sent free of charge if you will fill up the form on the reverse of this card and post it.
5. It will be an absurdity, if not a
catastrophe. If half of the population of this city abandons their posts and goes in for business.
6. Because they want their kids to be
somebodies, some well-intentioned parents exercise
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enormous pressures on their children and the results all too often prove the reverse.
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7. The revered professor predicted that
these brilliant young people would surely make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a few years.
8. Many writers have quitted writing stories
because, as they say there is no market for them. Yet Lessing sticks and she would go on even if there really wasn’t any home for them but a private drawer.
9. Satire under his pen is only a means to
an end, a form to expose social evils.
10. It seemed no body at the party, not even the
reporters, made special note of the general’s
absence which might have aroused the suspicion of his rivals.
11. During the first months in the strange land, the
new arrivals had to take menial jobs refused by the natives and work like slaves to make a living. Later, having saved enough money, most of them set up small
businesses.
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12. Intellectual sluggards may get rich but they can
never make good in the academic field.
13. Schools should make prodigious effort to
inculcate the students with a sense of justice and the love of truth.
14. Yesterday she received a telegram from her cousin
in sian to the effect that the latter would arrive today by the night train instead of the morning train he had mentioned in his letter.
15. All her relatives were under no illusion that her
husband could be one of the three lucky survivors in the recent plane crash.
16. In the west many people remain single because
they don’t want to tie themselves down (to be tired down) to responsibility.
17. If nothing interferes the school sports meet will
be held as scheduled.
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18. With Vincent playing baseball is a means to an
end, the best way to get acquainted with those stars. Lesson Three
1. These gifts had got thoroughly mixed up
and needed to be sorted into three different sets.
2. The Security Council would take issue
with the proposals put forward by the warring states.
3. Because of repeated defeated the enemy
t roops’ morale sank low and their discipline broke loose.
4. In a bid to host the Olympic Games, what
really counts is not the winning but the spirit to compete and take part.
5. In designing the office building, due
attention should be paid to the people who will work inside it.
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6. The well-groomed young man is impatient
to wait for the bride to arrive and the wedding ceremony to start.
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7. For several weeks, the city was in a
turmoil. The rebels had surrounded the City Hall, hailing stones, wielding sticks, and shouting
slogans.
8. After the success of the experiment, for
several days, he indulged himself in the luxury of sleeping late and getting up late.
9. I’m not the type of person who thrives
on city life. I am more accustomed to (the ) life in the peaceful countryside.
10. Having weathered wind and rain for hundreds of
years, these buildings of European style are barely recognizable as they were.
11. Before the interviews, the hoary -headed father
patted him on the shoulder in an extremely reassuring manner and wished him every success.
12. Some people believed that the Monore doctrine
means that European nations should no longer
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interfere with American nations or try to acquire more territories in the Western Hemisphere.
13. As a remedy for the blight of mediocrity , our
society should show greater respect for excellence in education.
14. The young mother lamented that it was her own lack
of concern that had driven her boy from the house that night.
15. His enthusiasm ebbed away when he learned how
troublesome it was to go through the red tape in order to go abroad for further studies.
16. As prices are skyrocketing, workers are
determined to go on strike, regardless of its
consequences.
17. It is absurd to wear a pair of torn blue jeans
at such a formal dinner.
18. The educational qualifications of intellectuals
should entitle them to higher salaries.
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Lesson Four
1. John remained motionless without even
blinking, because he knew who the chairman remark was leveled at /against.
2. The message was delivered to the wrong
department owing to a mistake on the part of a clerk.
3. It seems that in every attack Dickens
makes upon society he always points to a change of spirit rather than a change of social structure.
4. Before they covered 2 km in the desert,
the explorers had walked themselves dizzy and
exhausted.
5. After their seizure of the city, the
enemy troops started to despoil all the buildings.
6. He had wandered in the unsavory areas
of London and seen for himself the appalling living conditions of the poor.
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7. Conrad points to a danger that is already apparent in his friend’s writing, that of alienating his characters from their social context.
8. The circumstances of her childhood are not easy to establish; these were facts she herself wished to forget.
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9. These pages tell at least as much, if
no more was jeopardized.
10. Whenever an important decision is made, they defer to (the opinion of) their department head. 11. As he had made bad investments, his fortune was jeopardized.
12. All the staff members must be alert to the danger of fire.
13. He is a person who will stand up for what he thinks right, no matter what the cost to himself.
14. The highest award he won in the international contest testifies to his musical talent.
15. The peasants in that poverty-stricken area worked hard to try and wrest a living from the soil.
16. He spoke in such a round-about way that we found it hard to fathom his real motives.
17. In the darkness of night, an indescribable fear
overlook him when he moved on alone in the jungle.
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18. The local department responsible for the Hope
Project has collected contributions of about
2million yuan.
Lesson Five
1. The first thing to do is to assess the fixed assets of that company.
2. His parents bought not a few picture books for him,
but now he has outgrown them.
3. The senator is not likely to slant toward this bill out of partisanship.
4. To analyze trends of stock market is the project
of the would-be economist.
5. He is fairly sophisticated, so he can identify at
first glance the self-centered people in their
guises.
6. The simplicity and clarity of this analytic approach far outweighs its drawbacks.
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7. Mrs. Smith was so busily engaged in her writing that she left the disciplining of the children to her husband.
8. After the first round of matches, the drawing of lots turned the scale in favor of the Chinese football team.
9. He claimed that he was public-spirited as could be seen from what he had done, but his rivals declared that he was a mere humbug.
10. As safety in production is neglected inn that
factory, a dozen workers have been maimed in the past three years.
11. In that sea food restaurant, they were so
overcharged that they thought it almost downright robbery.
12. John went up to his rival and wanted to give him
a hug only to be snubbed by the latter.
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13. In downtown Shanghai, not only have the shops
undergone a facelift, but many arresting sculptures have been put up along the streets as well.
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14. What he left to his descendants as an added asset
is his indomitable spirit.
15. When he woke up, the early morning sunlight was
filtering through the curtains into his bedroom.
16. After learning about how they had been building
their enterprise through arduous efforts, he had a compulsion to write a novel about it.
17. In order to maintain the integrity of this ancient
building, we should exclude the use of steel and glass in its renovation.
18. With the consciousness that it is a multinational
country, the tourists were not at all surprised to find such big differences in the customs at
different parts of that country.
Lesson Six
1. Short of funds, they could not put into
practice the plan they had made.
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2. I see her off and on in the school library,
but I do not know her name.
3. I understand you are in a difficult
position, and neither you nor Jack owes me any
explanation.
4. Mary is very angry with the manager, for
he is nonchalant to her suggestion.
5. Their neighbor’s son is always up to some
mischief, and the child is quite unbearable.
6. He bought a flat last month, and most of
his savings were wiped out.
7. His insane urge for greater material
wealth put him onto the road to ruin.
8. It’s kind late to start now. You ought
to have started two hours ago.
9. As the service was poor, the volume of
goods sold in that store sagged last year.
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10. This morning I came across him on the campus and
found that his face was flooded with anxiety.
11. If you find the leather jacket does not fit you,
the shop will refund you the money.
12. John’s colleagues covet his promotion very
much.
13. The firm’s board of directors has decided to lay
off engineers and 300 workers.
14. She intimated to me her intention of going abroad
for further studies.
15. When the boss heard that his factory was
operating at a loss, he focused his anger on the foreman.
Lesson Seven
1. A letter of thanks is the verbal
expression of one’s gratitude.
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2. The US automobile industry has come
under persistent pressure from Japanese competition.
3. So far, progress of a greater or lesser
degree has been made in the research on
superconductors in various countries.
4. We must inculcate in people respect for
knowledge and for people of talent.
5. After the outbreak of the French
Revolution, many members of the nobility shorn of their wealth fled abroad.
6. A special envoy has been sent to find
out how things stand in that country tormented by a civil war.
7. The social status of women in China
today has been enhanced, as witness the vast number of women holding leading positions.
8. A note of desperation in her voice gave
her away.
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