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英语翻译1

Eating Food That’s Better for You, Organic or Not

吃对你有益的食物，无论是否有机

In the six-and-one-half years since the federal government began certifying food as “organic,” Americans have taken to the idea with considerable enthusiasm.

自从联邦政府六年半前开始对食物“有机”认证以来，美国人以相当大的激情接受了这个概念。

Sales have at least doubled, and three-quarters of the nation’s grocery stores now carry at least some organic food.

销售额至少翻倍，国内3/ 4的食品杂货现在都在出售有机食品。

A Harris Poll in October 2007 found that about 30 percent of Americans buy organic food at least on occasion, and most think it is safer, better for the environment and healthier.

2007年10月的一份哈里斯民意调查发现大约30%的美国人至少会偶尔买有机食品，大部分人认为它更为安全，更有利于环境和更健康。

People believe it must be better for you if it’s organic,” says Phil Howard, an assistant professor of community, food and agriculture at Michigan State University.

密歇根州立大学的社区、食品和农业助理教授Phil Howard说，“人们认为如果它是有机的话一定会对你更好。”

So I discovered on a recent book tour around the United States and Canada.

最近我在美国和加拿大宣传新书时发现了这个问题。

No matter ho w carefully I avoided using the word “organic” when I spoke to groups of food enthusiasts about how to eat better, someone in the audience would inevitably ask, “What if I can’t afford to buy organic food?”

当我和食物爱好群体交流如何吃得更好时，无论我再怎么小心地避免使用“有机”这个词语，读者中还是会有人不可避免地问及“如果我买不起有机食品怎么办？”

Organic food seems to have become the magic cure for all.

有机食品似乎变成万能的神奇疗法。

When people think of eating it, they think they are eating well, healthily, reasonably, even morally.

人们在吃它的时候，他们认为自己吃得好，吃得健康，吃得合理甚至是有道德的。

But eating “organic” offers no guarantee of any of that.

但是吃“有机”食品不能对这些提供保障。

And the truth is that most Americans eat so badly — we get 7 percent of our calories from soft drinks, more than we do from vegetables; the top food group by caloric intake is “sweets”; and one-third of nation’s adults are now obese — that the organic question is a secondary one.

而事实是大部分美国人吃得很糟糕——我们从软饮料（不含酒精的饮料）中获取7%的卡路里，多于我们从蔬菜中所获取的卡路里；卡路里摄取量最多的食品类别是糖果；国内1/3的成年人现在都超重——这样一来有机食品问题成了次要问题。

It’s not unimportant, but it’s not the primary issue in the way Americans eat.

它不是不重要，但它不是美国人饮食的首要问题。

To eat well, says Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food, means avoiding “edible food-like substances” and sticking to real ingredients, increasingly from the plant kingdom. (Americans each consume an average of nearly two pounds a day of animal products.)

《食物防御》的作者Michael Pollan说，要吃得好就意味着要避免‘可食用的类似食品食品的物质’，并逐渐地坚持从蔬菜中获取真正的营养成分。（平均每个美国人每天消费近两磅的肉类产品。）

There’s plenty of evidence that both a person’s health — as well as the environment’s — will improve with a simple shift in eating habits away from animal products and highly processed foods to plant products and what might be called “real food.”

有充足的证据表明，只要对饮食习惯做简单的改变，把吃肉类食品和高度加工食品的习惯转为食用蔬果类食品和那些能被成为“真正的食品”，就能增进一个人的健康和改善环境。

From these changes, Americans would reduce the amount of land, water and chemicals used to produce the food we eat, as well as the incidence of lifestyle diseases linked to unhealthy diets, and greenhouse gases from industrial meat production.

这些转变会使美国人减少用于生产食物的土地，水和化学品，同时降低与不健康饮食有关的生活方式引发的疾病的发病率，减弱因工业肉类生产产生的温室效应。

The government’s organic program, says Joan Shaffer, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department, “is a marketing program that sets standards for what can be certified as organic. Neither the enabling legislation nor the regulations address food safety or nutrition. ”

“政府的有机计划，”农业部发言人Joan Shaffer说，“是给可以认证为有机的食品设立标准的一项市场计划，无论是授权法条或是规定都没有处理食品安全和营养问题。”

People don’t understand that, nor do they realize “organic” doesn’t mean “local.”

人们不明白这些东西，也不知道“有机”并不意味“本土”。

“It doesn’t matter if it’s from the farm down the road or from Chile,” Ms. Shaffer said. “As long as it meets the standards, it’s organic.”

“无论食品是从路边的农场或是从智利运来”，Shaffer女士说，“只要符合标准，它就是有机的。”

Hence, the organic status of salmon flown in from Chile, or of frozen vegetables grown in China and sold in the United States — no matter the size of the carbon footprint left behind by getting from there to here.

因此，从智利空运来的鲑鱼或是在美国出售的中国种植的冷冻蔬菜都是有机的，与食物从哪里飞到这里来所留下的碳排放量无关。

Today, most farmers who practice truly sustainable farming, or what you might call “organic in spirit,” operate on small scale, some so small that they can’t afford the requirements to be certified organic by the government.

今天大部分农民在实践真正的可持续农业，或者你可能称之为“精神上的有机”的农民都实行小规模经营，有一些的规模小到无法承担让政府进行有机认证的费用。

But the organic food business is now big business, and getting bigger.

但有机食品商业现在是大产业，而且日益壮大。

Professor Howard estimates that major corporations now are responsible for at least 25 percent of all organic manufacturing and marketing.

Howard教授估计现在大公司至少占整个有机生产与销售市场的25%。

In 2006, sales of organic foods and beverages totaled about $16.7 billion, according to the most recent figures from Organic Trade Association.

根据来自有机贸易协会的最新数据，2006年有机食物和饮料的销售总额大约$167亿。

But the questions remain over how we eat in general.

但问题仍然普遍存在于我们怎么吃。

It may feel better to eat an organic Oreo than a conventional Oreo, but, says Marion Nestle, a professor at New York University’s department of nutrition, food studies and public health, “Organic junk food is still junk food. ”

人们可能觉得吃一块有机奥利奥比吃传统的奥利奥要好。但纽约大学的营养,食品研究和公共健康系教授Marion Nestle说，“有机垃圾食品仍然是垃圾食品。”

Last week, Michelle Obama began digging up a patch of the South Lawn of the White House to plant an organic vegetable garden to provide food for the first family and, more important, to educate children about healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables at a time when obesity and diabetes have become national concerns.

上周Michelle Obama开始在白宫南边的草坪上挖一个洞来开垦一个有机蔬菜种植园，用来为第一家庭提供食物，更重要的是，在肥胖与糖尿病已经成为举国关注的问题时，以此教育孩子有关健康以及当地种植的水果和蔬菜的知识。

But Mrs. Obama also emphasized that there were many changes Americans can make if they don’t have the time or space for an organic garden.

但与此同时Obama夫人强调，如果，美国民众没有时间或空间去打理有机蔬果园，那还有许多美国人可以做的改变。

“You can begin in your own cupboard,” she said, “by eliminating pr ocessed food, trying to cook a meal a little more often, trying to incorporate more fruits and vegetables.

“你可以从你的食橱开始”，她说，“清除加工食品，尝试平常多做饭，尝试将更多的水果和蔬菜加进去。”

Popularizing such choices may not be as marketable as creating a logo that says “organic.”

推广这样的选择可能不像创造一个说是“有机的”标志那样可市场化的。

But when Americans have had their fill of “value-added” and over-processed food, perhaps they can begin producing and consuming more food that treats animals and the land as if they mattered.

但当美国人民厌倦了“增值的”和“过度加工的”食品时，他们可能会开始生产和消费更多重视动物和土地的食品。

Some of that food will be organic, and hooray for that. Meanwhile, they should remember that the word itself is not synonymous to “safe,” “healthy,” “fair” or even necessarily “good.”

这些食品当中的一部分将是有机的，这是再好不过了。同时，人们应该记住这个词本身不是“安全”、“健康”、“公平”甚至或是“好”的同义词。

英语翻译2

Leaning Tower of Pisa

意大利比萨斜塔

The tower in Pisa, Italy, is famous simply because it leans.

意大利比萨斜塔著名仅仅是因为它倾斜。

It was closed to the public in 1990, after fears that an entire busload of tourists at the top would be enough to make it fall.

在担心一整辆公共汽车的载客量足以使它倒塌之后，它在1990年向公众停止开放。

Eleven years later, the lean has been corrected a little, but not entirely.

11年以后倾斜被矫正了一点点，但并没有完全矫正回来。

Although the tower is famous because it leans, it is an outstanding example of Romanesque architecture, and wou ld probably be famous, even if it didn’t lean.

尽管这座塔是因为倾斜所闻名，但它仍然是罗马建筑的杰出典范，它仍可能会闻名，即使它并不倾斜。

It stands 187 feet high and until 1990 was leaning over at about a 10-degree angle, the top being 17 feet further over than was originally intended.

它有187英尺高，直至1990年它倾斜角度大约10°，顶部比原先预想的要高17英尺。

It was estimated that the lean was increasing by one inch every 20 years.

估计它的斜度会每20年增加一英寸。

In 1172, a wealthy widow named Berta di Bernado, left sixty coins in her will to buy stones to begin the construction of the tower.

常见中国传统文化名词英语翻译

常见中国传统文化名词英语翻译 风水：Fengshui; geomantic omen 阳历：solar calendar 阴历：lunar calendar 闰年：leap year 十二生肖：zodiac 春节：the Spring Festival 元宵节：the Lantern Festival 清明节：the Tomb-sweeping Day 端午节：the Dragon-boat Festival 中秋节：the Mid-autumn Day 重阳节：the Double-ninth Day 七夕节：the Double-seventh Day 春联：spring couplets 春运：the Spring Festival travel 把中国的汉字“福”字倒贴在门上(听起来像是福到)预示新年有好运：turn the Chinese character for luck (fu) upside down to make “dao”(which sounds like arrival) and put it on your door to bring in good fortune for the new year 庙会：temple fair 爆竹：firecracker 年画：(traditional) New Year pictures 压岁钱：New Year gift-money 舞龙：dragon dance 舞狮：lion dance 元宵：sweet sticky rice dumplings 花灯：festival lantern 灯谜：lantern riddle 食物对于中国佳节来说至关重要，但甜食对于农历新年特别重要，因为他们能让新的一年更加甜蜜。Food is central to all Chines festivals, but sugary snacks are especially important for Lunar New Year, since they sweetne up prospects for the coming year. 传统的佳节食物包括年糕、八宝饭、饺子、果脯和瓜子。Traditional holiday treats include nian gao (rice pudding), ba bao fan (eight treasure rice), jiao zi (crispy dumplings), candied fruits and seeds. 四合院：Siheyuan/ Quadrangle 亭/阁：pavilion/attic 刺绣：Embroidery 剪纸：Paper Cutting 书法：Calligraphy 针灸：Acupuncture 象形文字：Pictograms/Pictographic Characters 偏旁：radical 战国：Warring States 人才流动：Brain Drain/Flow 铁饭碗：Iron Bowl 黄土高原：Loess Plateau 红白喜事：Weddings and Funerals ——仅供参考

大学英语精读3翻译答案

Unit1 2) 杰克对书架上那些书一本也不了解，所以他的选择是很随意的。 Jack didn't know anything about any of the books on the bookshelf, so his choice was quite arbitrary. 4) 我认为我们应该鼓励中学生在暑假找临时工作。 I think we should encourage high school students to find temporary jobs / employment during their summer holidays. 5) 令我们吃惊的是，这位常被赞为十分正直的州长（governor）竟然是个贪官（corrupt official）。 To our surprise, the governor who had often been praised for his honesty turned out to be a corrupt official. 6) 少数工人得到提升（be promoted），与此同时却有数百名工人被解雇。 A few workers were promoted, but meanwhile hundreds of workers were dismissed. Unit3 1) 许多美国大学生申请政府贷款交付学费。 Many American students apply for government loans to pay for their education / tuition. 2) 除阅读材料外，使用电影和多媒体（multimedia）会激发学生学习的兴趣。 Besides reading materials, the use of films and multimedia can stimulate students' interest in a subject. 5) 我已经把我的简历（résumé）寄往几家公司，但尚未收到回复。 I have sent off my résumé to several corporations, but haven't yet received a reply. 6) 她的结论是建立在对当前国际情况进行了认真的分析的基础上的。 Her conclusion is built / based on a careful analysis of current international affairs. 7) 我们满怀期望地来参加会议，离开时却大失所望。 We came to the meeting full of expectations, yet we left very disappointed. Unit5 1 就能力而言,我肯定他能胜任这件工作。 As far as ability is concerned, I am sure he will qualify for the job. 6) 在西方，人们常常邮购商品，这可以节省许多时间。 In the West, people often send away for mail-order goods, which can save a lot of time. 7) 抱歉, 时间不多了，我建议我们跳到最后一章。 Sorry time is running out; I suggest we skip to the last chapter. 8) 既然你决心尽快完成硕士课程(master's program), 那就别让你的社交生活(social life)妨碍你的学习。 Since you have set your mind to finishing your master's program as soon as possible, don't let your social life stand in the way of your studies. Unit6 1) 装了(fitted with) 假肢(artificial leg)，他起初走路走不稳，但经过锻炼他的步子(step) 稳了。 Fitted with the artificial leg, he walked unsteadily / shakily at first, but with practice his steps became steady. 2) 医生说我得了重感冒，给我开了四种药，三种是药片，饭后服，另一种是药水 (liquid)，睡前服。 The doctor said I had caught a severe cold and she prescribed me four different medicines. Three of them are pills to be taken after meals and the other is liquid to be drunk before going to bed. 4) 汽车早已开走看不见了，珍妮 (Jenny) 还站在大门口凝视着路的尽头。 Jenny was still standing at the gate gazing at the end of the road long after the car was out of sight. 6) 一般来说，通过增加供给或减少需求可以降低物价。 In general, prices may be brought down by increasing supply or decreasing demand. Unit7 1) 像平常一样，他在开始洗漱（get washed）前，将收音机调至早晨七点的新闻广播。 As usual, he tuned his radio for the 7 a.m. news broadcast before he began to get washed. 2) 有许多文件要签，但紧急的只有这份合同。 There are a lot of papers to sign, but the only urgent one is this contract. 3) 在该市，因吸毒（drug abuse）和赌博（gambling）而引发的罪行在发展，当地政府似乎找不出对付这一问题的办法。 In that city crime born of drug abuse and gambling is on the rise, and the local government seems unable to figure out a way to cope with it. 5) 我敢肯定那座楼在空袭（air raid）中一定被完全炸毁了。 I bet the building must have been completely destroyed in the air raid. 2) 即使你是班上最好的学生之一，要保住成绩也得常常温习功课才行。 Even if you are one of the best students in class, in order to maintain your grades you must review your lessons often. 4) 情况确实是如此，有些人一生中很早就获得成功，而另一些人则要工作很长时间方能实现自己的目标。 It is true that some people achieve success very early in life, while others must work a long time before attaining their goals. 5) 他坚持认为这次实验的失败主要由于准备不足(inadequate)。 He maintained that the failure of the experiment was largely due to inadequate preparation. 6) 如今研究人员提倡我们应该每天花些时间将自己想要达到的目标投射到心灵的屏幕上。Researchers now recommend that we take time every day to project our desired goals onto the screen in our minds. Unit10 1.事实上，对于这次海难（shipwreck）报纸上的说法不一。 In fact, there are different accounts of the shipwreck in the newspapers. 2.据说这一地区早在两千年前农业就很先进。 It is said that the area was well advanced in agriculture as early as 2,000 years ago. 3.瞧他是如何操作这机器的，然后就照着做。 6.圣诞节和元旦相隔一周时间。 There is an interval of a week between Christmas and New Year's Day. unit7 the big chance良机 He wasn't the kind to pick a secretary by the color of her hair. Not Bill Hargrave. Both Paula and Nancy had been smart enough to know that. And for some time everyone in the office had known that one of them, Paula or Nancy, was going to get the job. In fact, the decision would probably be made this afternoon. Hargrave was leaving town and wanted to settle the matter before he left. 他不是那种根据头发的颜色来挑选秘书的人。比尔〃哈格雷夫不是那种人。波拉和南希都很聪明，明白这点。一段时间以来，办公室里人人都知道，她俩中的一个，不是波拉就是南希，将要得到这个职务。事实上，决定可能就在今天下午作出。哈格雷夫就要外出，要在动身前安排好这事。 The two girls could see him from their desks outside his office. Maybe it was only some correspondence that he was looking at with cool, keen eyes. But for a moment his finger seemed to pause above those two efficient little pushbuttons. If he pressed the left one, it would be Paula's pulse which would begin to beat faster. 两个姑娘可以从他办公室外面各自的办公桌那儿看到他。他那沉着、热切的目光正在注视着的可能只不过是则信函而已。可是有那么一会儿，他的手指似乎在那两个颇有效率的小按钮上踌躇着。要是他按左边那个，就会使波拉的脉搏加快跳动 Paula couldn't keep her eyes off that light on her desk. She kept making mistakes in her typing and nervously taking the sheets of paper out in order to start all over again. 波拉的目光一直盯着桌上的那个小灯。她打字时老是出错，老是情绪紧张地把纸拉出来，以便重新开始。 She leaned across her typewriter and said to Nancy, "They boss is all dressed up today. He must be going on a special trip." 她靠在打字机上对南希说：?头儿今天穿得上下笔挺。他准是要作一次不同寻常的旅行。?She was just talking to relieve her nervousness. Nancy took her time about answering. She wasn't used to having Paula talk to her in such an intimate tone. 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Jack. Why not ask Nancy?" and they did ask Nancy. It left Paula free to do Bill Hargrave's work in a hurry. She was never too busy for Bill's work. 说到办公室里明争暗斗那一套，波拉可算是无师自通。办公室里无关紧要的人要想把什么材料打出来时，她总是不巧正忙着。“对不起，杰克，可没有办法。为什么不让南希打呢?于是他们果然就让南希打。这样波拉就有时间把比尔·哈格雷夫的东西赶紧打出来。给比尔打东西她从不嫌忙。 When Hargrave finally pressed one of those buttons it was at Paula's desk that the light went on. She started to make a grab for her notebook, but she quickly took out her mirror first. Then she grabbed up her notebook and an envelope that was on the desk. 等到哈格雷夫终于按了那两个按钮中的一个时，亮起来的是波拉桌上的灯。她起身去抓笔记本，可很快先掏出了镜子。随后她一把抓起笔记本，还有桌上的一个信封。 (3)As for Nancy, what else could she do but sit there with her pretty blonde head bent over her typewriter? 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中国传统文化英语翻译.

1.香囊(scented sachet)，古代也称“香袋”，通常是用布缝制或彩色丝线编织的袋子，里面塞满香草(aromatic herbs)。香囊最初用来吸汗、驱虫和避邪。香囊不仅有用，而且可作装饰品。它们的形状和大小各异，有圆形、椭圆形和其他形状。它们通常配有精致的图案，每个图案都象征着特别的含义。例如，双鱼或成对蝴蝶图案象征男女之爱;莲花或牡丹花(peony flower)等图案象征女性;松树和仙鹤图案象征长寿;石榴(guava)图案象征很多孩子。漂亮的香囊不仅是装饰品，而且含有丰富的文化和历史内涵。 翻译：Scented sachets, also called “fragrant bags” in ancient times, are bags usually sewed with cloth or weaved with multicolor silk threads and stuffed with aromatic herbs. The fragrant bags were originally used for absorbing sweat, repelling insects and warding off evils. Scented sachets are not only useful, but also ornamental. They come in different shapes and sizes, such as round, oval and many others. And they are normally decorated with elaborate patterns, with each pattern symbolizing a special meaning.For instance,a double-fish or double-butterfly pattern smybolizes the love between a man and a woman;patterns like lotus or peony flowers symbolize women;pine and crane patterns symbolize longevity and a guava pattern is the symbol of lots of children.A nice scented sachet is not just an ornament,but more of something that contains cultural and historical richness. 2.中国民间艺术与中国哲学统一于“阴阳(yin-yang)生万物”这一理念。这一理念源于中国原始社会，是对人类的人生感悟的哲学注解。中国人祖先的哲学论断是“近看自己，远观他人”。要理解中华民族民间艺术的原始艺术，这一结论必不可少。人类的本能欲望是生存并通过繁衍(propagation)继续存在。人生来的首要本能是求生，然后是长寿。从原始社会到今天，阴阳和永生的观念始终贯穿中国的社会生活和民族文化。中国民间艺术反映了社会的所有基本哲学理念。 翻译：Chinese folk art and Chinese philosophy are unified in the belief that yin-yang produces all living things in the world. Originated in Chinese primitive society, this was the philosophical explanation of human's perception of life. Chinese ancestors philosophical conclusion was to “look at oneself up close and other creatures from afar”，which is essential to the understanding of the primitive art to the folk art of the nation. To live and to continue life through propagation are the two instinctive desires of human. From birth, a person's first instinct is to survive, and then to live a long life. From primitive society to the present day, the view of yin-yang and perpetual life has permeated in all aspects of social life and the national culture of Chinese society.Chinese folk art reflects all of the basic philosophical concepts. 3.象棋(Chinese chess)两人玩的棋盘游戏，源于春秋战国时期的军事战略。早期的象棋由三部分组成:棋子、骰(dice)和棋盘。现代象棋没有骰子,它在棋子和棋盘方面与古代不同。棋盘有9行宽、10行长，共90个交叉点，构成方形网格(grid)。棋子在交叉点上落子或移动。对弈者在棋盘进行象征性的军很战争，部署马匹、战车，根据自己对棋局和游戏规则的理解组织军队。目前，中国象棋已传至全世界，进一步传承、发扬中国传统文化。