翻譯練習(xí)及參考譯文

1、翻譯練習(xí)及參考譯文i choose the best translation for each sentence. (10 x 2%)1. they killed a bottle of kaoliang between them. b（a）他們二人對(duì)酌，把一瓶高粱酒喝得一干二凈。（b）他們二人喝了一瓶高粱酒。（c）他們消滅了一瓶高粱酒。2. when it came to reading, they were as good as blind. a（a）一拿起書(shū)本，他們可都成了睜眼瞎了。（b）來(lái)讀書(shū)時(shí)，他們和瞎子一樣好。（c）說(shuō)到讀書(shū)，他們可都是瞎子。3. i prefer driving

2、to being driven. b（a）我喜歡開(kāi)車(chē)，不喜歡別人開(kāi)車(chē)。（b）我喜歡開(kāi)車(chē)，不喜歡坐車(chē)。（c）我開(kāi)車(chē)比被開(kāi)車(chē)更喜歡。4. our hopes and plans are scattered to the four winds. c（a）我們的希望和計(jì)劃都被分散到四種風(fēng)里去了。（b）我們的希望和計(jì)劃被驅(qū)散，隨風(fēng)飄了。（c）我們的希望和計(jì)劃全落空了。5. the new leaders may be better educated, more technologically inclined, and more cosmopolitan. c(a) 這些新的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人可能受教育的層次更好，

3、技術(shù)上更有天賦，更能以四海為家。(b) 這些新的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人可能受教育的層次更高，技術(shù)上更有天賦，見(jiàn)多識(shí)廣。(c) 這些新的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人可能知識(shí)層次更高，技術(shù)上更有天賦，胸襟更為寬廣。6. the areas prodigality of forests has raised its ugly head these years. c（a）這些年這個(gè)地區(qū)亂砍濫伐森林的問(wèn)題有所抬頭，是丑陋的。（b）這個(gè)地區(qū)對(duì)于森林的揮霍這些年抬了丑陋的頭。（c）這個(gè)地區(qū)近幾年濫伐森林的問(wèn)題十分突出。7. 有些廁所似乎仍是這次衛(wèi)生大掃除活動(dòng)的死角。 a（a）some toilets seem to be still dead

4、corners in the clean-up campaign.（b）some toilets seem untouched in the clean-up campaign. （c）some toilets seem immune to the clean-up campaign.8. 這個(gè)出租汽車(chē)司機(jī)黑著呢，他經(jīng)常宰顧客。 b（a）this taxi driver has a black heart. he often kills his customers.（b）this taxi driver is an old screw. he often overcharges.（c）this

5、 taxi driver is a very greedy man.9. 運(yùn)濤好久不來(lái)信，一家人盼了星星盼月亮。 a（a）it seemed that yuntao had not written home for ages. his whole family had long been looking forward with eager expectancy to hearing from him.（b）for many months no letter came from yuntao. his whole family longed for stars and then moons.（

6、c）for many months no letter came from yuntao till the whole family worried over him day and night.10. 通過(guò)大量的飛行試驗(yàn)，證明運(yùn)七飛機(jī)具有良好的操作性和可靠的安全性。 c（a）through an extensive flight test, it proves that y-7 aircraft has good controllability and reliable safety.（b）by an extensive flight test, it proves that y-7 air

7、craft has good controllability and reliable safety.（c）repeated flight tests show that y-7 aircraft is of good controllability and reliable safety.ii. translate the following sentences. (10 x 2%) 11 she was torn between staying at home to watch the tv play serial and going to the cinema with him. 12

8、the man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. 13 partly as a result of the recently increasing demand, wholesale tea prices have almost doubled.14 prices and wages are fellow-travellers on the same upward escalator. 15 the evil which they did lives after them. 16 the lit

9、tle chaps good-natured honest face won his way for him. 17 三個(gè)臭皮匠，合成一個(gè)諸葛亮。.18 她聽(tīng)說(shuō)深圳遍地是黃金，于是就來(lái)了。19 他們患得患失，生怕丟掉這些東西。20 這個(gè)環(huán)境工程是個(gè)“民心工程”。 iii. translate the english passage into chinese. (35%)21. over the last couple of decades theres been a tremendous explosion in museum attendance, and i see that contin

10、uing. as the population grows older, with more people studying in their retirement, and as schools and universities develop more imaginative ways of presenting knowledge, museums and galleries will be at the center of the educational process. to make the most of that position, they must not just ope

11、n their doors but ensure that their material is engagingly presented, with flesh-and-blood teachers as well as displays that draw on information technology.參考譯文：在過(guò)去幾十年間，博物館的參觀人數(shù)劇增，而且我看還會(huì)繼續(xù)增加。隨著人口的老齡化，更多人退休后還在學(xué)習(xí)，大中小學(xué)也推出更富想象力的傳授知識(shí)的方式，這樣一來(lái)，博物館和美術(shù)觀將在教育過(guò)程中起關(guān)鍵作用。為了充分發(fā)揮這一作用，博物館和美術(shù)觀不僅要敞開(kāi)大門(mén)，而且還要確保其展品以吸引人的方式展

12、示出來(lái)，即有借助信息技術(shù)的展示，又有教師生動(dòng)的講解。iv. translate the chinese passage into english. (25%)22. 邀請(qǐng)名人做廣告，只要商品確實(shí)是貨真價(jià)實(shí)，名人又愿意，這應(yīng)該是廣告技巧的上策，會(huì)產(chǎn)生很強(qiáng)的名人效應(yīng)。但是商品質(zhì)量差，廣告又言過(guò)其實(shí)，又請(qǐng)名人做廣告，這種廣告一時(shí)也許會(huì)有一些好的影響，但最終是砸了自己的牌子，也坍了名人臺(tái)，影響名人的聲譽(yù)。因此，名人在接廣告時(shí)，要慎之又慎。參考譯文：to invite those eminent people to help make advertisements should be regarded

13、as one of the best advertisement strategies and could, of course, produce a spectacular vip effect, so to speak, provided that those eminent persons are perfectly willing to accept the invitation and, more importantly, the commodities to be advertised are genuine and their prices fair. sometimes, wh

14、ile a commodity is of inferior quality, the advertisement is full of lavishing praise on it, if under such a circumstance, an eminent person comes to help make the advertisement, the advertisement could, if anything, be temporarily successful before it turns the brand of the commodity in question notorious and,