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同位语从句是名词性从句的一种,往往在fact, news,concept,belief,doubt,explanation,opinion,idea,conclusion,theory,truth,evidence,problem,thought等抽象名词后用连接词that引导从句,说明所修饰的名词的内容。在英译汉试题里同位语从句也屡见不鲜,它的译法比较灵活,基本上根据从句部分与句子其它成分之间的关系。可以是保持句子本身的顺序译;可以用冒号、破折号等标点符号表示前后文部分的关系;如果同位语部分比较长,结构又复杂,也可单独成句翻译。
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Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.
【参考译文】Whorf对语言与思维的关系很感兴趣,逐渐形成了这样的观点,即在一个社会中,语言的结构决定习惯思维的结构。
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During the Second World War,several governments came to the conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail.
【参考译文】第二次世界大战期间,一些国家的政府得出结论:政府要向科研机构提出的具体要求通常是无法详尽预见的。
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The mere fact that most people believe nuclear war would be madness doesn’t mean that it will not occur.
【参考译文】事实上,大多数人认为核战争是残忍,但仅此一点并不意味着核战争由此不会发生。
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The belief that failure is the mother of success has kept him go on experimenting.
【参考译文】失败是成功之母的信念使他继续进行实验。
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I have a firm brief that the feeding patterns parents impose on their children can determine their adolescent and adult eating habits.
【参考译文】我坚信,父母的养育方式会决定孩子在青春期及成年后的饮食习惯。(我们可以把原句的I have a firm brief that…理解成I firmly believe that...,belief转译成动词believe。原来做同位语从句的内容就很自然地译成了宾语。)
再如:
There are signs that restaurants are becoming more popular with families.
【参考译文】有迹象表明,餐馆越来越受到家庭的青睐。(这里就在“迹象”一词后添加了“表明”,来顺接同位语从句的内容,是什么迹象。)
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But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
【参考译文】但是穷人在没有政府救济的情况下,生活照样过得很好,对很多人来说,这一事实本身就是一个巨大的胜利。