英汉翻译作业4------省译法(1)
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1. 翻译下列句子,注意省译代词:
1). Lanny was disappointed; he picked his cases and walked away along the sandy track.兰尼很失望,拿起箱子沿沙路走去。
2). We cannot see sound waves as
they travel through
air.
3). Electrical leakage will cause
a fire; hence you must take good care of
it.
4). He works as usual as if
nothing happened to
him.
5). She felt the flowers were in her fingers, on her lips, growing in her breast. 她觉得手里和唇上都是花儿,胸中也生长着花儿。
6). During their stay in Beijing,
they visited some old friends of theirs.
7). Anyone who does not recognize
this fact is not a
materialist.
8). We have more water than land on the globe. 在地球上,水比陆地占的面积大。
9). We have 365 days in a year. 一年有365天。
10). It works wonder when you know how to use it, but when you don’t, it is not worth a fig. 知道如何使用就能创造奇迹,否则就毫不足取。
11). Before you hand in your paper, you have to read it over and over and see if there is anything in it to be corrected and revised. Then you will have your work well done. 交卷前必须读几遍,看有没要修改的地方。这样你的工作就会做得好了。
12). Let them blockade us. Let
them blockade us for eight or ten years! By that time all of
China’s problems will have been solved.
13). One must have studied hard
before one could succeed in mastering a foreign
language.
14). In sooth I know not why I am so sad:It wearies me:you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it or came by it, what stuff it’s made of, where of it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. (The Merchant of Venice) 老实说我不知道为什么这样忧愁,使得我也很烦恼;你说使得你厌烦;不过这忧愁我是怎样染上的;怎样寻到的,怎样获得的,是什么东西做成的,从什么地方生出来的,我还得研究;忧愁把我弄得如此糊涂,以致我很难有自知之明了。
15). Everyone has got a copy of English textbook, have you got it? 每人一本英语教科书,你拿到了没有?
16). She laid her hand gently on
his arm as if to thank him.
17). Her dark hair waved untidy
across her broad forehead, her face was short, her upper lip short,
showing a glint to teeth, her brows were straight and dark, her
lashes long and dark, her nose straight.
18). It is regrettable that our
appeal has remained a dead letter.
19). When he put his hand before
X-rays, he saw the bones of his hands
only.
20). Friction always manifests
itself as a force that opposes
motion.
21). Liquids have no definite
shape, yet they have a definite
volume.
22). He shrugged his shoulders,
shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said
nothing.
23). It was necessary that the
metal should melt at a low
temperature.
24). We have made it clear that
agriculture is the foundation of the national
economy.
25). It is malleability that
allows metal to deform permanently under compression without
rupture.
26). It was not until the
19th century that heat was considered a form of energy.
27). Plants make use of the oxygen
in the carbon dioxide that they obtain from the
air.
28). Matter comprises all the
substances of which the universe is
composed.
29). Outside it was pitch dark and it was raining cats and dogs. 外面漆黑一团,大雨滂沱。
30). Thus we may have a forlorn
hope of making a bridge between them in the next two or three
weeks.
2. 翻译下列句子,注意省译冠词:
1). It is something between a cup and a bowl. 这东西既不象杯子又不象碗。
2). An ambassador is an honest man
who lies abroad for the good of his country.
3). Long after the lorry had gone,
after the trail of dust had settled, and the earth and the sky were
in the same place, Lanny stood there, staring at nothing, thinking
of nothing, feeling nothing.
4). A square has four equal
sides.
5). The horse is a useful
animal.
6). A census is the official count
of the number of people living in a city, state, or
country.
7). The bullet wounded him in the
leg.
8). The bear never touches dead
animals.
9). The fuselage of a modern
airplane is all of metal construction.
10). The sun rises at six every
morning in winter.
11). A leader should be patient in
dealing with problems.
12). A parrot can talk like a
man.
13). The family is the unit of
society.
14). The moon was slowly rising
above the sea.
15). Turn to the left and you’ll
find the post-office.
16). The United States of today
developed from the English colonies on the Atlantic coast of North
America.
17). The steel of Ashan is of very
good quality.
18). You’ve never felt the
bitterness of retreat.
19). A friend exaggerates a man’s virtues, an enemy his crimss. 朋友夸其德,敌人诉其过。
20). Slowly he came to the horse’s
side. Jed kept watching the
rocks.
21). He walked around the house
and stopped at the open door where the smell was
stronger.
22). The mountain is awake, the
river is awake, … and it is all for
you.
23). The ball felt light as a
feather against his big
bones.
24). The sun was beginning to
color the sky
above.
25). The floor looked like glass
under the feet of the
dancers.
3. 翻译下列句子,注意省译连接词:
1). These developing countries
possess vast territories, large population and abundant natural
resources.
2). He was smooth, and agreeable
to meet.
3). There are two cylinders of
equal mass, one being solid and the other
hollow.
4). All of us know that the
conductivity of semiconductors changes with
temperature.
5). A gas becomes hotter if it is
compressed.
6). No matter whether you believe me or not, the new China has become one of the world powers. 信不信由你,新中国已成为世界强国之一。
7). I will be punished for I have
made too many mistakes in my exercises.
8). When the masses are of one
heart, everything becomes easy.
9). Since it is not proposed to
discuss economic problems in detail, I shall not go into them
further.
10). Although you may escort a
guest a thousand miles, yet the parting must come at
last.
11). Come if you like. 高兴来就来。
12). So long as green hills
remain, there will never be a shortage of
firewood.
13). They climbed up the hill higher and higher. 他们往山上爬,越爬越高。
14). If winter comes, can spring be far behind? 冬天来了,春天还会远吗?
15). Everything is good when new, but friends when old. 东西是新的好,朋友是老的真。
16). We will go and see the film this evening. 今天晚上我们去看电影。
17). I will go as soon as you come here. 你来了我马上就走。
18). If there were no such a thing
as gravity, we could not run or jump rope or swim or have a cold
drink.
19). If I had known it, I would
not have made a friend with him.
20). Fight when you can win, move
away when you can’t.
21). The sea around the little
stony island seemed an endless desert, stretching miles and miles
to the horizon.
22). The children entered the
classroom and took their seats.
23). I shall write and thank
him.
24). That substances expand when
heated and contract when cooled is a common physical
phenomenon.
25). The result of invention of
steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical
power.