英汉翻译作业2------词义处理和选词方法
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1.将下列句子翻译成汉语,注意词义选择
A. 1). The two Foreign
Ministers reviewed the world situation.
6). The Department of
Commerce’s review of business in the U.S. was made public
yesterday.
B.1). Ken is working at
the B.B.C.
2). The bell is not
working.
3). Your idea won’t work
practice.
4). You are working hard!
5). My mother worked a
sweater for me.
6). Do you know how to
work this
machine?
7). He worked his way
through college.
8). This dress is my own
work.
9). The students finished
their work in
class.
10). Professor Liu is at
work on a new
book.
C.1). Study reading is different from regular reading. 研读不同于一般阅读。
2). You will find him in his study. 你可以在书房里找到他。
4). He is continuing his studies abroad. 他继续在国外留学。
6). My brother is studying at Beijing University. 我兄弟在北京大学上学。
7). He has been studying law these years. 他这几年一直在攻读法律。
8). The prisoner studied ways to escape. 犯人策划了各种逃跑的办法。
D.1). There is a round post near the school. 学校附近有个圆柱。
3. 将下列句子翻译成汉语,注意词义引申
A.1). Our bus had to be
ferried across the river. There was a line of trucks. We settled
down to a hot wait. The river was inviting. I suggested a
swim.
2). As the Politburo gave the go–ahead signal to Brezhnev, Nixon and Kissinger were meeting in President’s Krenlin apartment, prepared to accept a setback on SALT. 在政治局向勃列日捏夫开放绿灯时,尼克松和基辛格正在克里姆林宫的总统下榻处开会,准备承受限制战略武器谈失败的挫折。
3). For a man whose powers of retention have been described as elephantine, his uncertainty has struck his critics and even his admirers as an understandable, if timely, lapse of memory.象他这样一个记忆力特强的人,这次竟健忘起来,这使得他的批评者以至拥护者都觉得可以理解,但又觉得很奇怪。
4). “After all”, counseled
Sonnenfelt, “you’re the only Republican I know with the proper
academic credentials”. Kissinger demurred. Such an offer, he said,
was highly unlikely.
5). There were no luxuries
and few comforts. There were people with keen minds, deep thoughts,
and a
worldview.
6). Despite his
inclination to be a farmer, John Adam’s schooling prepared him for
college and a career in the Ministry.
7). The tremendous
potential of the film in education was appreciated by many of the
pioneers in the development of the motion
picture.
8). To a certain extent
the kinds of animals raised by man were also determined by climate
and geography, or simply by the kinds of animals available
in one particular area.
9). As nineteenth-century
American cultural ambitions expanded, women stepped into a new role
as interpreters of art, both by writing works on art history and by
teaching art.
10). With so much of the
population attending school, education is necessarily diversified,
to meet the student’s various needs.
11). Her career blossomed
at a time when the American art world had embraced Modernism and
found a new beauty in technology.
12). Today many teachers
try to give considerable attention to the personal development of
each individual student, especially at the elementary school
level.
13). After completing
certain basic requirements, students are often permitted to choose
the subjects that best suit their plans for college or for work
after graduation.
14). When we speak of a
basic human need we mean something which is necessary to life,
something we cannot possibly do without.
15). Eligibility
requirements for public school teachers vary from school district
to school district, but most elementary school teachers must have a
bachelor of arts degree with a major in
education.
B. 1). The study had a
Spartan look.
2). A Daniel came
to judgment! Yea, a Daniel, wise young judge! How I honour
thee.
3). He sowed the apple
of discord between the two
countries.
4). “Cetting small
appliance fixed is Catch-22,” complained the
customers.
5). As fair as Helen of
Troy, she was pursued by numerous men, but she never really
cast an eye on
them.
[解析:Helen of Troy是来自于希腊罗马神话的一个典故。特洛伊城的海伦是世界上最美的人,是斯巴达的王后。但她后来跟特洛伊王子 Paris 私奔,从而引起了长达十年的特洛伊战争,也给特洛伊城带来了彻底的毁灭。后来Helen of Troy就引申比喻美人。]
6). Is she really sick or
is she just crying
wolf?
7). The company has
several Solomons in its advisory
body.
8). The book is a vehicle
of learning and enlightrnent, an open sesame to countless
joys and sorrows.
9). Had I now had the
sense to have gone home, I had been happy, and my father, an elblem
of our blessed Savior’s parable, had even killed the fatted
calf for me…
10). She is
Cinderella of the family; nobody paid special attention to
her.