选修课英汉翻译8:语序调整法
(2008-12-06 19:10:55)
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翻译下列句子,注意调整词序:
1). To design means to make the drawing of something new
according to a plan.
2). This is the only reference book available here on the
subject.
3). Can you tell me something about the economic system
there?
4). According to the new school of scientists, technology is an
overlooked force in expanding the horizons of
scientific knowledge.
5). What is called “modern civilization” is not the result of a
balanced development of all man’s nature, but of accumulated
knowledge applied to practical
life.
6). With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen
interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower
grades and to basic academic skills and
disciplines.
7). This is a grand conception that excites and
provokes.
8). It is said the trees in that area are mostly over thirty feet tall. 据说那一带的树多数都三丈多高。
9). We are responsible for actions performed in response to
circumstances for which we are not
responsible.
10). Yesterday I met a man with a white
beard.
11). We prepare our lessons carefully in the reading room
every evening.
12). The branch of science, artificial intelligence, is
developing rapidly.
13). I remember having seen him
somewhere.
14). She didn’t do it intentionally. 她不是有意这样做的。
15). Students are playing ping-pong in high spirits at the
cub now.
16). Mr. Albert suddenly died in New York at twenty past two
p.m. on October 16, 1990.
17). We walked across the garden in the gray light of the dawn with a bag of toys and books. 我们提着一口袋玩具和书籍,在晨曦中穿过花园。
18). The law operates universally, whether in the natural world,
in human society, or in man’s thinking.
19). I was born in Burdine, Kentucky, in the heart of
Appalachian coal-mining
country.
20). His success resulted in part from his ability to
sell the
product.
21). Such has not been the case, at least not for the last 150
years.
22). To the surprise of everyone, his plan
succeeded.
23). Horrified I reeled into my parents’
room.
24). Staring at the ceiling, I spent another sleepless night. 我盯着天花板,又一夜未眠。
25). Early breeding is advantageous for the young birds because
it gives them more time to gain weight and foraging experience
before the onset of
winter.
26). Seeing them off at the airport were the foreign minister
and other officials.
27). Down runs the river through the
gorges.
28). Bitterly did we repent our
decision.
29). Gladly would he have given his life to save the
child.
30). Never had he had any experience like
that.
31). With much difficulty did he find his way
home.
32). No sooner had he arrived there than he fell
ill.
33). This ,I think, is a very good way to raise our theoretical
level.
34). That will be a good beginning, I
hope.
35). We’ll have to book our tickets in advance, I’m
afraid.
36). What the country thinks and worries about we should think
and worry about.
37). It’s a mystery why all our attempts have been
unsuccessful.
38). That is why the jet engine can work at all
altitudes.
39). An important function of the World Health Organization is
to improve the health and living conditions for the sick and the
poor of the world.
40). When you are about halfway through the story, try to make a
guess how the plot will develop.
41). During the years before the American Civil War, differences
between the North and the South gradually came to focus on the
question of slavery.
42). All living languages are characterized by sound changes
that have occurred and will continue to occur in the course of
their history.
43). Although a great number of houses in that aea are still in
need of repair, there has been improvement in the
facilities.
44). In most cases, the research workers tested the response of
the blind infant to different stimuli common in the family
environment.
45). To be frank, it is a great relief to have the task
fulfilled in so short a time.
46). Normally, division of labor leads to increased output of
goods, making possible an increase in the standard of living of
great numbers of people.
47). One of the most important weapons used during the Second
World War was not a weapon used against people, but rather a drug
used against disease.
48). Some abnormal human behavior may be caused by eating
substances that upset delicate chemical balances in the
brain.
49). Man has used metals for centuries in gradually increasing
quantities, but it was not until the Industrial Revolution that
they came to be employed in real vest
quantities.
50). Many species can communicate an amazing amount of
information via sound, information on which both the life of an
individual and the continued existence of the species may
depend.