大学高级英语下册翻译.pdf

Lesson One

1.This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanish holiday.

2.News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programmes.

3.By mere accident Tom met in a bar his long-lost brother who was thought to

have been killed in action during the war.

4.Bill intuited something criminal in their plan.

5.They think that obsessive tidiness in factory is a bad sign .

6.Yesterday his mother sold several years’ worth of paper and magazines.

7.His heartening speech impelled us to (work with) greater efforts.

8.Those who enjoy pulling off a miracle often fail.

9.As language students we should have a sense of nuances of plain words and

expressions.

10.The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylor’s ado pted son is driving her into a nervous

breakdown.

11.I like to see films in general, and American Western and horrors in particular.

12.In some sense Mary saw in her aunt a surrogate of her mother.

13.My father never equivocated, and he always gave some brief but poignant

opinions.

14.Though he disabled, he never tries of helping people.

15.In any country, those who are remiss in their duty must be severely punished.

16.Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger impelled the policeman to

action.

Lesson 2

1. A. The chances are that they will be held up by traffic on their way to the airport.

B. the plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldn’t make it.

2.Another popular notion which is in fact a misconception is that expensive clothes

invariably raise one’s status.

3.Can you imagine what kind of life a man has lived who aspires to excellence and

abhors mediocrity?

4. A copy of our latest product catalogue will be sent free of charge if you will fill

up the form on the reverse of this card and post it.

5.It will be an absurdity, if not a catastrophe. If half of the population of this city

abandons their posts and goes in for business.

6.Because they want their kids to be somebodies, some well-intentioned parents

exercise enormous pressures on their children and the results all too often prove the reverse.

7.The revered professor predicted that these brilliant young people would surely

make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a few years.

8.Many writers have quitted writing stories because, as they say there is no market

for them. Yet Lessing sticks and she would go on even if there really wasn’t any home for them but a private drawer.

9.Satire under his pen is only a means to an end, a form to expose social evils.

10.It seemed no body at the party, not even the reporters, made special note of the

general’s absence which might have aroused the suspicion of his rivals.

11.During the first months in the strange land, the new arrivals had to take menial

jobs refused by the natives and work like slaves to make a living. Later, having saved enough money, most of them set up small businesses.

12.Intellectual sluggards may get rich but they can never make good in the academic

field.

13.Schools should make prodigious effort to inculcate the students with a sense of

justice and the love of truth.

14.Yesterday she received a telegram from her cousin in sian to the effect that the

latter would arrive today by the night train instead of the morning train he had

mentioned in his letter.

15.All her relatives were under no illusion that her husband could be one of the three

lucky survivors in the recent plane crash.

16. In the west many people remain single because they don’t want to tie themselves

down (to be tired down) to responsibility.

17.If nothing interferes the school sports meet will be held as scheduled.

18.With Vincent playing baseball is a means to an end, the best way to get

acquainted with those stars.

Lesson Three

1.These gifts had got thoroughly mixed up and needed to be sorted into three

different sets.

2.The Security Council would take issue with the proposals put forward by the

warring states.

3.Because of repeated defeated the enemy t roops’ morale sank low and their

discipline broke loose.

4.In a bid to host the Olympic Games, what really counts is not the winning but the

spirit to compete and take part.

5.In designing the office building, due attention should be paid to the people who

will work inside it.

6.The well-groomed young man is impatient to wait for the bride to arrive and the

wedding ceremony to start.

7.For several weeks, the city was in a turmoil. The rebels had surrounded the City

Hall, hailing stones, wielding sticks, and shouting slogans.

8.After the success of the experiment, for several days, he indulged himself in the

luxury of sleeping late and getting up late.

9.I’m not the type of person who thrives on city life. I am more accusto med to (the )

life in the peaceful countryside.

10.Having weathered wind and rain for hundreds of years, these buildings of

European style are barely recognizable as they were.

11.Before the interviews, the hoary -headed father patted him on the shoulder in an

extremely reassuring manner and wished him every success.

12.Some people believed that the Monore doctrine means that European nations

should no longer interfere with American nations or try to acquire more territories in the Western Hemisphere.

13.As a remedy for the blight of mediocrity , our society should show greater

respect for excellence in education.

14.The young mother lamented that it was her own lack of concern that had driven

her boy from the house that night.

15.His enthusiasm ebbed away when he learned how troublesome it was to go

through the red tape in order to go abroad for further studies.

16.As prices are skyrocketing, workers are determined to go on strike, regardless of

its consequences.

17.It is absurd to wear a pair of torn blue jeans at such a formal dinner.

18.The educational qualifications of intellectuals should entitle them to higher

salaries.

Lesson Four

1.John remained motionless without even blinking, because he knew who the

chairman remark was leveled at /against.

2.The message was delivered to the wrong department owing to a mistake on

the part of a clerk.

3.It seems that in every attack Dickens makes upon society he always points to

a change of spirit rather than a change of social structure.

4.Before they covered 2 km in the desert, the explorers had walked themselves

dizzy and exhausted.

5.After their seizure of the city, the enemy troops started to despoil all the

buildings.

6.He had wandered in the unsavory areas of London and seen for himself the

appalling living conditions of the poor.

7.Conrad points to a danger that is already apparent in his friend’s writing, that

of alienating his characters from their social context.

8.The circumstances of her childhood are not easy to establish; these were facts

she herself wished to forget.

9.These pages tell at least as much, if no more was jeopardized.

10.Whenever an important decision is made, they defer to (the opinion of) their

department head.

11. As he had made bad investments, his fortune was jeopardized.

12.All the staff members must be alert to the danger of fire.

13.He is a person who will stand up for what he thinks right, no matter what the

cost to himself.

14.The highest award he won in the international contest testifies to his musical

talent.

15.The peasants in that poverty-stricken area worked hard to try and wrest a

living from the soil.

16.He spoke in such a round-about way that we found it hard to fathom his real

motives.

17.In the darkness of night, an indescribable fear overlook him when he moved

on alone in the jungle.

18.The local department responsible for the Hope Project has collected

contributions of about 2million yuan.

Lesson Five

1. The first thing to do is to assess the fixed assets of that company.

2. His parents bought not a few picture books for him, but now he has outgrown

them.

3. The senator is not likely to slant toward this bill out of partisanship.

4. To analyze trends of stock market is the project of the would-be economist.

5. He is fairly sophisticated, so he can identify at first glance the self-centered people

in their guises.

6. The simplicity and clarity of this analytic approach far outweighs its drawbacks.

7. Mrs. Smith was so busily engaged in her writing that she left the disciplining of the children to her husband.

8. After the first round of matches, the drawing of lots turned the scale in favor of the Chinese football team.

9. He claimed that he was public-spirited as could be seen from what he had done, but his rivals declared that he was a mere humbug.

10. As safety in production is neglected inn that factory, a dozen workers have been

maimed in the past three years.

11. In that sea food restaurant, they were so overcharged that they thought it almost

downright robbery.

12. John went up to his rival and wanted to give him a hug only to be snubbed by the

latter.

13. In downtown Shanghai, not only have the shops undergone a facelift, but many

arresting sculptures have been put up along the streets as well.

14. What he left to his descendants as an added asset is his indomitable spirit.

15. When he woke up, the early morning sunlight was filtering through the curtains

into his bedroom.

16. After learning about how they had been building their enterprise through arduous

efforts, he had a compulsion to write a novel about it.

17. In order to maintain the integrity of this ancient building, we should exclude the

use of steel and glass in its renovation.

18. With the consciousness that it is a multinational country, the tourists were not at

all surprised to find such big differences in the customs at different parts of that country.

Lesson Six

1.Short of funds, they could not put into practice the plan they had

made.

2.I see her off and on in the school library, but I do not know her name.

3.I understand you are in a difficult position, and neither you nor Jack

owes me any explanation.

4.Mary is very angry with the manager, for he is nonchalant to her

suggestion.

5.Their neighbor’s son is always up to some mischief, and the child

is quite unbearable.

6.He bought a flat last month, and most of his savings were wiped out.

7.His insane urge for greater material wealth put him onto the road to

ruin.

8.It’s kind late to start now. You ought to have started two hours ago.

9.As the service was poor, the volume of goods sold in that store sagged

last year.

10.This morning I came across him on the campus and found that his face

was flooded with anxiety.

11.If you find the leather jacket does not fit you, the shop will

refund you the money.

12.John’s colleagues covet his promotion very much.

13.The firm’s board of directors has decided to lay off engineers and

300 workers.

14.She intimated to me her intention of going abroad for further studies.

15.When the boss heard that his factory was operating at a loss, he

focused his anger on the foreman.

Lesson Seven

1. A letter of thanks is the verbal expression of one’s gratitude.

2.The US automobile industry has come under persistent pressure from

Japanese competition.

3.So far, progress of a greater or lesser degree has been made in the

research on superconductors in various countries.

4.We must inculcate in people respect for knowledge and for people of

talent.

5.After the outbreak of the French Revolution, many members of the

nobility shorn of their wealth fled abroad.

6. A special envoy has been sent to find out how things stand in that

country tormented by a civil war.

7.The social status of women in China today has been enhanced, as

witness the vast number of women holding leading positions.

8. A note of desperation in her voice gave her away.

9.It is not an exaggeration to say that the quality of the color TV

sets made by this factory is better than that of 3 years ago.

10.With the improvement in management and administration, the labor

productivity of that factory is higher than it has ever been since China’s adoption of the reform and opening policy.

11.Such research as these doctors are doing will have far-reaching

significance in the field of medicine.

12.They have learnt a lot from the lesson of the past. If not their own

then that of some other people of the same trade.

13.To dump unclear waste at sea will seriously affect the environment,

and not merely marine life alone.

14.At first, he was reluctant to undertake the task, but when he started,

he went at it with a will.

15.He went against the traffic lights when riding his bicycle. He

explained to the policeman at length as if the change of the lights from green to red were to blame for his violation of traffic

regulations.

16.The rewards of their design turned out to be worthy of the time and

funds they had spent.

17.The fact that Green mismanaged the factory is sufficient cause for

not appointing him director again.

Lesson Eight

1.Her many years of laborious efforts culminated in a successful

exhibition of her paintings in Hangzhou last year.

2.Known as a child wonder when he was a kid, for he could write beautiful

poems at seven, he did not grow to be a scholar and his literary talent proved only a flash-in- the pan.

3.It suddenly dawned on me that Lant was on the verge if bankruptcy.

There had been reports that the finance of his business was in a deplorable tangle.

4.Wholesale indulgence of the only child in the family actually does

no good but a lot of harm to its growth.

5.When we old friends met, we would talk about our career and families.

Susan told me that her brother Stephen, now on the bright side of thirty, is a successful lawyer in a southern city. And I learnt that Teddy, on the shady side of forty, recently married a Thai girl.

6.An occasional prod is good for children, but too many prods can only

produce negative, if not disastrous, effect.

7.She can hardly believe that the expensive dress she bought last year

has already gone out of fashion.

8. A Sino-British Exploration team was being organized to cross the vast

expanse of the Taklimakan Desert. When he learned the news , the young reporter could not resist entering for the expedition.

9.Jim’s intransigence has proved a handicap to his relations with his

colleagues.

10.Every Saturday those kind-hearted people will go to the Children

Welfare Institute and each will bring a child home; and the handicapped child, showered with love, will spend a happy weekend in his new home where he is made to feel to be a member of the family.

11.I could visualize my childhood friend, now a rising film star,

surrounded by fans, smiling and nodding to everyone who was trying to accost her.

12.I am all too familiar with Harry type. He will invariably make a fuss

over a trivial matter.

13.The son played the game both ways successfully, which culminated

in a harmonious relationship between his mother and his wife.

14.Somerset Maugham may rightly be referred to as a versatile writer,

whose novels, plays, short stories and other works are still extremely popular and are widely read today.

15.In the four-star hotel lobby the Chinese artist was accosted by two

overseas Chinese who later hosted a dinner party in his honor.

16.Because Jack had a facility for figures he took to accounting like

a duck to water.

17.In the dusk of the evening the young girl became a little scared when

she found she was the only person on the country road with a car bogged down.

18.Everyone should try to look on the bright side of life even when

misfortune befalls him.

19.You can never imagine what fun the few of us far away from home got

out of spinning yarns after work in those days.

20.The Nazis wholesale murder of Jews during World War II is the most

outrageous crime in human history.

Lesson Ten

1. The goat is ancient creature that has done much for man. One of the

small services the goat has rendered to man is in the way of language.

For example, some men wear goatees, thin whiskers that hang down their chins like the whiskers on a goat.

2. The would-be boss smiled as he came into the reception hall , which

put the employees immediately at ease.

3. Some poets want to live in a perpetual lethargy so that their life

can proceed with the ultimate quiet and freedom and they might compose poems in a semi-somnambulant state.

4. Vultures are hovering over the cliff, below which a fierce battle

was fought the night before, and hundreds of dead soldiers are still lying unburied before there.

5. The Indians in North America often send news over long distances

by beating out a message on a hollow log.

6. The senior journalist sank into his easy chair with great

relish and began to indulge in recollections of those battles in the war that he had witnessed at first hand.

7. In that remote and backward mountain , the tribal chieftains often

scourged captives with whips and then made them slaves.

8. The well-groomed secretary had to run all the way at the news, and

yet he arrived with not a hair out of place.

9. It is raining cats and dogs outside! I rather sit by the cozy fire

and not venture out in the pouring rain.

10. The upshot of the young man infatuation with his study of butterflies

made him so restless with the present job that he asked to be relieved of his duties and later went to Africa.

11. At the commencement , everyone was in a fever pf excitement ( a fever

of frenzy) Graduating students shook hands with their beloved

professors, embraced their buddies, and threw their caps into the sky.

12. When the war-time hero appeared on the rostrum, the audience gave

him a standing ovation and looked at him with admiration and respect.

13. The members of joint exploration team tried their best to save their

slender stock of water for the camels, their ships in the desert.

14. In those difficult years, he was sent to Inner Mongolia, where he

rode herd for a collective farm near the border.

15. I should say he is a unique landscape painter, at any rate for someone

who is colorblind.

16. Tom was none too happy about the outcome of the election.

17. His aloofness has strengthened the estrangement(misunderstanding,

barrier) between him and his colleagues.

18.The President’s advisors tried their best to prevail upon him to

cancel the trip.