综合英语第三册课后句子翻译

Uint1

1.人人都说她真是交了好运，但我敢说如果不是她父母帮忙，她根本不可能得到这份工作。Everyone says that she has got a big break, but I bet that she could not possibly have this job without her parents’ assistance.

2.大家都奇怪他会被北京外国语大学录取，其实，原因很简单：报考外语的得高分的女生很多，在这方面男生比女生多少有点优势。如果他是个女孩子的话，就是另外一回事了。People wonder why he was so fortunate as to be granted admission by Beijing Foreign Studies University. In fact, the reason is simple: Among the high-scoring applicants for majors in foreign languages many are female student; male applicants thus have a slight edge over female applicants. If he were a girl, it would have been a difficult story.

3.我很感谢你为我说了些好话，我倒不是特别在乎现在的这个位置，但它给了我晋升的机会。

I am grateful that you have put in a few good words on my behalf. I am not that attached to this position, but it does allow me to get a foot in the door of promotion.

4.作为公司的员工你必须遵守公司的各项规定。

As a employee of the company you must comply with all its rules and regulations.

5.她在这个位置小心谨慎地干了整整四年，唯恐得罪了上司。可是就在马上要晋级的时候，她突然被指控接受贿赂。

She had been working in this position for a total of four years, always cautious and wary of the risk of offending her superior. Just as her chance of getting promoted was within reach, she was suddenly accused of bribery.

6.十年前当他翻阅世界500 强企业的介绍资料时，怎么也没有料到自己会在十年后当上通用电气公司的总裁。

Ten years ago when he leafed through the catalogs of the top 500 companies of the world little did he know that ten years later he would be the Director of General Electrics.

7.作为亚洲最大的银行的总裁，几年前亚洲金融危机发生时他反而有机会从中受益。

As the Director of the biggest bank in Asia, he was actually in a position to be the beneficiary of the financial crisis in Asia a few years ago.

8.虽然他没有直截了当地说“不”，但人人心里都明白他的回答等于谢绝了公司的邀请。Although he did not exactly say “No,” it was clear to everyone present that his respond amounted to a rejection of the company’s invitation.

Uint2

1.她在今年大学入学考试中的考分太低了，现在能否被外省的某所学校录取还很难说，更不用说进北京大学了。

She has got too low a score in this y ear’s College Entrance Exam. It is still a huge question if she will be accepted into any given school in the provinces, to say nothing of hr being admitted by Peking University.

2.我们都很高兴美国生物学博士南茜最终决定留在中国工作。其实，她的这个决定的专业几乎没有关系，而是她的中国情结所致。她的祖父是上个世纪初到中国来的传教士。

We are all happy that Nancy, who holds a doctoral degree in biology from an American university, has finally decided to accept a job in China. Indeed, her decision has virtually nothing to do with her academic training, as it is more due to her “Chinese complex.” It turns out that her grandfather was a missionary who came to China in the earlier part of the last century.

3.现在为说谎而惩罚他为时已晚。其实，他从三年级的时候就开始逃学，他的问题的根本在于缺乏良好的家庭教育。

It is a bit too late to penalize him for his lies. In fact, he started playing truant when he was a mere third grade. His problems are rooted in the lack of a good family education.

4.他以为依靠电脑技术和在银行工作的经验就可以骗过警察，但这次他却付出了沉重的代价：十年的牢狱生活。

He thought he could outwit police by means of his computer skills and with his working experience in banking. But he has paid a heavy price for it: a 10-year imprisonment sentence.

5.我们谈的那个男孩来自一个单亲家庭，这一点自然不用说——他的行为举止证明了他的家庭背景和受教育程度。

The boy in question is from a single-parent family-—that goes without saying: his behaviors have confessed his family background and of education.

Uint4

1. 经过了几十年的和平之后，我们已经习惯了在和平的环境中生活。但是，1999年中国使馆遭到轰炸使我们看到战争的威胁就在眼前。

After decades of peace, we had grown accustomed to living in a peaceful environment. But the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in 1999 brought the threat of war imminent.

2.那座酒店和夜总会的建成降低了这个地区住宅的价值。

The competition of that hotel and the nightclub has cut into the property values of this area.

3. 北京到上海平均每天有16至18个航班。

Flights from Beijing to Shanghai average 16 to 18 per day.

4.新政府面临着一系列政治、经济和外交问题。

The new government is facing an array of political, economic and diplomatic problems.

5.黄色的校车刚刚停稳，车上的孩子就一拥而下冲进新落成的教学大楼。

As soon as the yellow school bus stopped, children spilled out of it and flooded to the newly completed teaching building.

6.延续了12年的战乱和经济封锁已经给这个国家造成了严重的损失。

Wars and economic blockade that have lasted 12 years have taken a heavy toll on this nation.

7.在中国阅读外国文学和进行文学评论的时候，一个重要的原则就是要以中国人的眼光来看这些作品。

An important principle that should apply to the reading and analyzing of foreign literature in China is that these texts should be examined through the eyes of the Chinese

8.这个孩子太小，还没有分辨是非的能力。

Unit5

1.十年前，他的父母在一起酒后驾车的交通事故中丧生。十年了，当时的情景仍然像噩梦一样缠着她。

Ten years ago her parents died in a traffic accident due to someone driving under the influence. The image of that accident has been a nightmare haunting her over the course of the 10 years.

2.父母去世后的很长一段时间里，她常显示出一副漠不关心的样子，但我知道那是为了掩饰她的无奈。

For a long period after her parents’ death she affected a nonchalance which, I knew, was her way to conceal her helplessness.

3.北京的冬天冷极了，他顶着寒风骑车上班，天天如此。

It’s extremely cold in the winter in Beijing. Still he goes to work on his bicycle braving the cold, everyday without exception.

4.过去她总想弄清楚那个肇事司机是谁，现在她知道她应该用自己经历的痛苦来教育大家，这样在她的一生中，她才不会再看到酒后驾车造成的交通事故。

In the past she always wanted to nail down the driver who had caused the traffic accident. Now she realizes that she has to educate the public with her painful experience so that she will not have to see another accident related to driving under the influence in her lifetime.

5.我刚才念名单的时候没有漏掉谁吧？

Did I leave out anyone in the list I’ve just read?

6.接到了那个神秘的电话之后她才明白为什么她的婚姻问题重重——第三者已经介入。When she had received that mysterious phone call she realized why her marriage was riddled with problems——a third party had intervened.

Uint6

1.应该承认家庭背景对于一个人的成长和发展史至关重要的。

One has to admit that family background counts much for a person’s growth and development.

2.回想起上个世纪70年代初我们在农场的时候，我们两个就像亲兄弟一样：我们的工资他可以用，反过来也一样。

In the 1970s when we were both working on a farm, we were like tw o birth brothers My salary was at his disposal and the same was true when it came to spending his money.

3.西藏之行我的感受很深，虽然我不知道如何用语言来表达．但有一个非常深刻的印象：那是一个年轻人大有作为的地方。

My trip to Tibet left a deep impression on me. Although I do not quite know how to put it into words, I know that one thing has really registered with me: It is a place where young people have

a good chance to display their talents.

4.她开始发言，摆出一副领导的架式。

She gave an air of being the leader in charge when she began speaking.

5.就高等教育而言，美国的大学包括了多种层次的教育机构，从研究型的大学到社区学院，后相当于我国大专层次的教育。

In the case of higher education, the university system in the U.S.A. consists of a wide range of educational institutions, from research universities to community colleges, the latter being the equivalent to “da-zhuan” (specialized colleges) in China’s system.

6. 由于场地的原因，此次研讨会仅限于本校的教师和研究生。

For the reason of space, attendance in this seminar is limited to faculty and graduate students of this university only.

Uint7

1.她的老板是个专横跋扈的人，真无法想象她能在他手下干上整整五年的时间。

Her boss is such a tyrant that it is difficult to conceive (it is inconceivable) that she could have worked under his supervision for those five long years.

2.每次他上互联网就发现网上充满了信息。

Every time he logs on the Internet, he finds it flooded with information.

3.母亲在一场意外事故中惨死，这件事长期折磨着她。在后来的十多年中，她又经历辍学、

失败的婚姻和丧子等一系列人生的苦难。

Her mother died in a traffic accident over which she has been agonizing for a long time. In the decade following that, she also went through a series of misfortunes such as her discontinuation of education, her marriage failure and the Loss of her son.

4.他出生在一个偏远的小山村，从懂事的时候起就开始与命运搏斗，26岁那年他在这在座城市的一个街角开了一家小饭馆。从某种意义上来讲．他也算是一个成功者。

He was born in an out-of-the--way mountainous village. Since barely an infant he has been wrestling with fate. Finally, when he was 26, he started a restaurant in a street corner in this city. This, in a sense, indicates that he has succeeded.

5.父母离开家乡已有50多年了，但他们始终记得家乡的山山水水，还经常给儿孙们讲述他们童年的乐趣。

My parents have been away from their hometown for some 50 years, but they still have the landscapes of the hometown etched in their minds and they often recount to their descendants the delightful experiences of their childhood.

Uint8

1.由于管理失误公司又一次濒临破产，昨天发布的省政府公报宣称．公司被降格为第四类，也就是最差的一类企业。而公司的领导层则还不清楚问题出在哪里。

Due to mismanagement the company is once again on the verge of bankruptcy. The provincial government issued a memorandum yesterday, announcing that the company is relegated to classification IV, which is the worst ranking [or a company. However, the Leadership of the company still does not know what is wrong with their management.

2.最近几个月以来，她几乎要崩溃了。有人说这是积劳成疾，是因为她日夜为公司的发展担所致。我看这些说法讲不通。她的问题从实质上来说是因为已年近60，害怕退休失去董事长的位置。

For the past few months, she borders on a total collapse. Some suggest that is because she has been working too hard and she has been all too concerned about the development of the company.

I don’t think that makes much sense. Her problem, in essence, i s that she is verging on 60 and, as a result, is worried about the possibility of losing the trustee- directorship after her retirement.

3.和许多来深圳寻求发展机遇的大学毕业生一样，刚来时他希望马上能当个公司的老总，发挥自己的能力。现在他已经放弃了幻想，决心一步一个脚印地做下去。

Like many college graduates who come to Shenzhen to seek career development, he initially hoped that, on the chance of becoming the director of a company immediately, he could then bring his talents into lull play. Now he has abandoned the illusion and has decided to proceed steadfastly without compromising himself.

4.第一次为国际会议作口译前，老师和我们一起准备了好几天。老师告诉我们虽然不可能排除出现意外的可能性．但老师也了在场．会及时帮助我们的。

Before we did our first international conference interpretation, our teachers had spent several days with us doing the preparations. They had told us that even though we could not eliminate the unexpected and accidental from the list of possibilities, they would be there on hand in case we might need assistance.

5.艾滋病的发现使得许多美国人改变了他们在上世纪60年代形成的性解放态度，许多人学会了避免“一夜情”之类的随意性性行为，不在酒吧随意结识性伙伴，为的是保护自己，也避免使家人受到威胁。

Because of the discovery of AIDS, many Americans have changed their libertine attitude towards sex, as was formed in the 1960s. Many now abstain from promiscuous behaviors such as “one-night stand” relationships and no longer pick up sex partners in, bars in order to protect themselves and not to put their families in jeopardy.