研究生英语课后翻译题答案

Unit 1

1.餐饮行业与电影行业的共同之处在于其小型企业的失败率很高。

The restaurant industry has one thing in common with the film industry: the high failure rate among its small business.

2. 他的伟大在于他具有非凡的能力，集科学家和实业家的品质于一身。

His greatness lies in his outstanding ability to connect the qualities of a scientist with those of an industrialist.

3. 像工作单位取代居住地一样，我们的种族身份已被职业身份所取代。这一现象在流动作业的行业中表现得尤为明显。

We have replaced ethnic identity with professional identity, the way we replaced neighborhoods with workplace, which is quite obvious among the mobile professions.

4. 显然，任何一家大公司的老板都不可能事事亲力亲为，需要找一些方法把他们的理念传达给他人。

Plainly, in any large enterprise the boss cannot be directly involved in everything, and some means have to be found to transfer his belief to others.

5. 没有任何人愿意再过那种自己无法控制、要别人认可、任人摆布的日子了。

No one was willing to experience the feeling of being out of control and dependent on someone else’s approval, at someone else’s mercy.

Unit 2

1. 尽管已历经无数失败，凯瑟琳仍然相信她能把儿子培养成为世界冠军。

Although she has gone through numerous failures, Katherine still believes that she could make a world champion of her son.

2. 这个培训项目其实不算糟糕，但如果它的课程再实用一点就更好了。

This training program is not really a bad experience. But I would have liked it better if the courses had been a bit more practical.

3. 你应该没这么笨，竟然会打开一个可疑的附件。

You should have known better than to open a suspicious attachment.

4. 他不幸在一次意外的交通事故中丧生，留下尚未做完的实验。

Unfortunately he died from a sudden traffic accident, leaving the experiment

half-done.

5. 那个街角的食品市场能改建成花园，岂不是更好吗？

Wouldn’t it be better if the food market on the street corner coul d be turned into a garden?

Unit 3

1. 当一个人处于“经历中的沙漠”——一段感到毫无出路、甚至毫无希望的时期，最重要的是不要让自己陷入荒漠之中无法自拔。

When someone is in “desert of experience”— a period of feeling barren of options, even hope, the most important thing is not to allow himself to be stranded in the desert.

2. 经济来源耗尽，还有一大家人需要供养，吉米起初想逃避，但最终靠着顽强的勇气和乐观的性格挺了过来。

With financial resources exhausted and the pressure of a big family to support, Jimmy wanted to escape at first, but finally his courage and good humor saw him through.

3. 有人认为在人生的任何阶段开始一种新的生涯都为时不晚。

Someone believes that it is never too late to embark on a new career in any period of life.

4. 在经历重大打击之后，明智的做法是勇敢面对挑战，而不是逃避。

What makes sense is to face the challenge rather than run away from the troubles after suffering a significant loss.

5. 玛丽靠她在餐馆工作的微薄收入，几乎无法维持生活。

With the small income from her restaurant job, Mary could barely make ends meet.

Unit 4

1.在当今社会，广告几乎完全成为致力于描写快乐的现代表达方式。

In modern society, advertising has become one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness.

2.讲座永远不会从大学的舞台上完全消失，因为它们来源于一个久远的传统，而大学这个环境为了其自身的利益有理所当然地尊重传统。

Lectures will never entirely disappear from the university scene, because they spring from a long tradition in a setting that rightly values tradition for its own sake.

3. 这对夫妻永远体会不到做父母的乐趣，除非他们有了自己的孩子。

Short of having their own children, the couple can never experience the pleasure of being parents.

4.他把别人的成功看成是一种挑战、一种动力。他不断告诉自己他应该比别人做得更好。

He takes other’s success as a kind of challenge and motivation. He keeps telling himself that he should do better than others.

5.如果欢乐与愉快等于幸福，则痛苦就等于不幸福。但实际上能带来幸福的事往往与痛苦相

联系。

If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness, then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But, in fact, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

Unit 5

1.但愿我从来没有买过智能电器！

God forbid it if ever I had bought smart appliances!

2. 他关心国家大事，没天都看报纸

He is concerned about state affairs and keeps reading newspapers every day.

3. 谈到高升攀升的（rocketing）房价，舆论普遍认为无论政府还是房地产商都难逃（shrink from）其责。

When it comes to the rocketing price of housing, the media generally agree that neither the government nor land developers can shrink from their responsibilities.

4. 在随意参观当地二手书店的时候，我看到越来越多从图书馆流失出来的图书

Visiting local bookshops for second-hand books at random, I came across more and more books that had come from libraries.

5.即使你读了用户手册，也不能开动你的洗衣机。

Even if you read Owner’s Manual, you can’t operate your washing machine.