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第一部分汉译英

Exercise:

1. 匆匆

我不知道他们给了我多少日子，但我的手确乎是渐渐空虚了。在默默里算着，八千多日子已经从我手中溜去；像针尖上一滴水滴在大海里，我的日子滴在时间的流里，没有声音，也没有影子，我不禁头涔涔而泪潸潸。

去的尽管去了，来的尽管来着；去来的中间，又怎么地匆匆呢？早上我起来的时候，小屋里射进两三方斜斜的太阳。太阳他有脚啊，轻轻悄悄地挪移了；我也茫茫然跟着旋转，于是-----洗手的时候，日子从水盆里过去；吃饭的时候，日子从饭碗里过去；默默时，便从凝然的双眼前过去，我觉察他去的匆匆了，伸出手遮挽时，他又从遮挽着的手边过去，天黑时，我躺在床上，他便伶伶俐俐地从我身上跨过，从我脚边飞去了。等我睁开眼和太阳再见，这算又溜走了一日，我掩面叹息。但是新来的日子的影儿又开始在叹息里闪过了。

在逃去如飞的日子里，在千门万户的世界里的我能做些什么呢？只有徘徊罢了，只有匆匆罢了；在八千多日的匆匆里，除徘徊外，又剩些什么呢？过去的日子如轻烟，被微风吹散了，如薄雾，被初阳蒸融了；我留着些什么痕迹呢？我何曾留着像游丝样的痕迹呢？我赤裸裸来到这世界，转眼间也将赤裸裸地回去吧？但不能平的，为什么偏要白白走这一遭啊？

2. 浪漫

一个小伙子暗恋着一个女孩。女孩是他的同事，他们在一个办公室工作。小伙子性格内向，不善言辞，他不知道如何向女孩表达他的爱慕之意。写情书罢，小伙子是学理工的，一直搞技术工作，满脑子的图形，就是没有一句有文采的话。至于直截了当告诉女孩说“我爱你”，小伙子更没有那胆量。这样的恋情应该说没有什么希望的了。事实上一年后他们结了婚。有人向小伙子讨教，他说：“我上班第一件事就是为她泡上一杯她喜欢的喝的绿茶。她胃不好，我经常备些胃药放在她桌上。一开始她不知道是我做的这些事情，时间长了就知道了。”我不知道，泡茶送药是否是一种浪漫。浪漫是没有定式的，或许那些实实在在的呵护和关爱才是真正的浪漫。

3. 落花生

. 我们屋后有半亩隙地。母亲说，―让它荒芜着怪可惜, 既然你们那么爱吃花生,就辟来做花生园罢。‖ 我们几个姊弟和几个小丫头都很喜欢-------买种的买种,动土的动土,灌园的灌园;过不了几个月,居然收获了!

妈妈说:‖今晚我们可以做一个收获节,也请你们爹爹来尝尝我们底新花生,如何?‖ 我们都答应了。母亲把花生做成好几样的食品,还吩咐这节期要在园里底茅亭举行。

那晚上底天色不大好,可是爹爹也到来，实在很难得! 爹爹说:‖你们爱吃花生么?‖

我们都争着答应,‖爱!‖

―谁能把花生底好处说出来?‖

姊姊说：‖花生的气味很美。‖

哥哥说:‖花生可制油。‖

我说:‖无论何等人都可以用贱价买它来吃；都喜欢吃它。这就是它的好处。‖

爹爹说：“花生底用处固然很多；但有一样很可贵的。这小小的豆不像那好看的苹果、桃子、石榴，把它们底果实悬在枝上，鲜红嫩绿的颜色，令人一望而发生羡慕的心。它只是把果子埋在地底。等到成熟，才容人把它挖出来。你们偶然看见一颗花生瑟缩地长在地上，不能立刻辨出它有没有果实，非得等到你接触它才能知道。”

我们都说：“是的。”母亲也点头。爹爹接下去说：“所以你们要像花生，因为它是有用的，不是伟大、好看的东西。”我说：“那么人要做有用的人，不是要做伟大、体面的人了。”爹爹说：“这是我对于你们的希望。”我们谈到夜阑才散。所以花生食品虽然没有了，然而父亲底话现在还印在我心版上。

4. 邓小平讲话

在这短短的十几年内，我们国家发展得这么快，使人民高兴，世界瞩目。这就足以证明三中全会以来路线、方针、政策的正确。谁想变也变不了。说过去说过来，就是一句话，坚持这个路线、方针、政策不变。改革开放以来，我们立的章程并不少，而且是全方位的。经济、政治、科技、教育、文化、军事、外交等

各个方面都有明确的方针和政策，而且有准确的表语言。这次十三届八中全会开得好，肯定农村家庭联产

承包责任制不变。一变就人心不安，人们就会说中央的政策变了。农村改革初期，安徽出了个“傻子瓜子”问题。当时许多人不舒服，说他赚了一百万，主张动他。我说不能动，一动人们就会说政策变了，得不偿失。像这一类的问题还有不少，如果处理不当，就很容易动摇我们的方针，影响改革的全局。城乡改革的

基本政策，一定要长期保持稳定。当然，随着实践的发展，该完善的完善，该修补的修补，但总的要坚定

不移。即使没有新的主意也可以，就是不要变，不要使人们感到政策变了。有了这一条，中国就大有希望。

5. 金三角洲

长江三角洲位于我国东海之滨，万里长江尾闾。她西起南京，镇江，东临大海，北至通扬运河，南到杭州湾，面积35267平方公里。是世界著名的大河三角洲之一。她具有以下几个特点：地理位置优越。是沟通内陆腹地的交通中心，并处于世界环球航线附近，与世界各大港口通航方便。自然条件优越。雨量充沛，温和湿润，适宜农耕和各种经济作物的种植以及多种经营的发展。水土资源条件优越。长江三角洲经历了复杂的海陆沧桑之交。年长日久，一个个出露水面的沙岛继而合并而成。长江三角洲不仅有源源不断的长江水，而且镶嵌着一颗熠熠闪光的陆上明珠------太湖。太湖面积三万六千顷，是我国五大淡水湖之一。以太湖为中心，还有大小湖泊五十多个，这些星罗棋布的湖泊，就像一把珍珠撒在绿色的沃野上，使整个三角洲水土丰美，得天独厚，成为世界上不可多得的精粹之地。

长江三角洲具有悠久的开发历史，春秋战国时代（公元前722年----公元前221年），吴越国就依赖这里富蔗的经济基础得以发展，逐以“鱼米之乡”，“丝绸之府”著称于世。到唐宋时期，这里已在全国经济发展中起着重要的作用。经过数千年的辛勤开耕，这里的经济面貌日新月异，已成为我国重要的商品基地、工业基地、外贸进出口基地和科学文化中心。

6. 中年的慵懒

大凡在四十岁的年龄，中国文化人传统观就是写自传的年龄了，远的不说，近百年内的就有好几本如《四十自述》一类的名著，散文里边便有俞平伯《中年》一篇，径直讲了中年是说不清楚的东西，“遥指青

山是我们的归路”。意思就是太阳过了中午就称斜阳西下了，所以赶紧找到归宿归去来兮吧。这样的心情，当然不可能再有青年时代的奋发向上。

说到底是年轻人的压力很大，处于创业阶段，需要不时地拼搏，而中年人大功告成，可以卸下担子，逃

避风雨，享受一下所谓的宁静淡泊与闲适了。这样，中年人很快就慵懒起来，包括近一百年，大凡名著都

是三十岁前后作的，四十岁后除了自述，札记之类补白性质的东西外，鲜有创造性的发明，而国外很多作

家老而弥健，创造力长盛不衰，甚至有些名家，还是四十岁过后才起炉灶来吃文化创作这碗饭的呢。

大约过去中国人因种种原因生命特别短暂，“人生七十古来稀”，所以中年时限大大地提前，文化人的心

理很快就见保守老迈，这种传统之下，即使今天，中年成名者亦数寥寥。其实中年才是人生盛华的开始，

不应贪懒，不应享受，不应以多躲在家里喝工夫茶为荣，继续青年时代的风雨跋涉，那种“遥指青山”寻

找归路的事当然要做，但将它放到八十岁后再去考虑吧。

7. 早年的上海

上海的字面意思是“位于海之上”。它位于长江流入大海之前最后一条支流的黄埔江畔。3)城市的主要部

分离海岸有十英里，横跨黄浦江两岸，政府划为大上海的面积共有320平方英里，直达黄浦江和长江的汇合处。1842年，一艘英国军舰潜入长江口，攻占了吴凇炮台，不发一弹就占领了上海。从此上海变成了一座国际性城市。英国人首先在距老城不远的地方，即黄浦江转弯处的烂泥地上盖起房屋和仓库。他们运用计谋获得贸易权利，建造了住房、商店、俱乐部和板球场。随后美国，德国，法国，俄国和日本的商人也来了。他们都贪图同中国人通商，以夺取中国的金银财富。在不到一百年的时间里，上海就变成了一座国际都市。在这里，人们说七种语言，开设了许多商店，银行和工厂。从此上海就成为国内外贸易的中心，同时也是教育和间谍活动的中心。各种工业和大学创办起来了。商会和工会也同医院、教堂、赛马场、以及豪华的娱乐场一起出现了。

上海原来只是货物中转中心，现在逐渐变成了一个工业城市。英国人、日本人、美国人和法国人运进了各种机械。他们建造码头、船坞、开办发动机厂、纺织厂、罐头食品厂、机器制造厂和家具制造厂等。到了珍珠港事件之前，上海轻工业产品已占全国轻工业品的百分之六十。上海日渐繁荣，过去必须进口的商品现在能就地制造了。上海扩大了，上海发展了，它不仅已成为远东的进出口的大商埠，而且成为中国最大的工业制造中心。它变得越来越重要。

8. 北京大学

十月十九日星期五。秋天的下午，太阳朦朦胧胧的。埃德加·斯诺的部分骨灰永远安放到了他年青时曾任教过的北京大学校园。北京大学的前身是燕京大学。它是一所贵族学校。按理说，学生在政治上应该是保守的。但是当时日军侵占华北，而内战依然不断。在全国危机日益加深的情况下，激进主义思潮开始在校园蔓延。到了1935年，燕京大学竟成为学生抗议运动的策源地。由此爆发了全国抗日战争。自那后，燕京大学这所外国教会学校发生了很大的变化，它逐渐变成了完全由中国人自己掌握的学校。今天在北京大学的湖畔到处可以听到新一代大学生的欢声笑语。

9. 杭州-------“人间天堂”

意大利著名旅行家马可波罗曾这样叙述他印象中的杭州：“这是世界上最美妙的城市，它使人觉得自己在天堂。”在中国也流传着这样的话：“上有天堂，下有苏杭。”杭州的名气主要在于风景如画的西湖。西湖一年四季都美不胜收，宋代著名诗人苏东坡用“淡妆浓抹总相宜”的诗句来赞誉西湖。在杭州，您可以饱览西湖的秀色，也不妨漫步街头闹市，品尝一下杭州的名菜名点，还可以购上几样名特土产。

苏堤和白堤把西湖一分为二，仿佛两条绿色的缎带，飘逸于银波之上。湖中心有三个小岛：阮公墩、湖心亭和小瀛洲。湖水泛着涟漪，四周山林茂密，点缀着楼台亭阁，是我国最有名的旅游景点之一。

杭州人观西湖有个说法：“晴湖不如雨湖，雨湖不如夜湖。”您在杭州，一定要去领略一下西湖的风韵，看看此说是否有道理。

杭州是中国著名的六大古都之一，已有二千多年的历史。杭州不仅以自然美景闻名于世，而且有着传统的文化魅力。不仅有历代文人墨客的题咏，而且有美味佳肴和漂亮的工艺品。

杭州是中国的“丝绸之府”，丝绸产品品种繁多，其中以织锦尤为引人注目。杭州还专门生产墨纸扇和檀香扇。其他特产有西湖绸伞和中国十大名茶之一的西湖龙井。

杭州有许多的餐馆，供应各帮菜点，还有一百多家旅馆酒店，为旅客提供舒适的住宿。

一般说来，游览西湖及其周围景点花上两天时间较为合适。到杭州，既令人愉快，又能得到文化享受。

10. 村姑

回了一趟乡下老家，我产生了想写一写乡村女孩子的念头。20年前，我曾在乡下当过几年农民。那时，20岁左右的乡村女孩子几乎都在棉花专业队里。她们种棉花的生活倒也很有趣的，不仅有在烈日下喷药、锄草、给棉花整枝打杈等很辛苦的农活，也有在一块打闹、逗趣、说笑唱歌、相伴到几里路外的地方看电影这种充满青春气息的生活。

责任制后，这种棉花专业队自然不存在了。女孩子们各自在自家的责任田里忙碌，倒有点寂寞和孤独哩。

但我这次回乡下老家，却发现如今的乡村女孩子又有了新的生活。种地的时间用不了那么多。她们都在想着门路挣钱。我那村的女孩子，有一部分到村西的砖瓦窑厂出苦力，干些拉大板、码架之类的活；有一部分到私人或集体办的饼干厂上班；还有一部分到铸造厂打模子，一天都能挣二十多元钱。清早一块骑自行车去上班，到晚上又一块骑自行车回村，说说笑笑，像一群喜鹊，叫人好羡慕她们啊。她们的生活方式正极快地向城里姑娘们靠近。手中有钱，便买高档的衣服、高档的皮鞋、高档的化妆品，有条件的，自行车不想骑了，干脆就买一辆木兰。而对嫁妆的选择和购买，更形成了这些乡村女孩子显示自己和证实自己价值的一种重要形式。

11. 《红楼梦》

这里宝玉昏昏默默，只见蒋玉菡走了进来，诉说忠顺府拿他之事；又见金驯儿进来哭说为他投井之情。宝玉半梦半醒，都不在意。忽又觉有人推他，恍恍惚惚听得有人悲戚之声。宝玉从梦中惊醒，睁眼一看，不是别人，却是林黛玉。宝玉犹恐是梦，忙又将身子欠起来，向脸上细细一认，只见两个眼睛肿的桃儿一般，满面泪光，不是黛玉，却是哪个？宝玉还欲看时，怎奈下半截疼痛难忍，支持不住，便“嗳约”一声，仍就倒下，叹了一声，说道：“你又做什么跑来！虽说太阳落下去，那地上的余热未散，走两趟又要受了暑。我虽然捱了打，并不觉疼痛。我这个样儿，只装出来哄他们，好在外头布散于老爷听，其实是假的。你不可认真。”此时林黛玉虽不是嚎啕大哭，然越是这等无声之泣，气噎喉堵，更觉厉害。听了宝玉这番话，心中虽然有万句言词，只是不能说得，半日，方抽抽噎噎的说道：“你从此可能改了罢！”宝玉听说，便长叹一声，道：“你放心，别说这样的话。就便为这些人死了，也是情愿的！”一句话未了，只见院外人说：“二奶奶来了。”林黛玉便知是凤姐来了，连忙立起身说道：“我从后院子去罢，回来再来。”宝玉一把拉住道：“这可奇了，好好的怎么怕起他来。”林黛玉急的跺脚，悄悄的说道：“你瞧瞧我的眼睛，又该他取笑开心呢。”宝玉听说赶忙的放手。黛玉三步两步转过床后，出后院而去。

12. 西部开发

去年以来，江泽民总书记多次强调西部大开发，在开发前加了一个“大”字。这个战略思想现在已经有了实施的机遇，因为中国的经济发展已经到了这样一个阶段：沿海地区经济的发展，特别是传统产业的发展已经趋于饱和，它要寻找新的市场，而西部地区的开发，现在也迫在眉睫。

关于西部开发，主要有两个方面要注意。

一是基础设施的建设。西部地域辽阔，交通不发达，首先要进行基础设施的建设。现在，我们已经把国家的投资大量向西部地区倾斜，譬如，我们最近宣布的“西气东输”工程。我们在新疆的塔里木地区发现了大量天然气体，并已决定从新疆修建4200公里的管道，经过8个省、市，直达上海。这样沿海地区的能源结构、产业结构都会发生很大变化。这需要大量资金，我们欢迎海内外的投资者，特别是外国投资者对此项目的投资。

二是生态环境的改善。中国目前可以说粮食问题已经基本解决，而且出现了相对的供过于求。过去由于粮食不够，我们把大量树木砍掉，种上粮食；现在我们粮食富余，完全可以无偿向农民提供粮食，让他们退耕还林，退耕还草，退耕还湖。我们相信，西部开发战略的实施将使西部地区出现一个新的生态环境，成为吸引外国投资的地方。

第二部分英译汉

1．Shrinking is supposed to be a natural part of aging. But researchers at the Wingate Institute in Israel believe you can minimize height loss with moderate aerobic activity. In a study of 1,000 people, the researchers found that men who exercised lost only half as much height as men who never exercised--just 2.6 centimeters compared with 5.5 cm. "Physical activity may help maintain skeletal integrity and reduce compression fractures in the vertebrae as you grow older," says Sherry

Sherman, Ph.D., of the National Institute on Aging.

2．How Much Water Should People Drink?

Many people believe they are supposed to drink eight glasses of water a day, or about two liters. Why? Because that is what they have been told all their life. But a new report offers some different advice. Experts say people should obey their bodies; they should drink as much water as they feel like drinking.

The report says most healthy people meet their daily needs for liquid by letting thirst be their guide. The report is from the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies. This organization provides scientific and technical advice to the government and the public.

The report contains some general suggestions. The experts say women should get about two-point-seven liters of water daily. Men should get about three-point-seven liters. But wait -- in each case, that is more than eight glasses.

There is an important difference. The report does not tell people how many glasses of water to drink. In fact, the experts say it may be impossible to know how many glasses are needed to meet these guidelines. This is because the daily water requirement can include the water content in foods.

People do not get water only by forcing themselves to drink a set number of glasses per day. People also drink fruit juices and sodas and milk. They drink coffee and tea. These all contain water. Yet some also contain caffeine. This causes the body to expel more water. But the writers of the report say this does not mean the body loses too much water.

As you might expect, the Institute of Medicine says people need to drink more water when they are physically active. The same is true of those who live in hot climates. Depending on heat and activity, people could need two times as much water as others do.

All this, however, does not answer one question. No one seems sure why people have the idea that good health requires eight glasses of water daily.

It may have started with a misunderstanding. In nineteen-forty-five, the National Academy of Sciences published some guidelines. Its Food and Nutrition Board said a good amount of water for most adults was two-point-five liters daily. This was based on an average of one milliliter for each calorie of food eaten.

But that was only part of what the board said. It also said that most of this amount is contained in prepared foods.

3．The other outstanding feature is that the new inventions were for everyday use. The canals were arteries of communication: they were not made to carry pleasure boats, but barges. And the barges were not made to carry luxuries, but pots and pans and bales of cloth, boxes of ribbon, and all the common things that people buy by the pennyworth.

4．This might involve routine daily decisions----something as simple as skipping a favorite late-night TV show and getting to bed early, to be wide awake for a meeting the next morning.

Or it might involve longer-term resolves. A young widow with three children decided to invest her insurance settlement in a college education for herself. She considered the realities of a tight budget and little free time, but these seemed small sacrifices in return for the doors that a degree （学位）would open. Today she is a highly paid financial consultant.

5．…In 1991, one of the most eventful years of this century, the world witnessed(目睹) the dramatic and transforming（转播）impact（影响）on those events of live television by satellite. The very definition of news was written from something that has happened to something that is happening at the very moment you are hearing it. …

These shots heard, and seen, around the world appeared under the aegis of the first global TV news company, Cable News Netw ork. …

6．California has a large population of any of the states. Nearly 20,000,000 people live in California. In 1960 California had the second largest population, and New York was the first. Today, however, New York is the second with population of 18,000,000. Pennsylvania is the third with population of 12,000,000. The fourth state, Texas, has a population of 11,000,000.

The fifth, sixth, and seventh largest states in population are Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. New Jersey, Florid, and Massachusetts are the eighth, ninth, and tenth largest states.

Although, Alaska is the largest state in size, it is the smallest in population. Alaska had only 303,000 people in 1970.

7．ＨＯＬＬＹＷＯＤＲＯＢＢＥＲＹ

How does a hit movie go from the free market to the black market? TIME retraces the trail!

STUDIO EXECUTIVES, NO STRANGERS TO MELODRAMA, have begun to talk about movie piracy the way FBI agents talk about terrorism: they watch the web for ―chatter,‖ they embed films with hidden ―fingerprints,‖ and they speak without irony about ―changing hearts and minds.‖ They even use night-vision goggles. It‘s not going too far to say they are completely paranoid, which doesn‘t mean they are wrong.

On the night of NOV.29, Warner Bros. transformed more than 500 American theaters into secure compounds for a sneak preview of The Last Samurai. The $140 million Tom Cruise vehicle, designed to transport the star from the screen to the Oscar Podium, was filmed on location in New Zealand and Japan with a cast of 750. All the hype, along with the adolescent story line-samurai fight against the Japanese army! – guaranteed the film to be of interest to pirates. And in the age of faster Internet connections, protecting a movie has become like guarding very expensive air. So to prevent an early booting from squashing ticket sales, more than 1,000 security guards hand delivered prints of the film to projection rooms. They searched each facility for recording devices. In lobbies, moviegoers were siphoned through metal detectors. Camera phones were confiscated. As the lights went down and Cruise and his movie-star teeth flickered onto the screen, men and women in the dark blazers walked solemnly down the aisles, searching for the pale glow of camcorders through their night-vision goggles. Maybe because this was Los Angeles, the moviegoers didn‘t seem to notice the paramilitary scene unfolding beside their military fiction.

8．A new and possibly more virulent version of the ―Code Red‖ computer worm was detected circulating the Internet over the weekend, attacking machines and leaving them vulnerable to other intruders, The Systems Administration, Networking and Security Institute (SANS) reported. Code Red surreptitiously infects computers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT or 2000 operating systems and its IIS Web server software and then makes infected machines scan the Internet for more victims.

If the new worm spreads as quickly as last week's Code Red outbreak, hundreds of thousands of Web sites could be left open to computer hackers. Machines that had already been ―patched‖ with Microsoft software aimed at thwarting the virus were not vulnerable to the new Code Red, computer experts said.

9．A Time To Love

By Freewind Gingerblaze

Ravdale was such a tiny community but it had a reputation for being a great place to escape the rigors of city life and get away to the 'great outdoors'. It seemed to be the perfect place for Carla and Stan to go to try and piece back the remnants of their failing marriage.

It was Carla's idea when she saw the brochure in the beauty shop that another patron had forgotten. The scenery looked stunning and tranquil with a small but unbelievably clear lake, fed by the melting water of the nearby mountains. Acres and acres of tall pine and evergreen lined the shores of the lake with widely spaced quaint cabins nestled in a clearing here and there. It was perfect!

When she first suggested it to Stan, he did not seem receptive to the idea at all. First objection: it was too far. Second objection: it was too expensive for their strained budget. The third objection was silent but they both knew it was there. Why should they go there and spend three days either fighting or in total cold silence?

However, Carla kept working on him and he finally agreed just to shut her up about it. She called and made the reservations for the cabin, the rental car and organized everything before they left. All Stan had to do was get himself ready and then drive.

The drive across two states was done mostly in their habitual silence but Carla kept herself from showing any anxiety by either reading or sleeping when she was not driving. She knew that the hours of silence away from his refuge of work and television gave Stan time to think that she knew was very necessary. After several hours, he tired of the fading in and out of the radio, the same CD's over and over again and so he began to talk.

The conversation stayed light and proceeded to continue into their meals as they drew closer to Ravdale. Carla was growing more hopeful by the mile and by the minute. By the time they reached the cabin late that night, she was very encouraged. She said nothing when Stan mumbled a weary good night and promptly went to sleep. She took hope in the knowledge that they still had two whole days of togetherness ahead of them.

The days seemed to pass quickly beginning the next morning as they rented a small bass boat and went out onto the placid lake to do some fishing. She did not care for fishing but she knew that Stan loved it. They spent three fishless hours on the lake but Stan seemed to have enjoyed himself as he was more than willing to go on a long walk up the Nature trail with her in the afternoon. She thrived in the awing majesty of the wooded area and the serene quiet of the walk. Stan also seemed to be pleased with the beauty around him.

They returned to the cabin for a warm meal that Carla cooked and Stan ate with a ravenous, healthy hunger. She showed her delight when he offered to help with the clean up. 'Yep,' she thought to herself, 'things are definitely looking up!' Matters improved even more when he reached for her in the bed and they made quiet but contenting love for the first time in many months. Her plans were working wonderfully.

The next day seemed to be a flawless copy of the first until they sat down to dinner and they heard the wind begin to howl like a banshee. It seemed to have come from out of nowhere and

soon, the lashing rain and booming thunder followed as a mountain storm awakened in the night sky and dumped its wrath upon the tiny lake and even smaller cabin. The power failed so they lit the kerosene lamps and moved closer to the fire burning brightly in the fireplace.

There on a Indian rug in front of the hearth, they left quiet love behind and took each other to heights to equal the rage of the mad storm outside. Just at the end, everything suddenly went quiet. The rain stopped, the thunder ceased and the wind went eerily silent. They both stopped in surprise and listened to the sound of nothing!

Without knowing why, Stan was overwhelmed with an intense sense of fear. He never said a word but quickly rolled his naked wife up in the rug, grabbed his jeans, lifted her and made an unexplainably quick dash for the door. She lay silent in his arms, terrified by the unmasked fear on his face. He flung himself through the front door and leaped like an Olympic jumper from the front porch.

At that very moment, a huge jagged streak of lightning sliced the sky and its sizzling wicked end found mark on top of an very tall pine that stood at the far western corner of cabin. The lightning split the tree as neatly as a dagger through flesh and the burning tree groaned, swayed and then collapsed onto to the top of the cabin. The roof caved and the cabin soon was a shambles of burning pine, varnished logs and other contents inside, everything but the two humans that had been there just moments before.

The wind began to moan and rise again. The rain fell again but not as hard. The rumbling thunder sounded but with a distinct distance to its sound. The storm was passing.

Incredulous, Carla turned and stared in awe at the face of her husband. 'How did you know?' she whispered. He stared down at her, and his eyes told her his thoughts. He was thinking of how close he had come to losing her and knew that nothing was worth that. He pulled her close to him as he returned his gaze to the burning cabin and said softly

'My grandfather always told me to be wary when a angry wind suddenly goes quiet. It is a warning of danger! And, my dear wife, I think this proves he was right.' Carla only leaned closer to her husband, sheltering in his strength and quietly nodded her head in agreement.

一、英汉翻译

1) In this new year, we face momentous uncertainties: war (or wars), a weak economy.

这新的一年里，我们面临着战争（乃至连续的

．．．重大的不确定

．．．战争）、经济低迷等一系列

因素

．．。

2) If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, remember it always.

施恩勿记，受恩勿忘。

3) In 1966 the North Korean team made it to the quarter finals.

1966年，北朝鲜队成功地踢进

．．了四分之一决赛。

4) They are the employers of managers as much as they are the employs of workpeople.

他们不仅雇佣

．．经理。

．．工人也雇佣

5) Her sighs made it clear that she was unhappy.

她唉声叹气，显然很不快乐。

6) Doubts began to creep into people‘s minds about th e likely success of the project.

人们

．．渐渐对这项计划成功的可能性产生了怀疑。

7) They had no running water where they lived. Nor did they have any conveniences of life such as gas and electricity.

他们住的地方没有自来水，也没有煤气和电这类生活上的便利设施。

8) It just struck me that I still owe you for the concert tickets.

我．忽然想起还欠你音乐会的门票钱。

9) It is generally believed that Hong Kong will continue to keep its prosperity and stability after its return to China.

人们

．．普遍认为香港回归后会继续保持繁荣和稳定。

10) We could only build one house with these materials.

这些材料

．．．．只够我们盖一栋房子。

11) I regard it as an honor that I am invited to your wedding.

被邀请参加您的婚礼

．．．．．．．．．，我感到很荣幸。

12) Bright colors and bold strokes characterize his early painting.

他早期绘画的特征

．．．．．．．．是色彩明亮、笔触大胆。

13) With a bag of books we walked across the garden in the gray light of the dawn.

我们提着一袋

．．．．穿过了花园。

．．．．书．，在晨曦中

14) a little, yellow, ragged, lame, unshaven beggar

一个身材瘦小

．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．．

．．．．的叫化子，面黄肌瘦，衣衫褴褛，胡子拉渣的，还瘸着腿

15) Our men had gone quite a distance off before the enemy reinforcement troops came up.

我们的队伍已经走得很远了，敌人的增援部队才赶上来。

16) I was told not to trust what I read in the newspaper.

有人告诉我不要相信报纸上读到的消息。

17) Little did I then know the meaning of war and what it was in reality.

当时我确实还不太懂得战争的意义以及战争实际上是怎么回事。

18) Our men had gone quite a distance off before the enemy reinforcement troops came up.

我们的队伍已经走得很远了，敌人的增援部队才赶上来。（敌人的增援部队还没赶上来，我们的队伍就已经走得很远了。）

19) He had flown in just the day before from Georgia where he had spent his vacation basking in the Caucasian sun after the completion of the construction job he had been engaged in in the South.

他本来在南部从事一项建筑工程；任务完成之后，他就上格鲁吉亚去度假，享受高加索的阳光，昨天才坐飞机回来。

20) It is a pity, however, that Dr. Thomas seems not to have learned the real lesson that history offers us –namely, that the ―great breakthroughs‖ in any technology are always preceded by a radical change in how we view ourselves, and how we behave.

在任何技术取得―重大突破‖之前，我们的行为和对自己的看法都会发生剧变——这．便是

历史给我们的教训。遗憾的是，托马斯大夫似乎并未真正理解这一点

．．．。

21) If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening does not wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No. 10 Broad Street.

上星期日傍晚，有人曾见某君在市教堂取走雨伞一把。取伞者如不愿卷入纠纷，还是将

伞送至布劳德街10号为妙。

22) Theatre will be reinvented and become much freer and more imaginative.

戏剧将脱胎换骨，变得更自由、更富想象力。

23) Nowadays it is understood that a diet which contains nothing harmful may result in serious disease if certain important elements are missing.

如今人们知道，如果食物中缺少了某些重要的成分，即使其中不含有任何有害的物质，也会引起严重的疾病。

24) By the end of the war, 800 people had been saved by the organization, but at a cost of 200 Belgian and French lives.

大战结束时，这个组织拯救了800人，但那是以200多比利时人和法国人的生命为代价的。

25) The roofs of this pagoda are constructed of colored glazed tiles of yellows and greens.

这座宝塔的塔顶是用深浅不同的黄色和绿色

．．．．．．．．．．的琉璃瓦盖成的。

26) She rejected his advances during the trip to Cannes.

在去戛纳的旅程中她拒绝了他的求爱

．．。

27) Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.

凡是忘掉过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙

．．．．。

28) He was a man of integrity, but unfortunately he had a certain reputation. I believe the reputation was not deserved.

他是个诚实正直的人，但却不幸有某种坏名声

．．．。

．．．。我相信他不该有这个坏名声

29) Aggressive photographers followed the princess everywhere and flooded the media with photos of her private life.

无孔不入

．．．．的摄影师们到处跟踪王妃，使得媒体上充斥着有关她私生活的照片。

30) During the meeting, the Chinese Premier met respectively with his German, British and Japanese counterparts.

会议期间，中国总理

．．分别会晤了德国总理

．．和日本国内阁总理大臣

．．．．．．。

．．、英国首相

31) Ulysses Grant once explained his military success by writing, ―The fact is I think I am a verb, instead of a personal pronoun.‖

尤利西斯格兰特将军曾对自己的军事成就作了如下评价：―事实上，我认为自己是个动．

词．（独立而富于行动

．．．．．）。‖

．．．．（从属而被动

．．．．．．．）；而不是个人称代词

32) Really, though, the books were about money –who has it, where to hide it, what a suit of clothing costs, how long you can keep the butcher waiting.

实际上，这些书与金钱息息相关——谁得到了它，把它藏到哪儿，一身衣服要多少钱，

．．．．．．．．．

你能在肉贩那儿赊多久的帐

．．．．．．．．．．．．。

33) There were no speeches, no foreign diplomats, no ―ordinary Chinese‖ with paper flags and flowers.

没有发表

．．纸旗和花束的场面。

．．，也没有?中国群众?挥舞

．．讲话，没有各国外交官到场

34) After the banquets, the concerts, and the table tennis exhibitions, he would work on the drafting of the final communiqué.

参加

．．了乒乓球表演赛之后，他还得起草最后公报。

．．过音乐会，观看

．．完宴会，出席

35) I‘m really busy this morning: 2 classes, a meeting, and an interview.

我今天上午的确很忙，要上．两节课，开．一个会，还要接受

．．一个采访。

36) Day after day she does the same: washing, sweeping, and cooking.

她日复一日地做着同样的家务：洗衣服

．．，做饭．。

．．，拖地板

37) She is a complicated girl – moody, sensitive and skeptical.

她是个性格

．．复杂的人：喜怒无常，多愁善感，疑神疑鬼。

38) In the summer of 1969, the government publicly urged an easing of tensions with China.

一九六九年夏天，政府公开主张缓和与中国的紧张关系

．．。

39) He felt the patriot rise within his breast.

他感到胸中涌起了一股爱国热情

．．。

40) He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge, and declared his own son guilty.

法官的职责

．．战胜了父子之情．，他最终判决自己的儿子有罪。

41) They say his father was a fisherman. He used to be as poor as we are.

听人说，从前

．．他爸爸是个打鱼的。他过去也跟我们现在

．．一样穷。

42) ―Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man…‖

?读书使人充实，讨论使人

．．机智，笔记使人

．．准确。?（培根:《论读书》王佐良译）

43) At the time of Kennedy‘s assassination, people thought that a second term would have led either to greatness or to disaster.

肯尼迪遇刺时，人们认为，假如

．．他再任一届总统的话，大概不是功高盖世，就是祸国殃民。

44) In April, there was the ―ping‖ heard around the world. In July, the ping ―ponged‖.

四月里，全世界听到中国

．．．．．

．．乓的一声把球打了回

．．．．．．；到了七月，美国

．．乒的一声把球打了出去

来．。

45)China is willing to exchange views with any countries, politically, culturally and economically.

中国愿意同任何国家在政治、文化、经济等各个方面

．．．．．进行交流。

46) Matter can be changed into energy, and energy into matter.

物质可以转化为能，能也可以转化为物质。

47) Air pressure decreases with altitude.

气压随海拔高度的增加而下降。

48) Avoid using the computer in extreme cold, heat, dust or humidity.

不要在过冷、过热、灰尘过多、湿度过大的情况下使用此电脑。

49) According to scientists, it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of topsoil.

根据科学家们的看法，自然界要用500年的时间才能形成一英寸的表层土壤。

50) Emperors unexceptionally regarded the common people as weed.

历代帝王都把老百姓视为草芥。

51) Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.

过勇则蛮，过仁则懦，过俭则贪。

52) He becomes extremely excited whenever he talks about his hometown –mountains, waters, flowers, plants, fishes and birds.

他一说起家乡来就很兴奋，什么山啦，水啦，花啦，草啦，鱼啦，鸟啦等等。

53) But it‘s the way I am, and try as I might, I haven‘t been able to change it.

不过我就是这个脾气，虽然竭力想改，终究还是改不了。

54) We eat to live, but not live to eat.

吃饭是为了活着，可活着不是为了吃饭。

55) Anyone who does not recognize this fact is not a materialist.

不承认这个事实，就不是唯物主义者。

56) This formula makes it easy to determine the wavelength of sounds.

这一公式使得测定声音的波长十分简单。

57) Before handing in your translation, you have to read it over and over again and see if there is anything in it to be corrected or improved.

交出翻译之前必须多读几遍，看看里面有没有要修改的地方。

58) For two weeks, he had been studying the house, looking at its rooms, its electric wiring, its path and its garden.

连着两星期他都在观察房子的情况，检查各个房间，查看线路、通道和花园的布局。

59) The train came. He pinched his little sister lovingly, and put his great arms about his mother‘s neck and then was away.

火车来了。他疼爱地捏了捏小妹妹，粗壮的胳膊搂了一下母亲的脖子，然后就走了。

60) It was only then that I began to have doubts whether my story would ever be told.

直到那时我才开始怀疑，我的经历究竟能不能公诸于众。

61) He considered the National Security Council too large and bulky and thus too leaky, too many people who talked too much.

他认为国家安全委员会机构过于庞大臃肿，人多嘴杂，容易泄密。

62) Your parents or your wife or your son or your best friends might be expecting you back home safe and sound.

也许你的父母，妻儿，或者你最好的朋友都在盼望你平安回家呢。

63) We knew that summer was coming, as we could see a swallow.

我们看见燕子，就知道夏天快要到了/来临了。

64) Because the departure was not easy, we‘d better make it brief.

离别不是件容易的事（离别真叫人难受），我们还是简短些吧。

65) When at last he stood upon the bluff, he turned to his little sister and looked upon her sorrowfully.

最后他站到了悬崖上，转过身来，悲哀地看着他的小妹妹。

66) At long last, on June 6, 1944, after the European war was basically decided and Hitler licked, the allies launched their long-delayed western front.

1944年6月6日，欧洲战局基本已见分晓，希特勒败局已定，盟军终于在这一天开辟了延迟了很久的西线战场。

67) Instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me.

那时打我、让我挨饿的不只是一个老太婆，而是老老少少各式各样的人。

68) As scheduled, Chinese and American diplomats met on January 20, at the Chinese Embassy in Poland. It was their first get-together in more than two years.

中美两国外交官按照预定计划于一月二十日在波兰的中国大使馆会晤。这是两年多来的第一次。

69) University applicants who had worked at a job would receive preference over those who had

not. 报考大学的人，有工作经验的将优先录取。

70) But Humboldt never took to them. He disliked their affluent way of life, with plenty of food and drink and all the work done for them by the Indians. As far as Humboldt was concerned, they only did him one positive service. They took his letters and saw that they were sent to his friends in Europe.

然而洪保德一点也不喜欢他们——他们生活奢华，大吃大喝，而且事无巨细全都扔给印

第安人做。就洪保德而言，他们只给他办过一件好事，就是收下了他的信，并让人稳妥地送到他在欧洲的朋友手中。

71) They went in to dinner. It was excellent, and the wine was good. Its influence presently had its effect on them. They talked not only without acrimony, but even with friendliness.

他们进屋用餐。美酒佳肴不久就发生了作用，他们的交谈不仅没有恶言恶语，甚至还颇为友好。

72) Despite the privation, and the mounting toll of dead and wounded, morale remained intact, and people still smile in the street.

尽管物资匮乏，伤亡增加，但士气并未受到影响，街上的人照常会面带笑容。

73) She curtseyed again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed deeper than she had blushed all the time.

她又行了一个屈膝礼，要不是她的脸一直都红得那么厉害，这会儿说不定还会涨得更红些呢。

74) After a decade on the new continent, the immigrants from Europe had fitted themselves to the land，the climate and the rhythm of its seasons.

在新大陆生活了十年之后，欧洲移民已经适应了这里的水土、气候和季节变化。

75) These developing countries cover vast territories, encompass a large population and abound in natural resources.

这些发展中国家地大物博，人口众多。

76) The minister wished now that he had not been given the white elephant, for he could not afford to feed it and he dared not give it away.

此时这位大臣宁愿那头白象没赐给自己，养又养不起，又不敢送人。

77) Striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound he could neither ignore nor understand … He wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or nearby– it seemed both.

有一个声音响了起来，刺穿了他对亲人的思念。这声音他既不能充耳不闻，又不能领会……他不知这声音是什么，到底来自辽远还是发于附近——它似乎亦远亦近。

78) If you need any more money, you must get some out of the bank; there is hardly any in the house.

假如你还需要钱，就得去银行取些出来，家里没多少钱了。

79) Thank you for your help, which enabled me to get out of difficulty.

感谢你的帮助。正是你的帮助才使我得以度过难关。

80) They asked for promises that be cashed in one week.

他们要求得到承诺，而这些承诺要在一周内兑现。

81) Doctors will get more practice out of me than out of 100 ordinary patients.

医生们从我一个人身上得到的临床经验会比从一百个普通病人身上得到的临床经验还多。

82) Students must be cultivated to have the ability to analyze and solve problems.

必须培养学生分析问题和解决问题的能力。

83) In 1974, we graduated from the middle school. Some entered college, others joined the army and I became a teacher in my village.

1974年，我们高中毕业。有的上大学去了，有的参军了，我则回村做了教师。

84) Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, – but there is no peace.

先生们尽管高喊和平，和平，但是依然没有和平。

85) Prominent among the most prominent upon the most prominent bookshelf are the 12-volumn Encyclopaedia Britannica.

在最显眼的书架上最显眼的书籍中最显眼的要数12卷的不列颠百科全书了。

86) With his tardiness, carelessness and appalling good humor, we are sore perplexed.

他老是磨磨蹭蹭，马马虎虎，脾气又好得惊人，我们都对他毫无办法。

87) Bombing foreign embassy is a clear violation of international law – in particular of the Geneva Convention.

轰炸外国大使馆显然违反了国际法，尤其是违反了《日内瓦公约》。

88) Water can be decomposed by energy, a current of electricity.

水可由能量来分解，所谓能量也就是电流。

89) Every country has its own customs.

各国有各国的风俗。

90) Now, radar is a commonly used technique by which people can see the things beyond the visibility.

如今雷达是一种常用的东西，利用雷达可以看到视线之外的东西。

91) The space probe passed within 6,000 miles of Mars and transmitted back to the earth some pictures of the surface of that planet.

太空探测器在不到六千英里处飞过了火星，并把火星表面的一些照片发回了地球。92) That fellow is worse than bad.

那家伙坏得不能再坏了（坏透了）。

93) There are books and books.

书有种种，好坏不一。

94) I had met with great difficulty in learning organic chemistry.

在学有机化学这门课时，我遇到了重重困难。

95) He is nearly 60,but he carried his years lightly.

他已年近花甲，可并不显老。

96) The mother gently disengaged her hand from that of her sleeping baby.

母亲小心翼翼地从熟睡的宝宝手里抽出自己的手。

97) He was dishonorably discharged from the army for his cowardice in the battle.

由于他在战场上的懦弱行为，他很不光彩地被部队开除了。

98) All the articles are untouchable in the museum.

博物馆内一切展品禁止触摸。

99) Hitler‘s undisguised effort to persecute the Jews met with world-wide condemnation.

希特勒对犹太人明目张胆的迫害遭到了全世界的谴责。

100) I never go past the house but I think of the happy moments I spent there.

我每次走过那所房子，都会想起在那里度过的快乐时光。

101) The works of art were left intact, the money gone.

艺术品还好好的，钱却不见了。（艺术品原封未动，钱却不翼而飞了。）

102) Don‘t scamp your work because you are pressed for time.

不要因为时间紧迫就敷衍了事。

103) If richness needs gifts with which everyone is not endowed, simplicity by no means comes by nature.

如果说写华丽的文章需要的是并非人人具备的天资，简练的文笔则决不是天生就能有的。

104) Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.

与许多人的看法相反，蜘蛛并不是昆虫，它们甚至和昆虫一点关系也没有。

105) The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match the increase of population, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.

食品供应的增加绝对赶不上人口的增长，这就意味着我们在粮食的生产和购销方面正陷

入危机。

106) Hardly a year now passed without Shanghai losing its traditional dominance in another field or product.

上海几乎每年都要失去它在一个领域或一项产品上的传统优势。

107) As a result, many people avoided the very attempts that are the source of true happiness.

结果，很多人没有尝试，而这些尝试却正是幸福的源泉。

108) It will generally be found that the men who are habitually behind the time are as habitually behind success.

一般来说，惯于不守时的人往往是不会成功的。

109) Traveling five hundred miles by car with two small children is the last thing I want to do.

我才不想带着两个孩子，开车赶500英里的路。

110) Before I could get in a word, he had measured me and was giving orders for morning suits, evening suits, shirts and all sorts of things.

我还没来得及插话，他已经给我量好了尺寸，订下早装、晚装、衬衫等各式各样的衣服。111) We are supposed to be an island of freedom, but we are fighting our own terror war.

我们本应是自由之岛，现在却要打一场属于自己的反恐怖战争。

112) Don‘t cough more than you can help.

能不咳，就不咳。

113) When we read we may visit the most beautiful parts of the earth, without fatigue, inconvenience and expense.

通过阅读我们可以遍访地球上最美丽的地方，轻松、便捷，还不用花钱。

114) The thought of returning to his native land never deserted him.

归国的念头始终萦绕在他的心中。

115) It also includes a lot of other former British colonies that are independent of the British Parliament and of Thatcher, but recognize Queen Elizabeth as ―Head of the Commonwealth‖.

它还包括许多前英国殖民地，它们不受英国国会和撒切尔管辖，但却承认伊丽莎白女王为?联邦首脑?。

116) As a universally accepted law, energy can neither be created nor be destroyed.

能量既不能被创造也不能被毁灭，这是一条公认的规律。

117) They remarked now he took a different seat from that which he usually occupied when he chose to attend divine worship.

往常做礼拜时，他总是坐在固定的座位上，可是那天他们发现他换了个座位。

118) The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

一枝铅笔平均可画一条35英里长的线，或写大约5万个英语单词。

119) A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

玻璃球比橡胶制的球弹得高。而实心的钢球比完全用玻璃制成的球弹得更高。

120) When glass breaks the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

玻璃破裂时裂缝崩开的速度超过每小时3，000英里。要拍下玻璃破裂的瞬间，照相机必须以百万分之一秒的速度拍摄。

121) Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter along at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.

无线电波传播的速度为每秒186，000英里，而声波传播的速度仅为每小时700英里。在13，000英里以外收听广播的人，能比在播音室后部的人先听到播音员的声音。

122) They are aware that they are participating in a movement which is shaking the world and which brings together in its ranks, in its forward march, all peoples aspiring to freedom and justice.

他们知道，他们参加的运动正撼动着整个世界，并把渴望自由和正义的一切民族团结到它的队伍中来，团结到它前进的步伐中来。

123) Historians have called the decade after 1929, when Winston again fell from office, his barren years.

史学家们一直把1929年温斯顿再次被免职（下台）后的十年称为他无所作为的十年。（1929年温斯顿再次被免职，史学家们一直把这以后的十年称为他无所作为的十年。）124) Our fault lies not so much with our economy or with our politics as within ourselves, our values and our image of a good life.

我们的过错与其说是我们的经济或政治造成的，不如说是源于我们自身，源于我们的价值观和我们对美好生活的设想。

125) Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain operated a system of severely punitive laws designed as much to provide cheap labor for its American colonies as to curb crime.

在整个17、18世纪，英国实行了一套严刑峻法，它除了用来遏制犯罪以外，还给美洲的殖民地提供廉价劳动力。

126) Just as women can never have too many hats, men can never have too many ties.

正如女人永远不会嫌帽子太多一样，男人的领带也是越多越好（男人永远不会嫌领带太多，正如女人永远都不会嫌帽子太多一样）。

127) In the spirit of frankness which I hope will characterize our talks this week, let us recognize at the outset these points: we have at times in the past been enemies. We have great differences today. What brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend these differences.

我希望我们在本周的会谈将会是坦率的。让我们本着这种坦率的精神从一开始就承认这样几点：过去的某些时期内我们曾是敌人。今天我们仍有着巨大的分歧。我们之所以走到一起，是由于我们有着超越这些分歧的共同利益。

128) The saga of the White Star liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, carrying more than 1,500 passengers to their deaths, has been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song.

白星公司的邮轮泰坦尼克号在1912年的处女航中因撞上冰山而沉没，船上1,500多名乘客遇难。此后关于它的传说便成为各种刊物、电影、诗歌和歌曲的内容而广为流传。129) Thus it happened that when the new factories that were springing up required labour, tens of thousands of homeless and hungry agricultural workers, with their wives and children, were forced into the cities in search of work, any work, under any condition, that would keep them alive.

于是，就出现了这样的情况：正当新办的工厂纷纷成立、需要劳动力的时候，成千上万无家可归、饥肠辘辘的农民（农业劳动者），携妻带儿，被迫流入城市找活干——不管什么工作，不管什么条件，只要让他们活得下去就行（不让他们饿死就行）。

130) We have so often seen exciting stories about gun battles in Chicago‘s streets. We forget how frequently such crimes and disorders happen in cities that are as big and busy as Chicago.

我们经常看到关于芝加哥街头枪战的惊险故事，却忘记了在一些与芝加哥同样大的繁华都市里，这类罪恶与骚乱发生得多么频繁。

131) Suddenly he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly.

忽然他发现女主人露出一种奇怪的表情（脸色异常），两眼直愣愣地望着前方，脸上的肌肉微微抽搐着。

132) Now, a rough strategic balance has evolved between East and West. More nations have the technical ability to produce advanced weapons. Many others have amassed huge arsenals.

现在，东西方之间大体上已形成了战略均势。越来越多的国家拥有生产先进武器的技术能力，还有许多国家则积聚起庞大的军火库。

133) ―It was like playing no-limit poker and three-dimensional chess at the same time.‖Richardson, who served as both Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare during the Nixon Administration, was talking about the negotiations for a Law of the Sea treaty, which came to a virtual conclusion last week after six years of deliberations. The climactic conference at the Palais des Nations（万国宫）in Geneva, approved a draft of the treaty that is expected to go to the member states for ratification next year.

?这就象是打一场不限赌注的扑克的同时还要下一盘三维象棋。?理查森曾在尼克松政府中兼任国防部长和卫生、教育和福利部长，他在谈到关于海洋法公约的谈判时说了上述这番话。该项谈判经过六年的审议，终于在上周结束。标志着谈判成功的大会在日内瓦的万国宫举行，会上通过了公约草案，该草案将于明年送交各成员国批准。

134) For all they knew, he could have been a creature from outer space. Some wanted him shot as a Yankee spy, but the consensus was first to learn more about the strange-looking character dressed in a tall silk hat and a large frock coat, who had seemingly dropped from the sky out of nowhere.

说不定他是来自外太空的生物也未可知哩。这家伙也不知是从哪儿凭空冒出来的，头戴一顶高礼帽，身穿宽大的长礼服，模样十分古怪。有人想把他当作北佬的间谍枪毙掉；但多数人认为，还是应该多了解一下这个人再说。

135) We received the trophy from the hands of the President of the Republic of Mexico, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, and we gave an Olympic march around the huge stadium, with the confetti and streamers falling like snow and with the constant beat of a samba band mixing with the most enthusiastic ovation I can remember.

我们从墨西哥共和国总统古斯塔沃〃迪亚兹〃奥尔达斯的手中接过了奖杯，然后在巨大的体育场内绕场一周。一路上五彩纸屑和彩带犹如雪片飞来。持续不断的桑巴鼓点同欢呼声响成一片——这是我记忆中最热烈的欢呼声。

136) But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demoniac personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and –until toward the end, when drunk with power and success, be overreached himself –an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

然而，如果没有阿道夫〃希特勒，那就几乎可以肯定不会有第三帝国，因为阿道夫〃希特勒有着恶魔般的性格、花岗岩般的意志、异乎寻常的本能、冷酷无情的心肠、非凡的智力、高超的想象力以及对人和局势惊人的判断力——只是到了最后，他被权力和胜利冲昏了头脑，失去了这种判断力，从而不自量力，招致了失败。（这里?失去了判断力?解释的是原文中?until?一词的含义）

137) Captain Weston, who had been considered, especially by the Churchills, as making such an amazing match, was proved to have much the worst of the bargain, for when his wife died, after a three years‘ marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first, and with a child to maintain.

许多人，尤其是邱吉尔夫妇，曾经认为魏斯吞上尉的婚姻是惊人的，而现在却证明大吃

其亏，因为当他太太结婚三年后去世的时候，他比当初更穷了，而且还要养活一个孩子。138) During all the years of my life, until that moment, I had carried the menacing, the hostile killing world with me everywhere. No matter what I was doing or saying or feeling, one eye had always been on the world– that world which I had learnt to distrust almost as soon as I learnt my name, that world on which I know one could never turn one‘s back, the white man‘s world.

活到那么大，无论去什么地方，这个满怀恶意、咄咄逼人的世界始终纠缠着我。不管我做什么、说什么、想什么，总得睁着一只眼睛提防这个世界——这个我刚学会说自己的名字就不再信任的世界，这个任我们怎么想避都避不开的世界，这个白人的世界。

139) He finds that students who were easy to teach, because they succeeded in putting what they had been taught into practice, hesitate when confronted with the vast untouched area of English vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks.

他发现，学生们起初很容易教，因为他们能把教给他们的东西付诸实践，然而现在，面对着大量未曾接触过的英语词汇和用法，他们却踌躇起来，因为这些词汇和用法都是基础教科书里没有涉及到的内容。

140) Plastics is made from water which is a natural resource inexhaustible and available everywhere, coal which can be mined through automatic and mechanical process at low cost and lime which can be obtained from the calcination of limestone widely present in nature.

塑料由水、煤和石灰制造而成。水是无处不在、取之不尽的自然资源；煤可以通过自动化或机械化方式采得，成本低廉；石灰则可以通过燃烧自然界广泛存在的石灰石获得。141) The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss.

（两个）孩子穿上衣服，藏好装备，怀着悲伤和疑惑的心情离开了（树林）。悲伤，是因为如今已经不再有绿林好汉；疑惑，是因为他们不知道现代文明到底能用什么来弥补他们的损失。

142) I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.

我追寻着爱，首先是因为爱能带来极度的欢乐——我愿倾我一生来换取这片刻的幸福。143) Helen was relieved when she went back home and saw the diamond still locked in the safe.

海伦回到家中，看见那颗钻石仍然锁在保险箱里，这才松了一口气（放下心来）。144) The shopman offers a third (apple); but before biting it, you examine it, and find that it is hard and green, and you immediately say that you will not have it, as it must be sour.

店员又给了你第三个苹果，可是没吃之前你仔细看了看，发现这苹果又硬又青，于是立即就说不要了，因为这苹果肯定酸。

145) When Smith was drunk, he used to beat his wife and daughter; and the next morning, with a headache, he would rail at the world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a good deal of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters.

史密斯喝醉之后常常打老婆和女儿；第二天带着头痛发牢骚，抱怨世人不能赏识他的才华。他痛骂同行的画家都是糊涂虫。话很尖刻，不过有时候也挺有道理。

146) In that infinitesimal fraction of time, inconceivable and immeasurable, during which the first atomic bomb converted a small part of its matter into the greatest burst of energy released on earth up to that time, Prometheus had broken his bonds and brought a new fire down to earth, a fire three million times more powerful than the original fire he snatched from the gods for the benefit of man some five hundred thousand years ago.

在这难以想象、无法计算的刹那之间，第一颗原子弹把它的物质的一小部分化作了地球上迄今为止所能释放出来的最大的能量。这是普罗米修斯挣脱了身上的锁链，又把新的火种送到了人间——与大约五十万年前普罗米修斯为了造福人类从天庭盗走的旧火种相比，这个新火种的威力要大三百万倍。

147)The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

世界是一付棋盘，万物就是棋子。奕棋的规则即所谓的自然规律。下棋的对手是隐蔽不见的。我们知道他下棋总是合理、公正、有耐心。但输了棋后我们才知道，他从不放过任何错误，也决不原谅任何无知。

148) The mayor of Toledo said in 1932: ―I have seen thousands of these defeated, discouraged, hopeless men and women, cringing and fawning as they come to ask for public aid. It is a spectacle of national degradation.‖

1932年，托莱多市长曾这样说道：?我见过成千上万山穷水尽、灰心绝望的男男女女前来请求救济，为此还低声下气、摇尾乞怜。此情此景真是丢尽了美国的脸。?

149) British newspapers – all of them some of the time, and some of them all the time – behave badly in two ways. They intrude unnecessarily and often hurtfully into people‘s privacy; and they publish inaccurate, sometimes made-up stories. The victims have little redress. If they are rich and the article is defamatory, they can sue for libel. Most cannot afford to do so, and even the rich cannot prevent an invasion of their privacy. Fierce competition, particularly between tabloid newspapers, leads to more feet in more doors.

英国的报纸有两点做得很不象话。一是无端侵犯别人的私生活，并往往给人造成精神上的伤害；二是刊登失实的，有时甚至是无中生有的报道。所有的报纸都无一例外，有的偶尔为之，有的则几乎天天如此。受害人名誉受损，但得不到什么洗刷。受害人若是有钱人家，加上报纸刊登的文章又确是恶意中伤，那么他便可以诽谤罪向法院起诉。但大多数受害人是打不起这种官司的。即使是有钱人也不能使自己的隐私免受侵犯。各种报纸之间，特别是各种图片小报之间的激烈竞争，导致这种寻觅个人和家庭隐私材料作报道的行为日见其多。150) I read his Progress and Poverty, and went to a meeting of Hyndman‘s Marxist Democratic Federation, where I rose and protested against its drawing a red herring across the trail blazed by George. I was contemptuously dismissed as a novice who had not read the great first volume of Marx‘s Capital.

I promptly read it, and returned to announce my complete conversion by it. Immediately contempt changed to awe; for Hyndman‘s disciples had not read the book themselves, it being then accessible only in Deville‘s French version in the British Museum reading room, my daily resort.

我看了他的《进步与贫穷》，又去参加海德门的马克思主义组织?民主联盟?举行的会议，会上我起来发言，指责他们节外生枝，破坏了乔治开辟的道路。他们轻蔑地驳回了我的意见，说我是个新手，连马克思的《资本论》第一卷这部巨著都没读过。

我随即读了《资本论》第一卷，又去参加了会议，并在会上宣布，我在它的影响下彻底改变了自己的信仰。轻蔑顿时变成了敬畏，因为海德门的门徒们自己并没有读过这本书；当时要看这本书，只能去大英博物馆的阅览室读维德尔的法文译本，我每天就呆在那里。151) (When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call the deed man-slaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we

call his deed murder.) But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence –knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than that of commission. (But murder it remains.)

（如果一个人伤害了另一个人的身体，而且这种伤害致被害人于死，我们把这叫做杀人；如果杀人者事先知道这种伤害会致人于死，那么我们就把他的行动叫做谋杀。）但是，如果社会把千百个无产者臵于这样一种境地，使他们不可避免地遭到过早的非自然的死亡，如同被刀剑或枪弹所惨杀一样；如果社会剥夺了成千上万的人的生活必需品，把他们臵于无法生存的境地，利用法律的铁腕强迫他们处于这种境地，直到不可避免的结局——死亡的来临，而且社会也知道这成千上万的人一定会死去，但又听任这种情况存在下去；那么这也是一种谋杀，和个人进行的谋杀完全一样，只不过这是一种隐蔽的、恶毒的谋杀，没有人能够防御，而且看起来又不象是谋杀，因为这种罪行是一种不作为，而不是一种作为，谁也看不到谋杀者，被杀的人看起来好像是自然地死去的。（但这仍然是谋杀。）

152) One afternoon I heard Imelda and her daughter arguing in the kitchen. Her daughter had quarreled with her husband‘s parents, and Imelda was insisting that she apologize to them. Her daughter objected. ―But, Mama, I just can‘t swallow them, not even with honey. They talk so big until we need something; then they‘re too poor. So today when they wouldn‘t even lend enough to pay for a new bed, all I did was say something that I‘ve heard you say a hundred times: ?If so grand, why so poor? If so poor, why so grand?‘‖

―Impertinent!‖ snorted Imelda. ―Have I not also taught you, ?what the tongue says, the neck pays for‘? I will not have it said that I could never teach my daughter proper respect for her elders. And before you go to beg their pardon, change those trousers for a dress. You know how your mother-in-law feels about pants on a woman. She always says, ?what was hatched a hen must not try to be a rooster!‘‖

H er daughter made one more try. ―But Mama, you often say, ?If the saint is annoyed, don‘t pray to him until he gets over it.‘ Can‘t I leave it for tomorrow?‖

―No, no and no! Remember: ?If the dose is nasty, swallow it fast.‘ You know, my child, you did wr ong. But, ?A gift is the key to open the door closed against you.‘ I have a cake in the oven that I was making for the Senora‘s dinner. I will explain to the senora. Now, dear, hurry home and make yourself pretty in your pink dress. By the time you get back, I will have the cake ready for you to take to your mother-in-law. She will be so pleased that she may make your father-in-law pay for the bed. Remember: ?One hand washes the other, but together they wash the face.‘‖一天下午，我听见伊梅尔达和女儿在厨房里争论开了。原来是女儿刚和公婆吵了嘴，她非要女儿去陪个不是。做女儿的却偏不依。?可是，妈妈，这样做我真受不了，就是拌上蜜都咽不下这口气！他们满嘴讲大话，可是一旦求上他们，却又穷得不得了。就拿今天来说吧，我想借点钱，也就刚够买一张新床，他们都不肯，我便说了你平日里说过上百遍的那句话：‘既然真阔气，何必又装穷？既然真正穷，何必摆阔气？’?