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英译中 1+8 Translate the following passages into Chinese: 英译中 1. We are not certain. They seem to be metal particles that move along certain paths. They emit gases, make noise and keep crashing into each other. There are so many of these paths and so many metal particles that it is impossible to land a flying saucer without its being smashed by one. 我们还不太清楚，它们似乎是些沿着某些轨道运行的金属微粒。它们释放出气体，发出噪音，并且不断的相互碰撞。地球上的这种轨道和金属微粒是如此之多，以致于想要使飞碟在那里着陆而不被其一颗微粒撞毁几乎是不可能的。

2. The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the hostess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly. She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him. The boy's eyes widen: he quickly leaves the room. 那位美国人没有加入这场争论，他只是注视着其他客人。正在他这样观察时，他发现女主人的脸上掠过一丝奇异的表情。她双目径直看着前方，脸部的肌肉在微微抽搐。她对站在椅子后面的印度男仆做了个手势，跟他耳语了几句，那男仆两眼圆睁，迅速离开了餐厅。

3. First of all, Lincoln's career fits a popular American belief that every child can dream of becoming President. Americans admire the self-made person---- the one who, with neither money nor family influence, fights his or her way to the top. Lincoln was born of poor parents. His mother died when he was young. He had little opportunity for schooling. 首先，林肯的人生经历证明了一种美国信念，即每个孩子都能梦想当上总统。美国人民钦佩自我奋斗成功的人———那种既没有钱，又没有家庭背景，全靠自我拼搏而出人头地的人。林肯出身贫寒，幼年丧母，几乎没有机会上学。

4. Jefferson felt that the people “may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgement. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." 杰斐逊认为，人民是“完全值得信赖的，应该让他们听到一切正确和错误的东西，让他们作出正确的判断。如果让我来决定，我们是应该有一个政府而不要报纸还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我将毫不犹豫地选择后者。”

5. While I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim. 在我等着进大学时，我从当地一家报纸上看到一则伦敦郊区的一所学校要招聘一名教师的广告，此地离我的住处有十英里远。因为缺钱花，而且想作一些有用的事，于是我便提出了申请，但同时也很担心，因为既没有文凭，又没有教学经验，得到这份工作的可能性是很小的。

6. Einstein was purely and exclusively a theorist. He didn’t have the slightest interest in the practical application of his ideas and theories. His E=MC² is probably the most famous equation in history  yet Einstein wouldn’t walk down the street to see a reactor create atomic energy. He won the Noble Prize for his Photoelectric Theory, a series of equations that he considered relatively minor in importance, but he didn’t have any curiosity in observing how his theory made TV possible. 爱因斯坦完完全全是个理论家。他对自己思想和理论的实际应用丝毫不感兴趣。他提出的E = mc² 也许是有史以来最著名的公式  然而爱因斯坦却不愿费举足之劳去看反应堆产生原子能。他因其光电理论他认为比较英译中 2+8

次要的一系列公式而获得诺贝尔奖金，但对于观察他的理论怎样使得电视得以生产却没有一点好奇心。

7. I knew I had the knowledge, the skill, the experience to handle any surgical situation I'd ever encounter in practice. There was no more butterflies in my stomach when I opened up an abdomen or a chest. I knew that even if the case was one in which it was impossible to anticipate the problem in advance, I could handle whatever I found. 我知道自己的知识、技术和经验足以对付我在开业行医中将会碰到的任何外科病例。当我切开病人的腹部或胸腔时，我不再紧张得瑟瑟发抖了。我知道，即使碰上事先无法预见其问题所在的病历，我也能处置我发现的任何情况。

8. People all over the neighborhood had called to report our screams, and the police turned out in force twenty minutes later. They were ill-tempered about what was, to them, much ado about nothing. After all, Jeremy was hardly hurt, and we were hopeless when it came to identification. "Typical," said one cop when we couldn't even agree on how tall the men were. Both of us were able to describe the guns in horrifying detail, but the two policemen who stayed to make the report didn't think that would be much help. 整个邻近地区的居民早已打电话报告了我们的尖叫声，于是二十分钟后，大批警察来到了现场。对这件在他们看来完全是小题大做的事，他们火气不小。杰罗米毕竟没受到什么伤害，而在谈到歹徒的特征时，我们更是一筹莫展。当我们对歹徒身材有多高也不能取得一致意见时，一个警察说“这很典型”。对于那两枝手枪我们俩反倒能够以令人可怕的细节详加描绘，但留下来准备写案情报告的那两名警察却认为这对破案不会有多大帮助。

9. A clue as to why Americans may have been more honest in the past lies in the Abe Lincoln story. Lincoln knew his customer. They both lived in a small town. Would a check-out person at a large supermarket return money to a customer? It is less likely. 林肯的故事中提供了一个线索，说明为什么过去的美国人也许是比较诚实的。这就是林肯认识他的顾客。他们都住在同一个小镇上。一家大的超级市场的结帐员会把多收的钱还给顾客吗？可能性较小。