大学英语四六级翻译练习题

1.Historically, city life has always been among the elements which form a civilization.2.Many of his ideas are especially interesting to modern youth.3.Federally funded training and free back-to-school programs for laid-off workers are under way, but few experts believe theywill be able to keep up with the pace of the new technology.4.From agreement on this general goal, we have, unfortunately, in the past proceeded to disagreement on specific goals, and fromthere to total inaction.5.This will be particularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continue agriculture in the high energy Americanfashion that makes it possible to combine few farmers with high yield6.But one basic difference of opinion concerns the question of whether or not the city as such is to be preserved.7.Behaviorists, in contrast, say that differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of theeducational and environmental advantages that whites enjoy.8.In spite of the fact that his initial experiments had failed, Prof. White persisted in his research.9.Nobody knows for sure, but most experts think it will soon be difficult to obtain sufficient electricity from these source.10.It is the uses to which television is put that determine its value to society.11.Moreover, inaccurate or indefinite words may make it difficult for the listeners to understand the message which is beingtransmitted to him.12.But we must bear in mind that the great proportion of books, plays and films which come before the censor are very far frombeing “works of art”.13.Such teenagers harbor a generalized resentment against society, which denies them the rights and privileges of adults, althoughphysically they are mature.14.There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred to by the term (intelligence) than there is on how to interpret orclassify them.15.In the long run, there is not doubt that everybody would be much better off if smoking were banned altogether, but people arenot ready for such drastic action.16.Y oung scientist cannot realize too soon that existing scientific knowledge is not nearly so complete, certain and unalterable asmany textbooks seem to imply.17.Some people argue that now that women claim, they no longer need to be treated differently from men.18.He (TV viewer) is completely passive and has everything presented to him without any effort on his part.19.Most people think neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior.20.In our travels, we did not find the power of women as pervasive in the communes as in the cities.1.We hope the measures to control prices, as they have been taken by the government will succeed.2.The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind; it issimply the mode by which all phenomena are reasoned about and given precise and exact explanation.3.Moreover, technology includes techniques, or ways to do things, as well as the machines that may or may not be necessary toapply them.4.They do not have to pay for expensive seats at the theatre, the cinema or the opera, only to discover, perhaps, that the show isdisappointing.5.The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter ofproducing and marketing food.6.Science moves forward, they say, not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary thingthings like improved techniques as tools7.He knows little of mathematics, and still less of chemistry.8.All they have to do is press a button, and they can see plays, films, operas and shows of every kind, not to mention politicaldiscussion and the latest exciting football match.9.There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take, any more than they can limit how much water you drink.10.It seems, then, that these two branches of science are mutually dependent and interacting, and that the so-called divisionbetween the pure scientist and the applied scientist is more apparent than real.11.It is no less than blackmail to ask such a high price.12.Y our success was due to nothing else than your own diligence.13.It is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principles of their construction or manner ofworking; but that the latter is much finer apparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement than the former.14.Plants which refine crude ores are often located in countries other than those in which the crude ores are mined.15.She would be the last person to go along with scheme.16.We cannot be too faithful to our duties.17.It is asserted / It is reported / It is supposed / It is told / It is believed / It is considered。