高级英语前六课翻译

1.Simile(明喻)①The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade② The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.③ Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them④ ……and blow-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.2．Metaphor(暗喻)①We can batten down and ride it out…②Wind and rain now whipped the house.③Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.....④Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi.....3.Personification(拟人)①A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof of the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.② It seized a 600,00-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away4. Transferred Epithet(移就)Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.1.Sarcasm(讽刺)①Hiroshima-------the “Liveliest ”City in Japan.(Tibet)②If you write about this city, do not forget to say that it is the gayest city in Japan, even if many of the town’s people still bear hidden wounds, and burns.2．Alliteration(头韵)①…as the fastest train in the w orld slipped to a stop in the Hiroshima Station.② I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me.3.Metaphor(暗喻)①And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say.②The usher bowed deeply and heaved a long, almost musical sigh, when I showed him theinvitation which the mayor had sent me in response to my request for an interview.4.Synecdoche(提喻)The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.5.Metonymy(转喻)The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige con crete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.6.Onomatopoeia(拟声)Just as I was beginning to find the ride long, the taxi screeched to a halt, and the driver got out and went over to a policeman to ask the way.7.Parallelism(排比)……and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the first atomic bombardment, where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony.8.Anti-climax(渐降)Seldom has a city gained such world-renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its------oysters.9.Climax(渐升）No one talks about it any more, and no one want to, especially, the people who were born here or who lived through it.10.Euphemism(委婉语)Everyday that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird ,and e add it to the others.11．Rhetorical Question（修辞疑问句）Was I not at the scene of the crime?1.Sarcasm（讽刺）①Earlier she had dispatch her maid on an invented errand and, cruelly, instructed the moonfaced male secretary ---who was terrified of dogs---to exercise the Bedlington terriers②The house detective’s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jeweled face.1.Hyperbole(夸张)①The trail that rocked the world②Now i was involved in a trail reported the world over.2.Sarcasm(讽刺)①Bryan,ageing and paunchy,was assisted in his prosecution by his son②My friend the attorney general says that john scopes knows what he is here for③He did not say a cat was the same as a man?④There is some doubt about that⑤The Christian believes that man come from above.the evolutionist believes that man come from below.⑥Mr Byran,with passionate spirit and enthusiasm,has given most of his life to politics.⑦Bryan mopped his bald dome in science.3.Irony(反讽)…Until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century4.Pun(双关)…DARWIN IS RIGHT INSIDE…5.Oxymoron(矛盾修饰法)①mrching backwards②victorious defeat6.Transferred Epithet(移就)… Darrow had whispered,throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder7.Synecdoche(提喻)The case had erupted round my head not lon after.8.Antithesis(对照)The Christian believes that man come from above.the evolutionist believes that man come from below.9.Alliteration(头韵)Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when…1. Irony(反讽)①I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer②It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius,uncompromisingly inimical to man,had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them,③It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of honor.2. Sarcasm(讽刺)①Obviously,if there were architects of professional sense or dignity in the region,they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides…②They are incomparable in color,and they are incomparable in design.3.Ridicule(嘲讽)①When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of the egg long past all hope of caring②…they made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painteda staring yellow,on top of it.4.Understatement(低调陈述)The country itself is not uncomely,despite the grime of the endless mills.5.Antonomasia(换称)Safe in a pullman,I have whirled through the gloomy.6.Antithetical Contrast(反衬对比)①Here Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever see on the earth ---and there was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre.②Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination--and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.7. Hyperbole(夸张)①What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight②From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye.③But in Westmoreland they prefer that uremic yellow, and so they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye.④I have seen, I believe, all of the most unlovely towns of the world; they are all to be found in the United States⑤I t is as if some titanic and aberrant genius , uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them.8.Metaphor（暗喻）①Here was the very heart of industrial America,②...on their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud③And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks.④The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning⑤Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.9. Simile（明喻）①…one blinks before a man with his face shot away②…a crazy little church just west of Jeannette, set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare leprous hill③…a steel stadium like a huge rattrap somewhere further down the line10. Rhetorical Question（修辞疑问句）①But what have they done?②Was it necessary to adopt that shocking color?③Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners--dull, insensate brutes, with no love of beauty in them?④Then why didn't these foreigners set up similar abominations in the countries that they came from?1. Simile（明喻）①Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idylliccruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.②……together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic,2. Metaphor（暗喻）①Mark Twain-Mirror of America②……who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.③…main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart.④He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe region3. Sarcasm（讽刺）1）….I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.2）…one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night.4. Alliteration(头韵)1）The cast of the characters set before him in his new profession was reach and varied----a cosmos.2)…for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloth stayed at home…3) It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprisesand rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences…5.Antithesis(对照)1）…of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are2)Casually he debunked revered artists and art treasures, and took unholy verbal shots at theHoly Land3) …a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.6.Hyperbole(夸张)1) Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idylliccruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer offreedom and adventure.2) America laughed with him.7. Metonymy（转喻）1）…but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.2）Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles…..8. Euphemism（委婉语）1）…he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men’s finalrelease from earthly struggles….1.Understatement （低调陈述）We were anchored in what used to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia, but asI looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak2.Personification （拟人）①Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand---as far as I could see in all directions.②Now it is disappearing because the water that used to feed it has been diverted in an illconsidered irrigation scheme to grow cotton in the desert.③…with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky…、… and a nuclear submarine hovered in the water below. After it crashed throu gh the ice, took on its new passengers, and resubmerged…3. Hyperbole (夸张)Like the population explosion, the scientific and technological revolution began to speed slowly during the 18th century.4.Metaphor (暗喻)1）…the tunnel he was digging through time.2) On some nights, in high northern latitudes, the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance now in progress.3) What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky?4) …or the new constancy of public debate over what to do with growing mountains of waste.5. Metonymy ( 转喻)Two and a half years later I slept under the midnight sun at the other end ofour planet, in a small tent pitched on a twelve-foot-thick slab of ice floating inthe frigid Arctic Ocean.6. Analogy ( 类比)But one doesn’t have to travel around the world to witness humankind’s assault on the earth. 7.Irony ( 反讽)The new shoreline was almost forty kilometers across the sand from where the fishing fleet was now permanently docked. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Muynak the people were still canning fish---brought not from the Aral Sea but shipped by rail through Siberia from the Pacific Ocean, more than a thousand miles away.8.Parallelism （排比）… but in the air above every country, above Anta rctica, above the North Pole and the Pacific Ocean --- all the way from the surface of the earth to the top of the sky.1. Alliteration ( 头韵)1）I see also the dull , drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like aswarm of crawling locusts.2) …just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free menand free peoples in every quarter of the globe.2. Repetition (重复)1）From this nothing will turn us ---nothing.2) The Russian danger is the refore our danger , and the danger of the United States…3)…just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free menand free peoples in every quarter of the globe.1）We have but one aim and one sight, irrevocable purpose.2) We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.i3) … that process of destroying his enemies one by which he has so long thrived andprospered…3.Parallelism ( 排比)1）I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land .I see them guarding their homes where mothers and wives pary…I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil…I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine…I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery…I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky…2) Behind this entire glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men whoplan, organize, and la unch this cataract of horrors upon mankind….3)We shall fight him by land , we shall fight him by sea ,we shall fight him in the air…4) That is our policy and that is our declaration.5) Let us learn the lessons…let us redouble our exention…4. Antithesis ( 对照)Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid . Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.5. Metaphor ( 暗喻)1）I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land …2) Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men who plan , organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind….6. Simile ( 明喻)… brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 7．Paradox(悖论)It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty and ferocious aggression.8.Hyperbole(夸张)If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the house of Commons9Rhetorical Question(修辞疑问句)….but can you doubt what our policy will be ?10periodic sentence(圆周句)1）Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.2）….if Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the sligh test divergence of aims or slackening of effort in the great democracies who are resolved upon his doom, he iswoefully mistaken.11.onomatopoeia (拟声)…with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officer…。