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翻译练习册英译汉练习I．Sentences for TranslationDiction1. Needing some light to see by, the burglar crossed the room with a light step to light the light with the light green shade.2. " I got on horseback within ten minutes after I got your letter. When I got to Canterbury, I gota chaise for town, but I got wet through, and have got such a cold that I shall not get rid of it in a hurry. I got to the Treasury about noon, but first of all got shaved and dressed. I soon got into the secret of getting a memorial before the Board, but I could not get an answer then; however I got intelligence from a messenger that I should get one next morning...3. Accession shall be subject to approval of two-third vote of the Directors of the Governing Body.4. Subject to the fulfillment of other formalities, they shall be granted all necessary permits.5. Payments are subject to change in keeping with inflation.6. Before it begins to work, the yeast is subject to disruption caused by fluctuations in temperature.7. Perhaps this is the very mechanism of the creators of our nation who hold these truths to be self-evident.8. And, again as a result of the development of modern technology, mechanism in philosophy became an upstart.9. Under capitalism drug and alcohol are used by some as an escape mechanism.10. The two model variants of the socialist economic mechanism are to be distinguished from the point of view of market function.111. But people are apt to marvel at an ingenious mechanism and obliterate the man who makes it.12. The mechanism of the process, slow and delicate , often escapes our attention.Conversion1.Such news was no joke.2.Her sighs made it clear she was unhappy.3.Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times.4.Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy.5.He stood watching her go down the street with a slow, self-satisfied sway of herbody.6.There is a limit to one’s youth, but no limit to his wisdom. Draw on the limitlesswisdom during the short span of youth.7.In the British system, a parliamentary election also determines who shall bePrime Minister, but the American Constitution provides for separate election of President and Congress.8.She cast impatient glances at the footpath.9.We have decided to place a trial order for the following on the terms stated inyour letter.10.Lower temperatures are associated with lower growth rate.11.Please let us know if our terms are acceptable.12.Kindly give our claims your prompt attention and let us have your remittance indue course.13.The new contract would be good for 5 years.14.There are many wonderful stories to tell about the places I visited and the peopleI met.15.Today has seen the practical fulfillment of the historic decision taken on 252October 1971, when the General Assembly voted to restore to the People’s Republic of China its lawful rights in this organization.Passive Construction1.Illnesses must be correctly diagnosed before they can be treated with medicine.2.Principles mean very little unless they are acted up.3.Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.4.Their friendship was turned to enmity through idle gossips.5.We were informed that the damage had been caused by rough handling when thegoods were being loaded on board the ship at the dock.6.Buyer’s request for insurance to be covered up to the inland city can be acceptedon condition that such extra premium is for buyer’s account.7.Chinese, overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao, and foreign personnel of thecompany are requested to pay individual income tax in accordance with Chinese tax laws and regulations.Addition and Omission1.He made sincere apologies to each of the teacher.2.“Impossible” is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.3.We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than toconsume wealth without producing it.4.Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, ifever, do they forgive them.ter, Churchill told me that such hesitations were really rare.6.Then I thanked my host and walked down the broad lawn, back to the meadowand the sparkling brook, where I lay on the grass and fell into a sweet sleep.7.Lenin stressed that it is precisely the people who create history.38.It was for your benefit that we decided to return.9.She was sweet and amiable and kindly again.Division and Combination1.I am going to see my grandmother, who was ill in bed, to take her some butterand eggs and a fresh baked cake that my mother has made for her.2.The cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door, who askedBrittle, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear.3.But as the song surged up in increasing loudness, even the most timid lost theirfear and joined in, and all the things that King had said at the meeting in the ballroom, things that they hadn’t believed or had only half be lieved, became suddenly and powerfully true.4.The Civil War, lasting four years and costing at least a million lives, civilian andmilitary, was the most extensive war ever fought on the soil of the New World, a war that proved to the planters in a revolutionary way that human beings in America could no longer be bought or sold, worked and killed at will to serve the profit of parasitic landowners.Negation1.She earns a good salary, so she shouldn’t be badly off.2.Unless it goes hand in hand with science, democracy will have no future.3.To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.4.Let bygones be bygones.5.First catch your hare and then cook it.6. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.7.This problem can never be taken too seriously.8.Don’t be af raid of calling a spade a spade even when it comes to your boss.49.In the absence of a settlement through negotiation, the case under dispute can besubmitted to arbitration.10.As soon as you get the license, please don’t fail to cable us.11.We regret our inability to accept your claim because the cases, when beingloaded, left nothing to be desired.12.Some of our export commodities are still awash with problems: low technicalnature, lower quality and grade.II. Texts for Translation1. British newspapers—all of them some of the time, and some of them almost 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.2. A new era is upon us. Call it what you will: the service economy, the information age, and the knowledge society. It all translates to a fundamental change in the way we work. Already we’re partly there. The percentage of people who earn their living by maki ng things has fallen dramatically in the “industrialized world”. Today the majority of jobs in the United States, Europe and Japan (two thirds or more in many of these countries) are in the service sector, and the number is on the rise. More women are in the workforce than ever before. There are more part—time jobs. More people are self—employed. But the breadth of the economic transformation can’t be gauged by numbers alone, because it also is giving rise to a radical new way of thinking about the nature of work itself. Long—held assumptions about jobs and5careers, the skills needed to succeed, even the relationship between individuals and employers—all these are being challenged.We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead. No one looking ahead 20 years ago possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the microchip, would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers, digital communications and factory robots. Tomorrow’s break through in biotechnology, artificial intelligence or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of innovations. But one thing is certain: information and knowledge will become even more vital, and the people who possess it, whether they work in manufacturing or services, will have the advantage and produce the wealth. Computer literacy will become as basic a requirement as the ability to read and write. The ability to solve problems by applying information instead of pursuing rote task will be valued above all else.3. We all want every human being to be able to enjoy a reasonable standard of living, but conventional belief is that this can be achieved by economic development. The snag is that you cannot have economic growth without further increasing the exploitation of natural resources. The world’s ecology is finite. It is an inescapable fact that long—term survival depends on keeping a balance between economic growth and the sustainable exploitation of the world’s dwindling natural resou rces. This is going to be difficult enough to achieve, but it will be quite impossible if the national and international aid agencies only invest in economic development, and leave the conservation of natural resources and help for population control to voluntary agencies.4. There will be a change to cooler weather. Monday will be cloudy with some rain in the North and the West but sunshine and showers elsewhere. As a deep depression6moves into northern Scotland on Tuesday rain will spread across all areas with strengthening winds. During Wednesday and Thursday it will be brighter with blustery showers, which could give some snow over Scottish mountains. By then it will be noticeably cooler and fresher in all parts of the country. Further rain and strong winds will continue into the weekend.5. Washington, December 2 (Xinhua)—President George Bush's approval rating with Americans has fallen below 50 per cent for the first time since he took office, according to a poll released on Saturday by Time magazine. The poll of 500 Americans conducted on November 26 found Bush’s popularity at 46 per cent. Bush’s rating was as high as 91 per cent in some polls during the January—February Gulf War but has steadily declined because of the country’s economic recess ion.6. Ada is a new computer language that is still being designed. It is sponsored by the US Department of Defense (DOD). Ada is called after a “friend” of Charles Babage, who pioneered computers. It will probably become the DOD’s standard for programming the computers built into its weapon system. Some people believe that Ada could also replace every other computer language but one (Cobol) in civilian use. When all the US’s military computer “speak” Ada, other NATO countries will have to follow suit. But the language will be just as suitable for controlling all sorts of equipment——from production Lines and robots to communication networks.Ada’s strong point is that it takes in many of the techniques of designing computer language that engineers have perfected over the last ten years. In particular, Ada programs will be “portable” from one computer to another, and engineers will be able to combine them as easily as bolting Meccano together.Programs on general-Purpose computers have to be run w ith “job control” commands that perform housekeeping duties like making sure that the correct files7of data are available. The commands usually amount to a language in their own right and differ from computer to computer. Scientists will be investigating whether Ada can be used as a job control, as well as a programming language.7. A father is busy putting decorations on the Christmas tree but as quickly as he puts them on his two-year-old son pulls them off. He is about to put the child in a playpen when his wife suggests that it might make more sense to put the tree in the play-pen and leave the child outside. Instead of keeping the child away from the tree one can keep the tree away from the child. Lateral thinking involves moving sideways to look at things in a different way. Instead of fixing on one particular approach and then working forward from that the lateral thinker tries to find other approaches.You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. A committee that is convinced that parking meters are the only way to control city parking will spend its time deciding what meters to use, where to put them and how to patrol them. A lateral thinker would look at other approaches: letting people park anywhere they liked so long as they left their headlights on; giving people licenses which would allow them to park free in town on only one day a week and so encouraging car sharing; visible licenses that the motorist would pay for if he wanted to park anywhere in town.Our thinking traditions are very firmly based on logical thinking in which we start off with a certain way of looking at things and then see what we can deduce from that. This can be called vertical thinking since it involves building on what is accepted as traditional. Vertical thinking is for using ideas and lateral thinking is for changing them.Most of our thinking does not take place at the logical stage but at the perceptual stage which precedes this. Lateral thinking is to do with changing8perceptions and finding new ways of looking at things. Lateral thinking is the practical process of creativity. There are various deliberate techniques such as the use of stepping stones (produced, for instance, by reversing the usual situation). Lateral thinking turns creativity into a tool. In a patterning system such as the mind provocation is as important as analysis－and more important for changing ideas.8. London--Unemployment in the United Kingdom topped 10％of the workforce in April，producing anguished new complaints from British labor and industry.The April figures showed an increase in registered joblessness to a seasonally adjusted 2,466,000 persons from 2,380,800 the previous month and 1,456,200 the year earlier. The unemployment rate rose to l0.1 from 9.9％in March and 6％a year ago，the Department of Employment said.Len Murray，General Secretary of Trades Union Congress，the British labor confederation，said the“figures set another dismay and depressing post-World War II record．”The Confederation of British Industry，a major employer group, described the jobless rise as a“matter of both regret and concern.”The CBI said it already has predicted that the number of unemployed will rise to three million by the end of the year.9. CARACAS，May l8（Reuter via Xinhua）--Foreign ministers and top representatives from l22 developing nations meet today to define their relations with industrialized countries and outline formulas for international co-operation.Thirty-five foreign ministers from t he“group of 77”developing nations will be present and other member-countries are expected to be represented by high-level non-ministerial delegations at the two-day meeting.Over the past week，working commissions of the group have analyzed common9objectives on raw materials，energy ，trade，development，finance，exchange of technology，and industrialization.The Group of 77 was set up as an informal grouping within the United nations in 1964．It works closely with the UN Conference on Trade and Development （UNCTAD）to promote trade. The number of member-countries has since grown.The commissions，whose members include countries in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries（OPEC），agreed on a meeting of state-owned energy companies in Vienna next year.The group of 77 favors setting up its own multinational energy companies.The two-day meeting in Caraballeda，near Caracas，will be opened by Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins.汉译英练习1.人际关系有时候，在工作中重要的倒是能否处理好人际关系而不是有多大的才能。