英语考试翻译重点句子整理

Lesson 1

3. By and large, we now view them as more or less benign, and often talk with admiration and appreciation about the cultures associated with them and what they have given to the world. And it is fairly safe to do this, because none of them now poses much of a threat.

总的来说，我们现在或多或少地把这些语言看作有利的语言。在谈到与之相关的文化及其为世界所做的贡献时，我们常怀有崇敬与赞赏，而且这样做也没有太大的风险，因为这些语言现在已不会构成什么威胁。

4. Yet many people see English as a blessing. Let me leave aside here the obvious advantages possessed by any world language, such as a large communicative network, a strong literary and media complex, and a powerful cultural and educational apparatus.

然而，许多人把英语看成是一件幸事。在此，我暂且不谈任何世界语言所具有的明显优势，例如广泛的交流网，强大的文化传媒体系，及强有力的文化教育机构。

5. English-speaking South Africans of British descent were not particularly strong in opposing the apartheid regime, and the black opposition, whose members had many languages, was at first weak and disorganized.

讲英语的南非英国后裔并不强烈反对种族隔离政权，而讲多种语言的黑人反对力量却处于软弱无力且缺乏组织的初期。

6. Such symbolism suggests that the users of the world's lingua franca should seek to benefit as fully as possible from the blessing and as far as possible avoid invoking the curse.

这一象征表明这种世界通用语的使用者应充分发掘这一幸事为我们带来的好处,同时尽能避免招来灾难。

Lesson 2

1.The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.I had been rejected,but I was still in love.

苹果公司发生的这些事情丝毫的没有改变这一点。我被驱逐了,但是我仍然钟爱

我所做的事情。

2.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,less sure about everything,It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

可以很确定的是，作为成功者的压力感被作为创业者的轻松感所取代，这把我从束缚中解放出来,进入了我生命中最有创造力的阶段。

3.It was awful tasting medicine,but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick . Don’t lose faith.

良药虽苦口,但我认为病人需要它。有时候,人生会给你当头一棒的打击。不要失去信念。

4.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked .There is no reason not to follow your heart.

我所知道的避免这种总认为自己还有东西可以继续输的思维陷阱的最好方法是时刻铭记你将要死去。你已经输得精光，再没有理由不去追寻你的信念。

5.Your time is limited,so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.don’t the trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice.

你的时间有限,所以不要浪费时间去过别人的生活。不要被信条所惑——盲从信条是活在别人思维下的结果。不要让别人的观点淹没了你内心的声音。

Lesson 6

2. But neither the late 1990s boom nor the subsequent bust had much impact in either direction, indicating that the state of worker happiness goes much deeper than the swings of the economy.

但无论是20世纪90年代后期的经济繁荣，还是随之而来的经济萧条，都没有对员工的工作态度产生太大影响。这表明影响工人幸福感的原因远比经济形势的变化更深层。