综英翻译

Unit1

1、There's virtually none left.

几乎没人留下。（virtually）

2、Our understanding of this event alone cannot help us to find a solution.

光靠我们对这件事的认识是不能找到答案的。（understand)

3、Given he is a foreigner here, he possibly cannot get to the destination without trouble.

他是外国人，应该是不会顺利达到目的地的。（given）

4、On my way home, a good idea came to my mind.

在回家的路上我突然想到一个好主意。（come to one’s mind)

5、He claims that he is a British, therefore an awful cook.

他声称他是个英国人，所以厨艺很差。(awful)

6、These facts were deliberately exploited by the advertisers in order to attract the audience’s attention.

这些都是广告商特意而为，用以吸引读者的注意。

7、Is she endorsing these messages or dissociating herself from them?

她对这些信息是赞成，还是反对？

8、What is communicated generally goes well beyond what is linguistically encoded. 交流中传达的意思往往会远远超出语言所能表达的。

Unit2

1、The police said they were very concerned about the boy’s safety.

警方说他们非常担心那个男孩的安全。

2、Beauty times brains equals a constant.

漂亮乘以智力等于一个常数。

3、What is more, beautiful people, even if of the same sex, are assumed also to possess certain desirable traits.

此外，即使外表漂亮的人与我们性别相同，我们也会认为他们具有某些可取的特点。

4、Children and young adults who are attractive tend to have higher self-esteem. 有吸引力的孩子或年轻人往往比别人更有自尊。

5、Actually, attractiveness is whatever the people of any given place and time find attractive.

其实，美是指人们在某一特定地点、特定时间觉得可爱的任何东西。

Unit3

1、The housing prices in China’s big cities hit record high.

中国各大城市房价创历史新高。(record)

2、We should take the fact as a basis and the law as a criterion.

我们应该以事实为依据，以法律为准绳。(take…as)

3、There are many inconsistencies in your proposal.

你的提议中有许多前后矛盾的地方。(inconsistency)

4、To the students, shoplifting is dishonest; writing a couple of math formulas on their hand is not.

在学生看来，扒窃商品是不诚实的，而写几个数学公式在手上却不是。

5、The approach serves a dual purpose: It fosters conceptual thinking and makes crib sheets and peeking useless.

这种方法有一箭双雕的作用：既培养了学生的概念思维能力，又使得夹带纸条和偷看无济于事。

Unit5

1、Many people are believers in their own immunity to advertising.

许多人相信自己对广告具有免疫力。(immunity to)

2、Ads are designed to have an effect while being laughed, belittled, and all but ignored.

广告设计就是要使他们起作用，哪怕遭人嘲笑，贬低，或者几乎被置子不理。(all but) 3、A person unaware of advertising ‘s influence on him is precisely the one most vulnerable to the adman’s attack.

一个意识不到广告对自己有影响的人恰恰是最容易被广告商打动的人。(precisely)

4、They balance on the narrow line between truth and falsehood by a careful choice of words.

它们依靠精心选择的措词，在真实与谎言之间走钢丝。(falsehood)

5、Words or claims that appear substantial at first glance but disintegrate into hollow meaninglessness on analysis are weasels.

那些乍一看有实质内容，但是推敲起来却空洞无物的语句或广告词被称为“鼬鼠”型广告词。

Unit7

1、He was desperate for work to provide food for his children.

他渴望得到一份工作使他可以养活孩子。(desperate)

2、The U. S. A government decided to open up trade with China.

美国政府决定和中国发展贸易。(open up)

3、The company’s directors are accused of abrogating their responsibilities. 公司董事因放弃其责任而受到指责。(abrogate)

4、I thought it was a good idea, but now I don’t think it will pan out.

我原以为这是好主意，但现在我认为这行不通。(pan out)

5、We must ensure that we do not set ourselves goals that are not attainable. 我们必须保证自己不去确定那些无法实现的目标。(attainable)

6、What I mean by ambition is dreaming big dreams, putting no limits on your expectations and your hopes.

我所说的雄心是指远大的理想，尽情地期盼，满怀着希望。

7、You can do one thing whole-heartedly and single-mindedly and give up some other things.

你可以全心全意、专心致志地做一件事情，放弃其他事情。

8、I don’t pretend that there is room in my life for any and every kind of ambition

I can imagine.

我不自认为在我的一生中，只要我能想象到的任何梦想，我都有余力去追求。

Unit9