英汉翻译练习题（2）

英汉翻译练习题（2） 《英汉翻译》练习题（2） 夜大06英语本科 Omission-pronoun 1. He was thin and haggard and he looked miserable. 2. But it's the way I am, and try as I might, I haven't been able to change it. 3. They had ground him beneath their heel, they had taken the best of him, they had murdered his father, they had broken and wrecked his wife, they had crushed his whole family. 4. Laura wished now that she was not holding that piece of bread-and-butter, but there was nowhere to put it and she couldn't possibly throw it away. 5. We live and learn. 6. You can never tell. 7. Everywhere you can find new types of men and objects in New China. 8. Even as the doctor was recommending rest, he knew that this in itself was not enough, that one could never get real rest without a peaceful mind. 9. The more he tried to hide his warts, the more he revealed them. 10. She laid her hand lightly on his arm as if to thank him for it. 11. In fact, Hitler's "blitz" carried him so far, to the very gate of Leningrad by September, a city he was never to seize. 12. So the train came, he pinched his little sister lovingly, and put his great arms about his mother's neck and then was away. 13. She went, with her neat figure, and her sober womanly step down the dark street. 14. She felt the flowers were in her fingers, on her lips, growing in her breast. 15. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. 16.Outside it was pitch dark and it was raining cats and dogs. 17. He glanced at his watch; it was 7:15. 18. It was just growing dark, as she shut the garden gate. 19. It was only then that I began to have doubts whether my story would ever be told. 20. It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house. Passive Voice 21. The sense of inferiority that he acquired in his youth has never been totally eradicated. 22. On their domestic stations events in the Middle East were dismissed briefly. 23. By the end of the war 800 people had been saved by the organization, but at a cost of 200 Belgian and French lives. 24. It would be astonishing if that loss were not keenly felt. 25. Mr. Billings cannot be deterred from his plan. Repetition 26. They began to study and analyze the situation of the enemy. 27. He became an oil baron - all by himself. 28. This has been our position - but not theirs. 29. The story of Jurgis is a story of groans and tears, of poor human beings destroyed by the capitalist industrial machine. 30. We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange. 31. We talked of ourselves, of our prospects, of the journey, of the weather, of each other - of everything but our host and hostess. 32. And the body lay white and still beneath the pines, all bathed in sunshine and in blood. 33. He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength. 34. He supplied his works not only with biographies, but with portraits of their supposed authors. 35. But his wife kept dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. 36. They wanted to determine if he complied with the terms of his employment and his obligations as an American. 37. He wandered about in the chill rain, thinking and thinking,brooding and brooding. 38. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace-but there is no peace. 39. He demanded total loyalty, not loyalty in the traditional sense, not positive loyalty, but total loyalty, not just to office or party, or concept, but loyalty first and foremost to Lyndon Johnson. 40. Blood must atone for blood. Diction 41. He likes mathematics more than physics. 42. In the sunbeam passing through the window there are fine grains of dust shining like gold, 43. Like knows like. 44. He is the last man to come. 45. He is the last man to do it. 46. He is the last person for such a job. 47. He should be the last (man) to blame. 48. He is the last man to consult. 49.This is the last place where I expected to meet you. 50.The arbiter will have the last say in resolving this dispute. Amplification 51.In the films of those days, all too often it was the same one: boy tractor driver meets girl tractor driver; they fall in love and drive tractors together. 52.He was fascinated by the political processes – the wheeling and dealing of presidential politics, the manipulating, releasing and leaking of news, the public and private talks. 53.Mary washed for a living after her husband died of acute pneumonia. 54.Day after day he came to his work –sweeping, scrubbing, cleaning. 55.First you borrow, then you beg. 56.This typewriter is indeed cheap and fine. 57. A new kind of aircraft - small, cheap, pilotless - is attracting increasing attention.