新编汉英翻译教程-第五章-篇章与段落.doc

上海男人聪明，务实，有时也相当圆滑…尊重女性。
Shanghai men are smart and practical and even slippery, but what impresses most is that they are aggressive in their career and responsible to their families and respectful to females.

这已经是三年前的事情了。日军才退出……厚两寸，重约一斤。The thing happened three years ago. Shortly after Japanese troops withdrew, I went to Lida School in Jiangwan to inspect the damage, and lingered over that mournful scene for some hours. On the way back I picked up this lump of iron. The ground roundabout Lida School was littered with lumps of iron, some big, some small. I was told they were bomb fragments. The one I picked up was a small one. Measuring roughly six inches across, there inched high and two inches thick. It weight was about a catty.

我当时是接管中央美术学院的代表……“……就是很大的贡献……”I was then the military representative at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. I was told that Baishi was a professor there and that he came to the Academy once a month. Every time he came he would paint a picture as an example for the students to imitate, but some students proposed that his salary should be stopped since he came to infrequently.
“For an artist as old as he is, to come once a month and produce a painting is a great contribution…” I explained.

雨后，院里来了个麻雀，刚长全了羽毛……似乎要脱落下来。
As soon as the rain stopped, a sparrow, almost full-fledged, flew into the courtyard. It hopped around, fluttered at times, darting up to the edged of the flower-pot and back to the ground again. Watching it move up and down liker this a couple of times, I realized that it could not fly any higher as the plumes on its left wing have got twisted, and one is sticking out as if about to come off any moment.
经多种手段检测证实，主坝混凝土防渗墙……少量的混凝土也许凿出。
After checking of Main Dam Concrete Cut-off Wall by many means, it is verified that the concrete strength is lower at several places at the north of the panel NO. 1 and does not meet the design requirement. It was once demolished with the jackhammer by others in accordance with the requirement of the employer. The removal part is 3.2m long at the axis of the Cut-off Wall and is down to the bottom of the panel NO.1. But there still remains a little amount of concrete to be chiseled.

信息技术引发的商业模式的变革，……这种理性的响应而引起广泛的共鸣。
In the past few years, the transform of business mode brought by information technology took on a rapid development trend. The economic running mode featured by electronic commerce improves rapidly by the impulse of technology. During the last year, the boiling debating on media on electronic commerce began to calm down. In the background of the global economic declining, the industry went more and more sensible and practical. Therefore, more theory discussion brought wide resonance as response to this sense.

当前最重要的任务是发张国民经济，……强大的社会主义国家。
Our primary task at present is to develop national economy and promote the living standards of the people. Therefore, we must reform the old economic system so as to further liberate productive forces. Moreover, we should be open to the outside world so that we can learn advanced science and technology from other countries. And we are sure to build China into a powerful socialist century so long as we stick to the reform and opening policy.

在四川西部……它就是松潘县的黄龙。
one of Sichuan’s fine sports is Huanglong, which lies in Song Pan County just beneath Xuebao, the main peak of the Minshan Mountain. It has lush green forests filled with fragrant flowers, bubbing streams and songbirds.
是不是还要问问我家里有没有一些财产？……岂不是叫那些富翁们齿冷三天。
Dear readers, maybe you wish to known if I have any private property at home. Just a minute! Let me see… Ah, here it is but nothing much though. I have left my wife for safekeeping a few changes of used underwear and a few pairs of socks with mended soles, all of which I used to wear last summer. She has now put them away in a remote mountain valley to prevent them from being stolen in case of Kuomintang attack, so that I may wear them again this summer. These are all the property I have to my name. but wouldn’t the declaration of my family treasures make myself an object of lively ridicule to the rich?

太湖明珠无锡……能领略水乡的民俗风情。
Like a bridge pearl set on the Taihu Lake and situated in the center od the beautifule and fertile Changjiang Delta id southern Jiangsu Province, Wuxi is one of China’s major tourist cities, with its pleasant climate, rich natural resources and picturesque scenery. Cutting through the city is the Beijing-Hhangzhou Grand Canal, an ancient project equal in fame to the Great Wall. A trip along the river will enable the visitor to know the custom and life style of the local people.

我睁大了眼……像是有人在叩门。
Eyes wide open now, I became immersed in thought. A multitude of facts dance4d randomly before my eyes, whilst in my ears, a cacophony of voice fought to be heard. Then, suddenly, everything vanished, and there was that little tap, tap, tapping again, coming from over by the window, as if someone was knocking at the door.

世上万千生物活过又死去……永恒，已经存在我的生命里了。
Everything seems to want to live forever. Consciously or unconsciously, all aspire to the joke of eternity. Not I: I have had my eternity. So0 in fact has everything, even if only for a second. A second on earth is enough to know it all.
那是动乱的第二年吧……跟个傻子一般。
In the second of those tumultuous year, I was labeled one of the “reactionary gang”. What I feared most was not being forced to queue up among this gang of so many, but the vicious practice of being publicly denounced on a truck in front of my own house. Well, fear or no fear, the lot of fell on me soon enough. When the truck drove to the gate of my house, my mother, who was already in her eighties, spotted me on the truck. With lips trembling and eyes shut, she first leaned against the wall, then collapsed, weak and limp, like soft mud on the ground. Meanwhile, my wife just stood there dumbfounded like a blockhead, forgetting even to help my mother up.

这事到了现在……并增长了我的希望和勇气。
Even now, this remains fresh in my memory. It often causes me distress, and makes me try to think about myself. The military and political affairs of those years I have forgotten as completely as the classics I read in my childhood. Yet this incident keeps coming back to me, often more vivid than in actual life, teaching me shame, urging me to reform, and giving

我看那边月台的栅栏外有几个买东西的等着顾客。走到那边月台，须穿过铁道，须穿过铁道，须跳下去又爬上去。父亲是个胖子，走过去自然要费事些。我本来要去的，他不肯，只好让他去。
I caught sight of several vendors waiting for customers outside the railings beyond a platform. But to reach that platform would require crossing the railway track and doing some climbing up and down. That would be a strenuous job for father who was fat. I wanted to do all that myself, but he stopped me, so I could do nothing but let him go.

河姆渡遗址是全国重点文物保护单位…距今约6000-7000年。Known both in China and abroad as a famous New Stone Age archeological site, the Hemudu Site is under state protection. It is located northeast of the village of Hemudu in the township of Luojiang of Yuyao City in eastern Zhenjiang province and covers an area of 40,000 square meters. Excavation of the site’s four overlapping culture layers of the New Stone Age that have been found in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the entire southeast coast of China. They trace back to between 6000 and 7000 years ago.

笼里养着两只母鸡，一只爱唱歌，一只喜静…一声不响的离开鸡窝，由那只唱鸡在蛋边大喊大叫。
There were two hens in a coop. One was found of cackling while the other like to keep quiet. As it is customary for a hen to cackle after laying an egg, the chicken raiser accordingly credited the cackler with all the eggs that had been laid. As a result, he became so practical to his favorite bird that he fed her with every cock-roach he caught. With the passing of time, however, it became known that the cackler had in fact laid very few eggs while the non-cackler kept laying one egg a day. Every time, as soon as the latter laid an egg, she quit the coop quietly, leaving the former standing by the newly laid egg shouting and yelling her head off.

但是，朔方的雪花在纷飞之后……而且升腾地闪烁
But the snowflakes that fall in the north remain to the last like powder or sand and never hold together, whether scattered on roofs, the ground or the withered grass. The warmth from the stoves inside has melted some of the snow on the roofs. As for the rest, when a whirlwind springs up under a clear sky, it flies up wildly, glittering in the sunlight like thick mist around a flame, revolving and rising till it fills the sky, and the whole sky glitters as it whirls and rises.

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