成人学士学位英语翻译练习.doc

英译汉
1. Safety experts say the problem is neither money not technology, but the indifference of a country that just will not take fires seriously enough.
安全专家说，问题既不是钱，也不是技术。而是全国的漠不关心：不愿足够认真的对待火灾。
2. There are as many different library services as there are types of people who use them.
图书馆的服务种类之多,足以满足不同使用者的需要.
3. April Fool’s Day thus developed into an international fun feat, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at expense of their friends and families
结果四月份的愚人节发展成为国际性的娱乐行为。也就是说，不同的民族用他们特有的幽默感来捉弄朋友和家人。
4. This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
人类学家认为我们应当独立地、不带任何阶级观念地去看各种文化。对语言的这一研究反过来使我们对这一主张有了新的认识。
5. If one considers the enormous variety of courses offered, it is not hard to see how difficult it is to select the course most suited to his interests and abilities.
如果一个人考虑众多供其选择的课程，就不难理解要选一门非常适合他能力和兴趣的课程有多难。
6. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals.
用易懂的话说，就是没有被使用过的植物滋养了土壤，给土壤提供了维生素和矿物质。
7. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you cease to treat the old body?
但千万不要忘记，不管其结果会有多好，这样的保养会是痛苦的经历。此外，你又该在何时停止保养衰老的肌体呢？
8. There are many ways in which man shapes his leisure, that is, the time when he is not working or sleeping.
人们有多种方式来计划人们的空闲时间，即我们不工作或不睡觉的时间。
9. If you can, keep your child’s allowance in line with that of his friends. A child whose purchasing power falls away below his peers can feel left out.
如果能做到的话，使你孩子的零花钱不比他朋友的零花钱少。购买力低于同伴的孩子会感到没有得到关注。
10. Lastly, some calculators can print out the calculations, so that you can check the calculations as they are being done, and also have a permanent record of them.
最后，有些计算器还能打印出计算结果，因而你可以核查所计算的数据，而且还能将它们永久保存。
11. Since the beginning of history, man has been fascinated by the idea of living for ever, of winning the fight against death and disease.
有史以来，人类一直热衷于如何长生不死，如何战胜死亡和疾病。
12. Every hour of every day about there Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.
平均每天每小时有3个美国人死于酒后驾车，死亡人数在过去的十年里达到了令人难以置信的25万。
13. Finally, there are many people around who are really enthusiastic about computers. These people are always happy to be of help.
最后，周围有许多非常喜爱电脑的人，这些人总是乐于提供帮助的。
14. It doesn’t seem to make much difference whether a person sleeps immediately after learning or waits a few hours.
学习后马上去睡觉还是等几小时再去睡觉好像区别不大。
15. It was a seemingly tiny problem among the vast complexities of running the space program. Yet it was important to NASA because any crack in the seal could have led to destructive results for the astronauts who relied on them.
在进行太空计划遇到的大量错综复杂的问题中，这似乎是很小的问题，但对美国国家航空暨太空总署而言很重要，因为密封出现任何裂缝，对依赖这些设备的航天员来说都可能导致灾难性的后果。
16. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers.
市场型经济的一个重要因素是一种机制，通过该机制消费者的需求可由生产者加以体现并作出响应。
17. A reader found this offer very generous and applied to the advertiser, but a bit suspicious, he gave a false name.
一位读者认为这则广告许诺的报酬很高，就向登广告的人提出申请。但因为对该广告的真实性有点怀疑，所以他给了一个假名。
18. The best method developed so far involves cooling of the organism, combined with narcotic sleep.
在麻醉睡眠的过程中对肌体进行冷却是至今研制出的最佳方法。
19. There can be no criticism of the custom, but there may be an unfortunate effect that prolonged routine work dulls the imagination.
这种习惯做法不会招致什么批评，但也许会有一种不好的作用：长久的日常工作削弱想象力。
20. Not all risks lend themselves to being covered by insurance. Broadly speaking, the ordinary risks of business and speculation cannot be covered.
并非所有的风险都适用于保险。通常，一般的生意和投机风险不能投保。
21. An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by the buyers.
通常，事先有拍卖会的广告，详细介绍拍卖品的情况，并告诉买者查看拍卖品的地点和时间。
22. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.
你除了会花一大笔买书钱，还会在逛书店的各个部门上浪费掉大量的时间。
23. Perhaps for this reason, the educational system in the Orient reflects society’s beliefs in group goals and purposes rather than individualism.
或许，因为这个原因，东方的教育制度表明社会相信的是集体目标和决心的价值，而不是个人主义行为的价值。
24. Until then watches had been so inaccurate, even as to the hour, that it was not uncommon for a man to carry as many as three in order to check one against another.
在那之前，钟表很不准确，有的甚至误差一个小时。一个人带上三只以便互相比照的情况司空见惯。
25. When the sun’s rays strike water surfaces, some of the water becomes absorbed by the air as water vapor. The warmer the air is, the more vapor it can hold.
当阳光照射在水面上时，一部分水开始被空气当作水气吸收。空气越温暖，它能吸收的水气就越多。
26 It’s no good having the computers without the right computer programs to put into them and a great deal more is still needed.
有了计算机，却没有合适的程序可输入是没有用的，需要的东西还很多。
27. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green ---- a strange world indeed.
有时，一个人说不出蓝色和绿色的差别。偶尔，一个不幸的人会把所有东西都看成深浅不同的绿色的东西----真是一个不可思议的世界。
28. Actually, since I’d walked through the restaurant ahead of my wife, it would have been awkward, I should think, not to have taken the chair. I had got there first, after all.
事实上，由于在餐厅里我走在妻子前面，我当然认为不坐那张椅子是不适当的。 毕竟，我是先到的。
29. Thus they fall between the kind of reading you might find in your textbooks and the much less demanding kind you will find in a newspaper or light novel.
因此，它们的难度介于你课本中的读物和你读起来要轻松得多的报纸以及休闲小说之间。
30. The homing pigeon is very intelligent and will persevere to the point of stubbornness; some have been known to fly a hundred miles off course to avoid a storm.
信鸽很聪明，回鍥而不舍到固执的程度。已知有的信鸽为了避开暴风雨而绕行一百英里。
31. Apart from the vehicle itself, it is fairly easy to identify the main factors which have brought about the recent explosion in academic movement.
除了交通工具本身外，确定导致最近学术活动猛增的主要因素是相当容易的。
32. Occasionally in your reading pay particular attention to these words, especially when the subject is one that you might well write or talk about.
有时候，在你阅读时，尤其是在阅读你很可能要写、要谈的内容时，格外注意这些词。
33. The Chinese feel they must see a guest off to the farthest possible ---- down the flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the nearest bus stop.
中国人认为送客一定要远送---- 送下楼梯到大街，或许一路陪到公共汽车站。
34. Nevertheless, forbidding people things they like or think they might enjoy only makes them want those things all the more.
但是，禁止人们得到他们喜爱的或者他们认为他们可以销售的对象只会使他们更想得到东西。
35. Like other scientists, physiological psychologists believe that all natural phenomena – including human behavior — are subject to the laws of physics.
和其他科学家一样，生理心理学家认为所有自然现象，包括人的行为，都是由自然规律决定的。
36. This important change in woman’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position.
妇女生活方式的这一重大变化仅仅在最近开始完全影响到妇女的经济地位。
37. Here the firm claimed that it did not follow, just because someone had slipped on the floor, that they must have been negligent carrying out their duties.
在法庭上公司声称，不能仅仅因为有人滑倒在地上，就说他们玩忽职守，没有履行义务。
38. But bringing in the “dog” bit puts you down a little. What he may be saying is that he doesn’t think you deserve your luck.
但是引入“狗”这个小角色有点奚落你。他在说的也许是他认为你不该有那样的好运。
39. Exercise is most important to health , the report emphasizes; though it doesn’t necessarily reduce weight , it maintains the correct proportion of body fat to boby muscle.
该报告强调运动对身体健康非常重要；尽管运动不一定就会减少体重，但却使人体的肌肉和脂肪保持适当的比例。
40. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at one another’s hands for reassurance.
他们当中大多数人不是勇敢地闯自己的路，而是为了放心而互相紧牵着手。