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Translations
Unit One
1.
他们利用我们求助无门的困境
把我们公司接管了
。
They took advantage of our helpless
situation and took over our company.
2.
虽然我们面前仍有困难
，
但我肯定我们中国人有智慧靠自己实现国家的和平统一
。
Although there are
still difficulties ahead of us, I am sure that we
Chinese people will
have the wisom to
bring about the peaceful unification of our
country on our own.
3.
只强调国
内生产总值是错误的
，
它会引起很多严重问题
< br>。
It is wrong to put
emphasis on nothing but GDP
. It will
give rise to many serious prob
lems.
4.
他喜欢炫耀他的财富
，
但是这完全是徒劳的
，
人们仍然像躲避毒药那样躲避他
。
He loves to show off his
wealth, but this is all in vain. People still
avoid him as though
he were poison.
5.
他不久就爱上了这个村子
。
他决心和村民一起把这个地方变成一个花园
。
He soon fell in love
withthe village and was determined to make it a
beautiful garden
together with other
villager.
6.
我们
必须花更多的钱来和全球气温上升作斗争
。
另外
，
我认为我们还必须采用严厉的法律
措施
。
这不只是一个钱的问题
。
We must spend more money fighting
against global warming. In addition, we must
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resort to tough laws. It is not just a
matter of money.
7.
当警察到达学校的时候
，
学生和老师还在一种茫然不
知所措的状态
。
When the police arrive at the school,
the students and the teachers were still in a
daz
e.
8.
这个腐败的官员
还在死死抓住他的权力不放
。
他拒绝靠边站
。
This
corrupt official was still clinging to his power.
He refused to step aside.
9.
当那个人最后进入视界时
，
我发现他原来是我父亲
。
不知道他怎么在这
大雪中找到这个地
方的
。
那时候
,
我放声大哭起来
。
When the man finally came
into view, I found it was my father. I
didn‘t
know how
he
managed to find this place in the
blinding snow. At that moment, I burst into tears.
10.
她不时地偷偷朝他张望
。
她发现自己第一次这样看一个年轻男子
。
She glanced at him from
time to time. It was the first time in her life
that she had fo
und herself looking at a
young like that.
1.
上大学之前
，
我没有想到大学生活如此丰富多彩
。
Before I came to/ entered college, I
had never thought life at college would be so rich
and interesting.
2.
出生于
20
世纪
90
年代的中国大学生大多
数是独生子女
。
Most of the Chinese college students
born in the 1990s are the only child of their
families.
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3.
了解他的人都因为他出色的工作而钦佩他
< br>。
All those
who know him admire him for his hard work.
4.
我那天缺课了
，
因为我不知道课已提前到了周四
。
< br>
I missed the class
because I didn’t know it had moved up to Thursday.
5.
在某些国家
< br>，
超重的人会受到一定的惩罚
。
In some countries, those
who are overweight will be punished one way or
another.
6.
在大火中失
去家园的人们很快被安置到安全的地方
。
Soon after the fire, those
who had lost their homes were taken to a place of
safety.
7.
再见面的时
候
，
我们发现我们两人变化都很大
。<
/p>
When we met
again, we found we both had changed a lot.
8.
以李教授为首的专家们很快就
会来帮助农民解决问题
。
A team of experts headed by Professor
Li will soon come and help farmers solve their
problems.
9.
现在种着西红柿的那块地以往是荒地
。
The field planted with
tomatoes used to be wasteland.
10.
我们老师叫我们像读矛盾
、
巴金那样大师们写的作品
。
Our teacher told us to read books
written by such masters as Mao Dun and Ba Jin.
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Unit 2
1.
在我看来
，
这似乎不可能
，<
/p>
但是其他所有人看起来都很有信心
。
It seems impossible to me,
but all the others looked very confident.
2.
我们
四下一望
，
没有一个仍然矗立的建筑物了
。
地震似乎把一切的摧毁了
。
We looked around. There
wasn’t a building standing in sight. The
earthquake seemed
to have destroyed
everything.
3.
<
/p>
---
他这些日子里似乎情绪很低落
，<
/p>
不知道为什么
。
He looks to be in a low
spirits. I wonder why.
---
我觉得那是因为他似乎学习上
没有多少进步
。
他怕被同学瞧不起
。<
/p>
I think it is
because he doesn’t
seem to be making
much progress in his studies. He
is
afraid of being looked upon by his classmates.
4.
--
-
你在找什么
，
迪克
< br>？
What are
you looking for, Dick?
---
我好像把钥匙丢了
。
< br>真烦人
。
I seem to have lost my key. How
annoying!
5.
如果你
发现一个字在中间说不通
，
你就该查查字典
。
这是掌握意思的唯一办法
。
If you find a word that
doesn‘t seem to make any sense in a sentence, you
should look
it up in the dictionary.
That is the only way to learn to use a word.
6.
他们继续争吵了几个钟头
，
两人似乎谁也不愿听对方的话
。
我突然想起有人说过
：“
讨论
< br>是知识的交流
，
而争吵是无知的交换
。”
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They went on
arguing for hours. Neither was willing to listen
to the other. I suddenly
remembered
someone
saying:
―
Discussion
is
an
exchange
of
knowledge
while
argument is an exchange of ignorance.
7.
那
里的形式似乎非常复杂
，
政府已答应进行认真调查
。
The
situation there seems quite complicated. The
government has promised to look into
it.
8.
我爷爷似乎正在好起来
，
但是他仍然需要有人照顾
。
My
grandpa seems to be getting better and better, but
he still needs somebody to look
after
him.
9.
经济学家已经得出
结论
：
危机似乎很快就要结束了
，
世界经济正在好转
。
Economists have come to the
conclusion that the crisis seems to be coming to
an end.
World economy is looking up.
10.
这
次病后
，
我看了看我的银行账本
。
使我伤心的是
，
账上的余额几乎是零
。
我前三年存在
银行的钱全花完了
。
When I
got well I looked at my bank account. To my
sadness, I found my balance was
almost
zero. All my sayings in the past three years were
gone.
1.
你还是试一试别的方法吧
。
You ought to try a
different method.
2.
要不你再去和写作老师谈一谈
？
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I think you ought to talk
with our writing teacher about it.
3.
我们还是立即向警方报告这次失窃吧
。
We ought to report the
theft to the police immediately.
4.
你的父母身体不好
，
你多去看看他们吧
。
You ought to see your parents more
often now that they are not in good health.
5.
你不该对长辈那样大声嚷嚷
。
You shouldn’t have shouted
at the elders like that.
6.
这么重要的会议你是不该迟到的
。
You shouldn‘t have been
late for such an important meeting.
7.
难道吉姆不是你的朋友吗
？
他提出要帮你
，
你是不该拒绝的
。
Isn’t
Jim your friend? You shouldn’t have turned down/
rejected his offer of help.
8.
作为一个大学生
，
你是不该把业余时间都花在网络游戏上
。
As a college student, you
shouldn‘t have spent all your free time playing
computer
games.
9.
万一我这次失败了
，
我还会再试第二次的
。
If I failed this time, I would try for
the second time.
10.
要是地球继续变暖
，
这些岛屿将不复存在
。
If the
global warming continued, these islands would
disappear.
11.
我
要是现在有一百万元
，
我一定会给父母买一套房子
。
If I had
a million yuan, I would buy my parents an
apartment.
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12.
要是我当选为学生会主席
，
我没准会组织一次钢琴比赛
。
If
I
were
elected
president
of
the
students’
union,
I
might
organize
a
piano
competition.
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Unit 3
1.
祝英台虽然不愿意嫁给马家小少
爷
，
但她不能不服从她父亲
。
她的心都碎了
。
Zhu Yingtai had to (was forced to) obey
her father and marry the young master of the
rich Ma family although she was
extremely unwilling. She was heartbroken.
2.
那个人从来没见过这么大的一
张钞票
。
他说
：“
这东西看着好
，
摸着也好
，
的确就是好
。”
The man had never seen such a large
note. He said,
―
It looks
good, feels good, and
it is good.
3.
树叶都变黄
，
< br>变红
，
变紫了
。
看起来真是如天堂一样美
。
Leaves had turned/got/gone/become
yellow, red and purple, It really looked heavenly
beautiful (beautiful like heaven).
4.
随着
年纪越来越老
，
她开始容易感到疲惫
。
As she grew
older, she began to feel tired easily.
5.
他的话听起来很有说服力
，
但好听的理由并不等于好的理由
，
两者之间存在很大差别
。
What he said sounded very
convincing, but reasons that sound good do not
always
mean good sound reasons. There
is a big difference between the two.
6.
他爱说话
，
他永远无法保持沉默
，
而他说的往往被证明是错的
。
He
likes to talk. He can never keep quiet, and what
he says often proves (turns out to
be)
incorrect.
7.
他在
战斗中受了伤
，
流了很多血
，
变得十分虚弱
，
他的领导强迫他留在医院到伤口
痊愈为
止
。
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He got wounded in battle, lost a lot of
blood, and became very weak. His leaders
ordered him to stay in the hospital
until he was completely recovered ( healed).
8
他以为可以从我们手中滑过去<
/p>
；
他们错了
，
他
们休想干了坏事就溜走
。
They thought they could slip through
our fingers. They were wrong. They couldn‘t get
away with what they had done.
9.
长
征的时候
，
红军需要越过大渡河
，
穿越草地
，
翻过雪山
。
During the
Long March, the Red Army had to get across the
Dadu River, through the
grassland and
over the sown-covered mountains.
10.
你在哪里生活习惯了吗
?
你和同学相处的如何
？
我们给你寄的钱够你
凑合着用吗
？
Are you used to the life there? How do
you get along with your classmates? Can you
get by with the money we send you? (Is
the money we send you enough for you?)
1.
你要是早到十分钟就能赶上那趟火车了
.
If you had arrived ten minutes
earlier, you could have caught the train.
2.
你要是那时实话实说
,
你父亲早就原谅你了
.
Your
father would have forgiven you if you had told him
the truth.
3.
要不是下大雪
< br>,
我肯定会带你们去参加昨天的聚会
.
If it hadn’t snowed heavily, I would
have taken you along to yesterday’s
party.
4.
要是春天多下点雨
,
收成会好很多
.
If there had been more rain in spring,
the harvest would have been much better.
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5.
要是他们没有从失败中吸取教训
,
就不会取得今天的成就
If
they hadn’t
learned a lesson
from their failure, they wouldn’t have achieved so
much.
6.
要是我的家人不支持
,
我是不会去参加这次竞赛的
.
If my family hadn’t supported me, I
wouldn’t have taken part in this
contest.
7.
很多人认为中
国的长城是古代世界七大奇迹之一
.
Many people
think that China’s Great Wall is one of
the seven wonders of the ancient
world,.
8.
祸不单行
,
事情往往如此
.
As so often happens,
misfortunes/troubles never come singly/alone.
9.
就像许多大学一年级新生那样
,
吉姆发现适应大学生活很不容易
.
As is often the case with many first-
year college students, Jim finds it hard to adapt
to the
life at college.
10.<
/p>
正如所报道的那样
,
总统下个月要访问非
洲五国
.
As is reported, the
president will visit five African countries next
month.
Unit 4
1.
他们别想当然地以为我们会接受他们的条件
，
把我们当傻瓜
。
我们不那
么容易上当
。
Don‘t let them take it for granted that
we will accept their conditions/terms. We are no
fools, and we won‘t be so easily taken
in.
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2.
我们只花了三年时间就使我们的村民收入增加了一倍
.
It took us only three years
to double the income of our villagers.
3.
他们要是不收回他们的话并道歉
,
我要给他大闹一场
.
If they do not take back their remarks
and apologize, I am going to raise the devil with
them.
4.
我们提出的这个问题很复杂
,
有很多东西需要考虑
.
但是我们得碰碰运气吧
.
The problem we raised is
complicated. Many things have to be taken into
consideration.
But we have to take our
chances.
5.
这孩子像
他爹
,
对一切都好奇
.
给他一个玩具
,
他立刻就拆开
.
The boy takes after his
father/Dad. He is full of curiosity. Give him a
toy, and he will
immediately take it
apart.
6.
你一定要确保他
们带你去见他们的经理
,
告诉他们
,<
/p>
事情很重要
,
很可能关系到我们的投资计
划
.
你必须见他本人
< br>.
You must sure that
they take you to the manager
. Tell them
that it’s very important and
may affect
our investment plan, and therefore you must see
him in person.
7.
他们告诉乘客说
,
天已晴朗了
,<
/p>
飞机估计半小时以后起飞
.
They told the passengers that the sky
had cleared up and the plane was about to take
off in half an hour.
8.
我建议你落实一下你们逮捕的那个人和描绘的犯人是否相符
.
I suggest you go and check
if the man you have arrested fit the description
of the
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9.
你意思是假如我们采取这一步
,
就可能影响我们两国的关系吗
?
Do you mean that it will affect the
relationship of our two countries if we take this
step?
(1) Using adverbial
clauses of time and reason introduced by as
1.
期末考试临近
,
学生们
不再玩网络游戏
,
都忙着准备起来
.
As the final exams are coming nearer,
students have stopped computer games, and
they are busy preparing for them.
2.
随着时间的流逝
,
不
念旧恶变得较容易了
.
As time goes by,
it becomes easier to forgive and forget.
3.
女儿对他们讲诉第一天学校生活时
,
< br>两口子认真听着
.
The couple sat
and listened as their daughter told them about her
first day at school.
4.
在向
21
世纪迈进的时候
，
我们强烈地感到国与国之间理解与合作的必要
。
As we approached the 21st century, we
keenly felt the need for understanding and
cooperation between nations.
5.
由于有学问
，
< br>又幽默
，
严教授在学生中很有人缘
。
As he is learned and
humors, Professor Yan is very popular with his
students.
6.
许多人要出席这次社交聚会
，
这对夫妇认为人们在这个场合应该见到他俩的身影
。
As many
important people will go to the party, the couple
thinks they should be seen
there, too.
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