大学英语翻译练习 (附参考答案)

翻译练习一（英译汉）

：

一、将下列句子译成汉语：

1. It's more a poem than a picture.

2. He drank himself out of the best lines.

3. He pretends to be as modest as anything.

4. Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft.

5. The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it.

6. Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus

to Hattiesburg.

7. If you feel depressed at a social gathering, keep it a secret.

8. The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of

age.

9.

He

wants

a

lawyer

who

understands his

case,

who sympathizes

with

him and who has been there himself.

10. World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for

throughout his life he avoided publicity.

11. She couldn't have come at a better time.

12. She has been a widow only six months.

13. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn.

14. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too.

15. The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality.

16. From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colours as

there are different wave lengths.

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17. But the next century we'll be able to alter our DNA radically,

encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms.

18.

As

a

human

being,

we

should

demonstrate

our

intellectual

and

moral superiority by respecting others for who they are -- instead

of rejecting them for who/what they are not.

19. He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death.

20. No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a

tyrant.

21. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in

rapid succession.

22. The expectation of collision informed British frontier policy in this

period.

23.

Every

day

now,

the

suppression

of

truth

and

the

organizing

of

public ignorance shame journalism.

24. I walked to the ticket counter. When the ticket-seller saw me, her

otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so.

25.

Accident

may

put

a

decisive

blunderer

in

the

right,

but

eternal

defeat

and

miscarriage

must

attend

the

man

of

the

best

parts,

if

cursed with indecision.

26.

In

their

rush,

these

companies

have

neglected

the

hardest

part

of

doing

business

in

China:

the

people

part.

The

result

is

that

many

have jeopardized their performance in the long run.

27.

Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it can not deceive them too

much.

28. We shall never get anywhere with all the criticism and fault finding. I

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believe in the principle

29.

He

said

that

no

one

could

beat

him

at

tennis,

but

he had

to

eat

his

word after losing several games.

30. I had read too many novels and had learned too much at school not to

know a good deal about love.

31.

In

fact,

one

office-system

expert

recently

said

that

he

had

yet

to

encounter a business work place that was functioning at more than 60

percent efficiency.

32.

Nobody

with

any

sense

expects

to

find

the

whole

truth

in

advertisement any more than he expects a man applying for a job to

describe his shortcomings and serious faults.

33. There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to

appreciate

the

richness

and

variety

of

the

English

language

than

by

studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it.

34. We are human and human beings are far from perfect. To be human

implies

that

we

will

make

mistakes.

But

it's

more

than

that

we feel

human. We now feel entitled.

35. She showered us with telegrams.

36. Your comment is more bravely made than correct.

37.

The

man,

more

dead

than

alive,

was

brought

in

and

locked

in

the

cellar.

38. Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to

proof.

39. There was something original, independent, and heroic about the plan

that pleased all of them.

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40. It was a dry, cold hand, and the grip was severe, with more a feeling

of bones in it than friendliness.

二、将下列语段译成汉语：

1.

Transplant surgeons work miracles. They take organs from one body

and

integrate

them

into

another,

granting

the

lucky

recipient

a

longer,

better life. Sadly, every year thousands of other people are less fortunate,

dying

while

they

wait

for

suitable

organs

to

be

found.

The

terrible

constraint on organ transplantation is that every life extended depends on

the death of someone young enough and healthy enough to have organs

worth transplanting. Such donors are few. The waiting lists are long, and

getting longer.

2.

Freedom

from

this

constraint

is

the

dream

of

every

transplant

surgeon. So far attempts to make artificial organs have been disappointing:

nature

is

hard

to

mimic.

Hence

the

renewed

interest

in

trying

to

use

organs from animals.

3.

Doctors

in

India

have

just

announced

that

they

have

successfully

transplanted

a

heart

from

a

pig

into

a

person.

Pressure

to

increase

the

number of such xenotransplants

（

异种器官移植）

seems to be growing. In

Europe

and

America,

herds

of

pigs

are

being

specially

bred

and

genetically engineered for organ donation. During 1996 at least two big

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reports

on

the

subject

--

one

in

Europe

and

one

in

America

--

were

published. They agreed that xenotransplants were permissible on ethical

grounds

，

and

cautiously

recommended that

they

be

allowed.

America's

Food and Drug Administration has already published draft guidelines for

xenotransplantation.

4.

The

ethics

of

xenotransplantation

are

relatively

unworrying.

People

already kill pigs both for food and for sport; killing them to save a human

life

seems,

if

anything,

easier

to

justify.

However,

the

science

of

xenotransplantation is much less straightforward.

5.

I'll

never

forget

the

feeling

I

got

one

winter

night

as

I

walked

the

deserted

streets

after

many

grueling

hours

at

the

hospital.

I

suddenly

realized

that

I

no

longer

felt

tense

or

tired.

All

the

worries

about

my

patients' illnesses, as well as my own personal cares, seemed to evaporate

as

quickly

as

the

smoky

vapor

of

my

breath

in

the

frosty

night.

As

I

incorporated walking into my schedule, not only were

my spirits lifted,

but

my

weight

and

blood

pressure

were

gradually

reduced.

I

began

reviewing the medical literature on walking. From this research, and my

clinical observations as a family physician, I found that it is possible to

walk

your

way

to

better

health,

a

trimmer

body

and

a

longer

life

--

no

matter what your age.

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（翻译练习一

英译汉）参考答案：

一、将下列句子译成汉语：

1.

与其说那是一幅画，不如说那是一首诗。

2.

他借酒写得好诗句。

3.

他装得极为谦虚。

4.

火是无孔不入的，可是它更爱窜入通风的地方。

5.

循声而去，便轻而易举地找到了那间屋子。

6.

我 陪着小心，

用温和的口吻询问开往哈蒂斯堡下一斑车的情况。

7.

在社交场合，你就是感到情绪压抑，也不要表露出来。

8.

患有流感的幼儿和老人可能并发细菌性肺炎。

9

.

他要找一位了解他的案情，同情 他的处境，并有过亲身经历的

人当他的律师。

10

.

他的著作举世闻名，而他个人却一直默默无闻， 因为他一生始

终避免抛头露面。

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.

她来得正是时候。

12

.

她的丈夫去世至今不过半年。

13

.

我认为那篇讲话口气强硬，大可不必。

14

.

马其顿之争同希腊也有关系。

15.

英国人同其他民族一样，也有丰富的感情。

16.

从物理学的观点来看，

不同的波长有多少种，

颜色就有多少种。

17.

但下个世纪我们将能根本改变

DNA

，

能在构建新的生命时把我

们的种种想象、种种出于虚荣的要求，都编入遗传密码。

18.

作为人，

我们应该不问他人的 身份如何都尊重他们，

从而显示

出自己高超的智慧和道德，而不 要因为他们没有某种身份或

地位而去卑视他们。

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19.

虚度年华者，虽生犹死。

20.

国之大难莫过于暴君当道。

21.

他有一种习惯让人受不了，意见反复不定，一会儿一个变化。

22.

英国预计到了将会发生冲突，

并据此对这一时期的边境政策作

了调整。

23.

现在，

天天都在隐瞒真相，< /p>

愚弄公众，

这种做法是新闻界的耻

辱。< /p>

24.

我走到售票台。

女售票员一看见我，

她那原本颇为动人的脸刷

地一沉 ，变得怒气冲冲。

25.

出错者若 处事果断，

仍可意外取得成功；

才干出众者若优柔寡