研究生英语下课后翻译部分

< br>们所特有的空气。那种空气并非生发于天地自然，

而是生发于那些枯树残枝、灰墙 暗壁，生

发于那一汪死气沉沉的湖水。那是一种神秘而致命的雾霭，阴晦，凝滞，朦胧， 沉浊如铅。

2. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle

of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute

and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell

of the night passing swiftly on toward further darkness but moving also toward a new sun. (Ray

Douglas Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451)

译文：

（

她 的）

容貌那么清秀，

就像半夜里醒来时在黑暗中隐约可见的小小 的钟面，报告时

刻的钟面。

它皎洁而安静，深知时间在飞驰，< /p>

深信黑暗虽然越来越深沉，却也越来越接近新

生的太阳。

练习：

1. I’ve been spared a lot, one of the blessed of the earth, a

t least one of its lucky, that privileged

handful

of

the

dramatically

prospering,

the

sort

whose

secrets

are

asked,

like

the

hundred-year-old man.

译文：我一直 活得无忧无虑，深得上帝垂爱，至少算个幸运儿，少数人才享有的尊荣富贵，

我垂手得之 。就像百岁人瑞总有人讨教，我的秘诀也总有人探询。

2.

And

so

Franklin

Roosevelt

found

that

he

had,

in

effect,

to

recruit

an

entirely

new

and

temporary government to be piled on top of the old one, the new government to get the tanks

and airplanes built, the uniforms made, the men and women assembled and trained and shipped

abroad, and the battles fought and won.

译文：富兰克林·

罗斯福因此意识到他必须招募新班人马，组建临时机构来补强不能胜任

的旧政府。

新成立的政府机构专门负责建造坦克飞机，定制军服，

招募培训战士 。

这些战士

将被派往前线，去赢得一场场的战争。

unit2

举例：

is well known that animals cannot be maintained in good health on diets which will supply

the necessary calories together with protein, fat and mineral requirements, if certain accessory

food factors, the vitamins, are absent from the diet.

译文：

动物的食物缺乏维生素这类附加成分时，即使还有蛋白质、

脂肪 和无机物，

而且能供

给必需的热量，也不能保持动物的健康，这 是人所熟知的事实。

2. I was on my way home from tramping about the street, my drawings under my arm, when I

found myself in front of the Mathews Gallery.

译文：我挟着书稿在 街上兜了一圈，回家的路上无意中发现自己逛到马太书廊的门口。

3. The idea that she had that helpless and gentle creature to protect, gave additional strength to

the natural courage of the honest Irishman. (W. M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair)

译文：

这厚道的爱尔兰女人本来有胆量；

她 一想起这个无能的、

温柔的小东西需要她来保护，

越发添了勇气 。

练习：

is

human

nature

in

the

West

that

a

great

many

people

are

often

willing

to

sacrifice

higherpay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.

译文：

许多人宁愿牺牲比较高的工资以换取成为白领工人的社会地位，

这在西方倒是人之常

情。

olitan Shanghai was born to the world in 1842 when the British man-of-war Nemesis,

slipping unnoticed into the mouth of the Yangtze River, reduced the Wusong Fort and took the

city without a fight.

译文：

1842

年英国战舰尼米西斯 号悄悄潜入长江口，击毁吴淞炮台，不费一枪一卒占据了

上海，国际化的上海就此诞生了 。

3. A study of the letter leaves us in no doubt as to the motives behind it.

译文：研究了一下那封信，我们毫不怀疑该信是别有用心的。

4. The happiness

—

the superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca

inexpressible pangs of envy.

译文：丽贝卡看见她周围的小姐那么有福气，享 受种种优越的权利，真是说不出的妒忌。

5. Poor Joe’s panic lasted for two or three days; during which he did not visit the house.

译文：乔继续恐慌了两三天；其间这可怜虫都不肯回家。

unit3

举例：

1. The meeting was not held due to the airline strike. It was held to discuss the impact an aging

society would have on our environment.

译文：

不是因为航空公司罢工才举 行会议的。

召开这个会议是为了讨论老龄化社会对环境造

成的影 响。

2.

There

was

nothing

to

do

in

Loma

in

the

evening

except

to

go

to

the

saloon,

an

old

board

building with swinging doors and a wooden side walk awning. Neither prohibition nor repeal had

changed its business, its clientele, or the quality of its whisky. In the course of an evening every

male inhabitant of Loma over fifteen years old came at least once to the Buffalo Bar, had a drink,

talked a while and went home.

There would be a game of the mildest kind of poker going on. Timothy Ratz, the husband of

my landlady, would be playing solitaire, cheating pretty badly because he took a drink only when

he got it out. I’ve seen him get out five minute

s in a row. When he won he piled the cards neatly,

stood up and walked with great dignity to the bar. Fat Carl, the owner and bartender, with a glass

half filled before he arrived, asked, “What’ll it be?”

“Whisky,” said Timothy gravely.

译文：

在洛曼小镇 ，

晚饭后除了去镇上唯一的那家酒馆便无事可做。

酒馆是一座老 式的木制

建筑，

有一扇转门，

门前人行 道上方有一块木制雨篷。

无论是政府的禁酒令还是后来废除禁

酒 令的法令都未曾改变过它生意的兴隆、

顾客的数量，

也未曾改变 过它威士忌的质量。

每天

晚饭后，镇上十五岁以上的男子至少要 光顾布法罗酒馆一次，喝杯酒，聊聊天，然后回家。

酒馆里常有人玩扑克牌，

不过其输赢聊胜于无。

我那位房东太太的丈夫蒂莫西?罗兹就

经常在那里玩单人纸牌游戏。

他玩牌老爱作弊，

因为他只在赢牌时才买上一杯酒喝。

我曾见

过他一口气连赢五盘。

赢牌后他便把纸牌整整齐齐地叠好 ，

然后直起身，

神气十足地走向吧

台。 酒馆老板兼伙计胖子卡尔不等他走近吧台便会端起已斟了半杯酒的酒杯问：

“来杯什么< /p>

酒？”

“威士忌。

”蒂莫西总是庄重地回答。

练习：

1. I am a journalist, not a historian, and while this book is an effort to describe a moment in the

past, it is less a work of history than of personal reminiscence and reflection. Essentially, it is an

account

of

my

own

observations

and

experiences

in

wartime

Washington,

supplemented

by

material drawn from interviews and other sources. I have tried to create out of it all a portrait of

the pain and struggle of a city and a government suddenly called upon to fight, and to lead other

nations

in

fighting,

the

greatest

war

in

history,

but

pathetically

and

sometimes

hilariously

unprepared to do so.

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