长句的翻译

10). Average fees for both boarding and day schools rose about 4 percent in the year ending in

September 1993, after increases of 8.5 percent in the previous year and more than 12 percent in

each of the previous two years.

住宿学校和走读学校的平均费用至

1993

年

9

月止， 上升了

40%

；而在前

1

年费用增长率为

8.5%

，在再前

< br>2

年费用增长率每年都超过

12%

。

2.

将下列句子翻译成汉语，注意逆译法的运用：

1). And he knew how ashamed he would have been if he had known his mother and the kind of

place in which he was born, and the kind of people among whom he was born.

他出生在这一类

人中间，他出生在这种地方，他有这样的母亲；这些要是让他知道了的 话，

他会感到多么丢

人。

2). This land, which once barred the way of travelers, now has become a land for winter and

summer vacation, a land of magic and wonder.

这个地方现在已经成了冬夏两季的休假胜地，

风光景物，蔚为奇观；而从前旅游者都只能到此止步。

3). It is probably easier for teachers than for students to appreciate the reasons why learning

English seems to become increasingly difficult once the basic structures and patterns of the

language have been understood.

一旦了解英语的基本结构和句型，

再往下学似乎就越来越难

了，这其中的原因，也许教师比学生更容易理解。

4). He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “step up” toward what all Americans

are thought to want when they grow up: money and power.

所有 美国人受的教育是长大后应该

追求金钱和权力，而我却偏偏不要明明是朝这个目标

“

迈进

”

的工作，他 为之大惑不解。

5). It was an old woman, tall and shapely still, though withered by time, on whom his eyes fell

when he stopped and turned.

他站住，转过身来，定睛一看，是个年迈 的妇女，她身材很高，

仍然一副好模样，虽然受了时间的折磨而有点憔悴。

6). Although her characters were portrayed in many settings and situations, they all reflected, by

the often tragic outcome of their lives, her profound conviction that no human could be happy if

that happiness was rooted in the wretchedness of another.

如果幸福是建立在另一个人的痛苦

之上，

那就没有人会有幸福。

她的这种深切信念全部都反映在一些人生 结局通常都很悲惨的

人物身上，虽然她笔下的人物出现在多种多样的背景和情节中。

7). Aluminium remained unknown until the nineteenth century, because nowhere in nature is it

found free, owing to its always being combined with other elements, most commonly with oxygen,

for which it has a strong affinity.

铝总是跟其它元素结合在一起，最普通的是跟氧结合在一

起，

因为铝对氧有很强的亲和力；

由于这个原因，

在自然界任何地方都找不到处于游离状态

的铝；所以铝直到十九世纪才为人们所知道。< /p>

8). It therefore becomes more and more important that, if students are not to waste their

opportunities, there will have to be much more detailed information about courses and more

advice.

因此，如果要使学生充分利用他们（上大学）的机会，就得为他们提供大量关于课

程的更为详尽的信息，作更多的指导。这个问题显得越来越重要了。

9). The method normally employed for free electrons to be produced in electron tubes is

thermionic emission, in which advantage is taken of the fact that, if a solid body is heated

sufficiently, some of the electrons that it contains will escape from its surface into the surrounding

space.

固体加热到足够温度时，

它所含的电子就会有一部分离开固体表面而飞 逸到周围的空

间中去；这种现象称热离子放射；通常，电子管就利用这种现象产生自由电 子。

10). You must fix in mind the symbols and formulas, definitions and laws of physics, no matter

how complex they may be, when you come in contact with them, in order that you may

understand the subject better and lay a solid foundation for further study.

为了更好地了解物理

学，

并为进一步学习打好稳固的基础，

当你接触到物理学上的符号公式、

< br>定义和定律的时候，

不管它们是多么复杂，你必须把它们牢牢记住。

3.

将下列句子翻译成汉语，注意综合法的运用：

1). In August 1946, on my fifth trip through China, bound for my Moscow home but not in haste,

since my husband had died in the war, I came to Yan’an.

一九四六 年八月，我在回莫斯科老家

的途中，第五次路过中国；由于我丈夫已在战争中牺牲了，当 时我并不急于回去，

就到了延

安。

2). A notion has taken hold in the United States to the effect that the only people who should be

encouraged to bring children into the world are those who can afford them.

在美国有一种根深

蒂固的观念，说是只有那些抚 养得起子女的人，才应鼓励其生育。

3). Then, by one of those convulsive, motiveless actions by which the wretched leap from

temporary sorrow to life

–

long misery, she determined to marry Adam.

后来，她采取了一个不

幸者常常采取的那种快刀斩乱麻德行动：

嫁给了亚当，

从而陷进了终身的痛苦，

为的不过是

跳出那一时的悲伤。

4). Modern scientific and technical books, especially textbooks, requires revision at short intervals

if their authors wish to keep pace with new ideas, observations and discoveries.

对于现代科技

书籍，

特别是教科书来说，

要是作者希望自己书中的内容能与新概念、

新观察到的事实和新

发现同步发展的话，那么就应该每隔较短的时间，将书中的内容重新修改。

5). People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to stand by

in case of emergency, they were just as confused and helpless as anybody else.

尽管警察已接到

命令，

要作好准备以应付紧急情况，

但人们还是不敢出门，

因为警察也 和其他人一样不知所

措和无能为力。

6). Many man-made substances are replacing certain natural materials because either the quantity

of the natural product can not meet our ever-increasing requirement, or, more often, because the

physical property of the synthetic substance, which is the common name for man-made materials,

has been chosen, and even emphasized, so that it would be of the greatest use in the fields in

which it is to be applied.

人造材料统称为合成材料。许多人造材料正在代替某些天然材料，

这或者是由于天然产品 的数量不能满足日益增长的需要，

或者往往是人们选择了合成材料的

一些物理性质并加以突出而造成的。因此合成材料在应用的领域中将具有极大的用途。

7). It is common experience that a certain amount of regular exercise improves the health and

contributes to a feeling of well-being whether or nor exercise adds to the length of life.

不管运动

是否能延年益寿 ，

但一定量的运动可以增进健康并使人精神愉快，

这一点是人们 共有的体验。

8). On account of the accuracy and ease with which resistance measurements may be made and

the well- known manner in which resistance varies with temperature, it is common to use this

variation to indicate changes in temperature.

我们都知道，电阻的大小是随温度而变化的。用