排放英语基英翻译整合

2021年1月7日发(作者：段永康)
Unit1
1. There has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!
Britain has been in too long a period of stillness without taking any particular
action against the enemy.
2. We must “… meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just
the same.’’
We are sure to experience both Triumph and Disaster, but must avoid clouding our
judgment through exaggerating their importance.
3. Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never give in unless we are convinced that it is honourable and sensible for us to
do so.
4. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate.
Other nations thought that Britain was completely conquered.
5. We have only to persevere to conquer.
We will win as long as we hold on to the end.

1. 我把他们安排在小酒吧见面，但那个小伙子一直都没来。（turn up）
I had arranged for them to meet each other at the pub, but the young man never turned
up.
2. 你无法仅凭外表判断形势是否会变得对我们不利。（tell from appearances）
You cannot tell merely from appearances whether things will turn out unfavourable
to us or not.
3. 那个士兵每次打仗都冲锋在前，从而赢得了国家最高荣誉。（stand in the gap）
The soldier, who stood in the gap in every battle, gained the highest honors of the
country.
4. 主席讲话很有说服力，委员会其他成员都听从他的意见。（yield to）
The chairman spoke so forcefully that the rest of the committee yielded to his opinion.
5. 他们现在生活富裕了，但也曾经历坎坷。（ups and downs）
They are well-to-do now, but along the way they had their ups and downs.
6. 这次演讲我将说明两个问题。（address oneself to）
There are two questions to which I will address myself in this lecture.
7. 我们正筹划为你举办一次盛大的圣诞聚会。（in sb.’s honour）
We are planning a big Christmas party in your honour.
8. 听到那个曲子，我回想起了儿童时代。（throw sb.’s mind back）
Hearing that tune threw my mind back to my childhood.

Unit 2
1. The phrase “personal space” has a quaint, seventies ring
to it.
The phrase “personal space” has odd touch that was characteristic of the
1970s.
2. T-shirt weather can make proximity more alluring (or much, much less).
In hot summer days people can be drawn to each other, especially to the opposite sex
( or feel disgusted with the closeness of others. )
3. The logistics of it vary according to geography.
People in different regions are given different sizes of personal space.
4. Individuals routinely commandeer booths and sets of facing seats meant for
foursomes.
It is quite common that one person occupies a booth and a set of facing seats
designed for four people.
5. In the same way that the breeze from a butterfly’s wings in Japan may
eventually produce a tidal wave in California, I have decided to expand the
contracting boundaries of personal space.
The author hopes that his own stand against the shrinking of personal space,
while small in itself, will nonetheless eventually have a dramatic effect in the
same way as the breeze from a butterfly’s wings in Japan, if it initiates a chain
of waves, may eventually produce a tidal wave in California.

I. Translate into English:
1. 那只鸽子被卡在树杈里，一会儿就跌落下来。（wedge）
The pigeon was wedged in the fork of a branch and it fell after a while.
2. 驾车人该付多少钱需要根据他对别人车子造成损坏的程度而定。（be
proportional to）
The payment that the motorist will have to make is proportional to the amount of
damage he has done to the other person’s car.
3. 你只有伏在地上慢慢爬过一条狭长的地道才能进入山洞。（inch）
You can only enter the cave by inching through a narrow tunnel on your
stomach.
4. 他一面结结巴巴地为没有敲门就进入我的办公室而道歉，一面羞怯地朝门口
走去。（sidle）She stammered some apology for entering my office without
knocking as she sidled towards the door.
5. 他尽力向我解释说不是因为我工作不好而解雇我，而是因为公司面临着财政
困境。（take pains to）
He took pains to explain to me that I was not being dismissed because I didn’t do my
work well but because the company was confronted by financial troubles.
6. 年轻士兵的入伍给军队带来了新的希望并鼓舞了士气。（infuse… into）
The enlistment of young soldiers infused new hope and morale into the army.
7. 一旦大一些的男孩子们声称草坪属于他们，小一些的孩子就只好退避三舍。
(stake a claim to)
Once the older boys stake a claim to the lawn, the younger ones had to give way to
them to avoid conflict.
8. 跟在她身后的人让她心神不安，她不由得加快了脚步。(make sb. uneasy)
The man following her made her uneasy and she couldn’t help quickening her steps.

Unit 3
1. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the
communications modal equivalent of international waters.
As the Internet can be reached and used with relatively few restrictions, it plays a role
in connecting people globally, which is comparable to traveling through international
waterways.
2. But much less widely reported has been the notion that the Internet may be
responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual
users.
A lot of people talk about the
acquainted with the idea that the Internet separates people from each other and
fragments society further as a result.
3. It seems to me that we are a society that values immediate gratification above all
else, and what better place to achieve it than in cyberspace, where the cyber-world is
your cyber-oyster.
I think that in our society the top priority is given to the satisfaction of one's
immediate needs. The Internet is the best means to achieve this purpose, for on the
Internet one can do whatever he likes to.

1. 无可否认，香烟会使人上瘾。而一旦你上了瘾，就很难戒除这习惯。(addict)
There's no denying that smoking is addictive. And once you are addicted, it's very
difficult to get rid of the habit.
2. 在日本人生产的一种电子游戏中，玩游戏 的人可以模拟艾滋病患者从染上艾
滋病毒直到死亡的经历。（simulate）
In a Japanese-made video game, players can simulate the experience of AIDS from
HIV infection until death.
3. 我肯定，她说你可以用这笔钱继续学习音乐是认真的。(in earnest)
I’m sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue
your study of music.
4.我们只能以牺牲质量为代价来提高产量，但这可能会损害公司的声誉。(at the
expense of)
We can only increase production at the expense of quality, which could ruin the
company's reputation.
5. 她难得生气，不过这次她可真的是发脾气了。(be given to)
She is not often given to anger, but this time she really lost her temper.
6. 一名外语教师如果要在中学任教，最起码要持有正规教育院校颁发的学位证
书。（at the very least）
A teacher of foreign language should possess at the very least a graduate degree from
a certified education school or institute if he is to teach high school.
7. 我很快觉察到我无法使他改变想法。（perceive）
I soon perceived that I couldn't make him change his mind.

Unit 4
1. It was left to Yamahata to rcord, methodically---and, as it happens, with a great
and simple artistry--- the effects.
The responsibility was therefore placed on Yamahata's shoulders to record the effects
systematically and incidentally with a great and simple artistry.
2. That absence, even more than wreckage,contains the heart of the matter.
That vanished city rather than its remains represents the true measure of the event.
3. In the photographs, Nagasaki comes into its own.
In the photographs Nagasaki regains its own status.
human imagination had stumbled to exhaustion in the wreckage of the first
ruined city without reaching even the outskirts of the second.
The human imagination had been exhausted and stopped at the wreckage of the first
ruined city and failed to reach even the outskirts of Nagasaki.
seem to need, in addition, some other picture to counterpoise against ruined
Nagasaki.
Apart from the pictures of Nagasaki we seem to need some other picture to inspire in
us a hope of life to counterbalance the sense of doom suggested by the ruined
Nagasaki.

1. 他们的牛都打上了字母C的烙印，所以很容易辨认。（Be branded with)
Their cattle were branded with the letter C.
2. 本赛季他真正发挥了一个得分手(goal scorer)的作用（come into one’s own)
In this season Brooks has really come into his own as a goal scorer.
3. 一场经济危机正在威胁着那个国家。(hang over)
An economic crisis is hanging over that country.
4. 他是真正好发施令的人物，但他总是躲在幕后。(in the background)
He is the man who really gives the order, but he always remains in the background.
5. 派出信使后，我们所能做的就只有等待了。(dispatch)
After dispatching the messenger, what is left for us to do is nothing but to wait.
6. 你只要一叫，他马上就到。(in a flash)
You just have to call and he's here in a flash.
7. 他们在战争的阴霾下整整生活了17年。(in the shadow of)
They have lived in the shadow of war for totally seventeen years.
8. 这些是显存的最后七只东北虎，如果人类不加以保护的话，这一种群的老虎
将濒临灭亡。(in existence)
These are the last seven Northeast Tigers in existence. If human beings failed to
protect them, the tigers of this species would face extinction.

Unit 5
1. Slowly, it panned across the tapestry of friendship.
Slowly, the movie gave a panoramic picture of the characteristics of friendship.
2. This wasn’t just another binge of trendiness, but a kind of cinema vérité.
This was not simply a shift from one fashion to another, but a trend toward more
realistic and natural depictions in cinema-making.
3. Well, that duality must have been mortally wounded in some shootout at the You’re
OK, I’m OK Corral.
The tendency to present only men as capable of true friendship was challenged by the
appearance of a more subtle approach.
4. Buddies hang tough together; friends hang onto each other.
Buddies act tough to show off to each other, so would not reveal weakness; friends