eric什么意思大学生英语翻译练习

2021年1月21日发(作者：前缀)
现代大学英语

课文理解重点翻译

2018
年
12
月
6
日

Unit 1
教学重点

一．课文理解

1.

There
was
a
time
in
this
country
when
you’d
be
considered
a
jerk
if
you
passed by somebody in need.
在这个国家，曾有那么一段时间，你要是对
需要帮助的人置之不理，大家会认为你是 混蛋。

2.

Leaving him stranded in the desert didn’t bother me as much.
把他一个人留
在沙漠中倒并没有让我有多么不安。

3.

One
way
to
test
this
would
be
for
a
person
to
journey
from
coast
to
coast
without any money, relying solely on the good will of his fellow Americans.
要验证这一点，
一个办法是一个人从东海岸旅行到西海岸 ，
不带一分钱，
完全依靠美国同胞的善意。

4.

I
told
them
that
the
question
I
had
in
mind
when
I
planned
the
trip
was
clearly a nswered.
我告诉他们，我当初计划这次旅行时脑子里的问题已经
得到明确的解答。
5.

This
woman
was
telling
me
she’d
rather
risk
her
life
than
feel
bad
about
passing a stranger on the side of the road.
这个女人是在告诉我，她宁肯冒
生命危险也不愿意因为没为一个站在路边 的陌生人停车而感到内疚。

6.

The driver told me he was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker.
司机告
诉我他有一次被搭便车的人持刀抢劫了。

7.

Hearing I had no money and would take none, people in every state bought
me food or shared whatever they happened to have with them.
听说我没钱，
又不愿意接受钱，每个州的人们都会给我买食物或者和我分享他们刚好
带着的东西。

8.

The people who had the least to give often gave the most.
拥有最少的人往往
给予得最多。

9.

I was grateful to all the people I met for their rides, their food, their shelter,
their gifts.
我感激我遇到的所有人，感谢他们让我搭车，给我食物，给我

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提供住处，送我礼物。

10.

I
told
them
how
proud
I
was
to
live
in
a
country
where
people
were
still
willing to help out a stranger.
我告诉他们，生活在一个人们仍然愿意帮助
陌生人的国度里， 我有多么自豪。

二．重点词汇





amaze

bunch

bundle

capacity

commerce

conquer


display


drop

roast



rob



style




symbol


vague





figure

1.

My neighbors are a friendly (
bunch
) of people.
一帮

2.

Dave
(
amazed
)
his
friends
by
leaving
a
well-paid
job
to
travel
around
the
world.
吃惊

3.

The professor came to the classroom with a (
bundle)
of newspapers under his
arm.
一捆

4.

A passenger asked the driver:” could you (
drop
) me off near the post office?
I’d like to

post a letter.”
带

5.

The girl’s (
capacity
) for learning languages astonished me.
能力

6.

I like the typically French (
style
) of living. It is so romantic.
风格

7.

They have made their fortunes from industry and (
commerce
).
贸易

8.

They threatened to shoot him and (
rob
) him of all his possessions.
抢劫

9.

In many cultures, the lion is the (
symbol
) of courage.
象征

10.

It’s the first time the painting has been (
displayed
) to the public.
展示

11.

As the saying goes, (
conquer
) the desire, or they will conquer you.
克服

12.

Before the dinner party, mother has ordered a (
roast
) from the butch.
烤肉

13.

I didn’t wait for you at home because I (
figured
) that you wouldn’t come.
计
算

三．翻译

1.

离婚的传言不过是为他的新电影炒作的手段而已。
（
a ploy to do sth
）

The rumor about his divorce is just a ploy to gain publicity for his new film.
2.

他孤注一掷，
用父母留给她的所有钱来开一家工厂。
(take a gamble on sth)
He took a gamble on starting a factory with all the money his parents had left him.

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3.

赢得那场重要的比赛之，

他们把队长抬到肩上，欢呼着胜利。
（
hoist to
）

After winning the important game they hoisted their captain to their shoulders in
shouting triumph.
4.

在全球化热潮中，我们要提防不同文化的冲突。
（
watch out for sth
）

In the rush to go for globalization, we should watch out for collision of cultures.
5.

这婴儿非常健康。
（
the picture of
）

The baby is the very picture of health.
6.

人们已经意识到儿童接触有关暴力和色情电视节目的危害。
（
expose
sb.
to sth
）

People have realized the dangers of exposing children to violence and sex on TV
.
7.

我们始终考虑到我们是为谁在制作这部影片。
(have in mind)

We always had in mind for whom we were making the film.


Unit 2
教学重点

一．课文句子：

1
．

There seems to be a natural cause-and-effect relationship between optimism and
success.
乐观与成功之间似乎有一种天然的因果关系。

2.
Optimism
and
pessimism
are
with
powerful
forces,
and
each
of
us
must
choose
which we want, so as to shape our outlook and our expectations.

乐观和悲观都具
有强大的力量，我们每个人必须选择其一，来塑造自己的前途和理想。





3. It’s our decision: From which perspective
do we want to view life? Will we look up
in
hope
or
down
in
despair?
这完全取决于我们自己：用什么样的眼光去看待生
活 ？是积极向上，还是垂头丧气？

4. I choose to highlight the positive and slip right over the negative.

对积极的东西
我浓墨重彩，对消极的东西则一笔带过。

5. But when all is said and done, I find that the good in life is far greater and more
important than the bad.
但是，
当一切尘埃落定，
我发现生命中的美好远比丑恶多。

6. The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, and how

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well you will get along with other people.
你看待生活的方式将决定你的感受、你
的表现以及你与他人相处得怎样。



7. When the world is seen as a hopeful, positive place, people are given the power to
attempt and to achieve.
人们若把世界看作光明与希望之地，他们将 被赋予努力进
取和成就功业的力量。

8.
You
can
be
an
optimist
and
still
recognize
that
problems
exist
and
that
some
of
them are not dealt with easily.
在保持乐观的同时，你仍然能意识到问题的存在，
意识到有些问题非常棘手。

9. One of the things I
’
m most thankful for is the fact that I have grown up in a nation
with a grand tradition of optimism.
最让我心存感激的一件事情，就是我生长的这
个国度有着伟大的乐观主义传统。

10. When you’re an optimist, you’re more concerned with problem
-solving than with
useless fault-finding.
乐观主义者更关心如何解决问题，
而不是毫无意义地怨天尤
人。

二．
Vocabulary
1
Don’t
just
make
a
negative
complaint
about
our
service;
give
us
some
(
positive
)
advice.
积极的

2
Viewed
from
an
international
(
perspective
),
it
appears
absolutely
essential
to
emphasize the importance of potential customers' needs in the developing countries.
观点

3 We can have many choices in life and the choices that we make will (
shape
) our life.
塑造

4 Efforts should be made to (
address
) the communication problem existing between
teenagers and their parents.
着手处理

5 That couple has endured so many emotional and financial (
crises
). It is amazing that
their marriage has lasted for so many years.
危险期


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6 Just
before the speech contest,
he fell ill
and
was not
able to participate in
it;
he
could only (
curse
) his luck.

咒骂



7 It is (
incredible
) that her four-year-old boy can write some 600 Chinese characters.
难以置信的

8 You can add the liquid to the power, or (
conversely
), the power to the liquid.
相反

9 The next big (
issue
) confronting the workers is the question of social security.
问题

10 There used to be various kinds of birds here, but now they are (
rare
) due to lake of
food resources.
罕见的

11 Is it true that visualizing a task by positive thinking helps to (
accomplish
) the task
better
？完成



三．课后翻译：

1.

只有那些有过类似经历的人，才能够完全理解这一点。
(live through)
Only those who have lived through a similar experience can fully appreciate this./ The
only people who can fully appreciate this are those who have lived through a similar
experience.
2.

科学家们一直没弄明白这些粒子是怎么形成、又是如何相互作用的。
(figure
out)
Scientists have been hard pressed to figure out how these particles form/are formed
and interact (with one another).
3.

团队环境中员工个人的成功能带来公司的成功。
(result in)
The individual success of the employees in a team environment results in success for
the company.
4.

这场战争，虽说从军事角度而言是成功的，却令经济几乎崩溃。
(in … terms)

The war, although successful in military terms, left the economy almost in ruins.

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