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在却带上了镣铐

4.

He could not make a decision about the dress.

他对买不买衣

服下不了决心

5.

When in Rome , do as the Romans do.

入乡随俗

6.

He was timid about investing money.

他不敢投资

7.

The speaker switched the conversation from one subject to

another.

发言人转变了话题

8.

The

population

in

and

around

San Francisco

is

now

ten

times

more than t was in 190 6.

现今的旧金山市区和郊区的人口已是

1906

年的十倍以上

第五讲：正反转换

一、

英语正说，汉语反说

1.

He

’

s bad at getting along with his fellows.

2.

One careless, more loses the whole game.

一着不慎满盘皆输

3.

It pays to be honest.

老实人不吃亏

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4.

We have simply reached the limited of our patience.

我们简直到了忍无可忍的地步了

5.

My father went grey when he was in his late thirties.

我父亲不到四十岁就双鬓斑白了

6.

Time is what we want most , but what , alas , many use

< br>worst.

时间是我们最缺少的，

但可叹之至，

偏偏许多人最不善

于利用时间

7.

He appealed against the

judge’s

decision .

他不服法官

判决而上诉

二、

汉语反说，英语正说

Not

?

until

?

直到??才??

Hardly (scarcely)

?

when (before)

??刚??就??

.

Cannot

?

too

?再??也不 为过

1.

Words cannot describe the beauty of the scene.

用语言很难形容这优美的景色

2.

All the articles are untouchable in the museum.

博物馆内一切展品禁止触摸

3.

You can

’

t see through the telescope until it is adjusted

to

your

eyes.

只有把望远镜跳 到适合你的目光，你才能看见东西

4.

Don

’

t lose time in posting this letter.

赶快把信寄出去

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5.

Hardly a month goes by without traffic accidents occurred

in that city.

这个城市几乎月月都有交通事故

6.

You couldn

’

t turn on the TV without seeing advertisements

一打开电视，你就总会看见广告

7.

Such flight couldn

’

t long escape notice.

这类飞行迟早总会

被人发现的

三、

同一词语，肯定否定均可

1.

The place is strange to me.

2.

The station is no distance at all.

3.

It

’

s no less than a fraud.

这简直是场骗局

4.

The works of art were left intact , the money gone.

艺

术品还在，钱没有了

Practice:

1.

正说反译：

a)

The first bombs missed the target.

第一批炸弹没有击中目标

b)

I hate to say good-bye.

我真不想告辞

c)

My father will kill me when he finds out.

我把钥匙知道了绝

饶不了我

d)

The explanation is pretty thin.

这个解释相当不充分

e)

The newspaper accounts are far from being true

报纸的报道

远非事实

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f)

His mother is anything but angry.

他妈妈一点也不生气

2.

反说正译

：

a)

The doubt was still unsolved after his repeated

explanation

虽然他一再解释，疑团仍旧存在

b)

Students, with no exception, are to hand their papers

this afternoon.

今天下午学生统统要交作业

c)

No

one

but

a

great

philosopher

could

solve

such

a

question.

只有大思想家 才能解决这样的问题

d)

The significance of these incidents wasn

’

t lost on us.

这件事引起了我们的重视

e)

You can

’

t be too careful.

你要格外小心

f)

You can learn in on time at all.

你马上就学会了

3.

It was all I could do not to laugh.

我差点笑出来

He is no child at poker.

他是打牌老手

Nowadays, few academic lectures of traditional style rise

above dullness.

当今，多数传统模式的学术讲座都是乏味的

The problem is much alive.

这个问题远远没有解决

We must be content with moderate hopes.

我们不能抱有过高

的期望

---

“

Can we go swimming?

”

---I don

’

t see why not.

为什么不呢？

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第六讲：英语名词的译法

1.

Shortly after the family

’

s more to Lime Rock, paralysis

disabled

Captain

Lowes.

刘易斯 一家搬到莱姆洛克后不久，刘易

斯中尉就因中纷纷瘫痪

2.

Further delay would cause us great loses.

我们如果再耽搁，

将会蒙受很大损失

3.

Foresight

now

tells

us

that

travel

to

Mars

is

not

如果我们把眼光放长远一点，我们可知将来在火星 上旅行不无可

能

4.

A little forethought would have saved you much trouble

afternoon.

你如果事先略作打算，后来也不至于有那么多麻烦 、

5.

A man of less courage would not have dared to work inside

enemy

headquarters.

如果换一个勇气不足的人，就不敢在敌人心

脏里工作

6.

The

youth

cult

of

the

60s

is

fast

giving

way

to

an

older

and

more settled life style. 60

年代流行的青年至上风气，现在正

在迅速衰退，代之而起的 是一种较为老练，安定的生活方式

7.

Some say fear and caution are now a part of their daily

< br>routine.

有人说，现在总是提心吊胆的过日子

8.

What they wanted most was an end of uncertainties.

那是他

们最渴望的是结束这摇摆不定的局面

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9.

The sight of his native place called back his childhood.

见到自己的故乡，他想起了童年的情景

is Tsinghua vintage of 1996.

她是清华

1996

年毕业生

is the day for our two peoples to rise to the height

of greatness which can build a new and a better world.

现

在该是我们两国人民为缔造一个崭新的，更加美好的世界而攀登

这一伟大境界高 峰的时候了

is more to their life than political and social and

economic problem; more than transient everydayness.

< br>他们的

生活远不止那些政治的，社会的和经济的问题，远不止一时的柴

13.

They’d

tell

you!

They

know

every

loophole,

every

back-alley.

他们会告诉你的！他们都知道各种钻空子的办法，各种障眼法及

狡诈方法

is a bright student floundering because of poor study

habits.

她是个聪明学生，但因为学习习惯不良而学得很吃力

in Lebanon has become an institution.

在黎巴嫩， 打仗交

货已经司空见惯

professor

’

s scholarly paper published in the

authoritative paper has extraordinary depth and solidity.

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这位教授发表在该权威刊物上的学术论文立意及深，内容特别充

实

Practice:

a)

If the retired do not have pension big enough to live on,

their

children

in

the

sandwich

generation

will

have

to

bear

the financial burden longer.

退休人员如果没有足够的抚恤金，

他们的子女将面临上有老下有小的双重

b)

He

was

a

paradox ---a loner

who loved

to chat

to

strangers.

他是一个 矛盾人物

---

生性怪癖却又不喜欢和陌生人闲聊

c)

Exotic pets are the latest status symbol.

养珍禽异兽 是代表

社会地位的最时尚的方式

d)

His industry, perseverance and determination ultimately

brought him a rich harvest.

他 勤奋刻苦，坚持不懈，锲而不舍

是最终给他带来了丰硕的收获

e)

Pigs are a gamble this year.

今年养猪能否盈利，很难说准

家庭作业：

1.

The war was a paradigm of the evil and destructive side of

human nature.

这场战争充分显示了人性丑恶而又 具有破坏性的

一面

2.

That hasn

’

t happened in living me mory.

在世的人都不记得曾

经发生过这样的事

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