英译汉材料

翻译综合练习
I. 语篇翻译练习：
1. I take heart [鼓起勇气（或信心），振作起来] from the fact that, the enemy, which boasts that it can occupy the strategic point (战略要地) in a couple of hours, has not yet been able to take even the outlying regions（边沿地区，外围地区）, because of the stiff（强烈的，猛烈地）resistance that gets in the way (阻挡).
2. The people were there, and the land—the first dazed (使茫然) and bleeding and hungry, and when, winter came, shivering in their rags in the hovels（陋屋）which the bombings had made of their homes; the second a vast wasteland（废墟）of rubble（碎石，碎砖，破瓦）.
II. 文学文体翻译练习：
1．(散文) The Special Joys of Super-slow Reading
I took home a briefcase full of troubles. As I sat down on that hot and humid（湿的，湿气重的）evening, there seemed to be no solutions to the problems thrashing（翻来覆去）around in my brain. So I picked up a book, settled（停息，停留）into a comfortable chair and applied my own special therapy—super-slow reading.
I spent three or four hours on two short chapters of Personal History by Vincent Sheean（维森特·谢安）—savoring（品尝，欣赏）each paragraph, lingering（逗留，徘徊）over a sentence, a phrase or even a single word, building a detailed mental picture of the scene. No longer was I in Sydney, Australia on a sticky（湿热的）heat wave night. Relishing（欣赏，玩味）every word, I joined foreign correspondent（记者）Sheean on a mission [使命，任务，（此处）专程访问] to China, and another to Russia. I lost myself in the author’s world. And when I put it down, my mind was totally refreshed (使精力恢复，使精神振作).
Next morning, four words from the book—“take the long view”—were still in my mind. At my desk, I had a long-view look at my problems. Once more, super-slow reading had given me not only pleasure but perspective (正确观察事物相互关系的能力，眼力), and helped me in my everyday affairs.
2.(小诗) Slowly
（Mary Coleridge）
Heavy is any my heart,
Dark are thine eyes.
Thou and I must part,
Ere the sun rise.
Ere the sun rise，
Thou and I must part.
Dark are thine eyes，
Heavy is any my heart.
III. 应用文体翻译：
1．商业信函翻译：
（1）
Dear Sirs,
We are keen to expand our export to Africa of top-class office furniture, and are looking for suitable agents to represent us. If you are interested in having the Kenya agent for a twelve-month trial period, we should be pleased to send you the draft agreement stating the terms and conditions of the agency.
We enclose for your information a copy of our latest catalogue and price list.
We are looking forward to your reply at an early date.
Yours faithfully
（2）
Dear Sirs,
We have learned from Market Information Paper that you are a well-known supplier of electric heaters in China. It is our desire to deal with you. We are now in the market for 600 sets of electric heaters. We wonder whether you are in a position to meet our requirements. If your answer is in the affirmative，please quote us your best price CIF London, stating the earliest date of shipment, specifications, packing, payment terms, etc. Besides, kindly let us know the commission and discount you will allow. Besides, it is appreciated if you could send us your catalogue.
Your early reply will be appreciated.
Yours faithfully
2. 广告翻译练习
(1) Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.
(2) Flowers by Inter-flora speak from the heart.
(3) Once tasted，always loved.
(4) Big thrills. Small bills.
(5) Good to the last drop！（NESCAFE）
（6）A diamond is forever.
(7) We’re not in the computer business. We’re in the results business.
(8) A Modern Car for a Modern Driver
（9）Apple thinks different
（10）Tasting is believing.
IV. 新闻文体翻译练习:
（标题）
1. World Eyes Mid-East Peace Talks
2. Australia Makes Bid (企图；努力；争取) to Lure (吸引) More Asian Tourists
（正文）
Leaders of demonstrators accused the government of trying to hinder the teach-in by hastily organizing pop concerts and commandeering the city’s mobile toilets.
(teach-in [美]（大学师生对政府政策，尤其是外交政策，进行讨论或辩论的）宣讲会/ commandeer [美口] 强占/ accuse somebody of something 指责，谴责（某人）某事)
V. 科技文体翻译练习:
（专业科技文章）
1. Steel is usually made where the iron ore is melted, so that the modern steelworks forms a complete unity, taking in raw materials and producing all types of cast iron and steel, both for sending to other works for further treatment, and as finished products such as joists and other consumers。

(Take in 包含，包括/ joists 工字钢)
2. The reason that a neutral body is attracted by a charged body is that, although the neutral body is neutral within itself, it is not neutral with respect to the charged body, and the two bodies act as
if oppositely charged when brought near each other.
（with respect to 关于，就…而言/ charge 带电）
3. The foundation of the machine should not be constructed at a place of conspicuous （明显的）temperature change, due to direct sunshine, excessive heat or vibration, or at a place contaminated with soil and dust particles (微粒)（译文1）
（科普文章）
There are three theories about the birth of the moon. In the first, the moon is thought to have formed somewhere in space, after which it wandered until captured by the earth’s gravitational field. The second theory is that the moon was once part of earth, then split off and went into orbit. In the third theory, the moon is believed to have developed as a separate body at the same time as earth, perhaps from materials left over from the formation of earth. But, whatever the birth of the moon was like, most scientists agree that the moon became a satellite of the earth soon after the two bodies were formed. That would make the moon about 4.5 billion years old.。