笔译练习题 Contrast Study of English and Chinese

1 原文：We’d appreciate it if you could airmail us the relative literatures as soon as possible.

2．原文：The speed of an aeroplane is, to some degree, associated with the shape of its body and wings.

3．原文：Shortly after receiving the news of Mussolini’s death, Hi tler began to make the final preparations for him. He had his favorite Alsatian dog poisoned and two other dogs in the household shot.

Then he called in his two remaining women secretaries and handed them capsules of poison to use if wished to when the advancing Russians broke in.

4．原句：Aggression took many forms: the unilateral denunciation of treaties and international commitments, interference in the internal affairs of other states, the use of threats against weaker neighbors, the imposition of unequal relationships, outright armed attack against the territories of other states and their dismemberment, the subjugation of colonial people and the denial of the right of self-determination and fundamental human rights.

5．原文：经常接触某人或某物往往会使人喜欢上那个人或事物，而不是越来越瞧不起他

6．原文：一个女人只要不是明显的驼背，机会一到，就可以想嫁给谁就嫁给谁。7．原文：From nuclear safety to food additives, we are bombarded with often contradictory and confusing information about risks.

8．本地区严禁砍伐松林

9．原文：不入虎穴，焉得虎子

10．原文：Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today.

11．原文：The business of a business is business.

12．原文：I avail myself of this opportunity to express to you, Excellency, the assurance of my highest consideration.

13．原文：水能载舟，亦能覆舟。

14．原文：The metal was cooled in the air, having been heated to a definite temperature in the furnace.

15．原文：一旦机器出现故障，就把电门关上。

16．原文：像她那么漂亮的姑娘竟爱上了这么一个丑八怪，真有意思! 17．原文：Our life is a brief span measuring some sixty or seventy in all, but nearly one half of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some over dressing and undressing;

some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking, either on our own account or for the sake of others;

some in celebrating religious and social festivities; some in watching over the sickbeds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends we shall find about fifteen or twenty years at our disposal for active work.

18．原文：That famous scientist is getting married again. The bride is

only 24, while the scientist is already 70. That’s really another May-to-December marriage.

19．原文：She showed up in a graceful manner, gleaming with jewelry. 20．原文：They were all hot-headed types. They bugged and bugged and bugged each other and half an hour later they were playing cards, calmly and jollily as if nothing had happened.

21．原文：In my favorite photo we are on the step of our new home, wearing red baseball caps and toothy smiles.

22原句：By changing daily food and randomly selecting clothes, we avoid establishing a pattern of life.

23已经拟定了一份新的课程纲要

24．原句：As we lived near the road, we often had the traveler or stranger visit us to taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had reputation, and I confess, with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them to find fault with it.

25．原句：A son, a job and housekeeping forced romance out. 26．原文：Mr. Brown is a very white man. He was looking rather green the other day. He has been feeling blue lately. When I saw him he was in a brown study. I hope he’ll soon be in the pink again.

27．原文：If Main Street didn’t understand this, Wall Street did. 28．原文：The property he left was the apple of discord among his four daughters.