《英汉翻译理论与实践》讲义之二十五abstractconcr

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Exercises:

1. All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

2. His indifference kept all the visitors away from the exhibition hall.

3. The pharmacologists are making a careful study of the allergy of the medicine.

4. All the irregularities of the students at that university resulted in punishment.

5. You should get rid of your foolhardiness.

6. John’s lightheartedness, however, did not last long.

7. The crime sent him into notoriety.

8. The black people were fighting against the segregation of the government.

9. Many changes take place during the transformation.

10. Her jealousy is the cause of her failure.

11. The dancing hall was filled with gayety.

12. We were all greatly moved by her loftiness.

13. There had been an ease of the international tension.

14. We should by no means neglect the evaporation of water in the reaction.

15. All the people were exasperated by his faultfinding.

16. No one is satisfied with his favoritism in his work.

17. There had been too much violence in Kosovo after the pullout of the Yugoslavia.

18. Your dejection will do no good to your health.

19. Preparations for the conference had been plagued by many problems.

20. The vague restless since boyhood remained.

21. Now birth control becomes a possibility.

22. His arrogance made everyone detest him.

23. Kissinger felt that Rogers was quibbling, but the lawyer in Nixon supported the quibble of a

fellow lawyer.

24. He felt the patriot rise within his breast.

25. He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge, and declared his own son guilty.

26. As she was going to thrust the dart at the baby in the cradle, the mother in her woke up.

27. Friends just couldn’t explain how the devil defeated the angel in the mind of such a long well

behaving man and made him commit such a crime.

28. Scientists fear that lots of Frankensteins might be made in the laboratories through cloning if

the governments don’t take effective measures to bar this kind of experiments.

29. McArthur, the anti-fascist hero, had never dreamed that the Korean War would be his

Waterloo, which would so gravely impair his reputation.

30. The irresistible temptations filled the boy with special longings. However, each time he is

going to cross the border, the soldier in him pulled him back.