研究生精读汉译英下册

精读英语汉译英
第一单元：
1. 餐饮行业与电影行业的共同之处在于其小型企业的失败率很高。

The restaurant industry has one thing in common with the film industry: the high failure rate among its small businesses.
2. 现行的教育体制遭到了公众的批评，公众已经开始意识到这种体制给学生带来的危害The present educational system has been under attack from the public, who have begun to realize the harm the system has done to students.
3. 老师告诉这些大四学生他每次都会点名，因为这门课是必须要听的。

The professor told those seniors that he would take attendance every time because attendance at this course was compulsory.
我真想参加你的乔迁聚会。

但是很抱歉我无法去, 因为我有一大堆事情要做。

I’d love to go to your housewarming party, but I’m sorry I can’t make it because I’ve got a stack of things to do.
5. 中学辍学的年青人可以上夜校或通过电大和函授课程恢复他们的学业。

Youths who dropped out of middle school can resume their studies at night school or through television and correspondence courses.
6. 她不喜欢那位著名作家的讲座，但她为了在讲座后得到他的签名还是耐着性子听完了。

She didn’t like the famous writer’s lecture, but she stuck it out to get the writer’s autograph after the lecture.
7. 我对讲座制所体现的冷漠无情非常失望，但是最终我还是无奈接受了它，并耐心等待成为大三的学生
I was disappointed at the impersonality of the lecture system, but eventually I grew resigned to the system and waited patiently to become a junior.
8. 我们不得不承认讲座体制会把教师和学生天真的问题隔绝开来，而这些问题很可能会引起学生很多有用的想法。

We have to admit that the lecture system in sulates a teacher from students’ naive questions, which could have triggered a line of useful thought.
9. 我不同意那些评论家的意见。

你得出的结论绝不是没有价值的。

对我而言，这些结论很有道理。

I don’t agree with those critics’ opinions. Your conclusions are far from worthless; they make
a good deal of sense to me.
10. 为了学生本身的缘故，应该在第一节课就告诉他们这门课的目的，内容以及要通过这门课的要求。

For the sake of the students, they should be told on the first class about the objective and content of the course and the requirements to pass the course.
第二单元：
1. 这一地区的每一角落都将在5年内得到供电, 这是电力部长2年前许下的诺言。

Every nook and corner of the region would be provided with electricity in five years. This was the pledge that the minister of electricity had taken two years ago.
2.由于要在不同地区做实地考察工作, 他去年一年搬了4次家，虽然他每次都搬得很不情愿。

In order to do field work at different places, he moved four times last year, though each time he did it with an ill grace.
3. 在离开这个杂乱无序、毒品充斥的小镇前，他把自己所有值钱的家当都放到一起并按一定的秩序存放了起来。

Before leaving this disordered, drug-ridden small town, he gathered together in one place all his valuable possessions and introduced some semblance of order among them.
4. 她小时候家境贫寒，没有几件对她来说有意义的东西，所以她拥有过的每一个玩具都能勾起她串串回忆
Her family was poor when she was a child. The things that mattered a great deal to her were very few. Therefore, every toy she had played with could evoke a rush of memories.
5. 整整一个小时，警察们在拥挤的楼群里艰难地行进，寻找一位射杀了5人的在逃持枪者。

For an hour, policemen threaded their way through the crowded buildings, looking for an elusive gunman who had shot five people.
6.对很多人来说，旅行或离家外出一段时日是应对日常单调乏味生活的一个有效手段。

For many people, traveling or staying away from home for some time is an effective antidote to the humdrum activities of everyday life.
7. 当今妇女比以前享有更加自由、独立的地位，因此她们越来越不愿意屈从于丈夫的专横暴虐
Women today enjoy a freer, more independent position than ever before, and are accordingly less and less willing to submit to the tyranny of their husbands.
8. 心绞痛常常是心脏病的前兆，需要特别治疗，主要是药物治疗。

Angina pectoris is often a prelude to a heart attack and requires special treatment, primarily with drugs
9. 我们决定挖空这些大圆木，以便更多的人能坐在里面并乘坐他们顺河而下。

We decide to hollow out the great logs so that more men could sit inside them and ride in them down the river
10. 这场大火把宫殿里所有东西都毁掉了。

没有一件华丽的镶嵌着金银的家具幸存下来The fire destroyed everything in the palace. Nothing of the magnificent furniture, studded with gold and silver, has survived.
第三单元：
1.由生物多样性的丧失而引起的对人类和地球的威胁和由气候变化所带来的危险一样大。

The threat to humanity and the planet posed by biodiversity loss is as great as the dangers presented by climate change.
2.收到年轻读者表达他们对被囚动物的关心的信，并询问他们能帮助做什么，我们总是很高兴。

We are always happy to hear from young readers expressing concern for animals in captivity and asking what they can do to help.
3.这两个最盛行的理论都认为恐龙之所以灭绝是因为地球大气和温度的变化而造成的。

The two most popular theories both say that dinosaurs died out because of changes in the earth’s atmosphere and temperature.
4.这场森林大火最终被消防队所控制住了，花费将近50万美元。

The forest fire was finally brought under control by the fire-fighting crews at a cost of nearly half a million dollars.
5.植物根茎能够固定土壤，使之不会被雨水冲蚀。

Plant roots can hold the soil in position and prevent it from being washed away by the rain water.
6.健康的生态系统以能源、营养物质、有机物质和水的可持续更替为特点。

Healthy ecosystems are characterized by sustainable turnovers of energy, nutrients, organic matter and water.
7. 在世界野生动物基金会一份新的报告中，科学家警告说全球变暖可能在今后20年中灭绝北极熊。

In a new report by the WWF, scientists have warned that global warming could kill off polar bears within the next 20 years.
8. 犁过的地对流水没有防范能力，因而珍贵的表土常常在大雨和洪水中被冲走
Plowed fields don’t have any protection against running water, and often the valuable topsoil is carried away during heavy rains or floods.
9.这个花园比前两天要安静多了，但周围还是有很多各式各样的鸟。

The garden was considerably quieter than it had been the previous two days, but there were still a good variety of birds around.
10. 尽管有不同的预计，但总体上人们认为用于制作现代药品的活性成分有大约30%到40%是从植物中提取的，或同植物有关。

While estimates differ, it is generally believed that around 30%–40% of the active ingredients used in modern medicines are derived from, or related to, plants.
第四单元：
1. 经过五年的实践, 他现在对同国际投资和贸易相关的法律事务已很在行了。

Having practiced for about 5 years, he is now adept at legal issues relating to international investment and trade.
2. 根据一项调查，X一代对退休后依靠社会保障持怀疑态度。

和先辈们相比，他们早已开始在为退休而省钱了。

According to a survey, Gen Xers are skeptical about relying on Social Security when they retire. They began saving for retirement early compared with their predecessors.
3. 通过这种轻松舒适的脚摩治疗，你白天所有的烦恼压力好象都消失了。

All the cares and stresses of your day seem to fade away under the relaxing and comfortable treatment of foot massage.
4. 研究表明大部分员工都很看重他们卓有成效的工作能够得到认可或赞赏。

Studies show that most employees place a high value on being recognized or being complimented for a job well done.
5. 急诊室里挤满了来看常见病的病人，因为他们没有固定的医生。

Emergency rooms were clogged with patients who came for treatment of relatively routine medical problems because they didn’t have a regular doctor.
6. 任何一个试图训练或帮助一名新技术经理转变角色成为领导的人都可以从这本书中获得有用的想法。

Anyone trying to coach or help a new technical manager make the transition to a leadership role can get useful ideas from this book.
7. 大多数时候如果你走捷径完成一个项目，结果则需要你做一些修补工作,而其所花的时间会是你走捷径所省下的时间的两倍。

Most of the time when you take a short cut for completing a project you will end up doing
some repair work later that will take double the time you saved by the short cut.
8. 那些不能在个人和职业生活之间设置合理界限的员工是不能理解生活和工作的意义的。

Employees who fail to set appropriate boundaries between their personal and professional lives will not be able to understand the meaning of life and work.
9. 这一运动的目的是训练人们在面对危险时有序而职业地作出反应。

The purpose of the exercise was to train staff to react in a disciplined and professional manner when in the presence of danger.
10. 大多数X一代人都有放弃职业发展而花费更多时间来陪妻子和孩子的愿望,特别是在他们孩子还小的那几年。

Most Gen Xers have the desire to forgo career advancement for more time with their wife and children, especially in the early years of their children’s lives.
第六单元：
1. 在追求幸福的过程中，人们注定要遭受许多挫折。

People are preordained to suffer many frustrations in their quest for happiness.
2. 美国是一个雄心勃勃的民族。

各行各界的人们都面临着力求出类拔萃的激烈竞争压力。

American is an ambitious nation. People from every walk of life face the pressure of fierce competition to excel.
3. 当天买卖股票投机是一种危险的谋财之道。

Day trading is a dangerous way of trying to make a fortune.
4. 数百万人怀着暴发致富的幻想花钱买彩票。

Millions of people have a fantasy about getting rich quick and spend money on lotteries.
5. 人们担心如果军备竞赛失控，世界局势将进一步恶化。

There is a fear that if the arms race gets out of hand, the world situation will be worse off. 6. 为了保护自己免遭失败的痛苦就放弃自己的抱负是不明智的。

It is not sensible to give up one’s own ambition in order to shield oneself from the bitterness of failure.
7. 许多人拼命挣钱，因为金钱可以买到大房子、小汽车、大屏幕电视以及其他被认为代表地位和身份的消费品。

Many people strain to earn money because money can buy big houses, cars, big-screen TVs and other consumer products which are considered symbols of status and identity.
8. 为了实现我们的抱负而努力奋斗是值得的。

It pays to exert ourselves to fulfill our own ambitions.
9. 十年前大多数中国人还买不起的手机现在已成为很普及的生活必需品。

The cell phone, which was beyond the reach of the majority of the Chinese people a decade ago, has now become a widely owned daily necessity.
10. 自从得到了晋升以后，她就表现得自命不凡。

不过在我看来，她只不过是个微不足道的小人物。

She acts as if she were someone since she was promoted. But to me, she is a mere nobody.
第七单元：
1. 美国人渴望新的未开发地带，在那里他们可以摆脱任何束缚，自由自在。

Americans hanker after new frontiers where they can be free of any constraints and be themselves.
2. 令年轻人神往的正是在网上冲浪时获得的那种自由的感觉。

What captures young people’s imagination is precisely the sense of freedom they ge t while surfing the Internet
3. 不论种族、文化和社会经济地位，每个人都能够在网络空间找到一个由与自己志趣相投的人所组成的社区。

Regardless of their race, culture and socioeconomic status, everyone can find a community of likeminded people in cyberspace.
4. 虚拟社区宁愿由自己而不是由世俗政府建立和执行社区行为规范。

Virtual communities prefer to set and enforce community standards by themselves rather than by the terrestrial government.
5. 网络空间类似于现实世界，包括从购物中心、学校区到红灯区等各种各样的地方。

Cyberspace is akin to the terrestrial world, which includes various places ranging from shopping malls, school districts to red-light zones.
6. 只有满足自己成员需要的网络社区才能够繁荣兴旺。

Only cyberspace communities that cater to the needs of their members will prosper.
7. 随着远距离通信技术的发展，世界不久将联合成为一个地球村。

With the development of telecommunications technology, the union of the world into a global village is at hand.
8. 免费下载知识财产在互联网使用者中十分普遍。

It is prevalent among Internet users to download intellectual properties for free.
9. 互联网上的讨论组主持人的职责是防止广告和无关信息进入论坛。

The job of the moderator of a discussion group on the Internet is to keep out advertisements and unrelated materials of the forum.
10. 言论自由的拥护者往往贸然断定任何形式的政府管理都将妨碍他们的自由。

Advocates of free speech tend to jump to the conclusion that any form of government regulation will interfere with their freedom.
第八单元：
1. 一个懒惰的人容易才思枯竭，因为他总不用脑思索。

A lazy pe rson is apt to get his mind impoverished because he doesn’t make use of his intelligence all the time.
2. 看到这张照片，我仿佛回到了无忧无虑的学生时代。

This photo conjures up memories of my carefree school days.
3. 他意识到他已经被大家看成是打杂跑腿的了。

He realizes now he’s been typecast as an e xecutive errand boy.
4. 这个协会的目标就是为了让传统的家具设计技艺永世流传。

The goal of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design.
5. 成见通过用巨大的、可以辨别的剪图来掩盖这个纷杂喧闹的大千世界，并以此来减轻我们的脑力劳动。

Stereotypes economize on our mental effort by covering up the blooming, buzzing confusion with big recognizable cutouts.
6. 真正的改变是一个漫长的过程：现实的点点滴滴汇入我们的脑海，直到它们渐渐带有模糊不清的生活本质。

The true process of change is a slow one that adds bits and pieces of reality to the pictures in
our heads, until gradually they take on some of the blurriness of life itself.
7. 这位著名的女演员告诉记者说她在成名前特别快乐。

The famous actress said to the reporter that she was perfectly happy until fame was thrust upon her.
8. 他的一个密友警告他，如果他继续买些没用的东西就有破产的危险。

One of his intimate friends warns him that he is in danger of losing all his money if he continues to buy useless items.
9. 通过对这个项目各个方面的仔细研究，他们发现成功完成的可能性极大。

Having delved deeply into all aspects of the project, they find that there is every prospect of success.
10.他们记得的是全班最不听话的坏孩子犯了错误，因为在记忆中他们是少数不合群的学生。

It was the unpopular members of the class —the ―bad guys‖ — they remembered as being out of step.。