英语三级翻译练习

1.As you are entering a new time in your life, you’ll have to ________. (适应新环境)

… adapt/adjust ( yourself) to a new environment

You must adapt to the norms of the society you live in.

在社会中生活就要遵循社会行为准则.

adapt for vt. 适宜(为...改编)

Difficult books are sometimes adapted for use in schools. -- 偏难的书籍有时候是为学校使用而改编的。

2.___________________ （我一提到他上次的失败经历）than he got angry and

shouted.

No sooner had I mentioned his last failure.

Scarcely ...when

Hardly ...when

Barely ...when

no sooner ...than

He had scarcely got home when it began to rain = Scarcely had he got home when it began to rain 他一回到家就开始下雨了

___to the bus stop when the bus suddenly pulled away.

A.They scarcely got

B.They had got scarcely 放在主词前面

C.Scarcely did they get

D.Scarcely had they got

3. We had to _________________ ( 忍受大量的噪音) when the children were at home.

Put up with /bear/tolerate a lot of noise

Catch up with

Keep up with

Come up with

A number of students are good students.

The number of students who come here is increasing.

A number of 和a great deal of 在意思上相同，但用法不一样。a number of 后面只能跟可数名词的复数形式，而a great deal of 后面只能跟不

可数名词。

例如：A number of accidents always occur on rainy days.雨天常常有许多事故发生。

A number of books are missing from the library.图书馆的一些书不见了。

I spent a great deal of my time on this work.我在这项工作上花了不少时间。

a great deal of 后接不可数名词

a number of 后接可数名词

e.g.There are a great number of students in the class.

There is a great deal of water in the pool.

因为there is a LOT of snow here in winter==there is LOTS of snow here in winter.====MUCH，所以：There is a large amount of

==large amounts OF==MUCH snow here in winter.(注意，谓语动词用is,不用ARE.)

4. We are all for your suggestion that ________ ( 会议应当延期)。…the meeting (should) be put off/ postponed

He get up early.

He gets up early everyday.

He got up early this morning.

… he get up early.

…he should get up early.

I suggested that he should get up early.

It is important for him to learn English.

It is important that he should learn English.

It is time to get up.

It is (high, about) time that he got up.

I suggest that the meeting be put off.

My suggestiong is that the meeting be put off.

My suggestiong that the meeting be put off.

It is suggested the meeting be put off.

Propose demand order command advise desire request require ask prefer recommend advocate (拥护，提倡), maintain (坚决主张)

Necessary , natural ,essential, strange, absurd, vital, advisable,