基础英语期末翻译题

1. He is so devoted to his research that it never occurs to him that he will soonhave to retire.2. Many people have observed that, without effective checks, we all have atendency to abuse our power.3. Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent any foreigninterference.4. The control of sand storms will involve a tremendous amount of work andmoney.5. You have to take the local conditions into consideration when you apply thesetechnologies.6. All applicants will have to fill out these forms and mail in an application fee of 50dollars.7. Based on his careful observation of children’s behavior, he came to theconclusion that learning is a natural pleasure.8. In a country of many nationalities, ethnic harmony requires very carefulhandling.9. The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials involved.10. Cheating in/on exams does not occur very often. But when it does, the school takes a very tough position.1. I suspect that the book might not be in print. I checked with the bookstorepeople, and they told me that I was right. The book had been out of print for years.2. One memorable story in the novel concerns how Liu Bei tried not to rouse CaoCao’s suspicion about his ambitions, because if he did his l ife would be at stake.3. When Cao Cao called him a real hero, Liu Bei was so shocked that he droppedhis chopsticks. But he cleverly covered up his suspicious behavior.4. The first suspect was the victim’s son. The police suspected him of murderinghis father because the neighbors had heard them fighting on the night of the killing.5. In learning, the important thing is not to commit everything to memory, butto use your imagination and think creatively as well as critically.6. He must have been the funniest burglar imaginable. He broke into a house,ate and drank to his heart’s content, and remained dead drunk until discovered the next morning, with a perfectly content look on his face.7. I have trouble remembering people’s names. I imagine it mu st result from oldage.8. We often live under many imaginary threats and feel disheartened as a result.9. I suspected we teachers sometimes underestimate students’ mentalcapacities. Young people actually have very imaginative minds.1. Where there’s a will there is a way.2. As the saying goes, behind every great/successful man there stands a woman.3. There was a time in this town when the residents didn’t have to lock theirdoors at night.4. On his first day at school, the boy realized that there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home.5. Nelson Mandela says in his autobiography: Sometimes there is nothing one can do to save something that must die.6. There’s something to be said for/about living in an out-of-the-way place in the mountains.7. There is no telling what those terrorists might do next. We must be on the lookout all the time.8. There were too many things to consider before the family decided to immigrate to Australia.9. There is something in the b oy’s aggressive behavior that is worrying his parents.10. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Don’t feel entitled to anything you haven’t sweated and struggled for.1. I suspect that the book might not be in print. I checked with the bookstore people, and they told me that I was right. The book had been out of print for years.2. One memorable story in the novel concerns how Liu Bei tried not to rouse Cao Cao’s suspicion about his ambitions, because if he did his life would be at stake.3. When Cao Cao called him a real hero, Liu Bei was so shocked that he dropped his chopsticks. But he cleverly covered up his suspicious behavior.4. The first suspect was the victim’s son. The police suspected him of murdering his father because the neighbors had heard them fighting on the night of the killing.5. In learning, the important thing is not to commit everything to memory, but to use your imagination and think creatively as well as critically.6. He must have been the funniest burglar imaginable. He broke into a house, ate and drank to his heart’s content, and remained dead drunk until discovered the next morning, with a perfectly content look on his face.7. I have trouble remembering people’s names. I imagine it must result from old age.8. We often live under many imaginary threats and feel disheartened as a result.9. I suspected we teachers sometimes underestimate students’ mental capacities. Young people actually have very imaginative minds.1. They all stretched their necks to see what was happening, as if pulled by an invisible string.2. We got out of the car to stretch a little. In front of us was a beautiful stretch of open land.3. They talked for hours as a stretch, but they still failed to settle theirdifferences.4. For all the warm weather, fresh air and delicious food, her health still did notrecover.5. One glance at the car, and he knew that it was beyond repair. He looked aheadand found the desert stretching as far as the eye could see without a soul in sight. He knew he was in a terrible fix.6. Wu Song swung his stick at the tiger with all his strength. But the sticksnapped and the tiger was unharmed. In his panic, he had hit the tree nearby.7. I am terribly fond of the pictures you snapped in Russia, especially the oneshowing the Russian coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees.8. ---“You can’t just let it go at that,” I tried to plead with him.---“It is none of your business,” he snapped.9. He snapped his brie fcase to, stood up and said, “Then it’s all settled.”10. He was standing in front of his house on a hill, only about a hundred metersapart/away from the wharf when the tsunami came.1. The hungry boy wolfed down the leftover corn bread as though it was his favorite king prawns.2. What remains in his mind of his high school days is nothing but endless roundsof tests and exams.3. I don’t think the resolution is in accord with the purpose of the organization.That’s why I voted as I did.4. He doesn’t understand what it is that makes his grandson so crazy about microblogging.5. I remember the details about the incident as though it was yesterday.6. What remained of her home after the tornado was the land the house was built on.7. That’s why he behaved as he did when he witnessed the car crash this morning.8. They are trying to figure out what it was that turned one of the twin brothers into a criminal, the other an excellent policeman.9. When he found a particularly strong rice plant he was very happy as though he had discovered a gold mine.10. Now that he’s quite well-off, he has decided to get in touch with what remains of his family.1. Only in this way can we give a reasonable account of his strange behavior.2. She claims to possess a magic power—the power to cure diseases simply by the touch of her hand.3. He appointed five people to handle the case. They formed a strong team.Within days they found the suspect possessed rolls of euros, US dollars and large quantities of valuables, the source of which he could not account for.4. In the story, this evil spirit often appears in the form of a pretty young lady.5. He rolled up the painting and said that he wouldn’t part with it for less thana million dollars.6. Of all the qualified judges, I don’t know why she was appointed to the Supreme Court.7. I don’t know enough to form an elaborate theory, but I’m sure that poverty alone cannot account for the increase of the crime rate.8. A big stone suddenly rolled down the hill, so big that it smashed the truck to pieces.9. I said that we must roll up our sleeves and start working, but he just rolled his eyes philosophically and smiled.10. In ancient times, our philosophers believed that a good king should be to the people as a good father is to his children. He must never treat them cruelly on any account.。