翻译练习3

翻译练习3

1. To break the ice, Ted spoke his interest in mountain climbing, and they soon had a conversation going.

2. The teenagers don’t invite Bob to their parties because he is a wet blanket.

3. While it may seem to be painting the lily, I should like to add somewhat to Mr.Alistair Cooke’s excellent article.

4. He had never expected that so many obstacles would stand on his way to success.

5. Among so many well-dressed and cultured people, the country girl felt like a fish out of water.

6. This was the last straw. I was very young: the prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.

7. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth; she thinks she can do what she likes.

8. When they met again, each had already married to another.

9. Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment.

10. As a human being, we should demonstrate our intellectual and moral superiority by respecting others for who they are -- instead of rejecting them for who/what they are not.

11. The teacher didn’t tell her students that in so many words, but obviously something about her attitude convinced them.

12. Newton created a planetary dynamics which was so successful that for many years scientists complained that nothing was left to be done.

13. It was really a mystery to the neighbors that Mary, the ugly woman, could succeed in ordering about her husband, the strong-armed blacksmith, well known far and wide, and having him where she wanted him.