英语复合句的翻译)练习

Translation Exercises: (英语复合句的翻译)

I. Sentence Translation:

1.Although television was developed for broadcasting, many important uses have been found that have nothing to do with it.

2. This happens when a fact is discovered which seems to contradict what the “law” would lead one to expect.

3. There’s a possibility we will go, but it all depends on the weather.

4. Why he left wasn’t important.

5. It was uncertain whether he would come or not.

6. It’s strange that he knows nothing about it.

7. When he’ll be back depends much on the weather.

8. Whether we’ll succeed remains to be seen.

9. It hasn’t been announced who are the winners.

10. It’s no business of yours where I spend my summer.

11. It’s amazing that he should have said nothing about the murder.

12. It was a mystery how the burglar got in.

13. It’s a puzzle how life began.

14. What will be, will be.

15. Whoever come will be welcome.

16. Whichever of you comes in first will receive a prize.

17. Their first idea was that he had hidden it.

18. The reason that Hollywood was a good place for making movies was that the sun shines there every day.

19. The question is who is responsible for what has happened.

20. That is why the sound of an approaching train can be heard in the steelrails long before its being heard through the air.

21. The reason that the light from the flashlight will not bounce off a rough brick wall, as it does from a smooth wooden wall, is that the light is sent off in different directions by the uneven surface of the bricks.

22. There was no doubt that he was a fine scholar.

23. We received a message that he would be absent.

24. We have proof that this man committed the crime.

25. I had impression that she chose her words with care.

26. He presented evidence that his thesis was based on original research.

27. I’ve come to the conclusion that it won’t be wise to do so.

28. There is rumour that you have resigned.

29. They received assurance that the Union would stand by them.

30. Kate begged them to give the money to Tom, who must want it, while she lacked for nothing.

31. The idea of a fish being able to generate electricity strong enough to light small bulbs, even to run an electric motor, is almost unbelievable.

32. Since the molecules of a gas are much too far from each other to repel or attract each other, it is very easy to compress a gas, while a solid or liquid is almost incompressibble, because the repulsion of the electrical charges of which its atoms are made up are far stronger than any force we can apply.

33. The resistance of any length of a conducting wire is easily measured by finding the potential difference in volts between its ends when a known current is flowing.

34. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.

35. In reality, the lines of division between sciences are becoming blurred, and science is again approaching the “unity” that it had two centuries ago---although the accumulated knowledge is enormously greater now, and no one person can hope to comprehend more than a fracton of it.

36. The lungs are subjected to several diseases which are treatable by surgery.

37. How these two things---energy and matter---behave, how they interact one with the other, and how people control them to serve themselves make up the substance of two basic physical sciences, physics and chemistry.

38. We are finally led to the conclusion that if the resistance of the floor could be entirely removed any horizontal force could start the box moving and once started, it would continue to move indefinitely unless a force were exerted to stop it.

39. The first method is to give a synonym, a word that has nearly the same meaning as the word you wish to define: face for countenance, nervousness for anxiety.

40. Behaviourists, in contrast, say that difference in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy.

41. The food supply will not increase nearly enough to match this, which means that we are heading into a crisis in the matter of producing and marketing food.

42. Anyone who thinks that rational knowledge need not be derived from perceptual knowledge is an idealist.

43. In office, figures, lists and information are compiled which tell the managers or heads of the