新标准大学英语2课后翻译

Unit 1

4 Translate the sentences into Chinese.

1 On university campuses in Europe, mass socialist or communist

movements gave rise to increasingly violent clashes between the

establishment and the college students, with their new and passionate

commitment to freedom and justice. (with their ⋯ and justice 部分最好提前，即先说学生的状况，再说学生与当权者的冲突。 ) 在欧洲的大学校园里，

大学生以新的姿态和激情地投入到自由和正义的事业中去，大规模的社会主义或共产主义运

动引发了他们与当权者之间日益升级的暴力冲突。

2 These days political, social and creative awakening seems to happen

not because of college, but in spiteof it. Of course, it ’ true that higher education is still important. s For example, in the UK, Prime

MinisterBlair was close to achieving his aim of getting 50 per cent of

all under thirties into college by 2010 (eventhough a cynic would say that this was to keep them off the unemployment statistics). 现在，政治、社

会和创造意识的觉醒似乎不是凭借大学的助力，而是冲破其阻力才发生的。当然，一点不假，高等教育仍然重要。例如，在英国，布莱尔首相几乎实现了到 2010 年

让50％的 30 岁以下的人上大学的目标，（即使愤世嫉俗的人会说，这是要把他们排除

在失业统计数据之外）。

3 I never hoped to understand the nature of my generation or how American colleges are changing by going to Lit Theory classes. This is the class where you look cool, a bit sleepy from too many late nights and wearing

a T-shirt with some iro nic comment such as “Been there, done that and

yes, this IS the T- shirt ”. （第二句的主句是强调句式，汉译应在句法上稍

做变通，以求类似强调语义的效果。 bit 以后的内容是进一步说明如何 look cool a 的，

汉译可加破折号表明关系。）我从没指望通过上文学理论课来了解我这一代人的特征，或了解

美国大学是如何在变化的。这门课是让你在课堂上

扮酷的——带着一丝熬夜太多的困劲儿，穿着一件 T 恤衫，上面印着“去过那

儿，干过那事儿，对，这就是那件T 恤衫”，或诸如此类带有讥讽意味的俏皮话。

4 We’re a generation that comes from what has been called the short

century (1914 －1989), at the end of a century of war and revolution which changed civilizations, overthrew repressive governments, and left us with extraordinary opportunities and privilege, more than any generation

before. ( 由 which 引导的从句比较难处理。可以在at the end of the century

of war and revolution 处拆句。前半部分讲“我们”所处的年代，后半部分讲这个世纪的特点。 ) 我们这一代人来自所谓的短世纪（ 1914－1989），生于其末尾。这个

世纪充满了战争和革命，它改变了人类文明，推翻了强权政府，给我们留下了非同寻常的机

会和特权，我们所得到的机会与特权比从前任何一代人都要多。

5 Translate the sentences into English.

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1政府采取的一系列措施不但没有化解矛盾，反倒激起更多的暴力冲突。反

对党联合工会发动了一次大罢工，最终导致政府的垮台。 (give rise to; form

an alliance with; launch;bring about) Instead of resolving contradictions, the series of measures taken by the government gave rise to more violent clashes. The Opposition formed an alliance with the trade unions and

launched a general strike, which ultimately brought about the

downfall of the government.

2如今，大学与现实世界的距离越来越小，学生也变得越来越实际。从前，大学是一个

象牙塔，学者追求的是学问本身而不是把学问作为达到目的的手段，

但这样的时代已经一去不复返了。(shrink;gone are the days; a means to an end) Nowadays, the gap between the university and the real world is

shrinking and the students are becoming more and more practical. Gone are the days when the university was an ivory tower in which scholars pursued knowledge as an end rather than a means to an end.

3我从未指望靠上课来学好这门课。但我确实去听课，因为在课上我能了解

这门课的重点，学会如何组织材料、如何推理。 (hope; by doing ⋯; the place where) I never hoped to learn the subject well by attending those lectures. But I did go to lectures, for it was the place where I could get the

important points of the course and learn how to organize materials and

how to reason.

4 我一直想方设法解决这个难题，但就是找不到满意的答案。可是当我去厨

房喝饮料的时候，我突然间灵机一动，意识到解决问题的方法实际上可能很简单。 (work out; click) Although I have been trying every means to solve

the problem, I cannot work out a satisfactory solution. But when I went

to the kitchen to get a drink, something clicked and mademe realize that the

solution might be quite simple.

Unit 2

Translate the sentences into Chinese.

1 Such motor mimicry, as it is called, is the original technical sense

of the word empathy as it was first used in the 1920s by E. B. Titchener,

an American psychologist. Titchener ’s theory was that empathy stemmed

from a sort of physical imitation of the distress of another, which then evokes the same feelings in oneself. （第一句较复杂，应先弄清句子的主

干，再根据各限定语的逻辑关系，按照汉语的语序来译。）这种所谓的运动神经模仿就是“同感”这个词于 20 世纪 20 年代由美国心理学家 E·B·铁钦纳首次使用时的原始技术含义。铁

钦纳的理论是：同感萌发自对他人痛苦的一种身体

模仿，这种模仿继而在自己心里引起同样的感受。

2 He sought a word that would be distinct from sympathy, which can be

felt for the general plight of another with no sharing whatever of what

that other person is feeling. Motor mimicry fades from toddlers ’repertoire at around two and a half years, at which point they realize

that someoneels e’s pain is different from their own, and are better able

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