绿卡通行制 翻译练习 (附参考答案) (09级学生使用)

翻译练习一（英译汉）：一、将下列句子译成汉语：1. It's more a poem than a picture.2. He drank himself out of the best lines.3. He pretends to be as modest as anything.4. Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft.5. The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it.6. Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus to Hattiesburg.7. If you feel depressed at a social gathering, keep it a secret.8. The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of age.9. He wants a lawyer who understands his case, who sympathizes with him and who has been there himself.10. World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity.11. She couldn't have come at a better time. 12. She has been a widow only six months.13. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn. 14. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too.15. The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality.16. From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colours as there are different wave lengths.17. But the next century we'll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. 18. 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.19. He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death.20. No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a tyrant.21. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.22. The expectation of collision informed British frontier policy in this period.23. Every day now, the suppression of truth and the organizing of public ignorance shame journalism.24. I walked to the ticket counter. When the ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour,violently so.25. Accident may put a decisive blunderer in the right, but eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man ofthe best parts, if cursed with indecision.26. In their rush, these companies have neglected the hardest part of doing business in China: the people part. Theresult is that many have jeopardized their performance in the long run.27. Let it deceive them, then, a little longer; it cannot deceive them too much.28. We shall never get anywhere with all the criticism and fault finding. I believe in the principle "Live and letlive".29. He said that no one could beat him at tennis, but he had to eat his word after losing several games.30. I had read too many novels and had learned too much at school not to know a good deal about love.31. In fact, one office-system expert recently said that he had yet to encounter a business work place that wasfunctioning at more than 60 percent efficiency.32. Nobody with any sense expects to find the whole truth in advertisement any more than he expects a manapplying for a job to describe his shortcomings and serious faults.33. There is probably no better way for a foreigner (or an Englishman) to appreciate the richness and variety ofthe English language than by studying the various ways in which Shakespeare used it.34. We are human and human beings are far from perfect. To be human implies that we will make mistakes. Butit's more than that we feel human. We now feel entitled.35. She showered us with telegrams. 36. Your comment is more bravely made than correct.37. The man, more dead than alive, was brought in and locked in the cellar.38. Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.39. There was something original, independent, and heroic about the plan that pleased all of them.40. It was a dry, cold hand, and the grip was severe, with more a feeling of bones in it than friendliness.二、将下列语段译成汉语：1.Transplant surgeons work miracles. They take organs from one body and integrate them into another, granting the lucky recipient a longer, better life. Sadly, every year thousands of other people are less fortunate, dying while they wait for suitable organs to be found. The terrible constraint on organ transplantation is that every life extended depends on the death of someone young enough and healthy enough to have organs worth transplanting. Such donors are few. The waiting lists are long, and getting longer.2.Freedom from this constraint is the dream of every transplant surgeon. So far attempts to make artificial organs have been disappointing: nature is hard to mimic. Hence the renewed interest in trying to use organs from animals.3. Doctors in India have just announced that they have successfully transplanted a heart from a pig into a person. Pressure to increase the number of such xenotransplants（异种器官移植）seems to be growing. In Europe and America, herds of pigs are being specially bred and genetically engineered for organ donation. During 1996 at least two big reports on the subject -- one in Europe and one in America -- were published. They agreed that xenotransplants were permissible on ethical grounds，and cautiously recommended that they be allowed. America's Food and Drug Administration has already published draft guidelines for xenotransplantation.4. The ethics of xenotransplantation are relatively unworrying. People already kill pigs both for food and for sport; killing them to save a human life seems, if anything, easier to justify.However, the science of xenotransplantation is much less straightforward.5. I'll never forget the feeling I got one winter night as I walked the deserted streets after many grueling hours at the hospital. I suddenly realized that I no longer felt tense or tired. All the worries about my patients' illnesses, as well as my own personal cares, seemed to evaporate as quickly as the smoky vapor of my breath in the frosty night.As I incorporated walking into my schedule, not only were my spirits lifted, but my weight and blood pressure were gradually reduced. I began reviewing the medical literature on walking. From this research, and my clinical observations as a family physician, I found that it is possible to walk your way to better health, a trimmer body and a longer life -- no matter what your age.（翻译练习一英译汉）参考答案：一、将下列句子译成汉语：1. 与其说那是一幅画，不如说那是一首诗。