浙江专升本英语翻译练习宝典(含答案)

专升本英语翻译练习宝典

单句翻译训练

1.The threat of any kind of power failure usually puts fear into the hearts of many

people.

2.I once came near being drowned in the attempt to swim across this river.

3.The tape recorder can be a very effective aid to teaching if it is used imaginatively.

4.The time of the hot summer weather lasted so long that the old could scarecely

bear it.

5.Good English skills help you express yourself so that others can understand

exactly what you mean.

6.Now television pictures can be sent from one side of the world to the other by

means of satellites.

7.Since human beings depend to some degree on forests, every effort must be made

to preserve trees.

8.She worked very hard; otherwise she could not have passsed the entrance

examination.

9.In many developiing countries, cigarette smoking is even seen as a sign of

economic progress.

10.Since Altantic College is on the coast, many of the activities for the students are

related to the sea or water in general.

11.After long negotiation, the firm contracted to build a double-purpose bridge across

the river.

12.in addition to some money in a savings bank account, my assets include properly

inherited from my father.

13.Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these

thougts in words, which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions.

14.The status would be perfect but for a few small flaws in its base.

15.The machine needs a complete mending since it has been in use for over ten years.

16.Though he is the president’s son, that does not qualify him to cr iticize my work.

17.You must be more careful in doing what you do. Don’t omit anything.

18.I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat refusal.

19.if no importance is attached to collecting information, we cannot survive in such

an intensely competitive society, because it is the basis on which we make our dicisions.

20.The period of adolescence may be long or short, depending on social expectation

and on society’s definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood.

21.we are trying to make people more sensitive to the difficulties faced by the

laid-off workers.

段落翻译

1. Smoking is harmful to the health of people, Governments in the world should conduct serious campaigns against it. Restriction on cigarette advertisements plus health warnings on packages and bans on public smoking in certain places like theaters, cinemas and restaurants, are the most popular tools used by nations in support of nonsmokers or in curbing smoking.

2. As to the child education, there was a more relaxed family, in which the young people felt equal to the adults. They were not perssured to get good marks at school to make their parents proud, and they knew that they would be free to choose their own studies and later their own career. Obviously, their parents still believed in individual freedom.

3. At school the students need to increase their knowledge in an organized way, to acquire sufficicent vocabulary in science for effective communication, and to learn some practical knowledge because it is very important in everyday life, such as knowledge that is useful for their health, for their safety, and for understanding of his surrounding.

4. There are many differences between Chinese and western cultures. For example, a Chinese student asks his American te acher, “Have you had lunch? The American teacher might think it a very strange question. Some questions that in Chinese belong to polite small talks might be considered instrusive.

5. In today’s complicated economic world, neither individual’s nore nation s are