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7Amplification for Purposes of Rhetoric or Coherence
The printer is indeed cheap and fine. 这部打印机真是物美价廉。 Yes, I like Chinese foods. Lots of people do these days. Sort of the fashion. 不错，我喜欢中国菜。现在很多人都喜欢中国菜。 这种情况算是有点赶时髦吧！ Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man. 读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，写作使人精确。
3.Amplification by Supplying Words to Convey the Concept of Plurality
He stretched his legs which were scattered with scars. 他伸出双腿，露出腿上的道道伤痕。 The mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valley. 山开始向山谷投下一道道蔚蓝色长影。 This contract is made out in both English and Chinese language. 该合同用中文和英文两种文字书写。 Vary acute problems exist among them. 他们之间存在着种种尖锐的矛盾。
6 Amplification by Supplying Words of Generalization
According to scientists, it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of topsoil. 根据科学家的看法，自然界要用500年的时间才能形成一 英寸厚的表层土壤。 This thesis summed up the new achievements made in electronic computers, artificial satellites and rockets. 论文总结了电子计算机、人造卫星和火箭三方面的成就。 The Soviet Union, the United States, England and France reached an agreement militarily, politically, and economically. 苏美英法四国在军事、政治和经济方面达成了协议。
5 Amplification by Logic Thinking
Air pressure decreases with altitude. 气压随着海拔高度的增加而减少。 I was taught that two sides of a triangle were greater than the third. 我学过，三角形的两边之和大于第三边。 This shows that the resistance of an electric conductor in inversely proportional to its crosssection area. 这表明，导体电阻的大小与导体横切面的大小成 正比。
2.Amplification by Supplying Necessary Connectives
Heated, water will change into vapor. 水如受热，就会气化。 Since air has weight, it exerts force on any object immersed in it. 因为空气具有重量，所以处在空气中的任何物体 都会受到空气的作用力。 My duty is to get you away to save you. 我的任务是让你离开这儿，以便保证你的安全。 I lost my balance, fell and woke. 我先是失去平衡，接着是跌下去了，然后是醒了。
Some new luxury hotels have soared skywards and a fair number of Victorian houses have been combined to form “private hotels” of standards from the conformable to the repellent. 一些新建的豪华旅馆耸入云霄，相当数量的维多 利亚女王时代的房屋合并成标准不一的“私营旅 馆”, 有舒适的，也有令人厌恶的。 To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well as home. 要复新美国，我们必须面对国内外种种挑战。 Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remarking our world. 种种深刻强大的力量正在震撼和改变着我们的世 界。
Courage in excess becomes fool hardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
勇敢过度就成了蛮勇，喜欢过度就成了溺爱，节 约过度就成了贪婪。 He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise. 男人20 而不俊，30而不壮，40而不富，50而不 智，酿酒永远也不俊不壮不富不智了。
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1.Amplification by Supplying Words Omitted in the Original
In the evening, after the banquets, the concerts and the table tennis exhibitions, he would work on the drafting of the final communiqué.
4 Amplification by Supplying Words to Make an Abstract Concept Clear
After all preparations were made, the plane took off. 一切准备工作就绪后，飞机就起飞了。 Oxidation will make iron and steel rusty. 氧化作用会使钢铁生锈。 This lack of resistance in very cold metals may become useful in electronic computers. 这种在甚低金属中没有电阻的现象可能对电子计算机很有 用处。 It will require sacrifice. 这需要牺牲精神。
晚上在参加宴会，出席音乐会和观看乒乓球表演 后，他还得起草最后公报。 Matter can be changed into energy, and energy into matter. 物质可以转化为能，能也可以转化为物质。
I don’t much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech. 我并不讨厌这件事情，只是不喜欢他演讲 的方式。 This shall be the end, the escape. 这将是结局，也将是退路。 Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge. 爱生于盲目，友谊源于相知。
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Vast flats of green grass, dulled-hued spaces of mesquite and cactus, little group of frame houses, woods of light and tender trees, all were sweeping into the east, sweeping over the horizon, a precipice. 一片片茫茫绿色的草原，一簇簇色泽晦暗 的牧豆树和仙人掌，一群群小巧的小屋， 一座座清枝嫩叶的树林，一切都在向东飞 逝，掠过地平线，最后如滚下悬崖峭壁般 地从视野中消失了。
People forget years and remember moments. 人们往往忘记年月，却将瞬间片刻铭记于 心。 Well who am I? 你也不瞧瞧我是谁! It is all just talk. 只不过是说说罢了。
The urgency of growth is ended for another year, but life is hoarded in root and bulb and seed and egg. 生长的冲动静止了，静待来年；但生命却 蕴藏在根、茎、籽、卵之中，永无止息。 If you are going out, it’s raining. 你要出去的话，那我告诉你，外面正下着 雨呢！
8Amplification by Repetition
They could sense Titanic mass, her eerie quiet and the ruined splendor of a lost age. 他们可以体会到泰坦尼克号船体的巨大，感受到他周围 可怕的沉寂，领略到因岁月的流逝而造成的凄凉的景观。 We don’t retreat; we never have and never will. 我们不后退，我们从来没有后退过，将来也决不会后退。 Avoid using this computer in extreme cold, heat, dust or humidity. 避免在过冷、过热、灰尘过重、湿度过大的情况下使用此 电脑。
He made bad mistakes, bad ones 他犯了错误，而且是非常严重的错误。 Absence to love is what wind to fire; it distinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. 离别之于爱情，有如风之于火，扑灭小火 而使大火更旺。 Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. 迷信让整个世界着火，哲学却将火扑灭。
Flowers bloom all over the yard. 朵朵鲜花开满了庭院。 You can swim and play games in the park. 你可以在公园里游泳和玩各种游戏。 Selecting proper package is closely related to the problems of marking and labeling the product. 选择适当的包装与制作商品标志和标签所 涉及的诸多问题密切相关。
Thus, he grew in body and soul. 这样，他在身心两方面成长起来了 Thus occupied, days passed like hours, and weeks like days. 忙碌之中，日子过得飞快，一周就像一天， 一天就像一小时。 The business of her was to get daughters married; her solace was visiting and news. 她一生的事业就是嫁女儿；生活中的慰藉 就是探亲访友，打听消息。