英汉翻译

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This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks no less than 50% took a loss in 1989. (2005-48)

And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder – kitchen rage. (2002-65)

According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge.

They don‟t have to pay for expensive seats at the theatre, the cinema, or the opera, only to discover, perhaps, that the show is disappointing.

When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankind‟s instinct for moral reasoning in a ction, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.

Do animals have right? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. (71) Actually, it isn‟t, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have.

1.Understanding Words

1.1 a good conductor good teeth and bones good times and bad times a good scolding a good

paper a good brake a good liar a good mile to have a good cry to have a good talk to take a good look to speak good English a good physicist for good

1.2This book is heavy reading. I‟ve had a very heavy day. The soil is heavy –it makes heavy

walking. The teacher is very heavy on his pupils. This car is heavy on oil. It‟s a h eavy

scene, let‟s leave. heavy rain/snow heavy fighting heavy traffic a heavy heart heavy

news heavy movement heavy smoker/drinker

1.3With over 1.2 billion people, a united, prosperous China will dwarf her Asian neighbors.

1.4The pole-vaulter bettered the world record by six inches.

1.5“Will anyone second the motion?” “I second it, Mr. Chairman.”

1.6The union has very little say in the new pay agreement.

1.7The coup was engineered by the military backed right-wing faction.

1.8Mr. Carter has engineered a radical change in the management of his chain stores, which survived a

bankrupt.

1.9Mary always gets what she wants by playing office politics.

1.10With a little reflection, it may be seen that light always travels in straight lines.

1.11Through reflection, it may be proved that light always travels in straight lines.

1.12He is somebody in his hometown but nobody here.

1.13The tight control of surface microdefects, contamination and foreign materials is the major problem to

be solved in microfabrication.

1.14The disaster of Challenger fueled the debate on space exploration.

1.15Strong feelings and a large brain were its parents.

1.16Can you sell your boss your new ideas?

1.17For example, in the early industrialized countries of Europe, the process of industrialization with all

the far-reaching changes in the social patterns that followed was spread over nearly a century, whereas

nowadays a developing nation may undergo the same process in a decade or so.