长句的翻译练习

长句的翻译练习

1.The Physical Culture and Sports Commission of the People’s Republic of China

(中华人民共和国体育运动委员会)gave a grand reception on Friday evening in the Great Hall of the People to warmly welcome the table-tennis delegations and friends from various countries and regions to attend and see the Asian, African and Latin-American Table-tennis Friendship Invitation Tournament.

2.The very important oil industry, which has done much to rejuvenate the economy

of the South since the end of World War II, made considerable headway especially in the five states of Arkansas(阿肯色), Louisiana(路易斯安那), Mississippi(密西西比), Oklahoma(俄克拉荷马) and Texas(德克萨斯).

3.The point that I am anxious to make is that the search for models of this kind, the

study of their behavior and of the relationship of this behavior to the real situations which they seek to represent, and the consequential modification of them so as to lead to reliable prediction and then to decision-making, would not be possible were it not for the assistance afforded to the investigator by the digital computer and by the work of turning the scientific idea on which it is founded into stable, reliable and economic pieces of electrical equipment.

4.There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone to a lot of trouble

or expense than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavor of the coffee, the lightness of the cake, or the attractiveness of the house, which may be her chief interest and pride.

5.If you go to visit Nobel’s (诺贝尔) old residence, the house in which the great

chemist remained a bachelor throughout his life, you will catch sight of a shelf laden with experimental records.

puter language may range from detailed low level close to that immediately

understood by the particular computer, to the sophisticated high level which can be rendered automatically acceptable to a wide range of computers.

7.But without Adolf Hitler(阿道夫·希特勒), who was possessed of a demoniac

personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and---until toward the end, when drunk with power and success, he overreached himself---an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich(第三帝国).