4级英语英译汉 强化练习

单句翻译练习

1.First of all, we applied ourselves to identifying the root cause of our national problems.

2.Students who fly halfway across the world to study in another country get used to the new

time zone after a few days.

3.Of most concern to parents was the failure of some of the state’s most expensive schools to

rate higher than many government schools.

4.Without a car most people feel that they are poor, and even if a person is poor he doesn’t feel

really poor when he has a car.

5.For an old doctor of over 70, the busy workload day after day was physically demanding.

6.Some business people feel that it is simply good business to be ethical.

7.At the conference, many environment scientists urged the government to develop a national

population policy to avoid further land and water degradation.

8.Learning how to use the internet effectively as a marketing tool means that you need to learn

two differences but related bodies of language.

9.While office technology is changing certain aspects of the secretary’s work, it is not altering

it fundamentally.

10. A job interview helps you decide if the job meets your career needs and interest.

11.One out of five Chinese studying abroad goes to the United States.

12.The steady rise in the quality of our products owes much to the improvements of the

management.

13.Poor as he is, he knows that honesty is the most important virtue of a person.

14.No sooner had they finished their task than they all went to watch the football match.

15.People who want to be successful depend too much on the comments of others in order to

feel good about themselves.

16.In the case of a small village, this may cause many problems, including the widespread of the

disease.

17.If you desire an interview, I shall be most happy to call in person, on any day and at any time

you may appoint.

18.Should there be any trouble with the machine, the automatic controlling unit would cut off

the electricity.

19.The students have little chance to discuss problems with the teachers concerned after class or

to do more than finish their homework.

20.His ignorance of the film’s present situation resulted in his failure to take effective measures. 段落翻译练习

Life insurance needs vary. They carry throughout one’s life. Life insurance needs also vary from individual to individual, depending on the standard of living, on the number of children, on the plans for those children, and many other factors.

Electronic mail is messages sent at high speeds using telecommunication facilities. One user of the service can send a message to another user by placing it in a special computer storage area. The receiver can retrieve the message through a terminal by either displaying it or printing it.

“He is sitting on the fence.” means that somebody will not say whether he is in favor of plan or against it. He is sitting on a fence between two opposing sides, perhaps waiting to see which side will win.

The career of your dreams is closer than you think. Even if you have no experiences before, you can get valuable job skills in today’s hottest fields. Step-by-step lessons make learning easy. Prepare for promotions, pay rises, even starting a business of your own.

The Chinese government will move to further protect consumer interests and fight against counterfeit goods as well as promote modern sales method and keep order in the market.

With a facsimile machine, or “fax”, you can place the letter directly into the machine. The machine changes the letter—whether it be words, numbers, drawings, or photographs into electronic signals. The signals then pass through the wires to other fax machine.

Students usually have the right to evaluate their teachers, and they usually do so at the end of each course. That evaluation includes lots aspects of teaching, such as explanation, preparation, using good examples, answering questions, and organization of classes.

Humor often depends on a knowledge of certain words, or even on an understanding of a particular cultural background. There are, of course, many different sources of humor, but the important fact is that all people share the great pleasure of laugh.

FDA stands for the Food and Drug Administration, which probably does more to protect consumers than any other agency. Its major concern is the safety, purity and labeling of foods, and cosmetics. There are the products on which consumers spend an estimated 38 percent of their incomes.

Some people have remarkable chances which lead to fame and success without this long and hard training. An ordinary girl working in a bike factory became a world famous movie star totally by accident. Of course, chances like this happen in a blue moon.

One professor of the University of South California has made a scientific study of lying.

According to him, women are better liars than men, particularly when a woman tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks awful.

Specialists in marketing have studied how to make people buy more food in a supermarket.

They put more expensive food at eye level so you see it and want to buy it. The things that you have to buy anyway are usually located on a higher or lower shelf.

How hard is it to get beautiful hair? Beautiful hair cannot be taken for granted. Environment factors, chemical treatments and the mechanical damage done by combs, brushes and blow dryers all have a bad effect on the hair in the long run.

In many countries in the process of industrialization, overcrowded cities present a major problem. Poor conditions in these cities, such as lack of housing, inadequate sanitation and lack of employment, bring about an increase in poverty, disease and crime.

People in different parts of the world believe that they have seen UFOs. Those who used to laugh at the idea do not laugh so often now. A lot of reports and books have been written on this subject, and it seems impossible to take no notice of them. Few people really believe in UFOs, but perhaps they will in the future.

They are not tied to a schedule but work when it suits them. If that means taking an hour or two to play with the children and then staying up until midnight to finish a presentation, the net result is a happier worker who has completed the task.

When you get to your destination, jet lag will catch up with you. There’s no way to avoid it. If you travel across time zones at high speeds, your internal clock doesn’t keep up with the time changes. That’s why your body thinks it’s midnight when it’s really 9:00 am.