定从3.25翻译

定语从句的翻译方法

1.1前置合译法( 前滚翻)

1)The action it takes at any moment can’t be predicted, and people find that disturbing.

2）I was, to borrow from John Le Carre, the spy who was to stay out in the cold.

3）There will come a day when people all over the world will live a happy life.

4)The people who worked for him lived in mortal fear of him.

5)We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious ill were quite aware of its potential outcome.

6)One explanation for the pig-eating taboo is that pork that is not cooked sufficiently may spread a disease called trichinosis.

7)But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago.

8)Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another.

9）The sun , which had hidden all day , now came out in all its splendor.

10）The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s mouth, which was wide, thin and hard set.

11) He liked his sister, who was warm and pleasant, but he did not like his brother, who was aloof and arrogant.

12)But Miggle’s laugh, which was very infectious, broke the silence.

1．2切分重复法

1)Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another.

2)I bought a book which was written by Lu Xun, ( which was)imposed great impact on several generations.

3)At dinner I found myself placed between Mrs. Bradly , and a shy drab girl who seemed even younger than others.

4）A writer——in fact every one of us in life——needs that loving-mother force from which all creation flows …

5）He unselfishly contributed his uncommon talents and indefatigable spirit to the struggle which today brings them ( those aims) within the reach of a majority of the human race.

6) They are striving for the ideal which is close to the heart of every Chinese and for which , in the past, many Chinese have laid down their lives.

7)They would have had to live the rest of their lives under the stigma that he had recklessly precipitated an action which wrecked the Summit Conference and conceivably could have launched a nuclear war.

8）I told the story to John , who told it to his brother.

9)Kissenger and his small group of aides toured the Forbidden City , where the Chinese emperors had once lived in lofty splendor.

10)The cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door, who asked Brittles, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear.

11)The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.

12）Another popular spectator sport, which is known as the sport of kings, is horse-racing, which is controlled by the Jockey Club.

13)Attending services at the Cathedral of Pisa, he found himself watching a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted now in wide arcs, now in small ones.

1.3省略关代法

1)He did not find any one in the house who particularly cared to see .

2) Carrie reached home in high good spirits，which she could scarcely conceal.

3)After dinner, the four key negotiators resumed their talks, which continued well into the night.

4) He saw in front that haggard white-haired old man, whose eyes flashed red with fury.

5) When she was lost to his view, he pursued his homeward way, glancing up sometimes at the sky, where the clouds were sailing fast and wildly.

6)His wife, Betty, is a Shanghai-born Chinese who left China at the age of eight, and whose book, “ Eight Moon”, tells of her sister Sansan’s life in China.