课后练习

特殊句型翻译练习：

1.He didn’t explain it correctly and clearly.

2. Reference to computers was not found in newspapers as well as in magazine.

3. It is true that praise is not always an advantage.

4.This book contained too much gossip, too many distortions and falsehoods to warrant comment.

5. The volleyball team was organized two years ago and it had yet to win a single game.

6. The earth does not pull the kitten to it nearly as much as pulls a big rock.

7. He overplayed his hand.

8. For a scholar to be famous and invited to all meetings and ceremonies is too much of a good thing.

9. Spiders are not insects, nor even nearly related to them.

10. The speed of these two improved car have increased by •a •factor of 1.15 and 1.23 respectively.

11. Sucess in life does not depend so much on one‘s school records as one’s honesty and diligence.

12. Sunlight is no less necessary than fresh air to healthy condition of body.

13. What with teaching and what with writing，my time is wholly taken up.

14. She is film star，but she cannot so much as write her own name.

15. He pretends to be as modest as anything．

16. Experience shows that success is not so much due to ability as to zeal．

17. He is as wrong as wrong can be．

18. Nobody with any sense expects to find the whole truth in advertisement any more than he expects a man applying a job to describe his shortcomings and more serious faults.

19. As his birthday present, Kostya gave him a pair of handsome morocco gloves- which were more than symbolic because they had obviously cost at least a week`s salary at some black market source.

20. In the two years they had worked side by side, she had never seen him look up from his calculations, other than to meticulously wipe his glasses.