综英翻译

Unit 11

1. 许多人认为吸烟无疑是慢性自杀。

Many people believe that smoking is little less than gradual suicide.

2. 如果Shaka把Gala也杀了，祖鲁人后来的命运会如何呢？

Had Shaka killed Gala, too, what would have happened to the Zulus?

3. 他听到飞机坠毁的消息时，吓得目瞪口呆。

She gasped with horror at the news of the air-crash.

4. 警方正在追捕那个杀人不眨眼的凶手。

The police were in hot pursuit of that unhesitating cold-blooded killer.

5. 困兽犹斗。一个人在绝望的时候什么事都干得出来。

A cornered beast will put up a desperate fight. When a man is in desperation, he will do anything.

6. 她是一个很善于抓住机会的人。

She is very good at seizing every opportunity when it comes.

7. 警察打开了汽车的行李箱，发现里面装满了毒品。

Opening the trunk, the police found it stuffed with drugs.

8.自从他生意失败后便一蹶不振，目前对他来说最重要的是振作精神。

He has been in a low spirit ever since his business failed. What is most important to him at the moment is to pull himself together.

9. 洪水逼来，村民的处境十分危急，他们的生命危在旦夕。

The approaching flood threw the villagers into a desperate state, and they may die at any moment.

10. 正当全城人们欢庆新年时，一场意想不到的悲剧发生了：一场大地震将整座城市夷为平地。

An unexpected tragedy struck when the whole city was celebrating the New Year’s Day;

a violent earthquake leveled the whole city to the ground.

Unit 12

1. 今年的雨季来得特别早。

The rainy season has set in very early this year.

2. 银行被抢劫后，该地区的警察立即出动

搜捕罪犯。

The policemen of the district set out searching the criminal immediately after the bank was robbed.

3. 当他赶到长途汽车站时，最后一班车已在10分钟前开走了。

He reached the long-distance bus station only to find the last bus of the day had left ten minutes before.

4. 如果你阅读时每当遇到一个新单词就查词典，你的阅读速度就不能提高。

It’s unlikely for you to improve your reading speed if you look every new word up

in a dictionary while writing.

5. 住在深山里的村民第一次看到电影时笑得合不拢嘴。

When the villagers living in the depth of the mountains saw the film for the first time, they laughed from ear to ear.

6. 人人都说他长得酷似其父。

Everyone said that he took after his father.

7. 船遇到了暴风雨，更糟的是船底出现了一个大洞。

The ship was in the grip of the storm. To make matters worse, there was a big hole in the bottom of the ship.

8. 她疲惫不堪的部分原因是旅途辛劳，部分原因是天气炎热。

She was exhausted, partly because of the tiring journey and partly because of the heat.

9. 你要的书目前没有货，但已在订购中。

The book

s you want are out of stock, but they are on order.

10. 我已数次听他说要确保你免受伤害。

I have heard him speak several times that he would make sure you would come to no harm.

Unit 13

1. 这块料子摸上去真像丝。

This material feels like real silk.

2. 跟我一起去公园散步如何？

Do you feel like going out for a walk with me in the park?

3. 那个小女孩冻得发抖，她的手脚都冻僵了。

The little girl was shivering with cold, with her hands and feet all numb.

4. 父亲用旧木板给我做了一只箱子。

Father made a case out of old planks for me.

5. 总统发表电视讲话，号召全国人民团结一致，共度目前所处的困难时期。

The president made a speech on television, asking the whole nation to keep united and work together to pull through the hard times they were in.

6. 派到出事地点的联合国官员努力确保每一个难民都能分到食品。

The United Nations officials sent to that troubled area tried to make sure that food was distributed to every refugee.

7. 那些高年级学生不是太自私了吗？他们将那个乒乓球房占为己有，不许其他人使用。Aren’t those top year students very selfish? They have the ping-pong room all to themselves, and allow nobody else to use it.

8. 公司一定出了大事。总经理从来没有显得如此痛苦。

Something terrible must have happened to the company. The general manager has never looked so distressed.