英语A期中考试翻译参考

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Passage1（共4句）

1. Among his first efforts in this area was ―Tommy Tucker’s Tooth‖ (1922), a short combining live action and animation made on assignment for a local dentist.

2. A 1945 Look magazine article, titled ―Walt Disney: Teacher of Tomorrow,‖ described Disney as ―revolutionizing an educational system‖ and cited how the Donald Duck short ―The New Spirit,‖ made for the United States Treasury Department, affected 37 percent of Americans regarding their willingness to pay taxes

3. This film contributed to Disney’s being presented with an award of merit, for his contribution to public safety, by the Automobile Club of Southern California.

4. I’m not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertain – though if people want to read education into my work, that’s fine with me.

Passage 2（共3句）

1. Diffusion is the process by which molecules or ions scatter or spread from regions where they are in higher concentrations towards regions where they are in lower concentrations.

2. Such motion is haphazard, but it accounts for the mixing of molecules that commonly occurs when different kinds of substances are put together.

3. Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion. It occurs whenever water molecules diffuse from a region of higher concentration through a selectively permeable membrane, such as a cell membrane.

Passage3（共2句）

1. One of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they have reached your region, you have tuned out and missed the vital information you have been waiting for. But it is not a problem in the United States because they have a weather channel devoted entirely to weather. Set up in 1982, the Weather Channel was given just weeks to survive by its critics, but such is the interest in the vagaries of the climate that it has thrived.

2. Weather is big business in the United States. The country has 750 weather zones, including eight in the New York metropolitan area alone.

Passage 4（共2句）

1. The Julian calendar devised by Julius Caesar and based on the phases of the moon, had trouble pinning down that date.

2.Aside from setting the first year of the Lord around Jesus’ fourth birthday, it does not had not account for a year 0.The concept of a whole number between minus-one and one had not yet made the journey from the Arab world to Western Europe.

Passage5（共7句）

1. Do you think it is possible to defeat an opponent so fierce that a glance at her turns one to stone ? This was the fate of anyone who looked upon the Medusa , a dreaded monster whose hair was made of hissing serpents.