中国科学院研究生英语A期中考试翻译1-20

英语A翻译

1. WALT DISNEY

(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.

在这个领域中，他的第一件作品是“汤米·塔克的牙齿‖（1922），是受当地牙医委托制作的一个结合真人和动画的短片。

(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.

1945年瞭望杂志有一篇文章，题目是―沃尔特·迪斯尼：明日之师‖，描述了迪斯尼是―教育系统的改革者‖，并通过其为美国财政部制作的唐老鸭短片“新精神”是如何影响37%的美国人的交税意愿加以引证。

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

这部电影促成了迪斯尼获得南加利汽车协会颁发的优秀奖，以表彰他在公共安全方面做出的贡献。

(4) ―I’m not an educator. My primary purpose is to entertain----though if people want to read

e ducation into my work, that’s fine with me.‖

―我不是一个教育家。我的主要目的是娱乐大众——然而如果大家想从我的作品中读出教育的意味，我也感到非常高兴。‖

2. DIFFUSION AND OSMOSIS

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

扩散是微小颗粒或离子分散或者从高浓度区域向低浓度区域传递的过程。

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

这样的运动是不规则的，但是它对将不同种类的物质放置在一起时，通常出现微小颗粒的混合的现象作出了解释。

(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.

渗透是一种特殊的扩散。它出现在水颗粒通过一个选择性渗透膜从高浓度区域向外进行扩散的时候，比如说细胞膜。

Unit3

1.one of the problems of watching weather forecasts on TV is that by the time they have reached your region ,you have turned out and missed the vital information you have waiting for.

2.在电视上看天气预报的问题之一就是到了播报你需要的信息的时候，你走神了就漏掉了你所等待的至关重要的信息。

3.That is not a problem in the United States where they have a 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.

4.这在美国不会是问题因为美国有一个专门的天气频道，该频道在1982年建立，批评者们说这个天气频道只能幸存几个周，但是人们对天气的浓厚兴趣使得这一频道的发展欣欣向荣。

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

6.在美国天气是一个巨大的产业，这个国家有750个天气区域，单单纽约这样的大都市就包括了8个区域。

Unit4

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

2.儒略历，由凯撒大帝根据月相设计，但是很难确定具体日期。

3.Aside from setting the first year of the Lord around Jesus’s fourth birthday,it does not account for a year 0,the concept of a whole number between minus one and one had not yet made journey from the Arab to Western Europe. Thus, the new millennium was born one years old.

4.其中的一个缺陷是将耶稣的第四个生日作为第一年，另一个缺陷是没有考虑0这一年。负1和正1之间的这个整数的概念还没有从阿拉伯传到欧洲。因此，新的一年从1开始算。

5. A TALL TALE

(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 wasmade of hissing serpents.

你认为有可能战胜一个对手，她如此凶残以至于看她一眼就会变成石头？这是任何一个看到美杜莎的人的命运，她是一个可怕的怪物，她的头发全是嘶嘶叫的蛇。

(2)The brave Perseus undertook to fight the Medusa, but he was compelled to do battle in a most awkward manner. To help Perseus in his venture, the goddess Minerva had lent him her bright shield, and the god Mercury had given him winged shoes.

勇敢的帕修斯准备与美杜莎战斗，但是他被迫以一个笨拙的方式进行战斗。为了帮助冒险中的帕修斯，女神米诺娃把她的放光盾借给他，并且天神墨丘利给他了一双可以飞行的鞋子。(3)Cautiously he approached theawesomemonster. Usingthe imageof the Medusa inhis shield asa guide, he succeeded in cutting off her head and fixi ng it to the center of Minerva’s shield.

帕修斯小心翼翼的靠近了可怕的怪物。他使用盾牌上的美杜莎的形象作向导，他成功地把美杜莎的头砍下来了，并把它固定在米诺娃的盾牌的中心。

(4)Perseusthen flew to therealm of King Atlas whose chief pridewas his gardenfilledwith goldenfr uit. Thirstyand near collapse, he pleaded with the King forwater to quench histhirst and fora place to rest.

帕修斯随后飞到了阿特拉斯国王的领地，这里的首领最引以为傲的便是长满金色水果的花园。帕修斯口渴并接近虚脱，他恳求国王给他一些水来止渴和并提供一个休息的地方。

(5)But Atlas feared that hewould bebetrayedinto losinghis goldenapples.He uttered just one word, ―Begone!‖Perseusfinding that hecould not pacify Atlas, responded by beckoning upon Medusa’s head. Atlas was changedimmediately into stone.

但是阿特拉斯害怕帕修斯会背叛他以至于失去他的金苹果。他只说了一个字，“滚蛋！”帕修斯发现他不能使阿特拉斯平静下来，于是以引诱他看美杜莎的头作为回应。阿特拉斯立刻变成了石头。

(6)Hishead and hairbecame forests, his body increasedin bulk and becamecliffs, and thegodsruled thatthe heaven withall its stars shouldrest upon his shoulders.

Can there be aworse calamitythan thatwhich befell Atlas.

他的头和头发变成了森林，他的身体增大成一块并且变成了悬崖，并且众神规定，天上所有