省略法增译法练习(学生用)

省略法、增译法练习

省略法

1.Y ou cannot build a ship, a bridge or a house if you don’t know how to make a

design or how to read it.

2.If you want to kill a snake you must hit it first on the head and if you want to catch

a band of robbers you must first catch their leader.

3.Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it

about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

4.It was very easy for him to pour the whole bottle of wine into his throat.

5.Men and women, old and young, all joined in the battle.

6.If I had known it, I would not have joined in it.

7.Smoking is prohibited in public places.

8.For generations, coal and oil have been regarded as the chief energy source to

transport from place to place.

9.She curtseyed again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed

deeper than she has blushed all the time.

10.He was safe and sound.

11.The time-keeping devices of electronic watches are much more accurate than

those of mechanical ones.

12.He took off his coat and shoes. Then he put on his slippers，went to the sofa and

began to watch TV. He was thin and haggard and he looked miserable.

13.He was well-favoured, bright, a good dancer, a fair shot and a fine tennis player.

He was an asset at any party. He was lavish with flowers and expensive boxes of chocolate, and though he entertained little, when he did it was with an originality that pleased.

14.Outside it was pitch dark and it was raining cats and dogs.

15.He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivant; the appearance of a lady frightened him

beyond measure; hence it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre(self-esteem).

16.It was a keen disappointment when I had to postpone the visit which I had

intended to pay to China in May. I was delighted when, as a result of the effort of your company, it proved possible to reinstate the visit so quickly.

17.Part-time job hunters who have worked at a job will receive preference over those

who have not.

18.There was no snow, the leaves were gone from the trees, the grass was dead.

增译法

19.An American officer slipped on a banana skin.

20.Better be wise by the defeat of others than by your own.

21.The footmen were as ready to serve her as they were their own mistress.

22.More thorough testing might have caught the failure initially.

23.He dismissed the meeting without a closing speech.

24.The crowds melted away.