综合翻译讲义学生2

Ⅱ.直译与意译

1.一箭双雕

2.声名狼藉

3.沧海一粟

4.对牛弹琴

5.少年老成

6.了如指掌

7.浑水摸鱼

8.皮包骨头

9.一触即发

10.抢先一步

11.一语中的

12.充耳不闻

13.视而不见

14.大惊小怪

15.大海捞针

16.颠倒黑白

17.骑虎难下

18.杀鸡取卵

19.捧腹大笑

20.勃然大怒

21.The worst wheel of a cart creaks most.

22.Look before you leap.

23.A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.

24.Money can’t buy time.

25.Like father, like son.

26.Business is business.

27.Great minds think alike.

28.Hedges have eyes, walls have ears.

29.Man proposes, God disposes.

30.Time and tide wait for no man.

31.A young idler, an old beggar.

32.In time of peace prepare for war.

33.The tongue cuts the throat

34.Friends must part.

35.The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future.

36.The pot calls the kettle black.

37.Short pleasure, long lament.

38.Save your breath to cool your porridge.

39.Judge not a book by its cover.

40.The same knife cuts bread and fingers.

41.Gifts blind the eyes.

42.Rest breeds rust.

43.Things done cannot be undone.

44.Murder will out.

45.Justice has long arms.

46.Take things as they come.

47.Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

48.不到长城非好汉

49.不在其位，不谋其政。

50.长江后浪推前浪，世上新人换旧人。

51.海内存知己，天涯若比邻。

52.人无远虑，必有近忧。

53.人而无信，不知其可也。

54.己所不欲，勿施与人。

55.三人行，必有我师鄢。

56.逝者如斯夫！不舍昼夜。

57.路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。

58.欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。

59.博学而笃志，且问而近思。

60.海上升明月，天涯共此时。

61.民以食为天。

62.有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？

1.Some years ago I had what most would call the American Dream: a

thriving construction business, a comfortable home, two new cars and a sailboat. Moreover, I was happily married. I had it all. Then the stock market crashed, and suddenly no one was looking at the houses I’d built. Months of murderous interest payments gobbled up my savings. I couldn’t make ends meet and lay awake nights in a cold sweat. Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse, my wife announced that she wanted a divorce. With no idea what to do next, I resolved literally to “sail off into the sunset,” following the coastline from Connecticut to Florida. But some where off New Jersey I turned due east, straight out to sea. Hours later, I climbed up on the stern rail and watched the dark Atlantic slip beneath the hull. How easy it would be to let the water take me, I thought. Suddenly the boat plummeted between two swells, knocking me off balance, I grabbed the rail, my feet dragging in icy brine, and just managed to haul myself back on board. Shaken, I thought, what’s happening to me? I don’t want to die. From that moment I knew I had to see things through. My old life was gone. Somehow I’d have to build a new one. Everyone, at some point, will suffer a loss—the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It’s your “desert experience”—a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert. So can we actually do things to help ourselves through bad times? As I discovered, you can take charge of your own cure.