2012成人教育考试 英语翻译复习资料附答案.docVIP

Translation Put the following sentences into Chinese: As we are at the start of the course, this seems a good moment to offer some advice on how to make the task of learning easier. 课程开始之际，就如何使学习英语的任务更容易提出一些建议似乎正当此时。 It is true that there are few situations at school where you have to communicate in English, but you can seek out opportunities to practice speaking the language. 的确，在学校里必须用英语进行交流的场合并不多，但你还是可以找到练习讲英语的机会。 Still, he could not help thinking that if anything should happen, the nearest person he could contact by radio, unless there was a ship nearby, would be on an island 885 miles away. 然而，他仍禁不住想到，要是果真有什么意外，他能借无线电联系上的人，最近的也要在885英里以外的岛上，除非附近哪儿有条轮船。 After resting for a few weeks, he set off once more in spite of his friends’ attempts to dissuade him. 休息几周之后，他顾不得朋友们的多方劝阻，再次扬帆出航。 From the second floor flat she could see the postman when he came down the street, and the little boy from the ground floor brought up her letters on the rare occasions when anything came. 邮差打马路那头过来的时候，她从三楼的公寓套间里一眼就可以看到。她难得有信，偶尔有邮件寄来，总是由住在底楼的小男孩给她送上来。 After all, eighty was a special birthday, another decade lived or endured just as you chose to look at it. 不管怎么说，八十大寿毕竟非同一般-你又活了十年，或者说又熬过了十年，是活是熬，全在于你怎么看了。 It is well known that many of our problems--everything, in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness-- are caused at least in part by failure to communicate. 众所周知，我们的许多问题--事实上是所有的问题，从代沟，高离婚率到某些精神病—至少部分地是由于没能交流思想而引起的。 I would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening, right after the early evening news, all television broadcasting in United States be prohibited by law. 我想建议每天晚上一播完晚间新闻，美国所有的电视台都依法停播六十至九十分钟。 I was so embarrassed that I burst into tears. 我感到很难堪，一下子哭了起来。 All I had to do each day was take care of four kids, milk goats, and do the cooking, laundry and gardening. 每天，我要做的事就是照看四个孩子，挤羊奶，烧饭，洗衣和收拾果园。 Most curious of all, there was no quality control whatsoever. No one inspected the final product of the factory.