unit 8长句翻译.ppt

Unit 8 难句和长句的翻译translation of long and difficult sentences 分析原文，理清句子结构、逻辑关系 梳理层次，找出中心内容、次要成分 划分意群，逐一译成汉语、注意呼应 重新组合，按照汉语习惯、调整次序 西安是古丝绸之路的起点，也是中国历史上建都最多的城市之一。新发掘的秦兵马俑被称为“世界第八大奇迹”；大雁塔、鼓楼是唐代留下来的建筑；您可以到杨贵妃洗澡的华清池去洗温泉澡；作为炎黄子孙还可以去拜谒离西安不远的黄帝陵。 ①西安是古丝绸之路的起点，也是中国历史上建都最多的城市之一。②新发掘的秦兵马俑被称为“世界第八大奇迹”；③大雁塔、鼓楼是唐代留下来的建筑；您可以到杨贵妃洗澡的华清池去洗温泉澡；④作为炎黄子孙还可以去拜谒离西安不远的黄帝陵。 ①Xian, the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, was also a capital city intermittently for many dynasties in Chinese history. ②The life-size terra cotta soldiers and horses of the Qin Dynasty (221B. C.-206B. C.), unearthed recently, are praised as the Eighth Wonder of the World. ③Other places of historic interests include Da Yan Ta (Great Wild Goose Pagoda) and Gu Lou (Drum Tower), both erected in the Tang Dynasty, and Huaqing Hot Springs which used to be the private baths for Yang Guifei, favorite concubine of a Tang emperor and is available to tourists nowadays. ④If you are of Chinese descendant, you may be interested in paying homage/respects to the Tomb of Huangdi (Huang Emperor), the Chinese ancestor. 美国人将会成为自由人还是奴隶，他们是 否将拥有称得上属于自己的财产，他们的 房屋和农舍是否会遭到掠夺和毁坏，他们 自己是否会陷入任何人力都无法拯救的悲 惨境地-----现在，也许必须决定这一切 的时刻就在眼前。 科学家的思维活动和一般人的思维活动之间并没有 多大的区别，无非是面包师或者屠夫的操作和方法 与化学家的操作之间有所区别，前者是用普通的称 来称他们的货物，而后者是用天平和等级分得很精 细的砝码来进行困难而又复杂的分析。 If people mean anything at all by the expression “untimely death”, they must believe that some deaths run on a better schedule than others. Death in old age is rarely called untimely—a long life is thought to be a full one. But with the passing of a young person, one assumes that the best years lay ahead and the measure of that life was still to be taken. History denies this, of course. Among prominent summer deaths, one recalls those of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, whose lives seemed equally brief and complete. Writers cannot bear the fact that poet John Keats died at 26, and only half playfully judge their own lives as failures when they pass that year. The idea that the life cut sh