《高级笔译专题解疑指导》.pdfVIP

Advanced English-Chinese/ Chinese-English Translation （1） Warm-up Exercises: 1. He lost a cool thousand dollars. 他损失了整整 1000 元。 2. You can’t be too careful. 你怎么小心都不过分。 3. You don’t want to do that. 你不应该干那件事。 4. The facts are more prosaic than the legend. 事实并不如传说那样神乎其神。 5. He is a man above vulgar interests. 他是个脱离了低级趣味的人。 6. I have read with much satisfaction the phrase which you quote concerning the number of strongholds. Yes, there must be few of them, but good ones. 我读了你所引用的关于要塞 数量的话，十分满意。你说得对，要塞不宜过多，但要精工修建。 7. When Smith pointed out that he had spread the rumor, he vehemently retorted, “No! N o!” 当史密斯指出他散布了这个谣言时，他拼命反驳说： “没那回事！没那回事！” 8. ith Franco, I started from a point of hostility, discovered how profoundly he had be en misrepresented and reached the stage of “grudging admiration.” 对于佛朗哥，我最初是 怀有敌意，后来却发现人们对他有很大的误解，终于有了 “三分仰慕之情。” 9. Ethiopia’s betrayal left American internationalists in a sea of uncertainty and des pondency. Isolationists jeered that once again Uncle Sam had been gulled by European di plomats. 埃塞俄比亚被出卖了，这使得美国的国际派陷入迷惘和沮丧，孤立派揶揄说，山姆大叔这 回又上了欧洲外交家们的当啦。 10.我们不搞实用主义。We never base our policies on expediency. 11.美国对华贸易虽存在逆差，但这种逆差不是竞争性的，并不形成对美国国内产业和就业的冲击。 Although the US side has got a deficit in its trade with China, the deficit is not caus ed by a competitive Sino-US trade structure and has no impact on the US domestic indust ries and employment. 12. 《红楼梦》第三回中王熙凤初见林黛玉时说：“天下真有这样标致的人儿！我今日才算看见了！ 况且这通身的气派竟不像老祖宗的外孙女，竟是嫡亲的孙女儿似的，怨不得老祖宗天天嘴里心里放不 下。” She’s a beauty, Grannie dear! If I hadn’t set eyes on her today, I shouldn’t have believed that such a beautiful creature could exist! And everything about her so d istingue! She doesn’t take after your side of the family, Grannie. She’s more like a Jia. I don’t blame you for having gone on so about her during the past few days. (Davi d Hawkes ) （2）