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湖北省第20届外语翻译大赛英语专业笔译初赛试题 I. Complete the following sentences using the correct form of one of the idioms in the column. (1X20=20’) between the devil and the deep blue sea pot calling the kettle black an ass in a lion’s skin as like as two peas as poor as a church mouse. bite the bullet born with a silver spoon in her mouth a wolf in sheep’s clothing keep your breath to cool your porridge down-at-heel as cross as two sticks face the music bring the house down a blessing in disguise let bygones be bygones wet behind the ears see which way the wind blows hand in glove throw the baby out with the bathwater a dog in the manger 别再笑他了，你只是五十步笑百步。 Don’t laugh at him. You are just ____________________________. 我们要小心别因噎废食。我们的任务是控制技术而不是避开它。 We must be careful not to ________________. Our task now is to control technology, not to turn away from it. 她的父亲一贫如洗，为了父亲的缘故，她打算嫁给一个极其富有而粗鄙的人。 She is going to marry a perfect hog of a millionaire for the sake of her father, who is ____________________. 她生长在富贵之家，认为凡事都可随心所欲。 She was ____________________; she thinks she can do what she likes. 她骂斥自己的女仆，而且脾气非常不好。 She scolded her maid and was ______________. 她和她母亲长得一模一样。 She and her mother are ______________________. 在家里他是残酷无情的魔王，在外面他是慈善家，看上去好像连苍蝇都不会伤害。他 真是个伪君子。 At home he’s a heartless devil. In public he’s a philanthropist and seems as though he couldn’t hurt a fly. He’s really _________________. 他大谈自己如何勇敢，我认为……他是个说大话的胆小鬼。 He had talked so much of his valour that I had…rated him as ________________. 你说的这一套对我不起作用，你还不如少说为妙。 What you are saying will not make any difference to me, so you may as well _____________. 你得忍痛接受你妻子已经离开这一事实。 You’ll have to ___________________ and accept the fact that your wife has left you. 你们这些不正当的做法可能一时蒙混得过去，但迟早会被发现，到那时你们就得自食其果。 You may manage to get away with these dishonest practices for a while, but sooner or later you will be discovered, and then you will have to ____________________. 他们希望初次登台演出就能博得全场喝彩。 They hope that their first appeara