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湖北省第十四届外语翻译大赛英语大学组笔译试卷（决赛） I．选词用字：（每小题2分，30分） 英译汉：从A、B、C三个选项中选出最恰当的词语或词组填空。 1．原文：I told my wife a white lie saying that she looked fabulous in her new clothes. 译文：我对太太撒了个______________，称赞她穿上新衣好看极了。。’s heel; c. add salt to the wound; d. bite off more than one can chew; e. born in the purple; f. build castles in Spain; g. catch somebody red-handed; h. cry wolf; i. face the music; j. go west; k. hot potato; l. make bricks without straw; m. milk the bull; n. take the bull by the horns; o. the apple of one’s eye 1．原文：他生于贵族之家，所以自幼所受的教育，有异于常人。 译文：He has not been raised like an ordinary child for he