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Lecture 2 4.增词 英译汉增词：词汇性增词和逻辑性增词 原文省略的词 Matter can be changed into energy, and energy into matter. 物质可以转化为能，能也可以转化为物质。 必要的连续词 Heated, water will change into vapor. 水如受热，就会气化（蒸发）。 复数概念 The mountains began to show their long blue shadows over the valley. 群山开始向山谷投下一道道蓝色长影。 抽象概念增词 This lack of resistance in very cold metals may become useful in electronic computers. 这种甚低温金属中没有电阻的现象可能对电子计算机很有用处。 逻辑性增词 According to scientists, it takes nature 500 years to create an inch of topsoil. 根据科学家们的看法，自然界要用500年的时间才能形成一英寸的表层土壤。 Exercise We were lucky enough to be alive after the accident. We wouldn’t have the chance to sit here and reflect on the night’ 真是很幸运，在那次事故之后我们还活着，否则，我们不可能有机会坐在这里回想那天晚上的事。 The oak is a symbol of strength, the lion of courage, the lamb of weakness. 橡树是力量的象征，狮子是勇敢的象征，而羔羊是软弱的象征。 Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man. 读书使人充实，讨论使人敏捷，写作使人准确。 班门弄斧：to show one’s proficiency with an axe before Luban, the master carpenter. 解放前（后）：before(after) the liberation of old China 看粮食，要看中国的农业，看农业，首先要看市场 To have a better understanding of the food situation in China, we must take a full view of her agriculture, and to know the agriculture, we must have a look at the food market first. 这本小说内容有趣，文字浅显，立即畅销全国。 The novel has gained immediate nationwide popularity as it is at once interesting in content and easy in language. 他小时候家里很穷，没什么衣服可穿，也没什么东西可吃 When he was young, his family was so poor that he had no more enough food to eat and clothing to wear. 5.减词 减代词 They went in to dinner, it was excellent, and the wine was good. Its influence presently had its effect on them. They talked not only without acrimony(辛辣，尖刻)，but even with friendliness. 他们进入餐厅用餐，美味佳肴，顿受感染，言谈间不但没有恶语，甚至还充满友好之情。 减冠词 The moon was slowly rising above the sea. 月亮慢慢从海上升起。 减介词 The difference between the two machines consists in power. 这两台机器的区别在于功率不同。 减连词 If I had known it, I would not have joined in it. 早知如此， 我就不参加了。 减动词 When the pressure gets low, the boiling point becomes low. 气压低，沸点就低。