专业英语翻译复习.ppt

化学化工专业英语翻译总复习 In general, ethers are good solvents for fats, waxes and resins. 醚通常是脂肪、蜡和树脂的良好溶剂。 The gas from coke ovens is washed with water to remove ammonia. 焦炉煤气用水洗涤可除去氨。 Hydrocarbons that do not contain the maximum number of hydrogen atoms possible are called unsaturated hydrocarbons. 不含有最大可能氢原于数的烃叫不饱和烃。 (误：不含有最大氢原子数的烃可能叫不饱和烃。) Man was not the first living thing to communicate through the use of sound． 第一个用声音进行联络的生物并不是人。 California has a statewide plan to balance the distribution of water． 加利福尼亚有一个在全州范围内使水的分配平衡的计划。 The functional group of a ketone consists of a carbon atom connected by a double bond to an oxygen atom． 酮的官能团是由一个通过双键与氧原子相连的碳原子组成的。 When fuels burn, they return once more to the simple materials out of which they were made. 燃料燃烧时，又转变成原来构成它们的那些简单的物质。 One may already have some idea of the material with which organic chemistry deals, but he may not know the extent to which organic chemistry touches on our life. 也许有人已经对有机化学所涉及的物质有所了解，但是他可能并不知道有机化学触及我们日常生活已经达到什么样的程度。 A semiconductor is a material that is neither a good conductor nor a good insulator. 半导体材料即不是良导体，也不是好的绝缘体。 Strength, hardness and plasticity of metals are the properties that make them so useful for industry. 金属的强度，硬度和可塑性等性能使得它们在工业上非常有用（应用价值）。 An acid is a compound whose solutions can produce hydrogen ions. 酸是这样一种化合物，其溶液能产生氢离子。 The first higher homolog of benzene is toluene which is the raw material for the manufacture of the explosive. 苯的第一个高级同系物是甲苯，它是制造炸药的原料。 Comernicus, whose theory was not made public until after his death, believed that the sun was the center of the solar system. 哥白尼认为太阳是太阳系的中心，但他的理论直到他死后才发表。 Live-wire operation is an advanced technique, by which wireman can repair transmission without cutting off the current. 带电作业是一项先进技术，线路工人能不切断电流就修理输电线。 When the free electrons in a conductor move in one direction only, the current thus established is called a direct current, which is often abbreviated to DC. 当导体的自由电子只以一个方向运动时，这样产生的电流叫直流电