实用科技英语翻译与写作作业.docVIP

河北理工大学轻工学院 电气工程及其自动化 姓名 学号 Switches and Fuses An electric switch is often on a wall near the door of a room（增减词译法省略对room的翻译）. Two wires lead to the lamp in the room. The switch is fixed in one of them. The switch can cause a break in this wire, and then the light goes. The switch can also join。the wire again, then we get a light（引伸译法 get a light翻译为灯亮了）.?? Switch can control many different things. Small switches control lamps and radio sets because these do not take a large current, larger switches control electric fires. Other switches can control electric motors.? ?Good switches move quickly.（增减词译法） They have to stop the current suddenly. If they move slowly, an electric spark appears. It jumps across the space between the two ends of the wire. This is unsafe and it heats the switch. Very big switches are sometimes placed in oil, Sparks do not easily jump through oil（引伸译法jump翻译为产生）, and so the oil makes the switch safer. ?A large current makes a wire hot. If the wire is very thin, even a small current makes it hot. This happens in an electric lamp.?（引伸译法） ?The electric wires in a house are covered with some kind of insulation. No current can flow through the insulation, so the current can never flow straight from one wire to the other, but the insulation on old wires is often broken, then the copper of the two wires can touch. A large current may flow, and if this happens, the wires will get very hot. Then the house may catch fire.? ?Fuses can stop this trouble. A fuse is only a thin wire which is easily melted. It is fixed in a?fuse-holder(科技术语的意义). The fuse-holder is made of some material which cannot burn.（ 词序处理法）A large current makes the fuse hot and then it melts away. We say that the fuse blows(保险丝烧断). The wire is broken and no current can flow. So the house does not catch fire, but all the lights and electric fires go out because there is no current.? ?When a fuse blows, something is wrong.（引伸译法） We must find the fault first. Perhaps two wires are touching