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名词从句的译法 1. 主语从句 A. 以从属连词或连词代词位于句首的主语从句翻译时语序一般不变。如： 例1. That a man could live for so many years alone in the mountains is really something unthinkable. 一个人能够单独在山里生活这么多年真是不可思议。 例2. That substances expand when heated and contract when cooled is a common physical phenomenon. 例3. What the students find most difficult in a foreign language is its idiomatic usage. 学生感到，一种外国语最困难的地方是它的习惯用法。 例4. What struck me most in this book was the author’s true-to-life description of the people’s life in that country. B. 以形式主语it引出的主语从句，翻译时有下述三种处理办法 （1）如主语从句较短，可提前与主句合译为“是”字结构。如： 例1. It is dangerous that you ha