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例1：Any literate person on the face of the globe is deprived if he does not know English. 【译文】世界上任何有文化的人，如果不懂英语就算不上个真正的文化人。 例2：She is forty, if she is a day. 【译文】她至少40岁了。 例3：The housewife is not at home to visitors. 【译文】家庭主妇不接待客人。 例4：He pretends to be as modest as anything. 【译文】他装得极为谦虚。 例5：We should find truth in the light of science. 【译文】根据科学，探求真理。 例6：Beyond the light of the fire everything was swallowed up the blackness of darkness. (Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer) 【译文】在火光照不到的地方，一切都被吞没在夜的黑暗之中。 A定语的位置 例1：It’s no legend. My father knew the two men involved. 【译文】这可不是瞎说。那两个与本案有关的人我父亲都认识。 例2：They are to send a government trade delegation to China. 【译文】他们将派一个政府贸易代表团到中国来 例3：The fundamental way out for agriculture lies in mechanization. 【译文】农业的根本出路在于机械化。 例4：She was happiness incarnate. 【译文】她是幸福的化身。 B状语的位置 例1：He left today week. 【译文】她上星期的今天离开了。 例2：He will leave today week. 【译文】他将在下星期的今天离开。 【解析】“today week”在此句中译作“下星期的今天”。 例3：It isn’t half hot today. 【译文】今天热得很。 【解析】“not half”置于形容词前表示“非常；很”，以此 来加强语气。 例4：I shall be only too pleased to come. 【译文】我非常愿意来。 例5：I’m nothing of a scholar. 【译文】我不识字。 例6：Bunyan was sent to school for a short time, where he learned to read and write after a fashion. （Wu Weiren: History and Anthology of English Literature） 【译文】班扬上学少，学习也不怎么好。 【解析】“after a fashion”短语作状语，意思是“not very good”。 A英语简单句可转换成汉语复合句 例1：This attitude has been described as anything from a “merciful loss of memory” to “escapist therapy”. 【译文】人们对这种态度议论纷纷，有的说是“好心的遗忘”，有的说是“逃避现实的疗法”。 例2：His superior grades at high school enabled him to enroll at the tuition-free Beijing University. 【译文】由于中学成绩优异，他免费上了北京大学。 例3：His weariness and the increasing heat determined him to sit down in the first convenient shade. 【译文】她很疲惫，也感到越来越热，于是决定一遇到有阴凉的地方就坐下来休息。 B. 英语并列句、复合句可转换成汉语简单句 例1：He doesn’t know what life means to him. 【译文】他不知道人生的意义。 例2：What troubles me is that I don’t have much experience in this kind of work. 【译文】使我苦恼的是我做这种工作经验不多。 例3：He was very clean and his mind was o