课堂练习(笔译).ppt

In-Class Translation Exercises 1. Practically all substances expand when heated and contract when cooled. 几乎所有物质都会热胀冷缩。 2. He wrote stories of such strange imagination that there was seldom been anything like them before and since. 他写的小说，想象力之奇异，真可谓空前绝后。 3. … and as always happens with radios just at the vital moment a crash and a bang and nothing could be understood and the broadcast ended. …… 收音机总会出现这样的状况：关键时刻嘎拉一声、砰的一响，什么也听不清，然后广播就停止了。 4. The increase in water pressure with depth makes it difficult for a man to go very far below the surface. 由于水压随水深增加，因此人很难到水下极深处。 5. She had made several attempts to help them find other rental quarters without success. 她几次试着帮他们另找出租房，但都没有找到。 6. She stopped trying when she might have succeeded next time. 尽管下一次有可能成功，她还是放弃了。 7. As the century developed, the increasing magnitude and complexity of the problems to be solved and the growing interconnection of different disciplines made it impossible, in many cases, for the individual scientist to deal with the huge mass of new data, techniques and equipment that were required for carrying out research accurately and efficiently. 随着时代的发展，有待解决的问题越来越多，越来越复杂；不同学科之间的联系也越来越紧密。因此，在很多情况下，科学家不可能单枪匹马地应对大量新数据、新技术和新设备，而这些恰恰是精确有效地进行科学研究所必需的。 8. There is no more difference, but there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person as there is between the operations of a baker and of a butcher who weighs out his goods in common scales and the operations of a chemist who performs a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graduated weights. 科学家与普通人思维活动的差别，就跟面包师或屠夫与化学家在称量物体方面的差别一样。前者用普通的秤来称物品的重量，后者则用天平和精密砝码进行艰难复杂的分析。除此之外并无其他差异。 9. Based on Tennessee’s 20-year experiment, which randomly places public school students in smaller classes (13-17 students) or larger classes (22-26 students) in the four years from kindergarten through third grade, the study compared subsequent t