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综合练习及参考译文 1翻译下列句子注意斜体部分的表达并说明翻译的特点 I took advice on the matter. 【译文】就此事我已征求过意见。 2) They are all of age. 【译文】他们都是成年人。 3) It has made the headlines that the president’s wife threatened her husbands with public exposure. 【译文】总统夫人说要公开揭发丈夫这件事成了头条新闻。 4) He often talks horse. 【译文】她常吹牛。 5) They lingered long over his letter. 【译文】他们反复看了他的来信。 6) Between ourselves, I don’t think much of him. 【译文】咱们私下里说说我看那人不怎么样。 7) There is something in the wind. 【译文】好像要出事了。风里有些什么东西。 8) She has the making of a good teacher. 【译文】 她具有一个优秀教师的潜质。 9) You never realize how fortunate you are to have good health until it is suddenly brought home to you by the sight of suffering. 【译文】除非你亲眼目睹体弱多病之苦不然 你是不会意识到你有一个健康的身体有多好。 10) That notion is being nurtured by people. 【译文】有人在吹这种风。 11) Dawn breaking over the islands, very beautiful in a soft grey light with many clouds. There is a transparency about the light here which cannot be described or painted. 【译文】曙色中的海岛美极了晨曦柔合彩云片片。澄澈的光影是无法描绘的。 12) From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. 【译文】各尽所能各得所需。 13) When we make friends, we should choose those who are our supporters in danger. (Aesop) 【译文】要交朋友要选那些我们遇到危险时支持我们的人。 14) Only a very slight and very scattering ripples of half-hearted hand-clapping greeted him. 【译文】欢迎他的只有几下半声不响的、七零八落的、虚情假意的掌声。 15) So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. (Robert Louis Stevenson) 【译文】只要我们去爱人我们就有所贡献只要我们被人所爱我们就不缺少什么任何一个人如果有一个朋友那他就不是无用之人。 16) With determination, with luck, and with the help from lots of good people, I was able to rise from the ashes. 【译文】凭着我的决心我的运气还有许多善良人们的帮助我终于获得了新生。 17) All the wisdom of the ages, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books. 【译文】古往今来人类的一切智慧结晶数百年来人们津津乐道的那些故事我们都可以轻松地从书本中得到。 18) Besides working to improve buildin