翻译进阶自测.doc

翻译进阶自测 　　以下是为进一步训练翻译技巧的综合运用能力而按照难易程度遴选出来的一些翻译材料，可供课下练习之用。对于斜体部分，尤其要注意翻译技巧的综合应用。 　　Step 1 1. The first snow came suddenly, and was very heavy.2. Carrington had an invitation to diner that evening, and he spent several pleasant hours with his old friends.3. The farm workers today drive tractors, not horses, and a man is not much use on the farm unless he knows all about machines.4. Most of the offices of the United Nations are in New York City.5. No one can stop the debates at the U.N. Even the smallest country on earth can have its voice heard.6. There are other accounts of flying objects which have been seen from the air or from the ground. And many of those who have told us about them are men like Captain Howard --- men of sense and experience, men whose word can be trusted.7. Londons population of eleven million makes it the second largest city in the world.8. He would cunningly lead the conversation round in such a way that at the end of it people would suddenly see for themselves what was really true and right.9. My trouble is that Im one of those hopelessly impractical and incurably lazy people.10. When she arrived, Mr. Hummer was sitting at a small unsteady table and could hardly be seen for a forest of paint-brushes in pots of water. 　　Step 2 1. He (Mark Twin) also brought realism and western local color to American fiction.2. On the other hand, his mother had the rare ability to say humorous things with perfect innocence.3. When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time, he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth.4. Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth.5. If the subjects I have wanted to express have suggested different ways of expression, I have never hesitated to use them.6. In this century the camera has made it unnecessary for painters to make exact representation of what they see.7. She was the first p