大学英语3课后中英文翻译.doc

第一单元 句子翻译 1）我们的计算机系统出了毛病，但我觉得问题比较小。（minor） We have a problem with the computer system, but I think it’s fairly minor. 2） 父亲去世时我还小，不能独立生活。就在那时，家乡的父老接过了养育我（my upbringing）的责任。（at that point） My father died when I was too young to live on my own. The people of my hometown took over (responsibility for) my upbringing at that point. 3) 这些玩具必得在达到严格的安全要求后才可出售给儿童。（requirement） The toys have to meet strict/ tough safety requirements before they can be sold to children. 4）作为新闻和舆论的载体（carrier），广播和电视补充了而不是替代了报纸。 （supplement, rather than） Radio and television have supplemented rather than replaced the newspaper as carriers of news and opinion. 5） 至于这本杂志，它刊载世界各地许多报纸杂志上文章的摘要。 （digest, when it comes to…） When it comes to this magazine, it is/ carries a digest of articles from many newspapers and magazines around the world. 课文背诵 I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy and on such a tight budget, we don’t entertain much. During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home. The other requirement is energy -- a lot of it. The way to make self-sufficiency work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw. How much longer we’ll have enough energy to stay on here is anybody’s guess -- perhaps for quite a while, perhaps not. When the time comes, we’ll leave with a feeling of sorrow but also with a sense of pride at what we’ve been able to accomplish. We should make a fair profit on the sale of the place, too. We’ve invested about $35,000 of our own money in it, and we could just about double that if we sold today. But this is not