大学英语阅读理解讲座精编.pptVIP

英译汉练习 An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue edicts or commands as to how much of each kind of goods and service should be produced, exchanged, and consumed by each economic unit. 除市场体系外，另一种是由政府的某一机构对所有交易进行控制。该机构可颁发布告或条令来决定每一经济实体所生产，交换和消费的每种产品或服务的数量。 * 英译汉练习 Aristotle, for example, whose natural science dominated western thought for two thousand years, believed that man could arrive at an understanding of reality by reasoning from self-evident principles. 以亚里士多德为例，他的自然科学思想统治了西方二千年。亚里士多德认为，人类可以通过不言而喻的法则进行推理来了解现实世界。 * 英译汉练习 He still has the Purple Heart awarded him after he was wounded, although he has had a difficult time keeping it. His girlfriends, explains the bachelor, have wanted to wear it. 他仍保存着受伤之后被授予的紫心勋章，虽然有一阵差一点留不住它。这位单身汉解释说，他的几位女朋友都曾想佩戴这枚勋章。 * 英译汉练习 In the developing country where a vastly expanded population is pressing hard upon the limits of food, space and natural resources, it will be the first concern of government to place a limit on the birth rate, whatever the consequences maybe. 在发展中国家，无限膨胀的人口对有限的食品，空间和自然资源造成了巨大的压力，因此，政府的当务之急就是控制生育，无论其后果如何。 * 英译汉练习 That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. 那已是我们进入宽容教育时期以前的事情了。在宽容时期，我们采取不逼迫孩子们在学校获得好成绩的态度。 * 英译汉练习 A second difference in male and female roles in that within marriage many decisions and responsibilities are shared. The husband and wife may choose to have children, or they may not. If they have children, the man may take care of them some of time, all of the time. or not at all. 男女婚姻角色的第二个变化是他们共同做决定，共同承担责任。丈夫和妻子都可选择是否生育孩子。如果他们生了孩子，男方可以花些时间照管孩子，或者整天照管，或者根本不管。 * 英译汉练习 Often however, the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them. Often they discover that they have very little in common with each other. 然而父母对子女的期望过高往往也使两代人产生隔阂。他们常常感到彼此之间很少有共同之处。