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Translation Practice Two I. Translate the following sentences into English 1. 中华文明博大精深、源远流长, 为人类文明进步作出了巨大贡献。 The Chinese civilization, extensive and profound, and with a long history behind it, has contributed tremendously to the progress of human civilization. 2. 今天邀大家来开座谈会，目的是要和大家交换意见， …… You have been invited to this forum today to exchange ideas on…… 3. 只有你方把现有订货量增至我们所确定的最低数字，我们才能供货。 We will not be able to dispatch your shipment until your order is large enough to qualify our minimum requirement in size. 4. 采取“一国两制”适合中国的国情，并非权宜之计。 The “one country two systems” has been adopted to suit China’s conditions and is not an expedient. 5. 国家要统一，民族要复兴，台湾问题不能无限期地拖延下去。 China will be unified, and the Chinese nation will be rejuvenated. The Taiwan question must not be allowed to drag on indefinitely. II. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1. As the weather was fine, we decided to climb the mountain. 天气很好，我们爬山去了。 2. As water can float a ship, so can it swallow the ship. 水能载舟，也能覆舟。 3. Put into an old Chinese proverb, it means that one will never find it difficult to do anything until one has experienced it. 用中国的一句老话来说：事非经过不知难。 4. A notion has taken hold in the United States to the effect that the only people who should be encouraged to bring children into the world are those who can afford them. 在美国有一种根深蒂固的观点，说是只有那些抚养得起子女的人才应鼓励其生育。 5. As soon as the cinema is in darkness, spotlights are focused on the curtains which are drawn slowly apart, often to the accompaniment of music to reveal the title of the cinema. 在电影院变成一片漆黑的一刹那间，聚光灯照在徐徐打开的帷幕上，常常在音乐的伴奏下，显露出影片的片名。 III. Translate the following passage into Chinese. It’s a relief to know that life eventually gave Charlie Chaplin the stability and happiness it had earlier denied him. In Oona O’Neill Chaplin, he found a partner whose stability and affection spanned the 37 years age difference between them, which had seemed so threatening that when the official who was marrying them in 1942 turned to the beautiful girl