Translation Practice
----Conversely, work in applied science and technology frequently acts as a direct stimulus to the development of pure science. Such an interaction occurs, for example, when the technologist, in applying a particular concept of pure science to a practical problem, reveals a gap or limitation in the pre theoretical work, thus
pointing the way for further basic research.
----Mr. Smith, sometime chairman of the society, lodged a formal complaint with the authorities.
----In others, like Prairie du Chien, rebuilding has included adding half a metre to the six-mitre tall flood wall that surrounded the town before July 1993, but was breached by the floods. ----At school the student
needs to increase his knowledge in an organized way, to acquire sufficient vocabulary in science for effective communication, and to learn some facts because they are important in everyday living, such as knowledge that is useful for his health, for his safety and for an understanding of his surrounding.
----Not only this, but erven in the field of action
commonly considered to be purely political…e.g. the process whereby the politician obtains and retains the support of the people, or that of making rapid decisions after weighing the evidengce from many different sources…it is again evident that he relies heavily on the scientist… ----Many sketches are in existence of peasants seated by the roadside and men and
women at work in the fields. ----Few people even knew of the existence of this painting until it was shown at an exhibition in 1937 and bought shortly afterwards by the museum.
----It is the working people in the capitalist countries who bear the unemployment, heavy taxation and reduced standard of living which these aggressive wars entail. ----The X-ray or
post-mortem examination reveals many broken bones. ----Cultural traits, folklore, myths and beliefs of various ethnic groups originate within each group according to laws of cultural evolution. ----He was an American indian writer, lecturer and activist in the cause of Indian rights. ----But his titantic determination, his powerful mind and his fierce
commitment to the mission of his class and the lofty principles of the Party overrode all physical handicaps.
----It is as if some vision of Shelly’s has come true and selfishness had been banished from the world. ----It is now strictly true that scarce a fly or mosquito can be seen in the town and cholera and smallpox are no more.
----It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or businessman, who has been working or worrying about serous things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
----It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home, and his children rarely, if
ever, see him at his place of work.
----We realized that they must have become unduly frightened by the rising flood, for their house, which had sound foundations, would have stood stoutly even if it had been almost submerged.
----Feedback is information characterized the actual situation, which the processor, the brain for
example, compares with the intended state of affairs.
----These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down what they did.
----This boast is not confirmed by my memory of anybody who on a Sunday morning has forced me to partake of his
adventrue.
----Richmond Park was full of reminiscenes, many going back to early childhood.
----Lastly, he is highly imaginative since he often has to look for relationships in data which are not only complex but also frequently in complete.
Dr. Solway took the
student’s blood pressure that day. He had felt sick during the night and came for his help as soon as the clinic opened.
I was contemptuously dismissed as a novice who had not read the great first volume of Marx’s Capital…I promptly read it, and returned to announce my complete conversion by it…
…This is nothing like back home in Colorado. We have rains there, too…
Interest in books, however, did not at this time crowd out other interests, as it threatened to do in Dewey’s graduate-student years.
Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the
bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.
I can read every word that Dr. Johnson wrote with delight, for he had good sense, charm and wit. No one could have written better if he had not wilfully set himself to write in the grand style.
You can almost put it down
as a general rule in this town that presidents often invite “honest criticism” from their aides, but seldom get it, and usually don’t follow it when thry do.
Attacks on the un-American and criminal tendencies of the Irish, the Slavs, and every other ethnic group that arrived on America’s shore were a steady part of national thinking, as were
persistent efforts to bar any further migration of “undesirables” to our country.
“我写那封信的目的只是让你到郊区换换空气，这样你就不用见你不愿见的人，听不爱听的话罢了。”
I wrote you that letter, just because I wanted you to hzve a change and take some fresh air in the surburbs, so that you could avoid seeing people you
didn’t want to see and listening to whatever words you didn’t want to listen to”. …so that you could avoid meeting people you didn’t want to see and listening to whatever words you didn’t want to hear. 天漆黑，部队踏着泥泞的小路前进。大约走了10多里，便靠安顺场了。我命令一营分成三路前进。 一个人的工作，究竟是三分成绩七分错误，还是七分成
绩三分错误，必须有个根本的估价。
由于他们两口子互相信赖，便没仔细交谈，事情就从这里发生。因为两人虽都踊跃入队，打算却不尽相同。
Every morning at five, Pierre arrived at the milk company’s stables to find his wagon already filled with bottles of milk and
Joseph waiting for him. Pierre would call, “bonjour, my old friend”, as he climbed into his seat, while Joseph turned his head toward the driver. The other drivers would smile. They said that the horse smiled at Pierre.
The most economical age to captre an elephant for
training is between fifteen and twenty years, for t is then almost ready to undertake heavy work and can begin to earn its living to keep straight away. But animals of this age do not easily become subservient to man.
The Currier and Ives firm of lithographers was founded by Nathaniel Currier in 1834. James Ives joined the
firm as a bookkeeper eighteen years later just after becoming Currier’s brother-in-law, and was made a partner in 1857. The pair showed an uncanny ability to predict what the American public would rush to buy in the way of cheap art.
But there are weaknesses in
the English gentleman’s ability to rule us today. He usually knows nothing of political economy and less about how foreign countries are governed. He does not respect learning and prefers”sport”. The problem for society is not the virtures of the type so much as its adequacy for its function.
If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the house of Doctor Mannet.
Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains.
A chemical change is one in
which the structure of particles is changed and a new substance is formed.
Hemingway hated failure; he had conquered it all his life, risen above it, and despised it in other.
The Americans are reducing their defence expenditure this year. I wonder if the Russians will do too.
Jane speaks Chinese， and that very well.
Achievements have a dual character, and so have mistakes.
The American working man fought hard to achieve what he has. In the beginning he was little more than a slave.
Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and
the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former.
The biographies of scientists and inventors have immense educational value, and we should do well to encourage young men to read them more frequently.
Jane didn’t know where to
stay when she arrived in Rome. She had never been to that place.
Here too it is a game of follow-the-leader, for the animal at the leading sled is trained and old and wise, the strongest deer of the herd.
The people of Europe were waging a hard struggle to win the complete
emancipation of the continent during World War Two.
An electron tube is generally used for amplification, and vaccuum tube is another name for this device.
Another method is the chemical process. His credentials are
deception, tha’s exactly what he has.
Truth speaks too low, Hypocracy too loud.
Reading exercises one’s eyes; speaking, one’s tongue,
while writing, one’s mind.
A sound must be heard, a colour seen, a flavour tasted, an odour inhaled.
The biographies of scientists and inventors have imminse educational value, and we should do well to encourage young men to read them more frequently.
Hence this instruction of the experiment.
A metal is a brilliant, opaque, heavy and malleable mineral.---Well, what else?
The report reads as folllows. Now for the sound-wave method.
Of James more later on. But of that presently.
If only an earlier, and even greater, crop might be obtained!
More of that anon.
Better that nothing were
done than that things should be done by halves.
Most people just ruin scissors trying to sharpen them.
I am through asking questions.
What’s the good bragging? They cook the French style. Such matters never come my way.
Try to keep your letters this side of 500 words.
Five days now will be May
Day.
Head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children. He jumped into the water, clothes and all.
I am not informed whether he went, why he went, when he went, or where he came from.
We try to make a list of all the books there are on the subject.
Nowadays, if an inventor cannot find a metal that suits
his purpose, he tries to have a new alloy made that will. Few if any have been built. Copper wire allows a larger current than does iron wire. Turns are made in a helicopter, as in an airplane, by banking.
All bodies consist of molecules and these of atoms.
Molecules are broken up and new ones formed in chemical reactions.
Life must be measured rather by depth than by length.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some rew to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. One can’t think of Africa without thinking of Egypt,
the cradle of an ancient civilization, nor of Egypt without the Nile.
The breakthroughs would create as much danger as they would hope.
When the media add interpretation and analysis, as they must to do their job fully, strong dislike of messengers may become intense.
When a force is applied to a metal part, the part will
resist the force up to a certain limit, and when the force is removed the metal springs bakck to its former shape and size, showing that the metal is elastic.
Case construction such as the above should be used sparingly; not so frequently as in the examples or in the exercise which follows. Before that happened, should they not have a right to learn, if not pass on, what
we were deciding to do? Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour, that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited.
What is quwstioned is wheter a country like Britain has a chance, assuming it has the will, to succeed where so many have failed
and even assuming that it has, should make the tremendous effort and take substantial financial risk of trying to leap-frog into leadership in entirely new technology or whether it should take the softer option of merely catching up with the rest of the industrialized world.
It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was as I lay in my crib at the
close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a new day to me.
From the historical point of view the Orthodox Church can argure that it is the Church.
In places like Madumbi, time seems more of a thief and enemy than in crowded cities or even in circles where the moths are
frittered away in useless leisure.
A long straggling fellow he is, brown and hard-haird, who seems tobe growing straight out of his clothes, and walks with a half-apologetic roll. …who had endured hundreds of battles, blockade, salt shortage, famine, disease, epidemic, and finally the Long March of 6000 miles.
With a part of the proceeds of his plan of piracy, he carried on a subtle system of corruption.
If she were alive today she should not be albel to air her views on her favorite topic of conversation: domestic servants.
William Sidney Porter, who is known under his pen name, O. Henry, is one of the best known writer of America.
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Translation practice:
She had no idea what I meant.
The boy was nowhere to be found.
He is by no means bright. There is no more bread.
The door refuses to shut. The tea is too hot to drink. My work is far from satisfactory.
The little bridge is anything but safe.
The beauty of CSU is more than words can describe.
Charles has the least reason for being late.
This is the last thing he will do.
The children went fishing
instead of going to school. He depends on you rather than on me. Your work beyond/above all praise. A really great man above/beyond flattery.
Your work falls short my expectations.
They tried but in vain. I know better.
I’ll be damned if I’ll go. You are telling me. God only knows!
is is of
Tell that to the marines. Catch me doing that again. Do that again if you dare. I wish I were a millionaire. Who cares?
Why should I do such a thing?
Am I my brother’s keeper? What a nice handwriting you have got!
I cannot imagine myself without you, my dear.
Hardly a year passed
without another policical movement breaking out. I never see her but I want to kiss her.
You are too beautiful and gifted not to make me fal in love with you.
That person is nothing but an ignoramus!
He did not work the less for his illness.
Nobody but likes her. He never opens his mouth but he tells a lie.
I cann’t see no wit in her. We never thought fo nothing wrong.
No bread, no butter, no cheese,, no nothing.
He doesn’t lend his books to nobody.
I don’t want nothing. Nobody hardly understands.
I couldn’t hardly believe my eyes.
I listened for half an hour without scarcely hearing a
word.
Forces do not always produce movement.
The language used in scentific and technical books is certainly not a different langguage from that of everyday life, but all the same it presents the foreign student with a number of special problems.
Scientific discoveries and inventions do not always influence the
language in proportion to their importance. It is doubtful whether the radio and the moving picture are more important than the telegraph and the telephone, but they have brought more new words into general use.
But two systems are not necessarily identical, or even very similar, because they have some properties in common.
They do not conduct
the dangerous experiment to serve their private interest, but to benefit man.
He is not a majestic personal figure like Roosevelt, and he doesn’t inspire fear like Johnson.
I’m in the trade and there’s not a man in it who won’t tell you that what I say about pearls goes wrong…They’ll never be able to get a culture pearl that an expert like me can’t
tell with half an eye.
Such a poor state could not possibly have waged a war against its neighbour without the backing from other countries.
I can not state strongly my appreciation of the part you played in the negotiation in orger to bring about the desired result.
But these were only daydreams, much too heavenly to be contemplated
as real possibilities.
Far from admiring his paintings I dislike them intensely.
Little does he know that the police are about to arrest him.
But firemen succeeded in confining the outbreak to warehouses containing less inflammable materials.
However, even this surplus of milk is a bad thing, for the last thing the
capitalists would allow is to sell it at a lower price.
Now, I have recalled these beginnings of the careers of Franklin, Darwin and Mozart because they strikingly illustrate a profound psychological truth the significance of which can scarcely be overestimated.
This book contained too much gossip, too many distortions and falseboods to
warrant comment.
It is impossible to overestimate this point.
No one can be in China more than a few hours without sensing an enoumous optimism.
Everyone
acknowledges that Newton was a great man; yet few have more than the vaguest acquaintance with his living personality.
Of his father Robert
Newton, little more is known today than that he was the father of Issac Newton.
It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day.
Today, when it is not only driving ahead at a bewildering speed but tunnelling back into wider
and wider areas of the past, even the most dogged adventurer cannot hope to esplore more than a small fraction of the vast continent.
A book may be compared to yo9ur neighbour, if it be good, it can not last too long; if bad, you can not get rid of it too early.
Treatment of Complex
Sentences
----If she had long lost the blue-eyed, flower-like charm, the cool slim purity of face and form, the apple-blossom coloring which had so swiftly and oddly affected Ashurst twenty-six years ago, she
was still at forty-three, a comely and faithful companion, whose cheeks were faintly mottled, and whose grey-blue eyes had acquired a certain fullness.
----Time goes fast for one who has a sense of beauty, when there are pretty children in a pool and a young Diana on the edge, to receive with wonder anything you can catch!
----And I take heart from the fact that the enemy, which boasts that it can occupy the strategic point in a couple of hours, has not yet been able to take even the outlying regions, because of the stiff resistances that gets in the way.
----The president said at a press conference dominated by questions on yesterday’s election results that he could
not explain why the Republicans had suffered such a widespread defeat, which in the end would deprive the Republican Party of long-held superiority in the House.
----But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demoniac personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a
soaring imagination and ---- until toward the end, when drunk with power and success, he overreached himself----an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.
----By the middle of the year, he warned, the Soviet Union sould overtake the United States in the number of land-based strategic missiles,
the result of a massive Soviet effort beginning in the mid-1960s, after the Cuban fiasco, to achieve at least parity and possibly superiority in nuclear weapons.
-----After their father’s death, chris, Xian and I discussed where the cap belonged----hard as it was to give it up, we all agreed that
it belonged to the Chinese people, that it should be taken back to China. I feel that the original owner of the cap would agree with our sending it home to the new china that had come about since the days when China’s Liberation rested in the hands and hearts of its people and their indomitable leaders.
-----Even though Lincoln has taken his place among
the immortals, his memory still lives and his influence pervades the life of the nation whose leader he was. What it was in his great soul that enabled him, untutored and untrained in conventional ways, to control for four years the destiny of a great people, we may not understand. But we may recognize in his righteous purpose, his clear understanding, his wise
judgment, his earnest efforts to do what was right, the means by which he reached his goal.
1. He knows the water the best who had waded through it.
2. The isolation of the rural world, because of distance and the lack of transport facilities, is compounded by the paucity of the information media.
3. It is a curious fact, of which I can think of no satisfactory explanation, that enthusiasm for country life and love of natural scenery are strongest and most widely diffused precisely in those European countries which have the worst climate and where the search for the picturesque involves the greatest discomfort.
4. The point that I am
anxious to make is that the search for mathematical models of this kind, the study of their behaviour and of the relationship of this behaviour to the real situations which they seek to represent, and the consequential modification of them so as to lead to reliable prediction and then to decision-making, would not be possible were it not for the assistance afforded to
the investigator by the digital computer,----and by the work of the technologists who have successfully transformed the scientific ideas on which it is founded into stable, reliable and economic pieces of electrical equipment.
5. The idea of a fish being able to generate electricity strong enough to light small bulbs, even to run an
electric motor, is almost unbelievable.
6. There are swift flowing rivers, slow, sluggish rivers, mighty rivers with several mouths, rivers that carry vast loads of alluvium to the sea, clear, limpid rivers, rivers that at some seasons of the year have very much more water than at others, rivers that are made to generate vast quantities of electricity by their power,
and rivers that carry great volumes of traffic.
7. He had flown in just the day before from Georgia where he had spent his vacation basking in the Caucasian sun after the completion of the construction job he had been engaged on in the south. 8. Among Mr Mott’s first acts, after helping to get his family settled, was to arrange to take possession
of the small car which a departing American friend had left in France, and which Mr Mott had bought from him by mail, sight unseen.
9. Harry grew tired of watching the crowding lorries, the mount police with their effect of sleek menace, the utility van dashing about, taking down and sending out wireless messages, the lieutenant
confusedly studying the map to make out what the messages meant and appealing for aid now and then to the sergeant.
10. They drifted across the US and gathered in the big cities when winter came, hungry, defeated, empty, hopeless, restless, driven by they knew not what, always on the move, looking everywhere for work, for the bare crumbs to support their
miserable lives, and finding neither work nor crumbs. 11. There are several reasons why Kissinger no longer appears to be the magician the world press had made him out to be, an illusion which he failed to discourage because, as he would admit himself, he has a tendency toward megalomania.
12. The contrast between this knowledge and
understanding of Kissinger’s tactics and this uncertainty about his strategy is characteristic of most of what is written and said, not just about his role in the Middle East but about a whole range of Kissinger’s ventures, including the most important he has undertaken.
13. During the elaboration of the economic principles I have been so damned
delayed by computational errors that out of despair I undertook again a quick scanning of the algebra. (Marx)
14. There is no more difference, but there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of a
butcher who weighs out his goods in common scales and the operations of a chemist who performs a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graduated weights.
15. Alongside of not far from the lavish residences and tall modern buildings of the well-heeled were the poverty crammed hovels and mud-floor mat sheds. 16. He had cleared up those
confusions which arose from different medicines that had the same name and from various names that had been given to the same substances.
17. Another development, by itself not strictly scientific in nature, is the growing awareness that the energy resources at present available to human technology are limited, and that photosynthesis is the
only large-scale process on earth by which a virtually inexhaustible source of energy, i.e. the radiation energy of the sun, is collected and converted into a form of energy that is not only used by plants, but by all forms of life, including man.
18. Alice and Mary stood in quiet sorrow for some time. 19. It is not only normalcy but a happy married life that
gives stability to her active, organized life.
20. Petra had become the leader of the girls as soon as she snapped out of her original depression at coming to Prague.
21. This film is a dramatic treatment of a threatened stoppage in a factory.
22. Can you answer a question which I want to ask and which is puzzling me? 23. It is just like him to
work so hard without seeking reward or recognition.
It is a curious fact, of which I can think of no satisfactory explanation, that enthusiasm for country life and love of natural scenery are strongest and most widely diffused precisely in those European countries which have the worst
climate and where the search for the picturesque involves the greatest discomfort. Curious: 1.---to do sth/---about sth: (in a good sense) eager (to learn /know, etc) 2.strange; unusual; (OALD)
The isolation of the rural world, because of distance and the lack of transport facilities, is
compounded by the paucity of the information media.
cf: Because there is a great distance and there are not enough transport facilities, the rural world is isolated. This isolation has become more serious because there are not enough information media.
After their father’s death, chris, Xian and I discussed
where the cap belonged----hard as it was to give it up, we all agreed that it belonged to the Chinese people, that it should be taken back to China. I feel that the original owner of the cap would agree with our sending it home to the new china that had come about since the days when China’s Liberation rested in the hands and hearts of its people and their indomitable
leaders.
Even though Lincoln has taken his place among the immortals, his memory still lives and his influence pervades the life of the nation whose leader he was. What it was in his great soul that enabled him, untutored and untrained in conventional ways, to control for four years the destiny of a great people, we may not understand. But we
may recognize in his righteous purpose, his clear understanding, his wise judgment, his earnest efforts to do what was right, the means by which he reached his goal.
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