大学英语四级翻译轻松练:第七期

来源:网络发布时间:2010-09-09

  社会热点类
  assistant president 总裁助理
  advance with times 与时俱进
  bid for the Olympic Games 申办奥运会
  birth control 计划生育
  brain drain 人才外流
  bubble economy 泡沫经济
  care for senior citizens 关心老年人
  cost of living maintenance 生活费用
  comprehensive national power 综合国力
  compulsory education 义务教育
  computer crime 电脑犯罪
  divorce 离婚
  dropout student 失学儿童
  eliminate illiteracy 扫盲
  economic globalization/integration 经济全球化
  education for all-round development 素质教育
  二.语句层次  
  2.判断句
  ㈢比较判断句
  ① 形式一:主语+be +less/more+表语A+ than+表语B
  例:He does everything with great care but I think ________________________(与其说他谨慎,不如说他是怯懦)。
  答案:he is more poltroon than cautious.
  (本题考察比较判断句型“more … than ”的用法,它的意思是“与其说…不如说…”,more和than后接对称成分)
  ② 形式二:主语+be +not so much+表语A +as+表语B
  例:Judging from his words, we can know that___________________________(他不是生病,而是情绪低落)。
  答案:he isn’t so much ill as depressed.
  (本题考察比较判断句型 not so much … as, 意思是“不是…而是…”)
  ③ 形式三:主语+be+ rather表语A+ than+ 表语B
  例:He who can recite 500 poems_____________________________(与其说他聪明,不如说他勤奋。)
  答案:is rather diligent than clever
  (本题考察比较判断句型“rather … than”的用法,它的意思是“与其说…不如说…”,和rather than后接对称成分)  
  1. One blind man says that____________________________(与其说大象像别的东西,不如说它像一根长矛。)
  2. Scientists believe that_____________________________(与其说海洋分隔了世界,倒不如说海洋连接了各国。)
  3. Experience shows that success is _______________________(应更多的归功与热忱而非能力)
  答案:  
  1. the elephant is more like a spear than anything else
  2. Oceans don’t so much divide the world as unite it

  3. due less to ability than to zeal

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