绿卡通行制翻译练习(附参考答案)(09级学生使用).doc

翻译练习一（英译汉）： 一、将下列句子译成汉语： 1. Its more a poem than a picture. 2. He drank himself out of the best lines.3. He pretends to be as modest as anything. 4. Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft.5. The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it.6. Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus to Hattiesburg.7. If you feel depressed at a social gathering, keep it a secret.8. The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of age. 9. He wants a lawyer who understands his case, who sympathizes with him and who has been there himself. 10. World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. 11. She couldnt have come at a better time. 12. She has been a widow only six months.13. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn. 14. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too.15. The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality.16. From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colours as there are different wave lengths.17. But the next century well be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. 18. As a human being, we should demonstrate our intellectual and moral superiority by respecting others for who they are -- instead of rejecting them for who/what they are not. 19. He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death. 20. No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a tyrant. 21. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession. 22. The expectation of collision informed British frontier policy in this period. 23. Every day now, the suppression of truth and the organizing of public ignorance shame journalism. 24. I walked to the ticket counter. When the ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so. 25. Accident may p