英译汉 Lecture 7.ppt

Exercises 1.Ease and pleasant as their life at Paris was, it was after all only an idle dalliance and amiable trifling. (Vanity Fair) 他们在巴黎生活得有舒服又有趣,可是终究不过是在偷安嬉耍,不是个长远之计. 2.Luckily, at this time he caught a liver complaint, for the cure of which he returned to Europe, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country. 算他好运,在那个时候害了肝炎,必须回欧洲治疗,才有机会在本国享福. 5. Kunta was so worn out, slumped in his rocking chair, staring vacantly at the fire, that he didn’t even notice Bell feeling his forehead and taking off his shoes. 昆塔累极了，他颓然倒在摇椅中，凝视着火光发呆。他甚至没有感到贝尔用手摸了他的前额，并替他脱了鞋。 6. It had been a fine, golden autumn, a lovely farewell to those who would lose their youth, and some of them their lives, before the leaves turned again in a peacetime fall. 那是个天气晴朗金黄可爱的秋天，美好的秋色为那些青年送别。待到战后和平时期，黄叶纷飞的秋天再度来临时，当时的青年已经失去了青春，有的丧失了生命。 Ex.2 Translate the following sentence by combination. 1.He was shocked. Never before had anyone come alone, on foot, to his father’s cabin. 他大为震惊,因为过去从来没有人孤身步行去过他父亲的小木屋。 2.The young man was very miserable. He had no money about him. All his savings had been stolen. 这个年轻人很惨，已落到身无分文的地步，因为他所有的积蓄被窃。 3.Darkness fell. An explosion shook the earth. It did not shake his will to go to the front. 夜幕降临时，一声爆炸震动了大地，可并没有动摇他上前线的决心。 Paragraph translation Women and Men It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. Few of them held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. I did not see, then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory. I did not realize---because such things were never spoken of---how often women suffered from men\s bullying. I did learn about the wretchedness of abandoned wives, single mothers, widows; but I also learned about the wretchedness of lone men. Even then I could see how exhausting it was for a mother to cater all day to the needs of young children. But if I had been asked, as