英语长句翻译-例句讲述.ppt

英语长句的翻译（补充） The rusting of iron is only one example of corrosion, which may be described as the destructive chemical attack of a metal by media with which it comes in contact, such as moisture, air and water. 参考译文：可以认为，腐蚀是金属接触湿气、空气和水等介质时受到的破坏性化学侵蚀，而铁生锈只是其中一个例子。 逆序拆译法 Rocket research has confirmed a strange fact which had already been suspected: there is a “high-temperature belt” in the atmosphere, with its center roughly 50 kilometers above the ground. 参考译文：大气中存在一个“高温带”，其中心距地面约50千米，对此人们曾经表示怀疑。经火箭探测后，这一不可思议的事实得到了证实。 The space telescope has already helped astronomers rewrite much of what they know about the universe proving the existence of super-massive black holes and showing that stars and galaxies formed much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists had earlier believed. 参考译文：空间望远镜证明了超级黑洞的存在，并表明在创世大爆炸之后恒星和银河系的形成要比科学家早先认为的早得多，因而它已经帮助天文学家改写了许多他们所知道的关于宇宙的知识。 变序拆译法 Pure science has been subdivided into the physical science, which deals with the facts and relations of the physical world, and the biological sciences, which investigate the history and workings of life on this planet. 参考译文：理论科学分为自然科学和生物科学，前者研究自然界的各种事物和相互关系，后者探讨地球上生物的发展史和运作方式。 Manufacturing processes may be classified as unit production with small quantities being made and mass production with large numbers of identical parts being produced. 参考译文：制造过程可分为单件生产和批量生产。单件生产就是生产少量的零件，批量生产就是生产大量的零件。 Since natural water contains dissolved oxygen, fishes, which also need oxygen though they live in water, will die if hot days persist so long that the dissolved oxygen is evaporated. 参考译文：鱼虽然生活在水中，却也需要氧气，而天然水正好含有溶解的氧气。因此，如果炎热天气持续太久，水中溶解的氧都逸散掉了，鱼就会死去。 The reason the light from the flashlight will not bounce off a rough brick wall, as it does from a smooth wooden wall, is that the light is sent off in different directions by the uneven surface of the bricks. 参考译文：手电筒的光从粗糙的砖墙上反射出来的情形，不像它从平滑的板壁上反射出来的那样，其原因是光线被砖的不平表面从不同的方向反射出来。 将英语长句中的某些成分——如定语从句（尤其是非限定性定语从句）、同位语、分词定语以及括号中的成分等——拆译成补叙、说明或注释性文字，将其置于括号中或破折号、冒号之后，可使译文结构严谨，重点更明