1、短篇翻译1.They didnt realize the consequences of their action, or they wouldnt have done such a thing.他们事前不知道会导致这种后果，否则他们也不会这么做了。2.It is common experience that a certain amount of regular exercise improves health and contributes to a feeling of well-being. 一定量的运动可以增进健康并使人精神愉快，这一点是人们共有的经验。3.You cant be t
2、oo careful when you drive a car on the icy road. A)在结冰的路面上驾车时，怎么小心都不为过。4.Once you gain confidence in yourself, you can judge truth and error with you own mind. 一旦你获得了自信，就能用自己的头脑去判断真理和错误。5.Language is learned in small bits. 学语言是日积月累的过程。6. Ice is formed when the temperature of water goes below 0 degre
3、e. 当水温度降到摄氏零度以下时，形成了冰。7.His failure to observe the safety regulations resulted in an accident to the machinery. 他没有遵守安全规则，结果机器出了故障。8.Some of the stories were really more than could be believed. 有些故事实在不能令人相信。9.It does pay you to be respectful to other people. 尊敬别人，确实对你有好处。10.The doctor ruled out the
4、possibility of broken bone after the X-rays. 经过 X 光透视医生排除了骨折的可能。1. He was as good as his word. 他信守诺言。 2. Work in moderation is healthy as well as agreeable to human constitution. 适度的劳动对身体给予快感，又有益卫生。 3. He has experience as well as knowledge.他又有学问又有经验。 4. If I were rich, I should do so. As it is, I d
5、o nothing. 如果我有钱，我就要这样做。但实在太穷，我什么也不能做。 5. The painter does not copy nature as it is.画家描绘大自然，并不是完全写实的。 6. I take the world as it is. 世界就是这样子，人不指望它会变好。7. You had better take things as they are.你最好接受事物的现状。8. Living as we do in a remote village, we rarely have visitors. 因为住在这样远离城市的村庄，我们是很少有客人的。9. She ma
6、y well be proud of her son. 她对自己的儿子感到骄傲是有道理的。 10. You may just as well tell me the truth.你告诉我真相也无妨 。 11. One may as well not know a thing at all as know it imperfectly. 与其一知半解，还不如一点也不知道的好。12. You might as well advice me to give up my fortune as my argument. 你叫我放弃争辩，还不如要我放弃财产。13. It is his nature to
7、do to others what he would have others do to him.他的天性是想要别人怎么样对他，他就怎么样对待别人。 1. You had better take things as they are. 你最好接受事物的现状。 2. Work in moderation is healthy as well as agreeable to human constitution. 适度的劳动对身体给予快感，又有益健康。 3. You might as well advise me to give up my fortune as my argument. 你叫我放
8、弃争辩，还不如要我放弃财产。4. It is his nature to do to others what he would have others do to him. 他的天性是想要别人怎么样对他，他就怎么样对待别人。 5. He was on the verge of losing his temper with his wife, when she uttered a cry. 他正要对妻子发脾气，她忽然大喊一声。6. He appeared at her side, breathing audibly, a moment after she reached the stop. 她到
9、车站不一会儿，他便出现在她的身旁，听见他喘息的声音。It is in studying as in eating；he who does it gets the benefits；and not he who sees it done读书和吃饭一样，得到利益的是实际在吃的人，而不是在旁边观看的人。Spring has so much than speech in its unfolding flowers and leaves, and the coursing of its streams, and in its sweet restless seeking.春化怒放，春水奔流，春天欢腾地无
10、休无止地追逐着，这一切比言语丰富地多。This is particularly true of the countries of the commonwealth, who see Britains membership of the Community a guarantee that the policies of the community will take their interests into account。英联邦各国尤其如此，它们认为英国加入欧共体，将能保证欧共体的政策照顾到它们的利益。1. During his visit to China, the Korean fore
11、ign minister conferred with his Chinese counterpart a number of times.1.在中国访问期间,韩国外交部长与中国外交部长举行了数次会谈。2.Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.2.勇敢过度，即成蛮勇；疼爱过度，即成溺爱；俭约过度，即成贪婪。3. The people were there, and the land the first dazed and bleeding and hungry, and when
12、winter came, shivering in their rags in the hovels which the bombings had made of their homes; the second a vast waste land of rubble. 3.人民还在那里，土地也还在那里，但人民却茫茫然，流着血，挨着饿，当冬天到来时，他们在炸成残垣断壁的窝棚中，穿着破烂衣服，不停地打着哆嗦，土地则是一片荒芜，瓦砾成堆The key to success is not information. Its people. 成功的关键不是信息，而是人。Reading exercises
13、ones eyes; speaking, ones tongue; while writing, ones mind.阅读训练人的眼睛，说话训练人的口齿，写作训练人的思维。1. Every life has its roses and thorns.2. He was a dead shot. However, he met his Waterloo this time. 3. After the failure of his last novel, his reputation stands on slippery ground.4. Mrs. Sawyer looked radiant,
14、too, and for the first time gobbled up her dinner like a little dog.5. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill. 6. This novel was the beginning of his fame. 1. 朵朵玫瑰皆有刺。/ 没有十全十美的人生。人生大路既铺满鲜花，又不满荆棘2.他是一个神枪手，可这次
15、却遭到了惨败（遭遇了滑铁卢） 。3.他上一篇小说写砸了,他的名声从此岌岌可危。4.索耶太太也容光焕发，第一次大口大口地吃饭，活像一头小猪。5.还是那句老话：物失方知可贵，病时倍思健康。6. 这部小说是他的成名之作。1. They laugh most of all on evenings at dance time when the men are home from overseas2. The sound of their fiddles is like the twittering of sparrows. And they are all in debt to the grocer!
16、3. But in bad weather the Atlantic waves scream on every side of them, and the winds from the east go tearing round the mountains like forty thousand devils. 4. They run the home and they work the fields. They strive and plan for the return of their men in the autumn. 5. Who would dare to murmur aga
17、inst the divine wisdom ? 1. 她们笑得最欢的时候，是开舞会的晚上，这时男人们已从海外归来。2. 他们的小提琴声宛如鸟雀的啁啾。可是他们人人都欠杂货铺老板的债!3.可是天气不好的时候，大西洋的波涛在四周呼啸，东边刮来的狂风象千万个妖魔在山间奔腾。4. 她们管家种地,为迎接秋天男人们归来而劳累，筹划。5. 谁敢对上帝的智慧说半个不字?1. Out of the eight men who had fallen in the action, only three still breathed; and of these two were as good as dead. 2
18、. I often wish I could read. As it is, I have nothing to do but to think. 3. This movement, arising as it does among the poor themselves, is likely to have more force than if it does from the upper classes.4. You might as well erect a house without bricks and mortar as try to get on in life without
19、education.5. He was on the verge of losing his temper with his wife, when she uttered a cry. 6. He appeared at her side, breathing audibly, a moment after she reached the stop. 1. 八个在战斗中倒下的人，只有三个还未断气，而其中两个却像死了一样。2. 我非常希望我能阅读。像我这样一字不识，除了思索以外，什么也不能做。3. 因为运动是发生于穷人本身之间的， 很可能比来自上层社会的更有力量。4. 不受教育而想立身处世，就像
20、没有砖和灰泥建造房子一样。5. 他正要对妻子发脾气，她忽然大喊一声。6. 她到车站不一会儿，他便出现在她的身旁，听见他喘息的声音。1. Each was in the highest sense a providential man raised up for his era, and filled with those eminent qualities that enabled him to do the great work of the hour. 2. He is classed with Washington in greatness of deeds, but is nearer
21、 the hearts of all Americans because he sprang from the ranks of the common people, and rose from the log hut of birth to the White House. 3. Because his family were pioneers in the newly settled West, he had practically no regular education, but he held firmly to his purpose to secure knowledge in
22、every possible way. 4. Missing his hunting and fishing days of his youth, he managed to get himself expelled every spring so he could go back home, and spend days and weeks camping, hunting, and fishing.5. His youth was spent hunting and fishing along the Tensas River that separates Tensas Parish fr
23、om Concordia Parish. 1. 他们都是为各自时代造就的地地道道天降大任的人物，都具有成就当时辉煌的事业的杰出才能与品德。2. 论功绩，他和华盛顿总统在伯仲之间；但是他出身老百姓，是从出生时居住的圆木小屋来到白宫的，所以美国人民的心跟他更亲近。3. 当时西部刚刚有人定居，他家是来到西部的拓荒者，所以他几乎没有受过正规教育，然而他立志千方百计求学，锲而不舍。4. 他怀念少年时期打猎捕鱼的日子，每年春季，就设法让校方开除他，他就可以回家去，一连几天、几个星期野营、打猎、捕鱼。5.孔科尔迪亚教区与腾萨斯教区隔腾斯河而相望, 他常在河畔打猎捕鱼, 消磨着青春岁月。1. Jordan i
24、s widely regarded as the sports greatest player, and his retirement announcement in early 1999 came as a blow to the sport and to his millions of fans in America and around the world. 2. American adults once placed Jordan fifth on a list of all-time “most respected news-makers”. 3. As his fortune gr
25、ew he put money back into the community, creating a foundation to fund athletics facilities and other projects for children from the inner city of Chicago, his adopted home.4. Football is, I suppose, the most popular game in England: one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. 5.
26、 Most schools in England take football seriously-much more seriously than nearly all European schools, where lessons are all-important, and games left for private arrangements. 1.乔丹被普遍认为是球坛上最了不起的球员。1999 年初他宣布退役，这极大地震惊了球坛，震惊了他在美国与世界的数百万球迷。2. 美国的成年人一度把他排列在有史以来“最受尊敬的新闻人物”名单中的第五位。 3. 他财富愈来愈多，便把钱回报给社会，创办
27、了一个基金会，为他的第二故乡芝加哥内城的儿童们资助运动设施与其他项目。4. 我认为，足球是英国人最喜爱的运动；这一点，只要去观看一场重要的足球赛便可以看出来。5. 在英国，足球得到大多数学校的重视比欧洲大陆几乎所有的学校都重视得多。在欧洲大陆的学校里，功课最为重要，而体育活动全由个人安排。长篇翻译 Early Life of General Claire Lee Chennault (1893-1958) Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers during World War II, was born in Texas in
28、1893. Claire Lee attended school in Gilbert, a small town in Franklin Parish before settling on Lake John, in Concordia Parish. His youth was spent hunting and fishing along the Tensas River that separates Tensas Parish from Concordia Parish. Frequently, he would spend days alone, on these hunting e
29、xpeditions, sleeping outside, and eating small game he had killed. Tragedy struck young Claire Lee twice, as a boy. When he was five, his mother died. Then, ten years later, his stepmother, Lottie Barnes, who at one time had been his teacher, also died. He became a loner. Claire Lee attended Louisia
30、na State University at the tender age of fifteen. Missing his hunting and fishing days of his youth, he managed to get himself expelled every spring so he could go back home, and spend days and weeks camping, hunting, and fishing. Eventually he quit LSU, and attended a state teachers college. Claire
31、 Lee first married Nell Thompson from Waterproof, Tensas Parish, in 1911. They eventually had eight children. When World War I began, Claire Lee attended Officers Training School, but the war ended before he saw any action. Eventually, he was accepted at flight training school. 克莱尔李陈纳德将军的早年生活 (18931
32、958) 克莱尔李 陈纳德是二战期间飞虎队队长， 1893年生于美国得克萨斯州。 克莱尔李原先在弗兰克林教区一个名为吉尔伯特的小镇上学，后移居孔科尔迪亚教区的约翰湖畔。孔科尔迪亚教区与腾萨斯教区隔腾斯河而相望，他常在河畔打猎捕鱼，消磨着青春岁月。他往往独自外出打猎，一连几天，在野外露宿，以打到的小野味充饥。 克莱尔李少年时期曾两次遭受丧亲之痛。他五岁丧母。十年之后，曾当过他的老师的继母洛蒂巴恩斯亦离人世。他孤身一人过日子。 克莱尔李年方十五就上了路易斯安那州立大学。他怀念少年时期打猎捕鱼的日子，每年春季，就设法让校方开除他，他就可以回家去，一连几天、几个星期野营、打猎、捕鱼。最后，他离开了路易
33、斯安那州立大学，转入一所州立师范学院。 1911 年，克莱尔李初婚，娶了腾萨斯教区沃特普鲁夫镇的内尔汤普森。他们最后共生了八名子女。第一次世界大战爆发时，克莱尔李上了军官训练学校，但他还没来得及参加战斗，战争就结束了。最后，他被一所飞行训练学校录取。 Seven thousand people, connected to Ireland by a narrow bridge, live on the Isle of Achill in the shadow of blue mountains and in the gloom of brown peat bogs. They think in
34、Irish, and they speak Irish. When the sun shines they inhabit a paradise of colours. Titian-blue hills, blue skies, seas that rival the blue of Naples; but in bad weather the Atlantic waves scream on every side of them, and the winds from the east1 go tearing round the mountains like forty thousand
35、devils. Their little white cabins cluster incredibly on rock ledges; their small potato patches are scratched with heroic industry in the hard rock. They love dancing and music. The sound of their fiddles is like the twittering of sparrows. And they are all in debt to the grocer! There is no money t
36、o be made in Achill, so that twelve months credit is the easy-going custom. The whole island lives on credit. It is in debt from harvest to harvest. In the spring every able-bodied man, and many a sturdy girl, leaves Achill for England or Scotland, where they sell their strong arms to foreign farmer
37、s. They put in five months hard labour and return with their savings to pay last years bills. There is nothing in this country of farewells quite like the regular evacuation of Achill in the spring. Special boats put in from Glasgow and Liverpool. The male population troops down to the sea, waves go
38、od-bye to its women-folk, and departs overseas on its gold rush. “And how much do you make in England ?” I asked a young giant. “Sure I saved ten pounds last year! ” he replied proudly. 阿基尔岛经一座狭窄的桥与爱尔兰相连，岛上兰色山峰的阴影之下，褐色泥炭沼地的幽暗之中住着七千人。这些人思考用的是爱尔兰语，讲的也是爱尔兰语。天气晴朗的时候，他们仿佛住在色彩缤纷的天堂里。黛青色的山峦，蔚蓝的天空，可以与那不勒斯媲美
39、的蓝湛湛的海。可是在天气不好的时候，大西洋的波涛在四周呼啸，东边刮来的狂风象千万个妖魔在山间奔腾。 他们的白色小屋三五成群地座落在伸向海面的悬崖上，简直令人难以置信。那小块小块的马铃薯地是他们以勇敢勤劳的精神在岩缝中抠出来的。他们喜爱舞蹈和音乐。他们的小提琴声宛如鸟雀的啁啾。可是他们人人都欠杂货铺老板的债! 在阿基尔没有什么钱可赚，所以一年到头赊欠是家常便饭。全岛的人都靠赊帐过活。从一次秋收欠到另一次秋收。每到春天，所有身强力壮的男子，还有许多健壮的姑娘，都离开阿基尔到英格兰或苏格兰去，把自己有力的双臂卖给外国农场主。他们干了五个月苦力之后，带着积蓄的钱回来付去年的赊欠款。 爱尔兰的送别场面可
40、谓盛矣，但无论如何也比不上阿基尔岛上每年春天一次人们大批离岛的场面壮观。从格拉斯哥和利物浦开来了专用船。男人们成群结队走到海边，向女眷们挥手告别，然后漂洋过海赶去“淘金”。 “那么在英国可以赚到多少钱?”我问一位身材魁梧的年轻人。 “我去年攒了十英镑哩！”他骄傲地回答道。 在人家地里苦干五个月才得了十英镑！ What a strange, pathetic island! Yet none seems conscious of this. God has planted them on a sea-girt rock; therefore God intended them to remain
41、 there! Who would dare to murmur against the divine wisdom? The soil is hard. There is no money. But one can earn money in the foreign countries of England and Scotland, situated, also it seems by divine providence, a few short hours off in a boat. When the men go to the foreign farms, Achill become
42、s an isle of women. They run the home and they work the fields. They strive and plan for the return of their men in the autumn. These women and the neurotic women of cities belong to different worlds. It is tragic to see beauty withering visibly and so early, under the trials of a hard life. Here a
43、woman is old at thirty and senile at forty. She knows nothing of comfort and care as women in cities know them, and there seems to be no time in her life when she can fold her hands and gaze about her from the privileged harbour of her old age. You will see women labouring in the fields, and coming
44、like beasts of burden along the road, but so bent and so wrinkled that their age defies supposition. Yet there is laughter in Achill. The young girls laugh as they drive the geese over the rocks; they laugh as they climb the low stone walls with their baskets; they laugh as they call off the wild do
45、gs that threaten to devour the stranger; they laugh most of all, so I am told, on evenings at dance time when the men are home from overseas and the fiddles twitter over the hills of Achill like birds under an eave. 多么奇异，多么可怜的海岛！可是似乎谁也没感觉到这一点。上帝把他们安置在四面环海的岩石上，因此上帝的意图就是要他们呆在那里! 谁敢对上帝的智慧说半个不字? 这里土质坚硬，
46、无钱可赚，但是人们可以到英格兰，苏格兰这些外国去赚钱。这些国家也好象由天意决定了似的，只要坐短短几个小时的船就到了。 男人们到外国农场干活去了之后，阿基尔就成了女儿岛。她们管家种地，为迎接秋天男人们归来而劳累，筹划。 这些女人和都市里娇气十足的女子属于两个不同的世界。在艰苦生活的折磨下，眼看着美貌明显地早早地凋谢了，不禁令人惨然。这里的女人三十而老，四十而衰。都市女子领略过的舒适和关怀，她们不知其为何物。人到老年，一般可以交臂四顾享清福，而她们一生中似乎没有这个阶段。你会看到有些妇女在地里干活，有些象骡马一样背着重物沿路走来，可都是弯腰驼背，满脸皱纹，简直猜不出她们到底多大年纪了。 然而阿基尔
47、充满了笑声。少女们赶着鹅群越过石山的时候要笑；背着筐子爬过矮矮的石墙时要笑；赶开似乎要吃掉陌生来客的恶狗时要笑；人们告诉我说，她们笑得最欢的时候，是开舞会时的晚上，这时男人们已从海外归来，他们的小提琴象屋檐下的鸟雀一样，在阿基尔岛群山中到处啁啾。 Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, was born in Kentucky in 1809, and died in Washington in 1865, the day after he had been shot by a Southern sympathize
48、r. He is classed with Washington in greatness of deeds, but is nearer the hearts of all Americans because he sprang from the ranks of the common people, and rose from the log hut of birth to the White House. Because his family were pioneers in the newly settled West, he had practically no regular ed
49、ucation, but he held firmly to his purpose to secure knowledge in every possible way. Stories are told of how he walked miles to secure a book, and studied by the light of the hearth fire at night after a hard day at farm work. After a hard struggle as clerk, village postmaster, and surveyor, he succeeded in passing the bar examinations, and became a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. In 1846, he was elected to Congress. In 1858, he might have gained his place in the United Stat
