新视野大学英语1-4册翻译(7)

1. The man is reported to have said in private that \clients, so we are entitled to have them bow to us as compensation.\

据报道这个男子曾在私下说：“许多救济对象在欺骗我们，因此，作为补偿，我们有权让他们对我们点头哈腰。”

2. After considering your background and experience, we regret to inform you that we don't have an appropriate job opportunity for you at current stage.

我们考虑了你的背景与经历，很遗憾地告诉你，我们目前没有适合你的工作机会。

3. I failed to take my cue from Oscar. Instead, I talked back to the woman, who turned out to be our new manager.

我没能按奥斯卡的暗示去做，相反，我反驳了那个妇女，结果她竟然是我们的新经理。

4. There needs to be someone who can act as a champion for the rights of the poor because the system so easily lends itself to abuse.

需要有人来充当穷人权利的捍卫者，因为这一体制太容易被滥用。

5. I called the police for help after my car broke down on the freeway. Twenty minutes later, they came to my rescue.

我的车子在高速公路上抛锚后，我打电话向警察求助，20分钟后他们赶来帮我。

6. He was passionate for art, but he went through tremendous pain—pain of poverty and misunderstanding.

他热爱艺术，却经受了巨大的痛苦──贫穷与误解。 Unit 4

1. The developing countries see information technologies as a means to accelerate their economy, but some lack experience in weighing costs and choosing between technologies.

发展中国家认为信息技术是促进经济发展的途径，但一些国家在估算成本与选择技术方面缺乏经验。 2. The world is said to have about 3,000 times as much groundwater as water it has in rivers and lakes, and groundwater is far cleaner.

据说地球拥有的地下水量大约是其拥有的河流和湖泊水量的三千倍，而且地下水要干净得多。 3. Anyone can take good photos—it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. 任何人都能照出好照片──问题只是你是否在合适的时间和地点。

4. By installing computers in their schools and libraries, the community leaders demonstrated that they were determined not to lag behind in technology.

通过在他们的学校和图书馆安装计算机，这些社区的领导们表明他们决心不在技术上落后。

5. When he started the company, he thought he'd be able to cruise alongside the top businesses in the market, but he is disappointed because he hasn't yet succeeded.

当他开始创办这家公司时，他想他将能在市场上与那些顶级公司并驾齐驱，可是他现在失望了，因为他没有成功。

6. A Florida couple is building what they say will be the home of the future, one strong enough to withstand hurricanes, yet gentle enough to blend in with the environment.

佛罗里达的一对夫妇在建造一座他们称之为未来之家的房子，它既能抵御飓风，又与周围环境十分协调。 Unit 5

1.新的机制并不像他们预期的那样有效，因为数月过去了，但管理效率并没有明显改进。

The new mechanism is not so effective as they had excepted, for months passed and there has been no big improvement and management efficiency.

2.我不想不必要地吓唬你，可你最好还是面对事实，看看一些数字吧。

I don’t want to scare you unnecessarily, but you might as well face facts and look at a few numbers.

3.孤独的特点是一种与世隔绝感，而独居则是独自一人却不感到寂寞的状态，它能引发自我意识。 Loneliness is marked by a sense of isolation. Solitude, on the other hand, is a state of being alone without being lonely and can lead to self-awareness

4.孤独是一种消极的状态，你会感到失去了某种东西。你可能与别人在一起仍然感到孤独—这也许是孤独最痛苦的形式。

Loneliness is a negative state. One feels that something is missing. It is possible to be with people and still feel lonely—perhaps the bitterest form of loneliness

5.独居是一种与自我相约的积极的状态。独居是值得向往的，是独自一人、享受自我愉快而又充实的陪伴的一种状态。

Solitude is a positive state of engagement with oneself. Solitude is desirable, a state being alone where you provide yourself wonderful and sufficient company. 6.梭罗说，一个人即使身处同伴之中，如果不对他们敞开心扉，仍会感到孤独。

Thoreau says that loneliness can occur even amid companions if one’s heart is not open to them. Unit 6

1. Suppose you were offered a bribe in exchange for a promise, what would you do—receive it or stand by your principles?

假设有人向你行贿，要换取一种承诺，你会怎么做？是接受呢，还是坚持自己的原则?

2. Nowadays, people wouldn't put up with those terrible circumstances, but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life.

现在人们不会忍受那些糟糕的境况，可是在那些日子里却只能接受那样的现实。

3. Cheating in various forms is on the increase in colleges and universities, and I have lost

count of the number of students who were caught cheating this semester.

大学校园里形形色色的作弊现象越来越多，我已不记得这学期有多少学生因作弊而被捉住了。

4. Mr. Aichi had to withdraw himself from the competition for the position of state governor when it was revealed that he had been on the take. 当艾奇先生被披露曾受贿时，他不得不退出州长职位的竞争。

5. While originally he had been fully in support of the reform policies, later he began to attack the reform movement.

虽然他原先完全支持改革政策，可后来却开始抨击这场改革运动了。

6. The professor definitely will not agree with the point that the translation amounted to little more than looking up words in dictionaries. 这位教授肯定不会同意翻译基本是在词典里查生词的观点。