专升本翻译和写作练习题

专升本翻译和写作练习题

单句翻译训练

1. The threat of any kind of power failure usually puts fear into the hearts of many people.

2. I once came near being drowned in the attempt to swim across this river.

3. The tape recorder can be a very effective aid to teaching if it is used imaginatively.

4. The time of the hot summer weather lasted so long that the old could scarecely bear it.

5. Good English skills help you express yourself so that others can understand exactly what you mean.

6. Now television pictures can be sent from one side of the world to the other by means of satellites.

7. Since human beings depend to some degree on forests, every effort must be made to preserve trees.

8. She worked very hard; otherwise she could not have passsed the entrance examination.

9. In many developiing countries, cigarette smoking is even seen as a sign of economic progress.

10. Since Altantic College is on the coast, many of the activities for the students are related to the sea or water in general.

11. After long negotiation, the firm contracted to build a double-purpose bridge across the river.

12. in addition to some money in a savings bank account, my assets include properly inherited from my father.

13. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thougts in words, which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions.

14. The status would be perfect but for a few small flaws in its base.

15. The machine needs a complete mending since it has been in use for over ten years.

16. Though he is the president’s son, that does not qualify him to criticize my work.

专升本翻译和写作练习题

17. You must be more careful in doing what you do. Don’t omit anything.

18. I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat refusal.

19. if no importance is attached to collecting information, we cannot survive in such an intensely competitive society, because it is the basis on which we make our dicisions.

20. The period of adolescence may be long or short, depending on social expectation and on society’s definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood.

21. we are trying to make people more sensitive to the difficulties faced by the laid-off workers.

段落翻译

1. Smoking is harmful to the health of people, Governments in the world should conduct serious campaigns against it. Restriction on cigarette advertisements plus health warnings on packages and bans on public smoking in certain places like theaters, cinemas and restaurants, are the most popular tools used by nations in support of nonsmokers or in curbing smoking.

2. As to the child education, there was a more relaxed family, in which the young people felt equal to the adults. They were not perssured to get good marks at school to make their parents proud, and they knew that they would be free to choose their own studies and later their own career. Obviously, their parents still believed in inpidual freedom.

3. At school the students need to increase their knowledge in an organized way, to acquire sufficicent vocabulary in science for effective communication, and to learn some practical knowledge because it is very important in everyday life, such as knowledge that is useful for their health, for their safety, and for understanding of his surrounding.

4. There are many differences between Chinese and western cultures. For example, a Chinese student asks his American teacher, “Have you had lunch? The American teacher might think it a very strange question. Some questions that in Chinese belong to polite small talks might be considered instrusive.

5. In today’s complicated economic world, neither inpidual’s nore nations are self-sufficient. Nations have used different economic resources, and people have grasped various skills. This is the foundation of the world trade and economic activity, internaitonal finance and banking are developed gradually.

6. Psychologists believe that our dreams can often give us some interesting

专升本翻译和写作练习题

information about ourselves. On the simplest level, dreams can make us aware of things we have missed during the day because we were too busy to notice them. On a deeper level, dreams can show us how we really feel about our relationships with others.

7. Since its establishment, the Hope Project has won widespread support from Chinese zitizens, who have generally donated money; clothing and school supplies to help poor children in rural areas stay in or go back to school. The setting up of the project indicates that the Chinese authorities have finally come to terms with realities in the countryside, where life still difficult, and, for many young children, going to school is economically infeasible.

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