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现代大学英语精读3句子翻译
第一课
1.他对他的研究如此专心致志，从来没有过很快就要退休的念头。
He is so devoted to his research that it never occurs to him that he will soon have to retire.
2.很多人都曾说过，如果没有有效的制约，我们都有滥用权利的倾向。
Many people have observed that, without effective checks, we all have a tendency to abuse our power.
3.很多国家拒绝卷入这一争端，而且他们对外国的干涉非常反感。
Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent any foreign interference.
4.控制沙尘暴需要大量的工作和资金。
The control of sandstorms will involve a tremendous amount of work and money.
5.你们用这些技术的时候，必须考虑到当地的条件。
You have to take the local conditions into consideration when you apply these technologies.
6.所有的申请者都必须填好这些表格，然后邮寄50美元的报名费。
All applicants will have to fill out these forms and mail in an application fee of 50 dollars.
7.他根据对孩子们行为的观察得出结论：
学习是一种自然的乐趣。
Based on his careful observation of children’s behavior, he came to the conclusion that learning is a natural pleasure.
8.在一个多民族的国家里，各民族之间的和谐需要小心处理。
In a country of many nationalities, ethnic harmony requires very careful handling.
9.政府决定严惩所有涉案的腐败官员。
The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials involved.
10.考试作弊并不经常发生，但一旦发生，学校会采取严厉的态度。
Cheating at/on exams does not occur very often. But when it does, the school takes a very tough position.
第二课
1. 我怀疑这本书也许已经不再印了。
我去问书店的工作人员，他们说我说的对，这书已经绝版很多年了。
I suspected that the book might not be in print. I checked with the bookstore people, and they told me that I was right. The book had been out of print for years.
2. 这小说里有一个值得记住的故事，讲的是刘备如何尽量不引起曹操对他的雄心的怀疑，因为如果引起怀疑，他的生命就会有危险。
One memorable story in the novel concerns how Liu Bei tried not to rouse Cao Cao’s suspicion about his ambitions, because if he did his life would be at stake.（处于危险中）
rouse（唤醒，激起）
3. 当曹操称他为真正的英雄时，刘备吓得筷子都掉了。
但是他聪明地掩盖了他那令人怀疑的举动。
When Cao Cao called him “a real hero”, Liu Bei was so shocked that he dropped his chopsticks. But he cleverly cover up his suspicious behavior .
4. 第一个嫌疑犯是死者的儿子。
警察怀疑他谋杀了他的父亲，因为邻居们在案发当晚曾听到他们打架。
The first suspect was the victim’s son. The police suspected him of murdering his father, because the neighborshad heard them fighting on the night of the killing.
5. 在学习当中，重要的不是把一切都记住，而是运用你的想象力，创造性地、批判性地去进行思考
In learning,theimportantthing is not to commit everything to memory, but to use your imagination and think creatively andcritically.
6. 他肯定是你能想象到的最可笑的窃贼了。
他偷偷进了屋子，尽情地吃喝，最后酩酊大醉，一脸满足的笑容，直到第二天早上被发现。
He must have been the funniest burglar imaginable. He broke into the house, ate and drank to his heart’s content, and remained dead drunk until discovered the next morning, with a perfectly content look on his face.
7. 我现在记人的名字很困难。
我想这肯定是年老造成的。
I nowhave trouble remembering people’s names. I imagine it must result from old age.
8. 我们生活在很多想象的威胁当中，结果就常常感到沮丧。
We often
live under many imaginary threats and feel disheartened as a result.
9. 我怀疑我们的教师有时候低估了学生的智力。
其实年轻人脑子里充满了想象。
I suspect we teachers sometimes underestimate students’ mental capacities. Youngpeople actuallyhave veryimaginative minds.
语法部分
1. 有志者事竟成。
Where there is a will there is a way.
2. 俗话说每个成功的男人背后都有一个女人。
As the saying goes, behind every great man there stands a woman.
3. 曾经有过一个时期这个镇上的居民可以夜不闭户。
There was a time in this town （when the residents didn’t have to lock their doors at night.）
4. 上学的第一天，那男孩就明白了再也不可能回到那个天堂一样的家里去了。
On his first dayat school, the boy realized that there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home.
5. 纳尔逊@曼德拉在自传中说，有时候人们挽救不了该消亡的东西。
Nelson Mandela said in
his biography:
sometimes there is nothing one can do to save something that must die.
6. 居住在大山中偏僻的小村里还是有些优势的。
There is something to be said about/for living in anout-of-the-wayplaceinthe mountains.
7. 说不好那些恐怖分子下一步要干什么，我们必须时刻警惕。
There is no telling what those terrorists might do next. We must be on the lookout all the time.
8. 在这家人决定移民到澳大利亚之前有诸多事情要考虑。
There were toomany things to consider before the family decided to immigrate to Australia.
9. 这少年的攻击性举止中有些方面使他的父母很担忧。
There is something in the boy‟s
aggressive behavior that is worrying his parents.
10. 世上没有免费的午餐。
不要觉得你有权获得你没有为之流汗和努力的任何东西。
There isno such thing as afree lunch. Don’t feel entitled to anything you haven’t sweated and struggled for.
第三课
1.他们都伸长脖子想看个究竟，就好像被一根无形的绳子牵着。
they all stretchedtheirneckstoseewhatwashappening,asifpulledbyaninvisiblestring.
2.我们下车去伸伸胳膊和腿。
我们前面是一片美丽的开阔地。
we got out of the car to stretch a little. In front of us was a beautiful stretch of open land.
3.他们连续谈判了好几个小时，但是仍然没有解决他们之间的分歧。
they talked for hours at a stretch, but they still failed to settle their differences .
4.尽管有温暖的天气、新鲜的空气和美味佳肴，她的健康仍然没有恢复。
for all the warm weather , fresh air and delicious food , her health still did not recover .
5.他瞟了那辆车一眼就知道它没法修了。
他望望前面，只见一眼望不到头的沙漠，荒芜人烟。
他知道他陷入困境了。
one glance at the car , he knew that it was beyond repair . he looked ahead and found the desert stretching as far as the eye could see without a soul in sight . he knew he was in a terrible fix .
6.武松奋力举起哨棒向老虎打去。
但是哨棒“啪”的一声断了，而老虎毫发未伤。
他一急打到附近的树上去了。
wu song swung his stick at the tiger with all his strength . but the stick snapped and the tiger was unharmed. in his panic ,he had hit the tree nearby
7.我非常喜欢你在俄罗斯拍的那些照片，尤其是那张上面有个马车夫坐在黑海边，膝盖上放着一块布，布上放着他晚餐的照片。
i am terribly fond of the pictures you snapped in Russia , especially the one showing the Russian coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees.
8.____“这事您不能就此罢休。
”我向他请求道。
____“这不关你的事。
”他厉声说道。
" you cant just let it go at that , " i tried to plead with him
- " it is none of your business , " he snapped
9.他“啪”的一下合上了公文包，站起来说：
“那就这么定了。
”
he snapped his briefcase , stood up and said , " then it's all settled .
10.海啸来的时候，他正站在小山上的家门口，离码头大概只有一百米远。
He was standing in front of his house on a hill , only about a hundred meters apart/away from the wharf when the tsunami came .
语法部分
1.那饥饿的男孩把剩下的窝窝头狼吞虎咽地吃了下去，就像那是他最喜欢的大虾一样。
Thehungry boy wolfed down the leftover cornbread as though it was his favorite king prawns.
2. 关于高中的日子，他的记忆中只剩下一轮又一轮、没完没了的测验和考试。
What remains
in his mind of his high schooldays is nothing but endless rounds of tests and exams.
3. 我认为决议违背了本组织的宗旨，因此投了那样一票。
I don‟t think the resolution is in
accord with the purpose of the organization.
That‟s why I voted as I did.
4. 他不明白是什么使得他的孙子如此热衷于微博。
He doesn‟t understand what it is that makes
his grandson so crazy about microblogging.
5. 我仍然记得那次事件的细节，好像就是昨天发生的事。
I stillremember the details about the
incident as though it was yesterday.
6. 龙卷风之后，她家房子只剩下地基了。
What remained of her home after the tornado was the land the house was built on.
7. 这就是为什么他目睹今天早上的撞车事故时那样表现的原因。
That‟s why he behaved as hedid
when he witnessed the car crash this morning.
8. 他们在琢磨是什么使那对双胞胎兄弟一个成了罪犯，另一个成了优秀的警察。
They are
trying to figure out what it was that turned one of the twin brothers into a criminal, the other an excellent policeman.
9. 当他发现了一株特别壮实的水稻时，他高兴得好像发现了一座金矿。
When he found a
particularly strong rice plant he was very happy as though he had discovered a gold mine.
10. 现在生活富裕了，他决定与家里还活着的人取得联系。
Now that he‟s quite well-off, he has
decided to get in touch with what remains of his family.
第四课
1. 只有这样我们对他的这种古怪行为才能给予合理的解释。
Only in this way can we giveareasonableaccountofhisstrangebehavior
2. 她自称具有一种特异功能，用手一摸就能治病。
She claims to possess a magic power----the
power to cure diseases simplyby the touch of her hand.
3. 他任命了五个人处理这个案件。
他们组成了一个强有力的班子。
几天内，他们就发现嫌犯拥有成卷的他无法说明来源的欧元、美元和大量贵重物品。
He appointed five people tohandle the case. They formed a strong team. Within days, theyfoundinhispossessionrolls of euros, US dollars and large quantities of valuables the source of which thesuspect could not account for.
4. 在这个故事里，这个妖怪常常以美女的样子出现。
In the tale, this evil spirit often appears in
the form of a pretty young lady.
5. 他把画卷了起来，并说一百万美元以下绝对不卖。
He rolled up the painting and said that he
would not part with it for less than a million dollars.
6. 有那么多的合格法官，我不明白为什么她被任命到最高法院工作。
Of all the qualified
judges I don’t know onwhataccounts she was appointed to the supreme court.
7. 我对此知道得不多，不足以形成一大套理论。
不过我肯定，仅仅是贫困还不能解释犯罪率上升。
I don’t know enough to form an elaborate theory. But I’m sure that poverty
alone can not account for the increase of crime rate.
8. 一块大石头突然从山上滚了下来。
它是如此之大，一下子把一辆卡车砸得粉碎。
A bigstone
suddenly rolled down the hill, so big that it smashed the truck to pieces.
9. 我说我们得卷起袖子开始干活，但他就只是像哲学家一样转了转眼珠，笑了笑。
I said that
we must roll up our sleeves and start working, but he just rolled his eyes philosophically and smiled.
10. 古时候，我们的哲学家们认为一个好的皇帝对他的百姓就应该像一个好父亲对他的孩子那样，在任何情况下都不可残酷地对待他们。
In ancient times, our philosophers believed that a good king should be to the people as a good father is to his children. He must never treat them cruelly on any account.
第八课
1.这完全是在浪费金钱和宝贵的土地资源。
他们真是疯了，把这么肥沃的农田变成少数有钱人的高尔夫球场。
It is an utter waste of money and precious land resources. They must be out of their minds to turn such fertile farmland into golf courts for a few rich people.
2.要想对核废料的安全性有百分之百的把握是根本不可能的。
问题早晚都会发生凝固。
所以，除非我们准备接受这不可避免的结果，否则我们不应该匆忙做决定。
lt's utterly impossible to have complete safety with nuclear waste. Sooner or later some problem will occur. So unless we are ready to accept the inevitable, we must not rush to a decision.
3.在整个会议过程中，她一直受到严厉的攻击。
但她一句话也没说。
她已经决定马上递交辞职报告。
She was under severe attack throughout the meeting, but she did not utter a word. She had decided to hand in her resignation right away.
4.很多人出于虚荣心都被诱惑去追求那些漂亮的称号。
我也有这个毛病。
Many people are lured to go after fancy titles out of vanity, and I am also guilty of this.
5.正如之前警告的那样，今年第一季度，我们的通货膨胀率还在继续上升。
这等于人们的收入下降了。
但凡事都有光明的一面，我们的消费也在上升。
As we were warned in advance, the inflation rate in the first quarter of this year was still on the rise. This amounted to a drop in people's income. But every cloud has its silver lining. Consumption was also on the rise.
6.你记住，我们也许可以阻止年轻人说心里话，但我们永远无法做到让他们停止思考。
Keep in mind that we may be able to prevent young people from speaking their mind, but we can
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