考研翻译长难句.docx

1、考研翻译长难句列位同窗：听完吴耀武老师语法及长难句课程以后，要尽快投入训练，以巩固学习效果。除天天坚持阅读训练外，下面的100个长难句认真分析、逐句翻译，对照后面的译文，查找不足后从头逐句翻译。好好坚持，必有所获！考研翻译长难句结构分析全攻略Unit 11. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by

2、spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. 2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes that togethe

3、r determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. 3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy th

4、e product. 4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. 5. At the same time these comput

5、ers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns. 6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, fro

6、m gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of computers. 7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education

7、must be adapted to those differences. 8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities. 9.

8、It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. 10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular adve

9、rtiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. Unit 2 11. If its message were confined merely to information and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasiv

10、e-advertising wound be so boring that no one wound pay any attention. 12. The workers who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for there efforts. 13. As families move away from

11、 their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. 14. The individual now has more information availabl

12、e than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming. 15. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the pa

13、rticipants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. 16. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types seem in some way better than their B type fellows. 17. While

14、talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your wares and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner. 18. The Corporation will survive as a publicly funded broadcas

15、ting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a nation wide debate in Britain. 19. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC-including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good

16、or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping. 20. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and th

17、ird generation after the energetic founders. Unit 3 21. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the land

18、owners: and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business. 22. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large comfortable classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasion

19、ally attending a shareholders meeting to dictate their orders to the management. 23. The shareholders as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good. 24. The

20、 paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away. 25. Among the many s

21、haping factors, I would single out the countrys excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology； the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, spatial thinking about things technological. 26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed

22、 out, A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process.The designer and the inventor., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist. 27. Robert Fulton

23、once wrote, The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea. 28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the

24、creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise. 29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: This book stands for reas

25、on itself. And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate. 30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australias Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the li

26、ves of incurably ill patients who wish to die. Unit 4 31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. 32. In Australia- whe

27、re an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. 33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are

28、hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment. 34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette

29、 for the nerves. 35. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued. 36. Is this what you intended to accomplish with you

30、r careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well? 37. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, lies not in how well it can control expression but in

31、whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be. 38. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last months stockholders meeting, Levin asserted that music is not the cause of societys ills and even c

32、ited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students. 39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes , makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth. 40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially Americas, have little productive slack