英译汉练习题

1. He has stolen a march on me. 2. He crushed down on a protesting chair.

3. The mills of God grind slowly.

4.An old dog like him never barks in vain. Whenever he barks，he always has some wise counsel worth listening to.

5. The girl is a dead shot. 6. Only a fool would underestimate you. 7. He always lives ahead of his salary.

8. We shall never get anywhere with all the criticism and fault finding. I believe the principle of “live and let live.”

9. I have never had much in seeing you. There is no love lost between us, at any time I think. 10. Please let us know whether or not you find the terms acceptable.

11.Wisdom prepares for the worst; but folly leaves the worst for the day it comes.

12. Happiness is like a visitor, a genial, exotic Aunt Tilly who turns up when you least expect her, orders an extravagant round of drinks and then disappear, trailing a lingering scent of gardenias.

13. Schiller’s moral enthusiasm will always call forth resonance than Goethe’s discordant figures who are illumined by he depth of human weakness and confusion.

14. Spring has so much more than speech in its unfolding flowers and leaves, and the coursing of its streams and in its sweet restless seeking!

15. My first marriage survived many storms but no turbulence can compare to the agony of being becalmed. For some people hope dies slowly.

16. I cannot call riches better than baggage of virtue. \"Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!\" 17. I cannot recall his ever refusing to help a friend. 18. The situation is beyond remedy. 19. He is 75, but he carries his years lightly. 20. Your explanation is pretty thin. 21.If you feel depressed at a social gathering, keep it a secret. 22.The sun set on the Union Jack, but never on the English language.

23. Winston Churchill came to the Augusta at 11:00 o’clock, which saw the dramatic handshake of Roosevelt and Churchill at the gateway. They prolonged their clasp for the photographers, exchanging smiling words. In an odd way the two leaders diminished each other. 24. Even the worst team has its day of brilliance.

25. Science and religion not longer pursue their opposite courses.

26. I will have to beard the lion from his den when I go to ask the boss for a pay rise.

27. I don’t believe that the culture of Europe can survive the complete disappearance of Christian faith. 28. Lulled by the gentle move and soothed by the rippling music of the waves, the babies soon fell asleep. 29. Winston Churchill listened with bright-eyed smiling attention. 30. If my mother had known of it, she'd have died a second time.

31. The universality of Western philosophy is for the most part a false universality that takes the cultural experience, categories, and theories of one part of the world which are generalized and projected onto a universal truth, beauty, goodness, godhead, etc

32. When I was as young as you are now, towering in confidence of twenty- one, li Previously, if I had been really interested in a book, I would race from page to page, eager to know what came next. Now, I decide, I had to become a miser with words and stretch every sentence like a poor man spending his last dollar.

33. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what right I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

译文一: 我不一定会胜利，但定会真诚行事。我不易定成功，但会保持一贯的信念。我会与任何正直公平的人并肩而立。他对的时候，我会给予支持；他错的时候，我肯定会离他而去。

译文二: 我未必稳操胜算，却始终以诚处世。我未必马到功成，却不忘心中真理。我当与天下正直之士并肩而立，知其是而拥护之，知其非而离弃之。

34. “On one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the latter part of autumn, when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together, and throw a gloom over the decline of the year, I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey. There was something congenial to the season in the mournful magnificence of the old pile; and as I passed its threshold, it seemed like stepping back into the regions of antiquity, and losing myself among the shades of former ages. 译文一：在晚秋暗淡而悲哀的一天，当曙光和夜色几乎混而为一，而将这年终酝酿成一片凄凉的时分，我在那威治明士德院里徘徊，消磨了数小时的光阴，在这古屋悲壮的外观上，有种情调是正和那气候相称的；当时，在我跨进门槛的时候，仿佛是走回到古代的境地之中，把自己消失在前朝黑洞洞的影子里。

译文二：时方晚秋，气象肃穆，略带忧郁，早晨的阴影和黄昏的阴影，几乎连接到一起，不可分割，岁月将暮，终日昏暗，我就在这么一天到西敏寺散步了几个钟头。古寺巍巍，森森然似有鬼气，和阴沉沉的气候正好调和；我跨进大门，觉得自己已经置身远古，相忘于古人的鬼影之中。

八级考试翻译

1. Toyota and affiliate Hino Motors Ltd. will take part in the development of a new model of a road-rail vehicle originally created by railway operator JR Hokkaido, a Hino spokesman said. The two auto companies are providing technology and materials to strengthen the front part of the \"dual mode vehicle\" so that it can carry up to 25 people. The railway firm is already developing several prototypes of road-rail vehicles and has begun test drives.

The operator, which operates railways in the nation's northern island of Hokkaido, has developed the vehicle as part of its effort to utilize railways now out of service due to a sharp decline in passengers in the region. The vehicle has eight wheels -- four iron wheels for railways and four rubber tyres for roads -- and is powered by a diesel engine. It is said to burn only one fourth of the fuel of conventional diesel-powered cars. \"Our contribution is expected to be another step toward more practical use of the dual mode vehicle,\" a Hino spokesman said.

The latest vehicle is expected to be completed by mid-June and will be displayed at a welcome event for this year's Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido in July for which climate change is high on the agenda.

2. Picture-taking is a technique both for annexing the objective world and for expressing the singular self. Photographs depict objective realities that already exist, though only the camera can disclose them. And they depict an individual photographer’s temperament, discovering itself through the camera’s cropping of reality. That is, photography has two antithetical ideals: in the first, photography is about the world and the photographer is a mere observer who counts for little; but in the second, photography is the instrument of intrepid, questing subjectivity and the photographer is all.

3. The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning. The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. At least, this is the function which it should perform for society. A university which fails in this respect has no reason for existence.

This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is invested with all its possibilities. It is no longer a burden on the memory: it is energising as the poet of our dreams, and as the architect of our purposes.

4. When the towering personality like Madame Curie has come to the end of her life, let us not merely rest content with recalling what she has given to mankind in the fruits of her work. It is the moral quality of its leading personalities that are perhaps of even greater significance for a generation and for the course of history than purely intellectual accomplishments. Even these latter are, to a far greater degree than is commonly credited, dependent on the stature of character. The greatest scientific deeds of her life, proving the existence of radioactive elements and isolating them, owes its accomplishment not only to her bold intuition but also her zeal and perseverance under the most extreme hardships unimaginable, such as the history of experimental science has not often witnessed. If but a small part of Madame Curie's strength of character and devotion were alive in Europe's intellectuals, Europe would face a brighter future.

5. An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook the Tokyo area before dawn, jolting many residents out of bed and causing minor injuries to at least 19 people.

The quake registered at 4:46 a.m. with the epicenter in Ibaraki prefecture about 130 kilometers northeast of Tokyo with a focus 40 kilometers underground, the meteorological agency said.

Part of the Japan Railways Joban line to the northeast of Tokyo and a section of a highway in the Joban region were shut down as inspectors looked to see if they sustained damage.

At least 19 people were lightly injured when they fell out of bed or were hit by falling objects such as a television and a stereo speaker, according to the public broadcaster NHK.

Japan, which lies at the crossing of four tectonic plates, endures about 20 percent of the world's powerful earthquakes, frequently jolting Tokyo and other major cities where buildings are made to be tremor resistant.

The Kobe quake was the most devastating in modern times to hit a city in the developed world. The 10th anniversary last month was marked in the rebuilt city by a UN conference on how to reduce the risks of disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis of the type that battered the Indian Ocean in December. (266 words)

6. When flying over Nepal, it's easy to soar in your imagination and pretend you're tiny — a butterfly — and drifting above one of those three-dimensional topographical maps architects use, the circling contour lines replaced by the terraced rice paddies that surround each high ridge.

Nepal is a small country, and from the windows of our plane floating eastward at 12,000 feet, one can see clearly the brilliant white mirage of the high Himalayas thirty miles off the left window.

Out the right window, the view is of three or four high terraced ridges giving sudden way to the plains of India beyond.

There were few roads visible below, most transportation in Nepal being by foot along ancient trails that connect and bind the country together. There is also a network of dirt airstrips, which was fortunate for me, as I had no time for the two-and-a-half week trek to my destination. I was on a flight to the local airport.