新视角研究生英语1课后翻译

Key to the Translation exercise

1. What the restaurant industry and the film industry have in common is the high rate of failure among the small businesses.

2. His greatness lies in his outstanding ability to connect the qualities of a scientist with those of an industrialist.

3. We have replaced ethnic identity with professional identity, the way we replaced neighborhoods with the workplace, which is quite obvious among the mobile professions.

4. Plainly, in any large enterprise the boss cannot be directly involved in everything, and some means have to be found to transfer his belief to others.

5. No one was willing to experience the feeling of being out of control and dependent on someone else’s approval, at someone else’s mercy.

6. The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind and with his will.

7. The government hopes that the sale of a chunk of 9its assets will help make yup for its loss.

8. In modern society, people are more likely to be identified by their professions, rather than by their communities.

9. Careers/jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment.

10. We did have an investigation with regard to the issue, but we should not comment on it. Unit 2

1. Although she has gone through numerous failures, Katherine still believes that she could make world champion of her son.

2. This training program is not really a bad experience. But I would have liked it better if the courses had been a bit more practical.

3. You should have known better than to open a suspicious attachment.

4. Unfortunately he died from s sudden traffic accident, leaving the experiment half-done.

5. Wouldn’t it be better if the food market on the street corner could be turned into a garden?

6. Much as I am eager to please everyone, I seem never be able to speak out the right thing at the right time.

7. This little gadget makes a good present for the elderly, for it can keep accurate track of one blood pressure.

8. Jane is always working so hard to achieve the next thing and she never has time to sit back and pat herself on the back about the things that she has already done.

9. Tom sized up the situation, and decided to downsize his business, which turned out to be a wise decision.

10. It is not enough for our university to resign itself to the status quo’ it should speed up the development, and make itself one of the best universities in China.

Unit 3

1. When someone is in “desert of experience” --- a period of feeling barren of options, even hope, the most important thing is not allow himself to be stranded in the desert.

2. With financial/economical resources exhausted// used up and the pressure of a big family to support, Jimmy wanted to escape/run away at first but his courage and good humor/optimism saw him through.

3. Someone believes that it is never too late to embark on/begin a new career in any period of time.

4. What makes sense is to face the challenge rather than run away from it after suffering a significant loss./ heavy blow

5. With the small income from her restaurant job, Mary could barely make the ends meet.

6. It dawns on people that failure is nothing to be afraid of, but it is a precious experience in life.

7. The president wishes every student to forge ahead on the career ladder at the commencement ceremony./graduation ce

8. Scientists are studying smokers and the people with depression in an attempt to sort out their complicated physical and psychological problems. Address/solve

9. Most parents work hard at either preventing failure or shielding their children from the knowledge/fact that they have failed.

10. No one can be perfect, /impeccable ,so be easy on oneself.

Unit 4

1. In modern society, advertising has become one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness.

2. Lectures will never entirely disappear from the university scene, because they spring from a long tradition in a setting that rightly values tradition for its own sake.

3. Short of having their own children, the couple can never experience the pleasure of being parents.

4. He takes other’s success as a kind of challenge and motivation. He keeps telling himself that he should do better than others.

5. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, than pain must be equated with unhappiness. The truth is that things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

6. In homes where money was tight, no sacrifice was too great in order that the child has whatever he need to learn to become a musician.

7. As long as we understand the fun does not bring happiness, we can begin to lead our lives differently.

8. If we do get what we want we’ll keep thinking of all that we don't possess ---and we will remain dissatisfied.

9. The only way to truly balance your career with family life is to think long and hard about your life values and live by them.

10. Anyone who wants to have a both fruitful and cheerful life should deal well with the relationship between work and play.

Unit 5

1. God forbid it if ever I had bought smart appliances!

2. He is concerned about state affairs and keeps reading newspaper every day.

3. When it comes to the rocketing price of housing, the media generally agree that neither the government nor land developers can shrink from their responsibilities.

4. Visiting local bookshops for second-hand books at random, I came across more and more books that had come from libraries.

5. Even if you read Owner’s Manual, you can’t operate your washing machine.

6. This job position has attracted many applicants, so before you contact with the personnel

office, you need to figure out what is unique about yourself.

7. The Minister of Foreign Affairs quickly adopted a more temperate tone, which was generally though at least temporarily to have saved his shaky political career.

8. It has been proved time and again by human history that great men are too often unknown, or what is worse, misunderstood by others.

9. The tension soon transmitted itself to all the members of the crowd, and we all held out breath to watch what would happen.

10. To check whether the accused men had confessed all his crimes, the court decided to confront him with a witness.

Unit 6

1. The twin sisters always appeared together, speaking in the same tone, thus none of us could tell them from each other.

2. The professor put in a word for his favorite student in the recommendation letter, although this student had quit college for two years.

3. The Russians, both on land and in the air, had then the upper hand of the Germans.

4. After being expelled from university for cheating in the exam, he was up the creek now.

5. At the request of the students’ parents, the school allowed the students to study at home in the evening.

6. They didn’t accept the report, because it came out totally against the social standard.

7. With many twisters and turns, the naive little girl finally became e sophisticated, learning how to deal with difficulties.

8. Although mavericks are condemned as eccentrics by the society, they are deeply welcomed by the youth.

9. Thanks to the help from the charity organization, poor students who once dropped out from school can continue their education.

10. To celebrate the loyal family’s visit to the small town, the local residents strewed all the paths with flowers.

Unit 7

1. Mike found that he couldn’t remain seated any more while she was striding to and from across the office.

2. His character is shaped less by his education at school than by his life experience.

3. As a mother, she always shares the pride in what her children have accomplished.

4. It is a defining feature of the modern society that more and more women go out of home and pursue a career.

5. It is generally assumed that at postgraduate level the students can take better care of themselves and don’t need guidance anymore.

6. Never before had I noticed that there is such a variety of family structures in our society.

7. The healthy development of a child hinges largely on the love and care from both parents

8. The sharp decline in the well-being of children put the new policy under siege.

9. This book gives you the distilled ideas of the ancient Greeks in a form that is easy to understand.

10. Usually the middle-aged don’t spend on their parents as much as they do on their children. Unit 9

1. For that mater, you are no better qualified than Mary or other colleagues.

2. This was the best result that we could expect under the circumstances.

3. The effects of gender discrimination are impinging on every aspect of our careers, from our salaries to our promotion.

4. He has been fired by the company, which proves that if you neglect your duty, you can’t get away with it.

5. He worked long hours, to the detriment of his health and family live.

6. The chapter falls into three parts, but the last part seems to divert form the feminist thesis.

7. Aside from the glass ceiling and wage inequality, explicit discrimination is everywhere, too.

8. Initially the reaction of many to this band was that they were just a bunch of pretty boys with no talent.

9. In terms of actual sales, the book has been a complete failure.

10. Is it safe to predict the result of the election on the basis of one opinion poll?

Unit 10

1. We shall always look to the past experience for guidance, so that we would not repeat the same mistakes.

2. Some educators believe that compared with strong sanctions, proactive strategies serve as a better way to prevent students from cheating on/in exams.

3. The manager decided to subscribe to the management software to improve the efficiency of the office.

4. I tried to make sense of these English words in the test paper, but in vain, so I took a peep at my e-dictionary.

5. If these new methods don’t work, we’ll have to fall back on our old system.

6. The administration carried a comprehensive investigation after the report and caught 5 students who cheated with wireless earphones.

7. He didn’t break the rule on purpose. He made the wrong decision out of ignorance.

8. The school authority promised to implement a new system to fight against campus cheating.

9. In a last-minute effort to meet the deadline she downloaded a paper from the internet and handed it in.

10. With the development of technology, Computer has a more and more important role to play in our study. Nowadays, even some tests are computer-based.