大学英语4 课文重点语句翻译

大学英语四课文重点语句翻译

Unit 1

（1）I handed them some magazines in a plastic bag someone had hung on our doorknob.

我将挂在我们门把手上的一个塑料袋里的几本杂志拿给他们。

（2）A message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work (“Big Bucks the Easy Way!”) of delivering more such bags.

塑料袋上印着一条消息说，提供轻松又赚钱的工作（“轻轻松松赚大钱！”），就是投递这样的袋子。

（3）What I was being blamed for, it turned out, was a newspaper strike which made it necessary to hand-deliver the advertising inserts that normally are included with the Sunday paper.

我之所以受到指责，事情原来是这样：由于发生了一起报业工人罢工，通常夹在星期日报纸里的广告插页，必须派人直接投送出去。

（4）At noon the following day I returned to the hotel and found an urgent message to telephone my wife.

第二天中午，我回到旅馆，看到一份紧急留言，要我马上给妻子回电话。

（5）They are crammed wall-to-wall all through the house in stacks taller than your oldest son.

广告堆满了整个房子，东墙到西墙，从南墙到北墙，一堆又一堆，比你大儿子还要高。

（6）Her voice kept rising, as if working its way out of the range of the human ear.

她越讲声音越响, 几乎震耳欲聋

（7）And there will be no eating or sleeping until it is removed.

而在把它们搬掉之前，你们吃不成也睡不成。

Unit 4

（1）The Pentagon was probably the jolt that made him see clearly that his fate and that of his fellow passengers in the rear of the plane were completely in their own hands.

五角大楼一事可能使他受到极大震动，使他认清他和待在客舱后面的其他乘客的命运完全掌握在他们自己的手中。

（2）Did we in this country somehow overstep, push too hard, tread on ancient sensibilities?

是否我们这个国家的人越轨了，做得过分了，伤及了人家自古而来的情感？

（3）It wasn’t mere luck that an airline passenger with precisely the right physical skills to abort one of the terror missions happened to be on the only plane hijacked that day where there was an opportunity to do that.

一位具有足够体能挫败恐怖行径的旅客正好搭乘了那天被劫持的飞机中唯一一个可以有机会反击劫机者的航班，这不仅仅是一种巧合。

Unit 5

（1）In medicine as in law, government, and other lines of work, the requirements of honesty often seem dwarfed by greater needs: the need to shelter from brutal news or to uphold a promise of secrecy; to expose corruption or to promote the public interest.

医疗行业与法律、政府及其他行业一样，往往对诚实与否的问题看得不那么重要。相比之下要紧的倒是另外一些事情。譬如，应设法避免可怕的消息造成的

打击，或是考虑恪守保守秘密的诺言, 或是需要揭露腐败或促进公众利益。（2）As one physician wrote: “Ours is a profession which traditionally has been guided by a precept that transcends the virtue of uttering the truth for truth’s

sake, and that is ‘as far as possible do no harm.’

正如一位内科医生写到：“我们这个职业传统上恪守一个信条，那就是：‘尽量不造成伤害’，这一信条胜过为讲真话而讲真话的美德”

（3）They may prescribe innumerable placebos, sound more encouraging than the facts warrant, and distort grave news, especially to the incurably ill and the dying.

他们可能开出无数贴安慰剂，说一些没有事实根据的话为病人打气，歪曲严重的病情，对那些患有不治之症和濒临死亡的病人，则尤其如此。

（4）But the illusory nature of the benefits such deception is meant to produce is now coming to be documented.

然而，现在有人提出证据，证明这种欺骗并不能给病人带来真正的好处。

（5）We are becoming increasingly aware of all that can befall patients in the course of their illness when information is denied or distorted.

我们越来越意识到，病人生病期间，在不知情或未被如实告知病情的情况下，他们会遭到什么样的不幸。

（6）Nurses may bitterly resent having to take part, day after day, in deceiving patients, but feel powerless to take a stand.

护士对不得不日复一日地参与欺骗病人的做法也许深恶痛绝，但要抵制却感到无能为力。

（7）Not only in medicine, but in other professions as well, practitioners may find themselves repeatedly in difficulty where serious consequences seem avoidable only through deception.

不仅在医疗业，而且在其他行业，从业者不断发现自己常处于一个困难处境：似乎不采用欺骗手段就无法避免严重的后果。

（8）Neither in medicine, nor in law, government, or the social sciences can there be comfort in the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”

无论医疗界、法律界、政府机构还是社会科学界，都不应从“不知者，不为

所害”这句老话中得到丝毫慰藉。

Unit7

（1）…but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the result with complacency.

但是竟连不朽的众神也被触怒而干预此事时，我怀着心满意足的心情目睹这个结局，想必也是可以原谅的了。

（2）When my mutton chop arrived she took me quite seriously to task.

当我的羊排送上桌时，她一本正经地教训起我来。

（3）and she gave me the impression of having more teeth, white and large and even, than were necessary for any practical purpose.

长着一口洁白整齐的大牙齿，给我的印象是，其数目之多已超过了实际需要。

（4）Few men, I may add, learn this until they are too old to make it of any consequence to a woman what they say.

附带说一句，没有几个男人学会这一招，而到他们学会时，往往年事已高，他们说什么对女人来讲已无足轻重了。

Unit8

（1）It may not seem a palatable suggestion, at first thought

乍一看来，这似乎不是一个恰当的建议。

（2）Yet there are advantages to underground life, too, and something to be said for imagining whole cities, even mankind generally, moving downward; of having the outermost mile of the Ea rth’s crust honeycombed with passages and structures, like a gigantic ant hill.

然而生活在地下也有其有利之处，设想将整座城市，乃至全人类搬入地下是有一定道理的。如果在地壳最表层一英里厚的地方如蜂巢般筑满通道和建筑物，就象一个巨大的蚁丘，这将会给人类带来各种好处。

（3）the tyranny of day and night cannot be avoided,

昼夜交替这一严酷的事实是难以避免的。

（4）The whole world could be on eight-hour shifts, starting and ending on the stroke everywhere, at least as far as business and community endeavors were concerned.

整个世界都可以实行八小时轮班制，各地都在同一时间上下班，至少公务活动和社会活动可以如此。

（5）The Earth’s surface might be increasingly turned over to p ark and to wilderness, maintained at ecological stability.

地球表面有可能越来越多地让位于公园和荒野，保持生态平衡。

（6）but however carefully restricted the upward trips might be, the chances are that the dwellers of the new caves would see more greenery, under ecologically healthier conditions, than dwellers of surface cities do today.

但不管对向上的旅行做出多么认真的限制，新洞穴里的居民将有可能比今天地面城市的居民在更为健康的生态条件下见到更多的绿色。

Unit9

（1）Spending most of their time moving around for food on the bottom of the pond, they would be only dimly aware that an alien world could exist above the surface.

他们大部分时间都在游来游去寻找池塘底上的食物，所以至多只会模模糊糊地觉得水面上方可能有一个陌生的世界。

（2）I was intrigued that I could sit only a few inches from the carp, yet be separated from them by a very huge gap.

我可以坐在距鲤鱼只有几英寸的地方，但却被一条鸿沟与他们分隔开来，对此我深感好奇。

（3）Unable to comprehend that there could be waves on the unseen surface, they would conclude that lilies could move without being touched because a mysterious invisible entity called a force acted between them.

他们无法理解在看不见的水面上会有波浪，于是断定，睡莲之所以能在没有外物触碰的情况下移动是因为有一种叫做力的看不见的神秘实体在它们之间起着作用。

（4）Nevertheless, I could see that this story was far more exciting than any murder mystery and more important than anything I could ever imagine.

但是，我懂得这个故事比任何凶杀疑案作品都惊心动魄得多，比任何我能想像的事物都重要。

历年大学英语四级翻译真试题及范文答案、、、、

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