Unit1

1. Finally, with my mother red in the face and short of breath, we find Room 8, I unlock

the door, and we all walk in.（? 介词 with 表示状态，不必直译。）

等我们终于找到8号房间的时候，妈妈已经涨红了脸，上气不接下气。我打开门锁，我们都走了进去。

2. She impresses me, and I feel so ignorant that I shouldn’t even breathe the same air

as her.

她给我留下了深刻的印象，我觉得自己太无知了，甚至不配跟她呼吸同样的空气。

3. I don’t know why I have to be introduced to literature but the woman in the admissions

office says it’s a requirement even though I’ve read Dostoyevsky and Melville and that’s admirable for someone without a high school education.（? 翻译时将 be introduced to literature 变成主动语态更通顺。） 我不知道为什么我非得了解文学。可是招生办公室的那位女士说这门课是必修课，即使我读过陀思妥也夫斯基和梅尔维尔的小说也得选，一个没上过高中的人能读这些书的确令人敬佩，但这门课是必修课。 4. I’m in heaven and the first thing to do is buy the required textbooks, cover them with

the purple and white NYU book jackets so that people in the subway will look at me admiringly.（? I am in heaven 不能直译成“我上了天堂”，这句话应意译。） 我乐得飘飘然了，第一件事就是去买所需要的课本，然后用纽约大学紫白相间的护封把它们套起来，这样地铁里的乘客就会向我投来艳羡的目光了。

5. Then the professor tells us ideas don’t drop fully formed from the skies, that the

Pilgrims were, in the long run, children of the Reformation with an accompanying world view and their attitudes to children were so informed.（? 注意两个 children 的翻译，第一个需意译。）

接着，教授告诉我们，观念并不是从天而降的现成品。从长远看，清教徒是宗教改革运动的产物，他们继承了宗教改革运动的世界观，并且他们对孩子的态度体现了宗教改革运动的思想。

6 Translate the sentences into English

1 他们对业余剧社的介绍给苏菲留下了深刻的印象，于是她就报了名。(Amateur

Dramatics; sign up for)

Their introduction of Amateur Dramatics impressed Sophie so much that she signed up for it.

2 网络教育为全职人员提供了利用业余时间接受继续教育的机会。(work full-time)

Online education provides those who work full-time with opportunities to receive further education in their spare time. 3 刚上大学时，他不知道是否需要把老师讲的内容一字不落地都记下来。(be supposed to

do; scribble down)

When he first arrived at university, he was not sure whether he was supposed to scribble down every word out of the professor’s mouth. 4 没人觉察出他隐藏在笑容背后的绝望。(detect)

Nobody detects his despair well hidden behind his smile. 5 有些学生能轻松自如地与陌生人交谈，可有些学生却很难做到这一点。(be easy about)

Some students are easy about talking with strangers, while some others find it hard to do so.

Unit2

5 Translate the sentences into Chinese.

1 Outside the skies were grey and a strong wind was blowing off the sea. It looked as gloomy as I felt.

外面，天空是灰色的，海面上刮来一阵强风。天气看起来和我的心情一样阴郁。

2 “Now, stop complaining, try one oyster for me, then you can have something nice and easy to eat, maybe some prawns with bread and butter,” he suggested, striking a note of compromise for the first time during the whole meal. “好啦，别抱怨了，就给我尝一只牡蛎，然后你就可以吃些好吃的、顺口的东西，比如黄油、面包 加对虾。”他提议说。吃了这么长时间的饭，他的话里头一次有了妥协的意思。

3 But with the clear conception which only a ten-year-old boy can have, I still understood that the compromise included eating that oyster, sitting on the side of my father’s plate. 但是，尽管清晰地感觉到了他的妥协——只有一个十岁的男孩才有这样的感觉，我仍然明白这妥协 包含着吃掉那只牡蛎，那只放在我父亲的盘子边上的牡蛎。

4 The chocolate sets into bars which will easily snap into pieces and then melt in the mouth.

（添加了可可油后）巧克力凝固成易折断的条块，入口即化。

5 But what accounts for its amazing popularity or even the properties that have made millions of people confess to being chocaholics? 但是，是什么原因使得巧克力出奇地畅销？又是什么造成了巧克力的上瘾特性，致使无数人承认自 己是巧克力瘾君子呢？

6 Translate the sentences into English.

1 他们这儿不卖薯条，如果你想吃，得去肯德基或麦当劳。(serve)

They don’t serve French fries here. If you want it, you have to go to a KFC or

McDonald’s.

2 他拣起一个核桃，想用锤子把它砸开，可没想到却把它砸烂了。(crack; crush) He picked up a walnut and tried to crack it with a hammer, but instead he crushed it.

3 由于雨后道路又湿又滑，今天早上路上行车比较缓慢。(slippery)

As the roads are wet and slippery after the rain, the traffic is rather slow this morning.

4 当金子加热融化后，他们把金水倒进模子，铸成金条。(melt; mould)

When the gold was heated and melted, they poured it into a mould to form a gold bar.

5 他承认是他打破了教室的窗玻璃。(admit to)

He admitted to breaking the window of the classroom.

5 令我们欣喜的是，新的经济计划开始对经济发展产生积极影响。(have…effect on)

To our delight, the new economic policy is beginning to have a positive effect on the economy.

Unit3

8 Translate the sentences into Chinese.

1 When was the last organizational vision statement you saw that included the words “… to develop ourselves into a model environment in which everyone at every level can think for themselves”? (? 注意 can 的译法，在上下文中，这个字不指“能”，而是指“可以”。)

“……在我们周围逐渐培育出一个可供人们效仿的环境，使各个层次的人都有独立思考的空间。”你

上一次看到包含上述字眼的机构前景展望报告是在什么时候？

2 Had she affirmed our intelligence first and spoken about the joy of thinking for ourselves, had she not fanned our fear of her, we would all have learned even more powerfully what it meant to do our

thinking. And we might have been able to think well around her too. (? 抽象词翻译：learned even

more powerfully 的直译是“更强有力地学到，”

不太好懂，最好意译。) 要是她一开始就肯定我们的聪明才智，给我们讲讲独立思考的乐趣，要是她没有激起我们对她的恐 惧，我们大家就能更深切地体会到独立思考的意义；而且，即便她在场，我们也会更好地开动脑筋思考问题。

3 Like everyone else, students have their fair share of problems. Getting to know a new environment, forming relationships with other students, and surviving on limited financial resources are all typical problems. 和其他人一样，学生们也有他们自己必须面对的问题。典型的问题包括熟悉新环境、与其他同学相

处、以及靠有限的经济来源生活。

4 Talk to some of your friends after a lecture or a tutorial and you will probably find they remember

different things about it – which may be more or less relevant to the teacher’s aims. 下课后或是听过一次个别指导后，如果你和朋友们聊一聊，你可能会发现他们所记住的东西不尽相 同，但或多或少都与老师的教学目的相关。

5 Effective reading requires you to vary your rate and style of reading according both to the type of reading material and your purpose in reading it.

有效的阅读需要你根据不同的阅读材料和阅读目的来变换阅读的速度和方式。

9 Translate the sentences into English.

1 老师很有可能不欣赏不会独立思考的学生。(not think much of …; think for oneself) It is most likely that a teacher won’t think much of a student who cannot think for

himself.

2 他上中学的时候，几乎没有什么人被鼓励去做科学实验，更谈不上接受这方面的训练了。(hardly; much less) When he was in high school, hardly anyone had been encouraged, much less trained, to do scientific experiments.

3 嫉妒是由懒惰和无知造成的。(the result of …) Envy is the result of laziness and ignorance.

4 有些大学生是根据自己的专业来选择志愿服务的，而不是碰到什么就做什么。(volunteer job; rather than)

Rather than picking any volunteer job, some college students choose activities

based on their majors.

5 最好的办法就是把学生分成若干小组，让他们针对具体的问题进行讨论。(break up … into …; focus on) The best approach is to break the students up into several groups so that they can focus their discussion on specific problems.

Unit4

4 Translate the sentences into Chinese.

1.在过去的15年里，手机已成为改变英国人日常行为方式的最主要因素。据估计，目前英国手机用户

已超过5,500万，而在1997年还不足1,000万。

2. 现在有消息说，伦敦手机信号的覆盖范围将拓展延伸。以后，在伦敦的每一个角落都有手机信号，

就连地铁也不例外。

3 这个研究话题激起了我的兴趣，为此，我走遍了法国各地。 4 这些插曲、事件都包含着文化碰撞，让你感到好奇、愉悦，偶尔也会让你感到震惊或尴尬。

5 But it’s not a matter of knowing all the conventions and rituals in different cultures. It’s impossible to collect all the information you might need to be relaxed in the many different cultures around the world.（? 前一句若直译成“这不是了解不同文化中所有风俗习惯和礼仪的问题”恐怕不太好懂，最好意译。后一句的从句加大了翻译的难度，可以把句子倒转、拆分。如“但这不等于说……知识能使你……只是你不可能……”）

但是这不等于说我们需要悉数掌握不同文化中的风俗习惯和礼仪。丰富的知识能使你对世界各种不 同的文化中应对自如，但是你不可能掌握全部必备的知识。