2010年12月英语四级考试翻译备考笔记(八)

　　07.12

　　87 __________(多亏了一系列的新发明), doctors can treat this disease successfully.

　　88 In my sixties, one change I notice is that ______________(我比以前更容易累了).

　　89 I am going to pursue this course, _____________(无论我要作出什么样的牺牲).

　　90 I would prefer shopping online to shopping in a department store because ____________(它更方便和省时).

　　91 Many Americans live on credit, and their quality of life _______________(用他们能够借到多少来衡量的), not how much they can earn.

　　08.6

　　87. Our efforts will pay off if the results of this research______ .(能应用于新技术的开发)

　　88. I can’t boot my computer now. Something ____________(一定出了毛病) with its operation system.

　　89. Leaving one’s job, ____________________,(不管是什么工作), is a difficult change even for those who look forward to retiring.

　　90.________________________,(与我成长的地方相比)，this town is more prosperous and exciting.

　　91.__________________(直到他完成使命)did he realize that he was seriously ill.

　　参考答案：

　　07.12

　　87. Thanks to/ because of a series of new inventions

　　88. I have been more likely to get tired than before/ I get tired more easily than before

　　89. no matter at what expense (cost)/ no matter what I have to sacrifice (pay)/ would have to sacrifice (pay)

　　90. the former/ shopping online is more convenient and efficient (time-saving) (can save more time)

　　91. is measured in terms of how much they can borrow

　　08.6

　　87. can be applied to the development of the new technology.

　　88. must be wrong

　　89. whatever job it is/ no matter what job it is

　　90. Compared with the place where I grew up

　　91. Not until he had finished the mission

　　2009年新四级考试翻译练习55题及答案

　　1.I have had great deal of trouble______________________________.(跟得上班上的其他同学)

　　2.___________(我们没有人料到主席会出现) at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.

　　3. A good many proposals were raised by the delegates,________________(正如预料的那样).

　　4. Most doctors recognize that medicine is as much__________(是一门科学，也是一门艺术).

　　5. Some women ___________________(本来能够挣一份很好的工资) in a job instead of staying home, but they decided not to work for the sale of the family.

　　6.Over a third of the population was estimated_________(无法获得) to the health service.

　　7. Although punctual himself, the professor was quite used______________(习惯了学生迟到) his lecture.

　　8. The price of beer____________(从50美分到4美元不等) per liter during the summer season.

　　9.We’d like __________________(预订一张餐桌) five for dinner this evening.

　　10. There’s a man at the reception desk who seems very angry and I think he means__(想找麻烦).

　　答案：

　　1. keeping up with the rest of the class.

　　2. none of us expected the chairman to turn up

　　3. as was to be expected

　　4. an art as it is a science

　　5. could have made a good salary.

　　6. to have no access

　　7. to students?? being late for

　　8. ranges/varies from 50 cents to $4

　　9. to reserve a table for

　　10. to make trouble