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Quiz
1) He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
2) There is not any hard evidence that salt causes high blood pressure in normal people.
3) The melting point of a substance is the temperature at which the change of state from solid to liquid occurs.
4) This chapter provides a brief review of applicable theory for computer. 5) In the absence of force,a body will either remain at rest,or continue to move with contrast speed in a straight line
6) While the stars look like mere spots,they are in reality enormous bodies. 7) Smiling faces greeted him when he appeared on the stage. 8) Day after day he came to his work—sweeping, scrubing, cleaning. 9) The recent discovery has challenged their old notions. 10) Can you produce any evidence to challenge the fact? 11) .They began to study and analyze the situation of the enemy. 12) .I had imagined it to be merely a gesture of affection,but it seems it is to smell the lamb and make sure that it is her own.
13) The full name of the UK is…It is a complicated name for what is in many ways a complicated countries.
14) The civil war which brought the roundheads to power in the 17th century was rooted in a dispute over the power of the king viv-a-vis parliament.
15) The association of high achivement with the color blue is fairly widespread in the west.
16) .I found this very profitable in diminishing the intensity of insular prejudice.
17)In industrial age,money became the king.
18).His marriage with XX is his entrée to the governor’s office.
19)Too much has been said about the importance of the adjustment in the expression of translation.Now let’s move up to the next topic.
20)The art of pleasing is one that is necessary to possess,but difficult to acquire.It can hardly be reduced to rules.
Exercise 8:Conversion of Affirmative and Negative Sentences
In translation,translators often have to translate affirmative sentences into negative ones or negative sentences into affirmative ones so as to make the TT both faithful and smooth.
I. From Affirmative into Negative
1).Wet paint. 2)Admission by invitation only. 3).Agreeable sweetness. 4)Keep upright.
5)We had better luck than we had bargained for.
6)I have read your article.I expected to meet an older man. 7)He does badly who does all. 8) The beauty is beyond description. 9) Leave the dog alone.
10)My son proved worthy of my trust. 11)He was at a loss what to say.
12)It will be generally found that the men who are habitually behind time are habitually behind success. 13) The point sliped my attention. 14)It’s too good to be true.
15)Carbon differ from metals in that its resistance decrease as its temprature rises.
16)Eden knew the Middle East better than make such a mistake. 17) The shortness of time has required omissiom of some states. 18)I am far from blaming him.
19) Things would become better instead of worse. From Negative into Affirmative
1.Nothing is more beautiful than truth. 2.He’ll be back in no time.
3. Not until I finish the task shall I be able to go to play. 4. It is no less than blackmail to ask such a high price. 5.Your work leaves nothing to be desired. 6.You can’t be too careful when you are driving.
7. If we can help you further ,please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. 8.It was no other than Professor Smith. 9.He has no more than three dictionaries.
10.If any matter should be added after the contract comes into force,then such a matter should be agreed upon by both sides through friendly consultation. 11. University graduates, with no exception, were sent to remote area that year.
Exercise 9:Translation of Long &complex Sentences
I. Practice
A:By dividing the long sentence and translate them in the original order.
1.I have been lately informed by the preprietor of The World that two Papers,in which my dictionary is recommended to the Public were written by your Lordship.(A Letter To Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson)
2.What we really know is that men,unlike animals,somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings,actions and things so that they cound communicate with each other;and that later they agreed upon certain signs,called letters,which could be combined to represent those sounds and which could be written down.
3.On a warm, miserable morning last week we went up to the Bronx Zoo to see the moose calf and to break in a new pair of black shoes. B: By adjusting the order of the clauses in translating them
1.Sidney,who died in a battle when he was only 32 years old,was not only a great soldier,but a brilliant poet as well.
2.F.D.R became the fisrt president to visit South America when he went to Clumbia in 1934.
3.Why should you just stay at home when you have a chance to go out and play to your heart’s content?
4.Does it really help society,or the victim,or the victim’s family,to put in jail a man,who drove a car while drunk,has injured or killed another person? C: By adjusting the logical relation between the clauses.