硕士英语综合教程1 汉译英 Unit 1

(1) Bending under the weight of the packs, sweating, they climbed steadily in the pine forest that covered the mountainside.

2) Concentrating on time passing, as we do when bored, will trigger an illusion that the clock seems moving more slowly.

3) Unemployment shot up in France during the second quarter, and the country’s top financial official said the situation will continue to aggravate even if the global economy recovers quickly. It was the worst quarterly unemployment in France since early 2006.

(4) As social practice continues to develop, we should keep renewing our ideas and make innovations courageously in light of practical needs.

(5) Bicycles are regarded as an economical alternative to buses whose fares have increased 3 times in the past few years.

6) The U.S. government has called on people to save water because water scarcity has become one of the causes of global tension ecologically, economically and politically. (7) In order to be a recognized leader in the industry, it’s essential for a company to improve production quality and tap the overseas market through the help of state-of-the-art technologies and equipment.

(8) If you are thinking about coming to Britain for Christmas, you’d better think it over. Because thousands of Christmas travelers have been stranded in the U.K. as the adverse weather condition has caused massive disruption to the transport infrastructure. Paragraph translation

Scientists claim the warming of the planet will be gradual, but that extreme weather events will increase in frequency and intensity.They say the effects of more storms,floods, droughts and heatwaves will be abrupt and profound. The World Health Organization says the effects of so-called climate-sensitive diseases already are killing millions of people.

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3. Only by understanding the nature of thinking mood, can man bring forth new ideas in philosophy, and the crux of philosophical innovation lies in the change of man’s thinking mood.

4. From then on, he struggled in his attempts to overcome his humble origins and insinuate himself into upper-class society.

5. It’s a far cry from the days when I was just a clerk in a supermarket and nobody paid me any attention.

6. The invention of microprocessors set the stage for the arrival of the microcomputer, or personal computer---an affordable machine for the masses. 7. So there are no enemies in absolute terms. The enemies we fight are only in relative terms, constantly changing with the times.

8. Taiwan, viewed from the historical facts and the international law, is beyond dispute one part of Chinese sacred territory and it is an inviolable mission of the entire Chinese people to reunify the motherland. Paragraph tranlation

It was estimated that the sales of professional and personal service robots worldwide to have reached about 5.5 million this year, and are expected to double to 11.5 million by 2011. Yet there is little or no control over how these machines are used. Some help busy professionals entertain children; other machines feed and bathe the elderly and incapacitated. “We need guidelines for a cut-off so we have a limit to the contact with robots”, one expert said. “Some children-care robots are designed safly enough for the parents to leave their children to robots for hours even for days. Besides children, the elders need care,too. Compared with the number of the young care-givers , the number of the elders in some countries keeps on increasing, which stimulates the development of elder-care robots. Unit 5.