一、阅读《新实用英译汉教程》第三章第二节(pp.109-123)。

三、 将下列简单句译成汉语：
1.For this reason, our company explained solemnly to your company many times in February last year.

2. I tried vainly to put the pieces together.

3. The President gave Victor Henry a hearty handshake, his grip warm and damp.

4. His weariness and the increasing heat determined him to sit down in the first convenient shade.

5. Water is a substance essential to our life.

6. Discussion led us to this decision.

7. Based on the pattern of economic expansion in the past, Europe need not view its present reserve of unemployed labour as a liability but as an asset.

8. The only resolutions so far proposed are facsimiles of the Israeli Prime Minister's terms for a peace settlement.

9. The evening passed with ominous mysteriousness, yet quickly.

10.He described the claim in alliterative fashion as a composite of "fantasy, fallacy and fiction".

三、 将下列含有名词从句的句子译成汉语：
1. What we say here will not be long remembered.

2. It seemed inconceivable that the pilot could have survived the crash.

3. It is obvious that A.C. motors are superior to D.C. motors in many applications.

4. She kissed the necklace as she put it on, and vowed she would never, never part with it.

5. I regard it as an honour that I am chosen to attend the meeting.

6.She mustn't know what we've been talking about this morning, because it would only distress her.

7. Row material is what we are badly in need of.

8. An obedient son, I had accepted my father's decision that I was to be a doctor, though the prospect interested me not at all.

9. But considered realistically, we had to face the fact that our prospects were less than good.

10. The fact that there is no love between them does not mean they are going to end their marriage.

四、 将下列含有定语从句的句子译成汉语：
1. A crane can be defined as a machine which lifts heavy loads and displaces them horizontally.

2. There are events taking place at this time which dim their hopes and lessen the prospects.

3. A fuel is a material which will burn at a reasonable temperature and produce heat.

4. A country that wishes to become a member of WTO is to send in its application before a working party is formed by WTO for examination of the specific conditions of the country.

5. In his articles on social problems for the Examiner he wrote about the poverty and miserable living conditions that kept the working people in ignorance and drove them to drink and crime.

6. We often went to Hyde Park, where speakers addressed the passing crowds on different subjects.

7. She was very patient towards the children, which her husband seldom was.

8. We took a short out through the woods, which saved about ten minutes.

9. About one hundred elements, two thirds of which are metals, have been found.

10. About ten years after the copper oxide rectifier was developed, the selenium rectifier, which closely resembles it, came into general use.

11. Glass, whose expansion coefficient is much less, also expands as steel does.

12. The strike would prevent the docking of ocean steamships which require assistance of tugboats.

13 There was something original, independent, and heroic about the plan that pleased all of them.

14. For any machine whose input and output forces are known, its mechanical advantage can be calculated.

15.An element is a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substance by ordinary chemical means.

五、将下列含有状语从句的句子译成汉语：
1. We'll let you use the room on condition that you will keep it clean and tidy.

2. Skill and patience will succeed where force fails.

3. Where the volt is too large a unit, we use the millivolt or microvolt.

4. A body at rest will not move till a force is exerted on it.

5. I am blest if I know.

6.I'll live a little before it is too late.

7.The building is right in front of you as you cross the bridge.

8.When prices range from ￡ 34,500, to ￡ 50,000 per car, evidence that these machines are more than a cut above the rest is essential.

9.If a little nervous, she answered him in a firm voice.

10.When one advances in age, he advances in experience.

六、将下列长句译成汉语
1.There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone to a lot of trouble or expanse than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavour of the coffee, the lightness of the cake, or the attractiveness of the house, which may be her chief interest and pride.

2. He was puzzled that I didn't want what was obviously a "step" toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.

3. The medical waste that has fouled beaches in the New York region at the peak of the summer season has taken its toll on business all along the shore, driving vacationers away both from beaches that have been closed and from those that have remained open.

4. One of the most heartwarming aspects of people who are born with a facial disfigurement, whether minor or major, is the number of them who do not allow it to upset their lives, even reaching out to help others with the same problem.