课后练习
一、阅读《新实用英译汉教程》第四章第四节 (pp.221-227)。
二、翻译下列英语句子，注意英语修辞格的翻译方法：
1.Autumn sunsets have come to me at the bend of a road in the lovely
waste, like a bride raising her veil to accept her lover.
2.The mother is undergoing the joyful pain, and the painful joy
of childbirth.
3.I wandered lonely as a cloud.
4.The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
5.In the city I was nothing, but there in the countryside I was
considered a big fish.
6.The lions at her party included two famous authors and a musician.
7.I am only a small potato in this office.
8.She felt that she must not yield, she must go on leading her
straitened, humdrum life. This was her punishment for having made
a mistake. She had made her bed, and she must lie on it.
9.The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Weak in pain, but
weaker still, he thought, more inexcusably weak, in pleasure,. For
under the torments of pleasure, what cowardices, what betrayals
of self and of others will it not commit!
10.Hereditarily disposed to myopia, he recognizes only the persons
and habitats of his own species among which he passes an existence
of competitive tranquillity.
三、翻译下列句子，注意英语修辞格的翻译方法：
1.Whatever economists tell them, they at any rate still believe
in an England filled with good things-an England flowing with milk
and honey…
2.Gray peace pervaded the wilderness-ringed Argentia Bay in Newfoundland.
3.I'd give world to see you.
4.The weight was off his conscience about poor Brigg's money.
5.Gray hair should be respected.
6. If Main Street didn't understand this, Wall Street did.
7. Down the hill came a detail with a hundred Italian prisoners
to be shipped to New York.
8.Mr President, my delegation is confident that your management
of our affairs will be principled and practical, expeditious but
not expedient.
9.Up Broadway he turned, and halted at a glittering cafe, where
are gathered together nightly the choicest products of the grapes,
the silkworm and the protoplasm.
10.He is all fire and fight.
11.Julia was his eldest step-brother's wife, and a thorn in his
side.
12.There came a train of ping-pong players home with loaded honors.
