五， 英语多被动，汉语多主动
一些常用被动句型的习惯译法： It is hoped that... 希望，有人希望 It is assumed that... 假设，假定 It is claimed that... 据说，有人主张 It is believed that... 有人想信，大家相信 It is reported that... 据报道，据通报 It is considered that... 人们认为，据估计 It is said that... 据说，有人说 It is supposed that... 据推测，人们猜测 It has been announced that... 已经宣布 It is asserted that... 有人主张
It is proposed that... 有人提出
英语多被动，汉语多主动
It was told that... 有人曾经说 It was first intended that... 最初就有这样的想法 It will be said that... 有人会说 It will be seen from this that... 由此可见，因此可知 It was noted above that... 前面已经指出 It must be admitted that... 必须承认，老实说 It has been illustrated that... 据图示，据说明 It is stressed that... 有人强调说 It is stressed that... 有人列举出了 It can not be denied that... 无可否认
英语与汉语的十大区别
一， 英语重结构，汉语重语义
Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as work mates rather than tools, relaxation will be in front of smelltelevision, and the digital age will have arrived. 译文：儿童将与装有个性芯片的玩具娃娃玩耍，具 有个性内置的计算机将被视为工作伙伴而不是玩 具，人们将在气味电视机前休是学会驾驶 拖拉机。到九岁的时候，这只猴子已经学会 单独表演驾驶拖拉机。
英语多变化，汉语多重复
He hated failure; he had conquered it all his life, risen above it, and despised it in others.
门口放着至少有12把五颜六色大小不一的雨伞。 门口放着一堆雨伞，少说有12把，五颜六色，大 小不一。
三， 英语多从句，汉语多分句
On the whole such a conclusion can be drawn with a certain degree of confidence but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the other with whom he is compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possessed.
英语多被动，汉语多主动
And it is imagined by many that the operations of the common mind can by no means be compared with these processes, and that they have to be acquired by a sort of special training.
他讨厌失败，他一生中曾战胜失败，超 越失败，并且藐视别人的失败。
七， 英语多抽象，汉语多具体
英语结构复杂，表达抽象
Disintegration Ardent loyalty Total exhaustion Far-sightedness Careful consideration Perfect harmony Feed on fancies With great eagerness Lack of perseverance Await with great anxiety Make a litter contribution On the verge of destruction
英语重结构，汉语重语义
1. 好好学习，天天向上 译：work hard and make progress every day. 2. 你不知道，谁知道？
译：if you don’t know, who knows?
二， 英语多长句，汉语多短句
In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors.
英语多被动，汉语多主动
It is rumored that... 有人主张 It is rumored that... 听说，谣传
It is noticed that... 有人指出，人们注意到
It is suggested that... 有人建议，建议 It is reputed that... 人们认为，可以认为
英语多被动，汉语多主动
It can be said without exaggeration that... 可以毫不夸张 的说 It is sometimes asked that...人们有时会问 It was felt that... 有人认识到了 It is universally accepted that... 人们普遍认为 It is unanimously agreed that... 大家一致同意 It is alleged that... 据说 It is calculated that... 据计算 It has been proved that... 已经证明 It has been found that... 人们已经发现 It is still to be hoped that... 我们仍然希望 It is well-known that... 众所周知，大家都知道 It should be realized that... 我们应该认识到……
九， 英语多省略，汉语多补充
1. Ambition is the mother of destruction as well of evil. 2. Association with the good can only produce good, with the wicked, evil. 3. One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.
译文：许多人认为，普通人的思维活动根本无法与科 学家的思维活动相比，并且这些思维活动必须经过某 种专门训练才能掌握。
英语多被动，汉语多主动
注意：有些英语被动句需要把主语议 成汉语的宾语
举例：
New sources of energy must be found, …
六， 英语多变化，汉语多重复
词本无义，义随人生
英语多引申，汉语多推理
While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.
译文：尽管关于历史的定义几乎和历史学 家一样多，现代实践最符合的一种定义， 即把历史看做是对过去历史事件的再现和 解释。
英语多引申，汉语多推理
练习： 1. I am not quite sure of his having said it. 2.This is the surest guarantee that we shall be successful. 3.He made a sure step out of mud. 4.She had a sure grasp of the subject. 5.He is very sure in his beliefs.
译文： 除非人类最终意识到要把人口减少到这 样的程度 —— 使地球能为所有人提供足够的饮 食，否则将不得不接受更多的“人造食品”。
八， 英语多引申，汉语多推理
英语中有两句俗语： 1. You know a word by the company it keeps.
要知义如何，关键看词
1. Words do not have meaning, but people have meaning for them.
英语多抽象，汉语多具体
Until such time as mankind has the sense to lower its population to the point where the planet can provide comfortable support for all, people will have to accept more “unnatural food.”
I think…
The monkey’s most extraordinary accomplishment was learning to operate a tractor. By the age of nine, the monkey had learned to solo on the vehicle.