翻译练习2
1. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must
be in want of a wife.
2. Rommel came roaring along the coast, all fueled up and rearmed with masses of stuff he
captured at Tobruk.
3. Quite overwhelmed, she looked up at him in mingled wonder and enmity without daring to
raise her head.
4. Motionless, the two men stared with astonishment at her from the other side of the room.
5. With a basket in her hand, she trudged up the alley to her lodging.
6. Spring has so much more than speech in its unfolding flowers and leaves, and the coursing of
its streams, and in its sweet restless seeking.
7. The author finds out that good intentions alone are not enough when his attempt to be kind to
an old man leaves them both feeling worse than before.
8. Consequently, the International Currency Fund Organization has given up most of its
prudential views, changing its attitude dramatically from giving a warning to the public in
December to give its hurried support to those pessimistic views to giving an optimistic
analysis in its spring report.
9. When people knew that the water would become worse and worse if they didn’t take any
action, they decided to parade the streets where the plants were located, on the day when the
local parliament would be held in order that they could make the whole society pay more
attention to the matter of water pollution.
10. There is no agreement whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work
in general or to the research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical
inquiry.