翻译练习一、翻译下列各句（注意理解原文）1.she is no fool.2.He is not incapable.3.I can’t help thinking that he is still alive.4.It is a long lane that has no turning.5.She never comes without bringing some candy for the children.二、翻译下列各句（注意时态的变换）1.After the outbreak of the war, the whole country was armed in a few days.2.At that meeting an agreement was very soon arrived at.3.I’m afraid I shall be laughed at.4.My first twenty years were spent in a poverty-stricken countryside.5.They were given a hearty welcome.6.Rivers are controlled by dams.7.Hitler was also washed away by the storms of history.8.Most of the questions have been settled satisfactorily, only a few of secondaryimportance remain to be discussed.三、对照下列原文及其译文，指出斜（或黑）体部分的翻译中所用的技巧1.There was no haste or restlessness in his manner but a posed friendliness.他从容不迫，和蔼可亲。
2.Bright, very bright were the stars over the wild, dark Yan’an hills.在延安的荒凉的漆黑的群山上空，闪烁着明亮洁白的星星。
3.All of his purchases of recent years had to be liquidated at a great sacrifice both to hishealth and his pocketbook.近年来他所购买的全部东西都不得不用来清偿债务。
这对他的健康和经济都是个很大的损失。
4.The lifetime dream of every mature artist in the United States was a Lathrop prize.在美国，每个有成就感的艺术家一生的梦想，便是得一次拉索普奖金。
5.She felt the need of a breath of fresh air and a drink of water, but did not venture to stir.她感到需要吸些新鲜空气，喝些水，但是她不敢动。
6.She was concentrating herself too thoroughly –what she did really required less mentaland physical strain.她的注意力集中得过分了---她做这工作，精神上肉体上都用不着那样紧张。
7.She wandered at the magnitude of ①this life and at the importance of③knowing muchin order②to do anything in it ②at all.她对①这种生活景象的伟大很是吃惊，也想到在这样的地方②做事，必需③丰富的知识。
四、翻译下列各条，注意使用句后括号内所给翻译技巧1.Crowding down to the water are rows of low houses, dirty and dark, inhabited bycountless thousands of poor folk, whose days are spent in unending toil and the struggle to keep alive.(分译成多个分句)2.The memory of the great men who have lived in London and the poets and dramatistsand novelists who wrote their works there lend the place a romance and charm that every visitor cannot but feel. （对The memory等词进行词类转移）3.A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting,pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob, that , having lost the fear of hell, and not replaced it by the love of justice, cares for nothing but the lion’s share of the wealth wrung by threat of starvation from the hands of the classes that create it.（用重译、增译和分译等方法）4.And of course the country is so lovely now that it would be just grand for her to have alovely morning driving for miles and miles.（①用重译法，②用词类转移法）5.He read Shakespeare, to help his English, because he felt something in the poet, somemastery of life, that made his mind work quicker, strengthened the grip on life of his own will. （对something 一词用增译法）6.It was not until 1949 that the first commercial product, the Model A Copier, came off theline.（用正说反译，反说正译法）7.I fled from work, I became a tramp, begging my way from door to door, wandering overthe United States and sweating bloody sweats in slums and prisons.（用减译法）8.Early I discovered enthusiasm, ambition, and ideals; and to satisfy these became theproblem of my child-life.（用增译法和减译法）9.Dimitrov knew German quite well, and saw at once he must learn to know it even betterin order to fight victoriously and so he studied, chains on his hands and feet, German grammars, the works of Goethe, German history , for he felt that this would also prove an excellent weapon.(对全句分译，对his一词减译)10.Electromagnetic waves travel at the same aped as light does.（主谓结构译成偏正结构）应用文1.书信（请求信）Direction: Suppose one of your colleagues left his woolen overcoat in the tea house, you write a letter to the owner of the tea house to ask him to send the overcoat. In the letter the following points should be included:1)Y our Request2)Y our explanation and specific information about the overcoat.3)Y our appreciation to him.Y ou should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Mary West ” instead. Y ou do not need to write the address.2.求职信Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a letter of at least 120 words on the basis of the situation given in English below:Y ou are Li Ling, and you learned from a newspaper that a secretary of the English language is wanted in a company. Write a letter to the company to apply for the job.3.感谢信Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a letter of at least 120 words onthe basis of the situation given in English below:Y ou are a citizen of Sweden, and you are on a tour in China. One day, you lost you handbag while you were visiting Y uelu Hill., but fortunately, later the very day, a child returned it to you. Now write a letter to the headmaster of the school where the child is studying to show your gratitude for his noble deed.【提示】像这类物归原主或得到别人帮助的感谢信，首先应当对自己的相关情况做一简短介绍，然后对得到帮助的前后经过做一简单描述，最后表达自己诚挚的谢意。