成人学位英语考试：英汉互译练习题三

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1.For most people the sea was remote,and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea,there was little reason to ask many questions about it,let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.

答案：除了一些洲际旅行者和以大海为生的人，对于大多数人来说，大海是遥远的，没有什么必要提出太多问题，更别说思考大海海底的东西了。

2.The teacher was not wrong to draw attention to the errors,but if his priorities had centred on the child's ideas,an expression of his disappointment with the presentation would have given the pupil more motivation to seek improvement.

答案：老师注重错误没错，但是如果他更注重孩子的思想的话，他失望的表现会使孩子有提高的动力。

3.It may have been a sharp criticism of the pupil‘s technical abilities in writing，but it was also a sad reflection on the teacher who had omitted to read the essay，which contained some beautiful expressions of the child’s deep feelings.

答案：这可能是对学生在写作中的技术能力的尖锐批评，但也是老师的失败的悲哀反映——忽略了朗读文章，这其中优美的表达可以激发孩子们的深刻感受。

4.At the early attempts，the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths，a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.

答案：在早期的尝试中，光缆铺设失败，不得不取出来维修。这时人们发现上面覆盖有生物，这巅峰了当时科学界认为深海没有生命的理论。

5.He first time that the question“What is at the bottom of the oceans?”had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

答案：当铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的海底电报光缆的时候，出于商业动机，人们次不得不回答这个问题“海底是什么东西”。

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