23.strip mining
24.The European Union
25.the international community
26.international bank lending
27.labor intensive industry
28.knowledge economy
29.coastal erosion
30.subsistence agriculture
Ⅲ.Translation Improvement(30 points,2 points for each)
Directions: Each of the following Chinese or English translations has one or more inadequacies or errors. Improve the given translations.
Example 1:
原文：Adelaide enjoys a Mediterranean climate.
譯文：阿德萊德享有地中海氣候。
改譯：阿德萊德屬地中海氣候。
Example 2:
原文：中國在任何情況之下決不首先使用核武器。
譯文：At no time China will be the first to use nuclear weapons.
改譯：At no time will China be the first to use nuclear weapons.
31.原文：“I’m just an old bum at home,” Bill said,“but here you treat me like a VIP.”
譯文：“我在家里只不過是個(gè)老流浪漢，在這里你們卻把我當(dāng)VIP?！北葼栒f道。
32.原文：I tried vainly to put them together.
譯文：我徒勞地試圖把它們拼在一起。
33.原文：Yet there was a bigger movement in the air by 1750.
譯文：然而到1750年天空中有了一場(chǎng)更大的運(yùn)動(dòng)。
34.原文：During the first half of the eighteenth century, in the old age of Newton and the decline of the Royal Society, England basked in a last Indian summer of village industry and the overseas trade of merchant adventurers.
譯文：在十八世紀(jì)上半部分牛頓晚年和皇家學(xué)會(huì)衰落的時(shí)候，英國的鄉(xiāng)村手工業(yè)和海外商業(yè)冒險(xiǎn)正沐浴在最后一個(gè)印度夏天了。
35.原文：Despite the great gains in industry, agriculture remained the nation’s basic occupation.
譯文：不管工業(yè)上的收獲，農(nóng)業(yè)仍然是這個(gè)國家主要的職業(yè)。
36.原文：The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the fellahin no longer occur.
譯文：那些給農(nóng)民身上強(qiáng)加上周期性賦稅的破壞性洪水和干旱不再發(fā)生了。
24.The European Union
25.the international community
26.international bank lending
27.labor intensive industry
28.knowledge economy
29.coastal erosion
30.subsistence agriculture
Ⅲ.Translation Improvement(30 points,2 points for each)
Directions: Each of the following Chinese or English translations has one or more inadequacies or errors. Improve the given translations.
Example 1:
原文：Adelaide enjoys a Mediterranean climate.
譯文：阿德萊德享有地中海氣候。
改譯：阿德萊德屬地中海氣候。
Example 2:
原文：中國在任何情況之下決不首先使用核武器。
譯文：At no time China will be the first to use nuclear weapons.
改譯：At no time will China be the first to use nuclear weapons.
31.原文：“I’m just an old bum at home,” Bill said,“but here you treat me like a VIP.”
譯文：“我在家里只不過是個(gè)老流浪漢，在這里你們卻把我當(dāng)VIP?！北葼栒f道。
32.原文：I tried vainly to put them together.
譯文：我徒勞地試圖把它們拼在一起。
33.原文：Yet there was a bigger movement in the air by 1750.
譯文：然而到1750年天空中有了一場(chǎng)更大的運(yùn)動(dòng)。
34.原文：During the first half of the eighteenth century, in the old age of Newton and the decline of the Royal Society, England basked in a last Indian summer of village industry and the overseas trade of merchant adventurers.
譯文：在十八世紀(jì)上半部分牛頓晚年和皇家學(xué)會(huì)衰落的時(shí)候，英國的鄉(xiāng)村手工業(yè)和海外商業(yè)冒險(xiǎn)正沐浴在最后一個(gè)印度夏天了。
35.原文：Despite the great gains in industry, agriculture remained the nation’s basic occupation.
譯文：不管工業(yè)上的收獲，農(nóng)業(yè)仍然是這個(gè)國家主要的職業(yè)。
36.原文：The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the fellahin no longer occur.
譯文：那些給農(nóng)民身上強(qiáng)加上周期性賦稅的破壞性洪水和干旱不再發(fā)生了。