1、英譯漢長句的處理,There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone to a lot of trouble or expense than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavor of the coffee, the lightness of cake, or the attractiveness of the house, whi

2、ch may be her chief interest and pride.,最令女主人失望的是， 她花了許多心神或費用來招待客人，可是這位客人只是津津有味地與她的丈夫談政治、談生意，絲毫也沒有注意到咖啡的濃香、糕點的松軟或者房間內講究的陳設，而這些卻可能是她最感興趣、最為自豪的東西。（順）,I know this river as one family knows a friend, know it when it is black, guarding all the lights of Paris in its depths, and seeming, in its vast silen

3、ce, to be communing with the dead who lie beneath it; when it is yellow, evil, and roaring, giving a rough time to tugboats and barges, and causing people to remember that it has been known to rise, it has been know to kill; when it is peaceful, a slick, dark, dirty green, playing host to rowboats a

4、nd les bateaux mouches and throwing up from time to time an extremely unhealthy fish.,我熟悉這條河就像一個家庭熟悉自己的親朋好友一樣。我見過它通身墨黑，在波心深處守護著閃爍搖曳的巴黎萬家燈火。在一片深沉靜謐之中，好像在跟河床下面安眠的死者親密絮語；我見過它掀起黃濁兇險的波濤，咆哮翻滾，河面上的拖船和駁船顛簸搖蕩，使人們不由得想起河水漲溢時淹死人畜的慘狀，我見過它水波不興、平緩舒展，混濁發(fā)綠，也招引幾只劃艇和游船，盡主人之誼呢。不時河面上和還會浮起一條條腥臭的魚。（順）,From radio-active wa

5、ter and soil around a nuclear-weapons plant in Colorado to man-made deserts in Soviet Central Asia, the world is peppered with examples of what poor education or unneighborly attitudes can do to the planet that must feed and clothe us all.,如果人們受教育不夠或不能善待環(huán)境，他們就會對人類賴以生存的這個星球做出些什么事來呢？全世界到處都有這樣的例子：從科羅拉多

6、州核武器工廠周圍輻射活躍的水土到原蘇聯中亞地區(qū)的人為沙漠。（逆）,He was puzzled that I didnt want what was obviously a “step” toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.,所有美國人受的教育都是要在長大成人后去追求金錢和權力，而我卻放著明擺著的“階梯”不上，他對此大惑不解。 （逆）,Neither she nor he entered the house since that drizzly November day

7、forty-seven years ago when the movers had cleaned out their furniture, damaging the cane-backed sofa and breaking two plates of Philadelphia blueware in the process.,47年來，她和他再也沒有踏進那所房子一步。那年11月的一天，細雨蒙蒙，搬家工人搬走了他們家所有的家具，搬運過程中，弄壞了那個藤背沙發(fā)，打碎了兩個費城藍瓷盤。,What seemed to concern many people as much as the squandered money and the deaths of young men for a cause in which they did not believe was the feeling that the war was doing something terrible to the fabric of society forcing the nation and its sons to betray the very ideals upon