封面故事:Jingyi 创作
中级口译 | 过关篇:单词词组、固定搭配、阅读技巧
这些是中级口译阅读的固定搭配以及部分翻译。天赋一般的我,终于过了中口啦!有图有真相!
01 固定搭配和词组
神情肃穆,目光呆滞 a solemn-faced, dull-eyed crowd
全都举着手 with one arm collective raised
像参加宗教仪式 in religious devotion
聚精会神地盯着屏幕 focus intently upon their phone screen
即便是几米远,他们也不会用眼睛看 even when only meters away, they fail to see with their own eyes
02 单词
go unaddressed 未解决的
diaphragm 隔膜
fallow 休闲
reconcile 和解
scrub 擦洗
debris 残片
exfoliating 剥落,去角质
liable for = responsible for 对 …… 负责
reinstate 重新定位
intent 意图
conceding 承认
diaphram 隔膜
solemn 庄严的
render something to someone 向某人呈现某物
feudal society 封建社会
pass away 过世
confucius enrolled students = students are enrolled in the course
collect and edit 收录
Philosophy of Confucius / Confucian School 孔子学院
disciples 门徒
ration 配合
vehement 强烈的
affirmative 肯定的
on a pair with 与别人平起平坐
contradition 矛盾
foil 箔
eclectic 不拘一格
scullery 洗碗间
walk-in larder 可走进的储藏室
be conscious of 意识到
will be navigating public roads 将会上路行驶
remove ... from behind the steering wheel 从方向盘后解救出来
fallible and inattentive 易犯错的
upscales and downsides 优点和缺点
dismantle their cars' software, cansing accidents 拆除汽车软件,造成事件
run out of power 没电
古丝绸之路 the ancient silk routes
无论相隔多远 geographical distance is not insurmountable
irreversibly 不可逆地
slow-creeping 缓慢 爬行
take great leaps forward 向前大步走
strife 冲突
hit the skids 陷入困境
marital strife
be laughed off 被嘲笑
petty pity 琐碎的遗憾
contend in a petty way 以琐碎方式竞争
sticker price = tag price 吊牌价格
at costs 有成本地
in grants and financial aid 补助金
ballpark 棒球场
right off the bat 立刻
hone their skills 磨练技能
stamina 耐力
contacts will be drown up 会有很多回合
03 句子翻译
古丝绸之路,延续千年,积淀了以和平合作、开放包容、互学互鉴、互利共赢为核心的丝路精神。 the ancient silk routes embody the spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit.
架起了东西方合作的纽带,和平的桥梁 built a bridge for peace and East-west cooperation
求同存异 to interact with and embrace each other with open mind
能走出一条相遇相知、共同发展之路,走向幸福安宁和谐美好的远方 we can embrace on a path leading to friendship, shared development, peace, harmony and a better future
... but the deaths caused by drunken driving have recently caused so many well-publicated tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant
04 阅读方法
这是 Jingyi 自创的阅读方法,即找题干中和原文相近、相同句子。姑且认为是句子改写,这样可以提升阅读的正确率。
1.翻译 这些 …… 不过是极小的部分
原文 we do sometimes benefit from the filming of some event that would otherwise have no objective record. But these videos are a tiny faction of what's ...
题目 being recorded every hour, every minute, every second worldwide
2.翻译 将人们从现场目击者转变为仅仅是相机使用者
原文 one of the disturbing effects of people's filming mania is the establishment of a bounding between themselves and the events unfolding
3.翻译 由于他们眼睛没能看到的行为,他们从某种意义上未能真正地在那儿
原文 transforming them from present witness to mere camera users
题目 since their eyes fail to see the action directly, they are in some senses not really there all.
4.unhealthy anger = inability to cool down when upset
5.It did not seem worth it anymore = there was no point in being a doctor
6.do not fit into their caring they can end up emotionally and intellectually burnt out = control their emotional involvement in their work
7.Now the corn seed industry is the state's dominant agricultural land user = top corp is corn
8.“we have put all our eggs into one basket, and that is tourism ...” = The vacuum left by the fail of sugar and pineapple is far from being filled by other corps.
9.San francisco to pursue a progressive environmental regulation no other major US city had clared ___ a ban on bottle water = is progressive in banning bottled water
10.More than 100 American cities have adopted measures to restrict government spending on bottled water, and bans have also spread ar national parts and universities = the ban on bottled water has been applied to all but ...
11.They corrupt local officials, recruit and arm local poachers, plunder local wildlife, create increasing and put local communities into a poverty spiral = bribe local officials / provide weapons to poachers / disregard animal or human
12.The payoff is real: Cheerleaders and jokes who used to ignore you new stop to ask = tends to feel flattered when speaker to by a joke
13.“Some people might be in at 7:30 AM, but will be doing very little. You can work really hard from 9 to 5 and achieve the same. If you find it difficult to achieve an eight-hour day, there is, as a last resort, the old trick of learning your jacket on your chair and your computers switched on, even after you have left the building.” = not regard requests for shorter hors favorably
14.benchmarking involves learning about your own practices, learning about the best practices of others, and then making changes for improvement that will enable you to meet or beat the best in the world = improving your performance on the basis of new information
15.Arita turned to a publisher of popular handbooks such as cookery books, ... All these handbags are communicating complex information in a simple way-exactly what we are aiming to do = Arita found that a publishing could show them how to improve their own manners
16. is linked to the dinning-room by a high medieval-styled archway = to join the dinning room with other rooms
17. ... off the coast of Australia ... The temporary warming effect of a major El Nino event ... mass bleaching that has sucked the color = indicates that water temperatures have made coral off the Australian coast white
18.aquatic aesthhetics protect coastal communities from storms and flooding depends on coral reafs as habits = beauty of the symbiotic organisms
19.In one famous study, researchers asked therapists, married couples, and others to watch videotaped conversations of ten couples and try to identify the relationships that had broken up. Even the therapists guessed wrong half the time = in one famous study, specialist fail partially to identify the break-up of partnership
20.those with an early history of bickering were more likely to have found stability in their marriages, ... = couples with an early history of contending in a petty way were more likely to keep marriage going
21.indicates some degree of contempt -- poison to relationship = eye rolling indicates some degree of scorn
22.this semptember the Department of Education relates its college scorecard, a project designed to help parents and students make more informed decisions about higher education = the college scorecard aims to provide information upon which to base higher education decisions
23.with the college scorecard, you see a breakdown of what you'd actually pay for a college education ... = every parent of college-banned students seems to be concerned about the cost of the college.
24.... check out NPR's college cost calculator, ... show you right off the bat the net price (price of college minus financial aid, grants and scholarships) for various incomes compared to that scary sticker price. = some colleges and universities are not so formidably unaffordable as they appear to be because of following factors except student's loan
25.make the best financial sense = most financially reasonable option
26.snuff out= put an end to
27.if those temperatures do become reality, greenhouse gases would transform earch into a place where food is scarce, parts of the world are uninhabitable for humans, and many species of animals and plants are wiped out experts say.
28.burning all earth's fossil fuel resource would make its average temperature 8 degree higher than that before man entered industrial age = (article) the 8-degree rise in global temperatures would blast past the 2 degree limit that nations agreed upon last year in the Paris talks.
29.the study predicts that precipitation would quadruple in the tropical Pacific, while it would be reduced by up to third in the Americans and a factor of two over parts of Australia, the Mediterranean, southern Africa and America
30.dogs are effective weapon against elephant poaching because of = dogs are wonderful to work with because they don't have any incompatible agenda
31.fight against poaching in forested Virunga National Park, where the world's last remaining mountain gorillas live = last mountain gorillas' habitat is Virunga National Park
32.the downstream end of the business, which includes the refining of petroleum products and their subsequent sale to retail customers = according to 1st paragraph, concerned with refining and retailing of petroleum products
33.operates within a relatively short-term timescale = requires very close monitoring of business condition