研究生英语课后汉翻英前5单元.docx

Unit 1
1. Today's university students are struggling to establish themselves, but they still have ambiguous feelings about their future.
2. A man cannot find himself without finding a center beyond himself. So the idealism of the undergraduate experience must help the student transcend himself.
3. We eagerly hope that the lessons learned in the university will reveal themselves in our performance in the workplace and further education.
4. It cannot go unchallenged to say that the 4-year undergraduate experience is the only path to success in life.
5. We run the risk of making critical decisions, not on the basis of what we know, the findings of investigations, and the data of experiments, but on the basis of blind faith in professed experts.
6. Our task needs a large group of well-informed, caring young people who can band together, learn from each other, and actively participate in the four modernizations.
7. If it is to endure, the new school should help the students not only acquire a sold basic education and become competent in a specific field, but also be ready to commit themselves to others.
8. It is not too much to say that if undergraduates excessively devote themselves to examinations, they will push competence and commitment to the fringes.
9. I didn't even speak to him; much less discuss the reconstruction of your school with him.
10. Some people think examinations are second to none, but some think examinations have a lot of disadvantages. Examinations leave us an open essential question --- what influence do examinations exert on education?

Unit 2
1. He is an experienced banker and an acknowledged trade expert, not to mention an excellent managing director.
2. Regardless of danger, volunteers from an Italian organization for peace have gone to Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to form a "body shield" for the purpose of preventing the US from bombing the place.
3. Nobody in the family is more dedicated to operating the real estate business than Judy.
4. Because of the economic depression, real estate agents are in the dilemma of whether to lower prices or let sales fall off.
5. More often than not, Mr. Smith earns great profits by careful investment of his capital.
6. John did not make much of a mark in his studies at school, but he excelled at sports.
7. Orderly transition of responsibilities is a condition for the long-range prosperity of a family business.
8. You had better have a clear picture of prospects before formulating a plan for investment.
9. Although sculpture is a time-consuming art, there are still some people following it as a profession.
10. The software company is in the midst of being transformed from an individual proprietorship to a joint venture.

Unit 3
1. The automobile was improved very rapidly after it was invented and soon displaced horses.
2. We may have to cut down on the number of privately owned cars and depend more on public mass transit systems because cars pollute and maim or even kill people.
3. While wheels (automobiles) have brought with them better or more convenient transportation, they are guilty of many sins, such as air pollution, traffic accidents and traffic congestion.
4. Americans are noted for their love for cars and great job mobility.
5. If only advances in fuel quality and efficiency and in technology would radically reduce the emissions from automobiles.
6. A highly developed highway network has made possible the easy movement from coast to coast in the United States.
7. The very thought of the speed at which the beautiful avenue was constructed electrified every visitor; the road had only recently been torn up to lay drain-pipes not long ago.
8. Environmentalists have denounced automobiles, believing they are a major factor in the production of dirty air.
9. Many new residential complexes have risen up in the suburbs of metropolitan cities because of the availability of convenient public transportation.
10. Despite their love for cars, many people lend credence to the extensive use of the public transport system, which can cut down on traffic congestion.

Unit 4
1. Some professional observers believe that young people today are no longer interested in politics and causes, but rather, have become increasingly preoccupied with issues closer to themselves.
2. The higher a woman’s educational attainment, the more likely she is to go out of the private setting of the nuclear family and to realize herself in the community.
3. As far as I am concerned, what really lies behind the decision of some married couples not to start a family is that they are so narcissistic and have no margin of love to spare others.
4. The company put on the market a registered invention even without asking the inventor’s permission, which goes against the patent law.
5. Urged by some other countries, the United Nations has pressured the country to give up developing and using nuclear weapons.
6. According to the rule that every member should remain childless, Mr. And Ms white have no alternative but to withdraw from the Non-Parent Association, for they will attain parenthood soon.
7. He expects to reveal, by presenting a soap opera, the complexity implicit in real life.
8. In virtually every country, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and child abuse loon as most challenging social problems.
9. When interviewed, these elderly people rationalized why they were ambivalent about today’s young people.
10. Many college students are far more concerned with how to get a highly-paid job on graduation and how to receive a quick promotion in the competitive society.

Unit 5
1. Generally, people have become more compassionate and quite a few families have taken in an orphan from the municipal orphanage.
2. It is a demanding task for a workingwoman to look after her parents and her children while holding down a job.
3. At first we were worried about their first stay in a foreign country but things there worked out much better for them.
4. Today's middle-aged people have fewer children than their parents did and the aging population problem may weigh on them in about 40 years.
5. It is hoped that the current reform in education will better set students up to meet the challenges from society.
6. The government intends to transfer some of the health-care burden to the individual family but family members are not always available for the task because they cannot break away from their jobs to look after the sick elderly.
7. There is an increasing demand for beds in the nursing home, and we have to try every possible means to free them up.
8. With the large elderly population in this country, financing of health care and pensions could scare the devil out of the government.
9. The young couple has to make some sacrifice to avoid letting their old beloved father down.
10. What they had gone through in looking after their sick old father made them more compassionate, and they made a donation to the nursing home.