17. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your wares and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
解析: 该句主干是 While ? , your could-be employer is deciding whether... and your
wares and abilities must be displayed.。.. 前一个分句中 while 引导状语从句, decide
后面是 whether 引导的宾语从句,该从句中并列主语为 your education, your
experience, and other qualifications, 谓语部分为 pay him, 后面是不定式做的状语。
and后面的并列句是被动语态,其中 in ? manne为方式状语。r 词汇:
pay sb. to do sth. 干某事对某人有利
如: It will pay you to be careful.(小心谨慎对你有好处 ) could-be 可能的,未来的 wares本义为 “货物,商品 ”,这里表示应聘者能够展示出来的资格和能力。
译文:在与你面谈时,你未来的雇主将根据你的教育背景、经验和其他的资历
来确定雇用你是否值得,因此你必须把你 “待售的物品 ”和能力以有序而合理连 贯的方式呈现出来。
18. The corporation will survive as a publicly -funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation-wide debate in Britain.
解析: 该句是由 but连接的两个转折关系的分句。前半句为 The corporation will
survive as ,其中 ? at least for the time being的意思是 “眼下,暂时 ”,这里做时间
状语。后半句的主干可以表达为 A are the subject of B( A 是 B 的对
象) 。
词汇: survive v. 幸存;战胜
fund v.投资
for the time being 暂时 译文: 虽然至少目前, 广播机构的身份生存下去,
规模和节目类型却成了全英国争论的话题。
它仍可以以公办但它的作用、
19. With economic growth has come centralization: fully 76 percent of Japan's
119 million
citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two -generation households. 【分析】 with economic growth has come centralization 是倒装结构, 主语是 centralization, 谓语
是 has come, with economic growth 是状语。冒号后面 fully 76 percent of Japan's 119 million
citizens 是主语, live 谓语, in cities 是地点状语,后面是 where 引导的定语从句。从句中
community and the extended family 是主语, have been abandoned是谓语, in favor of 引导状语 结构。 【词汇】 centralization n. 集中化,中心化 --- >decentralize v. 分散
extended family 传统大家庭 abandon v.放弃
in favor of 支持, [引申 ] 由 ? 取代 isolated a.孤立的 [i 我, sole 自己, ate 动词词尾 ]
【译文】随着经济的增长集中化已经显现:日本 1.19 亿公民中整整 76%的人口定居城市 在这里, 原来的社区和多代同堂的大家庭已被摒弃, 取而代之的是与外界疏于往来的、 只由 两代人组成的核心家庭。
20. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a
successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers' misfortunes.
【分析】本句是两个句子结合。在第一个句子中, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of
coming disaster是从句,指门垫或炉灶没有警示语。在第二个句子中, or 连接句子, so the thinking has gone 是一个倒装结构, 正常的语序应该是 the thinking has
gone so( 人们是这么想
的 ), go这个词的用法很灵活,有进展,进行的意思。 时间状语 the early 1980s 后面是 when
引导的定语从句,其中 juries 是主语, began holding 是谓语,后面是宾语 more companies,
liable for their customers ’ misfortunes 是形容词结构做修饰。 【词汇】 fail to 未能
lawsuit n. 诉讼 compensate v.补偿 jury n. 陪审团 hold v. [僻义 ]认为
be liable for 为?负责
【译文】 幸运的是, 如果门垫或者是火炉没有能警告即将到来的灾难, 你可以通过一场成功 的法律诉讼来赔偿给你带来的麻烦。 从二十世纪八十年代的早期开始人们的想法就是这样了,
那时候陪审团认为商家对消费者的不幸应该负担相应的责任。
21. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of
professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations. 【分析】 这里的主语 this, 后面不定式短语 is unlikely to produce 的真正宾语是 professional , 前面的成分 the needed number of every kind of 是修饰这个词的短语,接着是地点状语 in a country ,其中 country 带了两个修饰成分:前一个是形容词性的短语 as large as ours,后
一个是 where 引导的定语从句,这个从句的主语 the economy 有两个谓语动词: is spread 和 involves 。
【词汇】 be unlikely to 不可能
produce v.[ 翻译难词 ] 培养(人才),提供(服务),生产(商品)
professional n. 专业人员 corporation n. 公司
【译文】 另外, 像我们这么一个大国, 经济延展到这么多的州、 涉及到这么多的国际公司,
因而要按照数量培养出所需的各类专业人员是不大可能的。[句中并没有因果词汇出现, 翻译时可以加上,逻辑更清晰]
22. But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way
to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not. 【分析】前面 for 引导的状语表示的是对象,主干是 professional training might be the way
to go, since 引导原因状语从句,从句主干结构是 skills ? can be the difference , all other
factors being equal 是一个独立主格结构,在本句中作插入语。 Difference 后面带了
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