2018年成人学位英语考试英汉互译辅导资料13

　　1.The first time that the question “What is at the bottom of the oceans?”had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed.

　　答案：当铺设一条从欧洲到美洲的海底电报光缆的时候，出于商业动机，人们第一次不得不回答这个问题“海底是什么东西”。

　　2.We are，however，not the less obliged by your kind offer，though we refuse to accept it;and，to show our grateful sense of it，if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons，we will take care of their education，teach them in all we know，and make men of them.

　　答案：当然，对于你们的盛情我们没有被逼迫的感觉，尽管我们拒绝接受。而且，为了表示我们的感谢，如果维吉利亚洲的绅士们愿意派来一些他们的子弟的话，我们会尽全力教育他们，并把他们培养成为真正的男人。

　　3.But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things，and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.

　　答案：但是你们也要明白不同的民族看待事物有不同的方法，所以如果刚好我们的看法与你们的不一样的话，你们也不应觉的被冒犯了。

　　4.We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges，and that the costs of living of our young men，while with you，would be very expensive to you.

　　答案：我们知道你们很看重你们在大学里面教育的学习方法，而且我们的年轻人与你们生活的花费即使对于你们来说也不便宜。

　　5.Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain， which relate to intellect(智能)and emotion， and determine the human character.

　　答案：计算机技术帮助研究人员获得人脑前部和侧部的准确体积，这是与人的智能和情绪有关的部分，而且也决定人的性格特点。