2017年翻译考试英语初级笔译材料（15）

　　强化训练

　　1.The manager sat in his office amid his morning

　　2.He is a man above vulgar interests.

　　3.The ancient compass is of high sensibility.

　　4.It looks as if we are in for a storm.

　　5.He was between sheets by eleven.

　　6.On a third voyage in 1498 Columbus found Trinidad and explored the northern coast of South America.

　　7.Fresh from his role in Titanic, he has a double starring role in The Man in the Iron Mask.

　　8.Later when the children came home for the week of Christmas, the house was bright with

　　Christmas colours.

　　9.He continued to search through the Bahamian Cays down to Cuba, a place name which suggested Cipangu (Japan), and then eastward to the island he named Espanola.

　　10.Out of all the glorious tales written about the U. S. revolution for independence from Britain, the fact is hardly known that a black man was the first to die for American independence.

　　答案

　　1.经理坐在办公室里处理早上到的邮件。

　　2.他是一个脱离了低级趣味的人。

　　3.古代的指南针具有很高的灵镦度。

　　4.看来我们免不了要碰上一场暴风雨了。

　　5.十一点时，他已钻进被窝了。

　　6. 1498年哥伦布第三次出航，哥伦布发现了特立尼达，探访了南美的北部海岸。

　　7.刚刚完成《泰坦尼克号》中的角色，他又一人饰演两个角色，主演电影《铁面人》。

　　8.后来，孩子们回到家过圣诞周，家里灯火辉煌，充满着圣诞情调。

　　9.他继续行航行，穿过巴哈马群岛，直下古巴——这个名字暗指“西潘戈(日本)”——

　　然后东行至他命名为伊斯帕尼奥拉岛的地方。

　　10.读遍了关于美国为摆脱英国统治争取独立而进行革命的堂皇纪事，很少有人知道第一个为美国独立而牺牲的原来是个黑人。