2018年英语四级翻译考试汉译英练习题（9）

　　1.他想当足球明星的梦想随着时间的推移慢慢消退了。

　　His dream of becoming a football star faded out as time went by.

　　2.一架波音747飞机没有升到足够的高度以飞越那座高山，转瞬间一头撞向大山爆炸了。机上无人生还。

　　A Boeing 747 aircraft didn’t gain enough height to clear the mountain. In a twinkling, it crashed into the mountain and blew up. No one survived the accident.

　　3.学生们可以很容易地获得图书馆的资源，所以他们应该充分地利用好图书馆。

　　Students have easy access to the resources in the library, so they are supposed to make the best of it.

　　4.当时世界上最豪华的游轮泰坦尼克号在她前往美国的途中撞到了冰山，结果轮船沉没在大西洋中，成

　　百上千的人死于这场海难。

　　Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world at that time, hit an iceberg when she was under way to the US. Consequently, the ship sank into the Atlantic Ocean and thousands of people died in this shipwreck.

　　5. 每年夏天，游客们都涌向这一著名的海滩。来此享受日光浴的游客像沙丁鱼一样挤满了海滩。

　　Every summer, all the tourists pour into this famous beach. They lie packed like sardines on the beach to enjoy the sunbathing.

　　6.他们曾经到圣路易斯去过一次，对于那把的新奇食物稍微知道一个大概，可是现在他们的光荣时代已成过去了。他们从此自知没趣，再也不说话了，而且每逢这个毫不留情的机匠走过来的时候，他们就知道 赶快躲开。

　　They have been to St. Louis once and have a vague general knowledge of its wonders, but the day of their glory is over now. They lapse into a humble silence and learn to disappear when the ruthless engineer approaches.

　　7. 只有当网上的活动能够真正取代现实世界中的行为时，因特网才能帮助节约能源，减少污染。

　　The internet can help reduce energy consumption and pollution, only if doing things online genuinely replaces real-world activities.

　　8.穷人不用因特网并不是因为他们买不起，而是心为他们缺乏必要的技能来有效地利用它，所以提高老百姓的文化水平要比给他们提供上网机会更有意义。

　　The poor are not shunning the internet because they cannot afford it the problem is that they lack the skills to exploit it effectively, therefore, it would make more sense to improve universal literacy than universal Internet access.

　　9. 因为有了因特网，在不同国家从事类似工作的人们之间收入上的不平等减少了，但是贫穷国家中从事信息产业的人们与他们最贫穷的同胞之间在收入上的差距却拉大了。

　　Thanks to internet, income inequality between people doing similar jobs in different countries has been reduced. However, the inequality between information works in poor countries and their poorest compatriots has been increased.

　　10. 如果人类的本性始终固执地保持不变，不管科技预言家的预言是什么，人类的发明也绝对不能克服其自身的缺陷。

　　If human nature remains stubbornly unchanged, despite the claims of techno-prophets, humanity cannot simply invent away its failings.