Translation Exercises 3
1.There are two classes of people: the selfish and the selfless; these are respected, while those are looked down upon.
世上有两种人：自私者和忘我者；忘我的有受到尊敬，而自私的人则遭鄙视。
2．Chinese thinkers of the pre-Qin days (over 2,000 years ago) advanced the doctrine “loving people and treating neighbors kindly are most valuable to a country”.
2000多年以前的先秦思想家们提出了 “爱人民，最有善邻国之宝也”的学说。
3. Men and nations working apart created these problems: men and nations working together must solve them.
既然人类和民族制造了这些问题：那么人类和民族必须共同解决这些问题。
4. He was astounded but highly pleased that the man who presided over the destinies of the mighty British Empire should come pleading to him.
他又惊又喜，那位掌握着大英帝国命运的人居然来向他央求。
5. He put forward some new ideas to challenge the interest of all concerned.
他提出了一些新见解，引起了有关人士的兴趣。
6. less is more是谁提出的A shy, retiring man known to his Columbia University students as a dull lecturer, he had the brilliance of mind that made him the teacher of his time, respected by presidents and philosophers alike.
他是一个怕羞，性情孤独的人，在他的哥伦比亚大学的学生们看来，他是一个令人乏味的老师。然而他极其聪明，智慧过人，这使他成为当时最杰出的教师，深受各大学校长和学者们的尊敬。
7. This was the last place the colonialists would leave, for in it lay riches and natural resources.
这是殖民主义者最不愿意离开的地方，因为那里蕴藏着财富和自然资源。
8. There is a definite link between smoking and heart disease and lung cancer. But this doesn't make you too uncomfortable because you are in good company.
抽烟和心脏病以及肺癌的确有联系。但这并不能使人们感到太大的不舒服，因为和你一样抽烟的人很多。
9. I don't t each because teaching is easy for me.
我并不是因为教书容易才教书的。
10. One can scarcely pay too high a price for liberty.
为了自由，人们付出再高的代价也不过分。
11. They plan to publish a work on the effects on international law of the establishment of a new international economic order.
他们计划出版一本书，论述建立际经济新秩序对国际法的影响。
12. Revolution in the Marxist sense means a moral as well as a material change.
根据马克思主义的学说，革命不仅意味着物质的改变，而且也意味着精神的改变.
13. No one will deny that what we have been able to do in the past five years is especially striking in view of the crisis which we inherited from the previous government.
考虑到上届政府遗留下来的危机，我们在过去五年里所能够取得的成绩就尤其显著，这一点是没有人可否认的。
14. For new machines or techniques are not merely a product, but s source, of fresh creative idea.
因为新的机器、新的技术不仅是新的创造性的思想的结果，而且是新的创造性思想的源泉。
15. Just as all truck drivers and construction workers are no longer necessarily man, all secretaries and receptionists are no longer automatically women.
正如卡车司机和建筑工人不再都必须是男人一样，秘书和接待员也不再一定都是女人。
16. This book is at once interesting and instructive.
这本书既有趣又有益。
17. The greatness to a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
一个民族的伟大不取决于其人口的多少，正如一个人的伟大不决定于他的身高。
18. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man。
正像没有灵魂的身躯不成其为人一样，没有爱情的家庭也不成其为家庭。
19. Kissinger took them on for their ability, not their politics --- a fact that disturbed Haldeman, who always felt ill at ease in the presence of intellectuals, and, in addition, was suspicious of anyone who was not totally committed to Nixon.
基辛格把他们对自己的能力，而不是他们的政治---事实上，不安霍尔德曼，谁总是感到安心知识分子的存在，另外，生病，是任何人谁也并非完全致力于尼克松可疑
20．It is impossible to overestimate the value of the invention.
这项发明的价值是无法评估的。
21. 顾名思义，这是一束再放的花朵。它曾经绽开在大中学生的教材里，摇曳在中文教师的讲义上，灿烂在无数学子的诵读中。春光如水，十年过去，也许五年或十五年,甚而至于更多一些年头，昔日少年已是今天的白领阶层，抑或社会各个阶层各种角的扮演者，对于曾经在课堂上读过的文章，至今余香在口，每能忆起，那同学少年，那花样季节，那响彻幽雅校园的琅琅之声，无一不令人心醉。于是有一天，我们这一套书的编者便作如是想，假使将那十年前读过的名篇重编一书，新加评注，让旧的读者以新的心境再读一篇，连同已逝的韶华一并温习，不亦乐乎？——《朝花惜拾＊序》
As the name implies, this is a bouquet of flowers came alive again. It blooms in the high school students have textbooks, the swaying in the Chinese teachers handouts, bright students in the recitation of many Spring water, over the past ten years, maybe five years or fifteen years, and even regard some more years, the old boy is today's white-collar, or a variety of different sectors of society the role of the actor, For those who have read the article in class, has fragrance in the mouth, each able to remember, that young students, th
at seasonal pattern, that resounded through the quiet voice recited the campus, are all fascinating. So one day, our editor of the book will be a case of like, if to read it ten years ago, is renowned for re-compiling a book, a new commentary added so that the old readers to read a new frame of mind, together with Shaohua study together with the late, enjoying themselves? - "North Korea took pity Found * Preface"