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1、复杂长句翻译实例,The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind; it is simply the mode by which all phenomena are reasoned about and given precise and exact explanation. 科学研究的方法不过是人类思维活动的必要表达方式，也就是对一切现象进行思索并给以精确而严谨解释的表达方式。 There is no
2、more difference，but there is just the same kind of difference，between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person，as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales，and the operations of a chemist in perform
3、ing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights. 科学家的思维活动与普通人的思维活动之间的区别和面包商或卖肉者用普通磅秤称货的操作方法与化学家在进行艰难而复杂的分析时用天平和精密刻度的砝码的操作方法之间的区别是完全相同的，此外就没有别的区别了。,It is not that the scales in the one case，and the balance in the other，differ in the principles of their construct
4、ion or manner of working; but that the latter is much finer apparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement than the former. 这并不是说面包师或卖肉者所用的磅秤和化学家所用的天平在构造原理和工作方式上存在差别，而是说与前者相比，后者是一种更精密得多的装置，因而在计量上必然更准确得多。 You will understand this better，perhaps，if I give you some familiar examples. 要是我
5、给你举几个熟悉的例子，或许你会更清楚地理解这一点。 You have all heard it repeated that men of science work by means of induction（归纳法）and deduction，that by the help of these operations，they，in a sort of sense，manage to extract from Nature certain natural laws，and that out of these，by some special skill of their own，they buil
6、d up their theories. 你们多次听说过，科学家是用归纳法和演绎法工作的，他们用这些方法，在某种意义上说，力求从自然界找出某些自然规律，然后他们根据这些规律，用自己的某种非同一般的本领，建立起他们的理论。,And it is imagined by many that the operations of the common mind can be by no means compared with these processes，and that they have to be acquired by a sort of special training. 许多人以为，普通人
7、的思维活动根本无法与科学家的思维过程相比，认为这些思维过程必须经过某种专门训练才能掌握。 To hear all these large words，you would think that the mind of a man of science must be constituted differently from that of his fellow men; but if you will not be frightened by terms，you will discover that you are quite wrong，and that all these terrible
8、apparatus are being used by yourselves every day and every hour of your lives. 听了上面的夸张言词后，你会以为，科学家的思维结构与普通人的思维结构大不相同;但是假如你没有被这些言词所吓倒，你会发现，你是完全错了;你还会发现，所有这些令人望而生畏的机制|方法你自己每时每刻也在使用。 There is a well-known incident in one of Molieres plays，where the author makes the hero express unbounded delight on bei
9、ng told that he had been talking prose（散文）during the whole of his life. 在莫里哀的一个剧本中有这样一个著名的插曲:作者让主人公得知他在整个一生中一直在说散文后，表现出无限的喜悦。,In the same way，I trust that you will take comfort，and be delighted with yourselves，on the discovery that you have been acting on the principles of inductive and deductive ph
10、ilosophy during the same period. 同样，我认为，当你一旦发现你在一生中一直在按归纳法和演绎法的哲理办事时，你也会感到欣慰和陶醉。 Probably there is not one here who has not in the course of the day had occasion to set in motion a complex train of reasoning，of the very same kind，though differing in degree，as that which a scientific man goes through
11、 in tracing the causes of natural phenomena. 大概这里不会有人一整天都没有机会进行一连串复杂的思考活动，这些思考活动与科学家在探索自然现象原因时所经历的思考活动，尽管复杂程度不同，但在类型上是完全一样的。,I. 定冠词加可数名词表抽象含义,1. He has nothing of the gentleman about him. 1他毫无绅士风度。 2. Gradually the father came to his heart. 2. 慈父之心逐渐涌进他的心中。 3. He forgot the judge in the father. 3. 做
12、父亲的深情使他忘记了做法官的职责。 4. There is still much of the schoolboy in him. 4. 他身上还有许多小学生的气质。 5. He has nothing of the hero in his composition. 5. 他的性格中毫无英雄气质。 6. War can really bring out the brute in a man. 6. 战争确实能使人暴露出兽性。,7. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less
13、pleased with an old man that has something of the young. 7. 我即赞赏老成持重的青年，也同样赞赏保有青春朝气的老人。 8. I cannot imagine how I had the gall to hand out all that instant advice. 8. 很难想象当时我怎么就那样大胆地立刻提出那么多的意见。 9. The practiced ear may recognize a classic flavor. 9.有音乐修养的人能够听出古典音乐的韵味。 10. Have you the nerve to do it
14、? 10.你有勇气干吗？ 11. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip. 11.失足胜于失语。 12. I dont think Id have the face to ask for a holiday just at that time. 12. 我认为当时我不好意思请假。 13. He is now a man in the public eye. 13. 他现在是公众瞩目的人物。,14. How could you have the cheek to ask for more? 14. 你怎么有脸要得更多。 15. He died in t
15、he flower and promise of youth. 15. 正当年富力强大有前途时，他却死了。 16. The plot has been nipped in the bud. 16. 阴谋被扼杀于萌芽状态中。 17. Millions of poor people find it hard to keep the wolf form the door. 17. 千百万的穷人发现很难摆脱饥饿的折磨。 18. Well, the cat is out of the bag, everybody knows about their marriage. 18. 这下好了，泄密了，人人都知
16、道他们的婚礼了。 19. Going away, are you? So you are showing the white feather. 19. 你要躲开，是吗？那么你胆怯示弱了。,20. The pen is mightier than the sword. 20. 文胜于武。 21. He has given up the sword for the plough. 21. 他弃武从耕了（解甲归田）（离开军队务农去了）。 22. Humanity is the crown of creation. 22. 人类是天地万物的主宰。 23. He is ambitious of the crown. 23. 他觊觎王位。 24. He was called to the bar at thirty. 24. 他三十岁就取得律师资格。 25. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave. 25. 幼小所学，终身不忘。,II. 副词的种种译法,1. The ad was understandably
