在下一个十年里应制 2 不管是英语的简单句还是复杂句, 如果其表述与中文的时空和逻辑关系不一致, 则要部分或全部地调整原文的顺序,并常常要拆句, 如: I suspect more tnan a few men have encountered the same dilemma, although under different circumstances. Trying to make uo an address on the spot, the mind suddenly blanks.我估计, 尽管场合各有不同。 我们中间肯定不止有一两个人曾经遇到过这样的窘境: 想要临时编造一个假地址, 可是脑子却突然不管用了。 The tendency of a body to continue in motion is clear to one who observes that an automobile or a train moves for some distance even when brakes are used to check this motion.汽车和火车在已经刹车的情况下还会移动一定的距离。 看到这种情况的人就会明白, 运动着的物体具有继续运动的倾向。 3 当英语中主句和从句及修饰语联系并不十分紧密的时候, 汉译时则需要拆句, 把英语句子译成几个分句,如: He had an extraordunary degree the capacity to transcend individual groups by stirring up patriotic sentiments among people to whom patriotiam meant different things.他具有一种非凡的能力: 不管人们对爱国主义的理解有什么差别, 他都能唤起他们的爱国主义激情, 从而使他凌驾于各个集团之上。 He had an extraordunary degree the capacity to transcend individual groups by stirring up patriotic sentiments among people to whompatriotiam meant different things.他具有一种非凡的能力: 不管人们对爱国主义的理解有什么差别, 他都能唤起他们的爱国主义激情, 从而使他凌驾于各个集团之上。 4 有时还需要把英语原句中两个或更多的句子连接起来, 在汉语译文中形成一个长度适中的句子。 合并的目的是使句子的内容完整, 表达更有力。 We have rains here,too. Thunderstorms in spring and summer often come with intensity great enough to cause flash-flooding. Every child raised in there know about the dangers. At least what I used to think. I’m not so sure anymore.我们这儿也下雨, 春夏两季往往是雷雨交加,猛烈异常, 顷刻间暴雨成灾。 在这儿长大的孩子都知道洪水的厉害, 至少我过去是这么想的, 想在就不敢说了。 The country’s hidden wealth, as coal and iron, two important factors of modern civilization, to say nothing of other resources, is believed to be almost inexhaustible.就近代文明的两大要素——煤和铁而言,据信该国蕴藏的财富几乎是取之不尽的,更不必说其他资源了。