shopping / save feet)
3. 根据最近的调查，汽车拥有量已经在过去的五年时间里翻了一倍，致使交通事故不断攀升。 (recent survey / doubled / climbing )
英译汉
[ Functional patterns ]
1. I almost return back to sleep before my eye catches my packed suitcase and I groan, remembering that I’m going to the airport.
2. We travel because we want to, because the annoyances of the airport are offset by the thrill of being someplace new.
3. According to research, the experience of an exotic culture endows us with a valuable open-mindedness, making it easier to realize that even a trivial thing can have multiple meanings.
[ Language appreciation ]
1. If we want to realize the creative benefits of travel, then we have to rethinks its overall purpose.
2. A bit of distance, however, helps loosen the cognitive chains that imprison us, making it easier to mingle the new with the old; the mundane is grasped from a lightly more abstract perspective.
3. Of course, this mental flexibility doesn’t come from mere distance, a simple change in latitude and longitude. Instead, this renaissance of creativity appears to be a side effect of difference.
4. We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret cornerstones of creativity.
5. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
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汉译英
[ Practical phrases]
1. 国际社会也在提供援助，略举几例，如美国、法国和中国。 (to name only / but a few)
2. 维多利亚女王这个角色，就是为你而设，是一个你能倾情投入的角色。 (sink one’s teeth into sth)
3. 辛辛苦苦用电脑键盘输入后，你还得按老办法手工写上注释符号。 (slave away/notation signs/old-fashioned)
4. 一块巨大的电子显示屏对即将在此举行的泛美运动会进行倒计时。 (count down / Pan-American Games)
5. 如果他们花上一点时间去弄懂手头的题目，则极有可能不需要计算器就能找到一个简单的答案。 (at hand/ most likely )
6. 当第一个财年结束时，欧洲迪斯尼乐园不得不去应对很多的困难。(contend with/ financial year )
[ Functional patterns ]
1. 在老年人看来是怪异的打扮对年轻人来说却是时尚。 (elderly people/weird dressing)
2. 公众为我们的事业捐款，为灾难受害者捐款，无论是地震之类的自然灾难，还是石油泄漏之类人为之灾。(donate money / oil spills)
3. 但是当懒人在虚度光阴的时候，奋斗者则目标坚定、信心十足，在努力工作中品尝到成功的喜悦。(quitter/struggler/dawdle away one’s time)
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英译汉
[ Functional patterns ]
1. What is necessary labor from the point of view of society is voluntary play from the individual’s personal point of view.
2. They hurl their passion into their work, be it physical like the work of a smith, or more mental like that of a scientist or an artist.
3. But while laborers are counting down the hours, workers are energized and focused, taking optimum pleasure in the task at hand.
[ Language appreciation ]
1. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, the social indications around work, the value of work and the salary, have degraded many laborers into modern slaves – “wage slaves”.
2. Workers who enjoy their jobs will be happier, less stressed, and generally more satisfied with their lives. They will also work with more diligence and precision because they have fostered a sense of personal pride in their jobs.
3. On the other hand, laborers, whose sole incentive is earning their livelihood, feel that the time they spend on the daily grind is wasted and doesn’t contribute to their happiness.
4. By choosing a job that is both useful to society and personally fulfilling, workers maintain a simultaneous sense of purpose and enthusiasm that improves their whole lives.
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