名词性从句
1. Circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we feel that we have
been“wronged”then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation. (2011 年考研翻译真题)
2. If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is
its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young. (2009 年考研翻译真题)
3. The law of conservation and transformation of energy states that energy is indestructible and
the total amount of energy in the universe is constant.
4. Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots
we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature. (2011 年考研翻译真题)
5. This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in, a fact
underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks, no less than 50% took a loss in 1989. (2005 年考研翻译真题)
6. The idea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is absurd, for exactly the same reason, so is
the idea that tigers have rights. (1997 年考研翻译真题)
7. This trend began during the Second World War, when several governments came to the
conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail. (1996 年考研翻译真题)
8. Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve
the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on “worthless”species. (2010 年考研翻译真题)
9. Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his
mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years. (2008 年考研翻译真题)
10. What is needed is a technology of behavior, but we have been slow to develop the science
from which such a technology might be drawn. (2002 年考研翻译真题)
11. Whether the results will be valuable, meaningless, or even misleading depends partly upon the
tool itself but largely upon the user. (1995 年考研翻译真题)
12. How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount ,
reliability , and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. (1995 年考研翻译真题)
13. It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all. (1998 年考研翻译真题)
14. Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements. (1997 年考研翻译真题)
15. Actually, it isn’t, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have. (1997 年考研翻译真题)
16. Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true. (1998 年考研翻译真题)
17. Inflation says that very early on, the universe expanded in size by more than a trillion trillion trillion trillionfold in much less than a second, propelled by a sort of antigravity. (1998 年考研翻译真题)
18. 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 philosophy during the same period. (1993 年考研翻译真题)
19. If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory. (1998 年考研翻译真题)
20. But the idea that the journalist must understand the law more profoundly than an ordinary citizen rests on an understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the news media. (2007 年考研翻译真题)
21. 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. (1993 年考研翻译真题)
22. But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. (1998 年考研翻译真题)
23. Whether the Government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa (反之) often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force. (1994 年考研翻译真题)
形容词从句
1. Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature. (2011 年考研翻译真题)
2. It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning. (2010 年考研翻译真题) 3. We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education—that of direct tuition or schooling. (2009 年考研翻译真题)
4. He adds humbly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.”(2008 年考研翻译真题)
5. On the other, it links these concepts to everyday realities in a manner which is parallel to the links journalists forge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news. (2007 年考研翻译真题)
6. In Europe, as elsewhere, multi - media groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another. (2005 年考研翻译真题)
7. Tylor defined culture as “. . . that complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.“ (2003 年考研翻译真题)
8. This also involves the agreements between European countries for the creation of a European bank for Television Production which, on the model of the European Investments Bank, will handle the finances necessary for production costs. (2005 年考研翻译真题)
9. There were men in that crowd who had stood there every day for a month.
10. There is a man downstairs who wants to see you.
11. There are many people who are interested in the new invention.
12. Fortunately, there are some chemical fuels that are clean and smoke- less.
13. A driver who is driving the bus mustn’t talk with others
14. He showed no further wish for conversation with Mrs. Smith, who was now more than usually insolent.
15. He becomes desperate for work, any work, which will help them to keep in touch with the
society.
16. He insisted on buying another car, which he had no use for.
17. In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the non -commercial tree species are recognized as members of native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason. (2010 年考研翻译真题)
18. Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability. (2009 年考研翻译真题)
19. It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning. (2010 年考研翻译真题)
20. He adds humbly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.”(2008 年考研翻译真题)
21. I shall define him as an intellectual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in a Socratic(苏格拉底) way about moral problems. (2006 年考研翻译真题)
22. His function is analogous to that of a judge, who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a manner as possible the course of reasoning which led him to this decision. (2006 年考研翻译真题)
23. But his primary task is not to think about the moral code, which governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business. (2006 年考研翻译真题)
24. They may teach very well, and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment. (2006 年考研翻译真题)
25. Creating a “European identity”that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old Continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice—that of producing programs in Europe for Europe. (2005 年考研翻译真题)
26. The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of
thought, which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be. (2004 年考研翻译真题)
倒装句
1. Generally， there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent
states， large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a common set of laws. (选自2007年Use of English)
2. There stands a monument to Lin Zexu at the center of the square， which attracts a great many
of visitors all the year round.
3. Here is an example， which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well
because the audience all shared the same view of doctors.（选自2002年Text 1）
4. Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity
known to geologists as hot spots. (1998text5)
5. Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed and perhaps
never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe. (2005年第46题)
6. Not only is there a wide range of prices for goods in America， there is also a wide range in
the quality of goods offered for sale.
7. Under no circumstance should we do anything that will benefit ourselves but harm the
interests of both the people and the state.
8. Americans no longer expect public figures to command the English language with skill and
gift. Nor do they aspire to such command themselves.
9. Only recently did linguists begin the serious study of languages that were very different from
their own. (选自2004年Part B)
10. Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted， and only more gradually still was
this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.（2009年第47题）
11. Were the Times Co. to purchase another major media company， there is no doubt that it
could dramatically transform a family-run enterprise that still gets 90% of its revenues from newspapers. （1999年第13题）
12. Had it not been for the timely investment from the general public， our company would not be
so thriving as it is． （1998年第10题）
13. Far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than did their
counterparts（相对应的人或物） in the 10 other countries surveyed.（真题例句）
14. Odd though it sounds， cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some