新四级翻译练习题(7)

　　2.He was disabled from birth, but he never felt frustrated, __（ 也从未屈服于任何困难 ）.

　　3.The little boy next door has been beating his drum for a whole morning, which got on my nerves so much __（ 以至于我无法集中注意力学习 ）.

　　4.The scientist tried to convince us that a tiger would not attack us __（ 除非它走途无路 ）.

　　5.The nation ' s population continues to rise ______ （ 以每年 1200 万人的速度 ）

　　1.he was dismissed/fired/sacked

　　「超级单词」主要考察“解雇”的表达方法。Dismiss解职、开除；fire解雇<口>；sack解雇、洗劫。

　　2.and never yielded to any difficulties as well

　　「超级短语」yield to屈服，让步。

　　3.that i have no way to concentrate on my study

　　「超级短语」concentrate on＋sth./doing sth.全神贯注地做某事。

　　4.unless it"s cornered

　　「超级单词」unless除非，如果不；corner名词作“角落、绝路”，作为及物动词时表示“无路可走”。

　　5.at a speed of 12 million per year

　　「超级短语」at a speed of… （以……的速度）；其二是数字1200万人的表达，也就是12个百万――12 million 而million后面加上多余的复数s则是很多同学容易出现的错误。