Helsinki earned them condemnation of freedom-loving people everywhere. 2）
---With this medicine box at the ready, you’ll be able to deal with the slight illness by yourself.
---High voltage current is usually carried by overhead wire system so as to prevent living things being electrocuted. 3）
---We must stop his madness.
---In line with latest trends in fashion, a few dress designers have been sacrificing elegance to audacity. 4）
---One’s own past may become a gradually increasing weight.
---He waited for her arrival with a frenzied agitation.
二、
1. 判断是哪个方面的差异。
---Carelessness caused his failure in this year’s college entrance exam. A. 粗心导致了他在今年高考中的失败。
B. 粗心是他今年高考考得不理想的一个重要原因。 C. 他由于粗心，今年高考落榜了。
---Failure to answer half the question they asked made the police suspect him. A. 由于他未能回答他们所问问题的一半，使得警察对他产生了怀疑。 B. 他未能回答他们所问问题的一半，警察怀疑了。 C. 未能回答他们所问问题的一半，使警察起了疑心。
1.伦敦发展得很迅速。 2.约翰来得太早了。
3.我们仔细对比一下，就能看出差别。 4.再往前走几步，就到实验室了。 5.由于计划不周，把钱都浪费了。 6.由于缺少时间，他改变了计划。
---Don’t believe him. You should know he is a good kidder.
---You must be a very bad learner, or else you must be going to a very bad teacher.
---She is the best hater I’ve ever known. How she got to hate me so much!
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---The war was a paradigm of the evil and destructive side of human nature.
---He has someone behind him.
---The machine is in operation. ---The doctor felt sympathetic with his patients. (sympathize)
---He’ll be home in half an hour. 2.
1） 英语是一种静态的语言。
2） 英译汉中的相应策略。
三、
1. 判断是哪个方面的差异。 Business took me to town. A. 公务把我带到了城里。 B. 公务伴我进城。 C. 我因事进城去了。
---An idea suddenly struck me.
---His sense of humor rarely desert this noble man.
2、导致差异的思维上的根本原因
3、如何在英汉翻译中处理这个差异。 1）
---The thick carpet killed the sound of my footsteps.
---A strange peace came over her when she was alone.
练习：
A decade of the traffic police job in the city center has hurt his hearing. The curiosity shop detained him for almost three hours. A chill of horror suddenly swept over him. This little chap’s good natured honest face won his way for him. 2）
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---Political considerations also influenced many people to move to America.
---Rising prices prompted many labor unions to demand higher wages.
四、
1、判断是哪个方面的差异。
---We will not attack unless we are attacked.
---The boy, who was crying as if his heart would break, said, when I spoke to him, that he was very hungry, because he had had no food for two days. 2、
3、产生这种差别的思维原因
4、如何在英汉翻译中处理这种差异。 1）
---Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds ages ago.
---When the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the tall buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy land is before us. 2）
---Mr. Kennedy apparently was hit by the first of what witness believed was three shots.
五、
1、 判断是什么方面的差异。
---In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colors.
---There are many wonderful stories to tell about the places I visited and the people I met.
---A drastic change of U.S. policy in the horn of Africa would create problem in Washington’s relation with Ethiopia.
---The soaring price index gave the lie to the official claim that the inflation was curbed.
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---Still struggling with only a few words of Chinese, I continue to soak up their sounds on public transport. Its mobile stages provide a daily dose of contemporary ―Peking Opera‖ starring driver and conductor supported by a huge cast of extras – the always changing passengers.
2、 如何处理这种差异。
将英文句子按照意思拆分成短句。
六、
War was avoided by a master stroke of statesmanship. A．战争被高度的政治策略避免了。
B．由于运用了高超的政治策略，战争才得以避免。 C．战争的被避免是由于运用了高度的政治策略。
---Happy reunion was much felt among the family members at the Spring Festival. 1、
---The machine was being repaired. ---His speech was greeted with hisses.
---The Greece Olympic winners were richly rewarded and presented with every thing from cash on the barrelhead to tax exemptions and draft deferments. 2、
---By the end of the war 800 people had been saved by the organization, but at a cost of over 200 Begian and French lives.
---His life was cut short by cholera.
---He was seen to push a bike out of the house.
3、
---Much is left to be desired.
---Children should be taught to speak the truth.
4、
---Principles mean very little unless they are acted upon. 5、
---China-ink stains cannot be washed out.
---History is made by the people.
英汉语对比练习一：
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