Business Translation Exercise 1

1. Even though the United States produces more automobiles than any other country, it

sill imports large numbers of autos from Germany, Japan and Sweden, primarily because there is a market for them in the United States.

2. Containerization is an efficient mode of shipment because it is as simple as

time-saving.

3. We have kept business relationship with GoodYear for years as it was as creditable

as ever.

4. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is not a man. 5. Nobody with any sense expects to find the whole truth in advertisement any more

than he expects a man applying for a job to describe his shortcomings and more serious faults.

6. Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity. 7. Capitals are to the business what food is to men.

8. The talented are to the company as capital is to the company.

9. One may as well make business transactions via the Internet at home as do business

with the other party in person.

10. It is in business as in any other field that people must abide by the law.

11. It is in studying as in eating; he who does it gets the benefits, and not he who sees it

done.

12. Sufficient funding is no less necessary than good management to the normal

operation of a firm.

13. The Chinese government decided to make a purchase of no less than 30 civilian

aircrafts from the Boeing company.

14. Drunken driving is no less than suicide and killing.

15. We hoped things would go better, but as it is they are getting worse.

16. If I had been rich at that time, I would have gone to Japan. As it is, I missed the

chance.

17. You have to take things as they are.

18. He finds fault with me as I am without having anything better to suggest.

19. The blunders he committed in business deals in the past have made him none the

wiser.

20. I suspect more than a few men have encountered the same dilemma, although under

different circumstances.

21. The second reason for the amorphous nature of political parties in the United States

is that each party is more interested in winning elections than in putting across a particular policy or law.

22. It seems that these two branches of science are mutually dependent and interacting,

and that the so-called division between the pure scientist and the applied scientist is more apparent than real.

23. The child was less hurt than frightened. 24. I was less angry than surprised.

25. The oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it.

26. The book is not written so much for the executives as for the public.

27. He got promoted not so much by his utter devotion to his work as by fawning upon his

supervisor.

28. These houses are more expensive than low-income people can afford.

29. The car ran out of gas on the way, and what was worse, there was not a single gas

station in the vicinity.

30. To fulfill the task requires of us great endeavors, what is more important, selfless

loyalty to our firm.

31. This year SONY has produced as many game machines again as Microsoft. 32. I have only $200, but I need much again to buy a digital camera.