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Subject: Challenging sentences for translation practice
Excerpt: The exercise collection presented sentences that resist straightforward word-for-word translation.
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The exercise collection presented sentences that resist straightforward word-for-word translation. Review context, grammatical relationships and idiomatic meaning before deciding on a natural target-language sentence.
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青岛必赢翻译公司（www.sinosenior.com）2015年10月28日整理了难倒英语专业的42个翻译句子！看看你会吗？
1.Do you have a family?
正确译文：你有孩子吗?
2.It’s a good father that knows his son.
正确译文：就算是最好的父亲，也未必了解自己的儿子。
3.I have no opinion of that sort of man.
正确译文：我对这类人很反感。
4.She put 5 dollars into my hand，“you have been a great man today.”
正确译文：她把5美圆塞到我手上说：“你今天表现得很好。”
5.I was the youngest son， and the youngest but two.
正确译文：我是最小的儿子，但是我还有两个妹妹。
6.The picture flattered her.
正确译文：她比较上照。
7.The country not agreeing with her， she returned to England.
正确译文：她在那个国家水土不服，所以回到了英国。
8. He is a walking skeleton.
正确译文：他很瘦。
9.The machine is in repair.
正确译文：机器已经修好了。
10.He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge， and declared his own son guilty.
正确译文：他让法官的职责战胜了父子的亲情，最终宣布儿子有罪。
11.You don’t know what you are talking about.
正确译文：你在胡说八道。
12.You don’t begin to understand what they mean.
正确译文：你根本不知道他们在干嘛。 don’t begin ：决不
13.They didn’t praise him slightly.
正确译文：他们大大地表扬了他。
14.That’s all I want to hear.
正确译文：我已经听够了。
15.I wish I could bring you to see my point.
正确译文：你要我怎么说你才能明白呢。
16.You really flatter me.
正确译文：你让我受宠若惊。
17.He made a great difference.
正确译文：有他没他结果完全不一样。
18.You cannot give him too much money.
正确译文：你给他再多的钱也不算多。
19.The long exhausting trip proved too much.
正确译文：这次旅行矿日持久，必赢都累倒了。
20.The monk is only not a dead man.
正确译文：这个和尚虽然活着，但跟死了差不多。
21.A surgeon made a cut in the patient’s stomach.
正确译文：外科医生在病人胃部打了个洞。
22.You look darker after the holiday.
正确译文：你看上去更健康了。
23.As luck would have it， he was caught by the teacher again.
正确译文：不幸的是，他又一次被老师逮个正着。
24.She held the little boy by the right hand.
正确译文：她抓着小男孩的右手。(这里“by”与“with”动作主语完全相反。)
25.Are you there?
正确译文：等于句型：Do you follow me?
26.If you think he is a good man， think again.
正确译文：如果你认为他是好人，那你就大错特错了。
27.She has blue eyes.
正确译文：她长着双蓝眼睛。
28.That took his breath away.
正确译文：他大惊失色。
29.Two is company but three is none.
正确译文：两人成伴，三人不欢。
30.The elevator girl reads between passengers.
正确译文：开电梯的姑娘在没有乘客时看书。
【“between”=“without”相同用法：She modeled between roles.译成：她不演戏时去客串下模特。】
31.Students are still arriving.
正确译文：学生还没有到齐。
32.I must not stay here and do nothing.
我不能什么都不做待在这儿。
33.They went away as wise as they came.
正确译文：他们一无所获。
34.I won’t do it to save my life.
正确译文：我死也不会做。
35.Nonsense， I don’t think his painting is any better than yours.
正确译文：胡说，我认为他的画比你好不到哪去。
36.Traditionally， Italian presidents have been seen and not heard.
正确译文：这个总统有名无权。
37.Better late than the late.
正确译文：迟到总比丧命好。
38.You don’t want to do that.
正确译文：你不应该去做。
39.My grandfather is nearly ninety and in his second childhood.
正确译文：我祖父快90岁了，什么事都需要别人来做。
40.Work once and work twice.
正确译文：一次得手，再次不愁。
41.Rubber easily gives way to pressure.
正确译文：橡胶很容易变形。
42.If my mother had known of it she’d have died a second time.
正确译文：要是我妈妈知道了，她会从棺材里爬起来。
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