雅思阅读100个典型长句难句参考译文(4)

　　76. Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly. Summer homes， European travel， BMWs--the locations， place names and name brands may change， but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decadeortwo years ago.

　　[参考译文] 当然，人们现在对成功及其各种标志的兴趣似乎并不亚于先前。消夏 别墅、欧陆旅行、宝马车--地点、地名以及品牌或许会有变化，但这类事物在被人渴求的程度也似乎不会亚于一二十年前。

　　77. Instead， we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles， which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home; the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in three-star restaurants; the journalist advocating participatory democracy in all phases of life， whose own children are enrolled in private schools.

　　[参考译文] 相反，我们被款待看到这样一些虚伪的壮观景象，他们似乎比以前的任何时候都更供应充足：美国式物质主义的批判者却拥有位于南安普顿的避暑山庄：激进书籍的出版商却在三星级餐厅享用一日三餐;倡导在人生各个阶段的参与民主制的，他的子女却就读于私立学校。

　　78. No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professional and amateurs in science: exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless， the word amateur does carry a connotation that person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and， in particular， may not share its values.

　　[参考译文] 科学领域的专业人员和业余爱好者之间划不出泾渭分明的界线：因为任何规则都有例外。然而，业余一词的确意味着相关人员不能充分融入职业科学界，尤其未能分享科学圈子的价值。

　　79. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematicalorlaboratory training， and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United kingdom.

　　[参考译文] 很自然，这种趋势会在尤以数学或实验室训练为基础的自然学科领域表现最为明显，并且可以英国的地质学发展作例证来说明。

　　80. A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a half reveals not simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research， but also a changing definition of what constitutes an acceptable research paper.

　　[参考译文] 将过去一个半世纪英国地质学领域的出版物做一下比较，就会发现不仅对科研的主导地位的强调不断攀升，而且一篇可接受的科研论文所包含的内容的定义也有所变化。

　　81. The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for a mateurs， a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing， first by national journals in the 19th century and then by several local geological journals in the 20th century.

　　[参考译文] 这样一来总的结果便是业余爱好者想在专业地质学期刊…卜发表文章就更难了，而被广泛使用的论文评审推荐制度又进一步强化了这一结果，该种制度先是出现在19世纪的国家级刊物上，后又在20世纪被几家地方级地质学刊物所使用。

　　82. A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within oneortwo specific societies， whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societiesorto come together nationally in a different way.

　　[参考译文] 一个颇为相似的分化过程已经导致专业的地质学家走到一起组成一到两个全国性的专科学术社团，而业余地质爱好者们倾向于要么仍留在地方社团，要么也以另一种方式组成全国性机构。

　　83. Sad to say， this project has turned out to be mostly low--level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes， combined with lots of head--scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.

　　[参考译文] 遗憾地讲，这次新闻机构可信度调查计划结果只获得了一些十分低层次的发现，比如新闻报道中的事实错误，拼写或语法错误交织在一起的还有许多令人挠头的困惑，譬如读者到底想读些什么。

　　84. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive MM wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs， lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers demands.

　　[参考译文] 我认为巨大的并购浪潮背后的最重要的推动力同时也就是促成全球化进程的那方基石：即降低交通运输成本，逐渐减少贸易投资壁垒，以及大幅度拓展市场，这些都要求更大规模的经营管理以满足消费者需求。

　　85. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress promoted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although， in the manner of a disgraced government minister， I covered my exit by claiming I wanted to spend more time with my family.

　　[参考译文] 一次侧面的不光明磊落的攻击伤害了我的自尊，阻碍了我事业的发展，使我不得不抛弃了那份引人注目的工作，尽管表面上我还要以一个蒙受屈辱的政府部长的姿态，通过声称我只不过是想多和家人呆在一起 来掩盖我的退出。

　　86. I have discovered， as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress， that abandoning the trine of juggling your life， and making the alternative move into downshifting brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.

　　[参考译文] 或许正像凯尔西在不堪积劳重负而公开地辞去她在《她》杂志社的 一职之后一样，我已经发现，放弃那种为生活忙碌的人生信条并而追求比较悠闲的生活带给你的回报远远大于经济成功和社会地位。

　　87. While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline-after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late 80s-and is still linked to the politics of thrift， in Britain， at least among the middle-class down shifters of my acquaintance， we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.

　　[参考译文] 在美国，这一返朴趋势是以经济衰落的反应为开始的--那是在80年 代末期裁员而引起大量的失业之后一一现在依然与提倡节俭的政纲相： 关;而在英国，最起码在我所熟识的中产阶级返朴归隐者中，追求简约; 生活的原因就多种多样了。

　　88. For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 80s， down-shifting in the mid 90s is not so much a search for the mythical good lift-growing your own organic vegetables， and risking turning into one-as a personal recognition of your limitations.

　　[参考译文] 对于我这一代曾在整个80年代为生活奔波的女人来说，90年代中期出 现的归隐恬退与其说是我们寻求一种神话般的美好生活--用有机肥种植蔬菜，并且自己放弃一切的风险--不如说是我们清醒地认识到自身;能力是有限的这一事实。

　　89. If you are part of the group which you are addressing， you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it 11 be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen foodorthe chairman s notorious bad taste in ties.

　　[参考译文] 如果你是你讲话对象中的一员，那么你就身处一种位置宋了解对你们来说都很普遍的经历和问题，而且你对餐厅中难以下咽的食物或老总臭名昭彰的领带品位进行随意评判也是合适的。

　　90. There are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy--far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their handsaone

　　[参考译文] 现在已有一些机器人系统能够进行精确到毫米以下的脑部和骨骼手术――这要比极具技巧的医生单单用手精确得多。

　　91. But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility， they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for them- selves-goals that pose a real challenge.

　　[参考译文] 但是如果机器人要达到节省人工的下一个阶段，它们将必须在更少的人力监督之下工作，而且还要能够自己作出至少几个决定--这些目标才会引发真正的挑战。

　　92. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant， instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest roadorthe single suspicious face in a big crowd.

　　[参考译文] 但是人类的头脑可以只迅速地瞟一眼一个快速改变的场面，然后立刻放弃98%的不相关部分，而马上聚焦于一条崎岖森林道路边的一只猴子，或者在茫茫人海中的一张可疑的脸。

　　93. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that， if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year， compared with $13 in 1998， this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25---0.5% of GDP.

　　[参考译文] OECD在其最近的《经济掺望》中估计，如果石油价格与1998年的每 桶13美元相比在一年中平均为每22美元，这也只会给富裕的经济体的 石油进口账单上增加GDP的0.25%到0.5%。

　　94. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that， unlike the rises in the 1970s， it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.

　　[参考译文] 另外一个不应因油价上涨而失眠的原因是，这次不像70年代的那些次上涨，它并不是在普遍的商品价格暴涨和全球需求过旺的背景之下发生的。

　　95. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide， the Court in effect supported the medical principle of double effect， a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects--a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen--is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.

　　[参考译文] 尽管它裁决并没有宪法权利来支持医生帮助下的自杀行为，最高法院实际上支持了被称为双重效果的医疗原则;这个已有几个世纪历史的道德原则认为一个可能有两个效果的行为--一个想要达到的好的效果和一个已经预见到的有害的效果是被允许的，如果行为的实施者想要的 只是好的效果的话。

　　96. Nancy Dubler， director of Montefiore Medical Center， contends that the principle will shield tors who until now have very， very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.

　　[参考译文] Nancy Dubler，Montehore医疗中心的主任，认为这一原则将会保护这样一些医生，他们到目前为止还强烈坚持他们不能够给病人足量的镇痛剂来控制他们的疼痛，如果这么做会加速他们的死亡的话。

　　97. On another level， many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted--suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.

　　[参考译文] 在另一个层面上，很多医疗界的人承认，关于医生帮助下的自杀的讨论部分是因为病人的绝望情绪，对他们来说，现代医学已经延长了死亡的身体痛苦。

　　98. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying as the twin problems of end--of--life care.

　　[参考译文] 它把对疼痛的治疗不足和盲目积极使用有可能延长死亡时间甚至让死亡过程蒙羞的无效并且强迫性的医疗手段视为生命临终医护的两个问题。

　　99. In other words， there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing new.

　　[参考译文] 换句话说，在媒介机构的新闻采编室文化中存在着--套约定俗成的写作模式，为新闻报道了主干框架以及可直接套用的叙述结构。若没有这些，新闻内容就会一团混乱，让人摸不着头脑。

　　100. If it did， it would open up its diversity program， now focused narrowly on race and gender， and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook， values， education， and class.

　　[参考译文] 如果新闻界真的注意到了问题的关键，它就应该进一步开放其多样化项目，这个项目现在还只单纯考虑招收不同种族和性别的员工，而进一步寻找那些世界观、价值观、教育水平和社会阶层大相径庭的各种。

　　雅思阅读的题型一直是考生比较关注的问题，分析认为主要有以下两个原因：

　　1. 有相对简单和相对费时的题型;

　　2.每个考生都有自己擅长的和较害怕的题型。具体来说：对于词汇不足的考生可能最害怕段落标题匹配题及摘要归纳填空题;对于词汇量较大的考生来说，是非无判断题，段落标题匹配题和摘要归纳填空题可能是比较简单的。选择题和其它匹配题是相对来说比较费时的，所以大部分考生都很害怕这类题型。

　　那么，面对上面所提到的这些情况，考生应该在题型方面怎样备考呢?

　　首先，专家认为考生必须从心理上准备迎接所有的题型，在备考中要尽可能喜欢所有题型。有的考生会一次次地祈祷：“希望这次考试不要有选择题或段落细节信息定位题!”这样做，其实是无形中给自己制造了负面的影响。考试题型不是我们所能预料和控制的，一旦有了上述心理，很有可能一看到题型就慌了，一开始就没有一个好的状态。还有一部份考生喜欢跟着考题回忆和机经走，看到上次考了什么题就在备考中只关注那些题型。考题回忆和机经可以看看，但只能做参考，考生千万不要被它们所左右。否则就是自己给自己制造障碍。

　　其次，考生必须对各类题型的题型特点和答题注意事项了如指掌。雅思阅读考试时间之短，文章之学术性，题量之大，题型之多等特点决定了考生势必会感觉时间不够。考生要在有限的时间内答完所有的题并尽可能地保证较高的正确率确实不是一件容易的事情。考生除了要有一定的词汇量和阅读速度之外，常见的雅思阅读技巧和解题策略是必须的。而解题策略很多时候是建立在考生熟悉题型特点的基础之上的。比如说，考生拿到一篇文章绝不是从第1题接到13题，而是应该分析各组题型的特点和难易，由易到难。同样，考生也可以根据3篇各自的题型来初步判断哪一篇的题型可能对自己比较有利，那篇可能较难，以便能灵活地采取合适的策略。

　　最后，专家建议考生在考前进行练习时，不要光做套题，而应该偶尔穿插一些专题的练习，重点练习自己没什么把握的题型。注意练习时时间的掌控是很重要的，不要给自己30分钟完成6道是非无，那样不能达到训练的目的，不能保证良好的效果。