Morning!I am Juliet. Nice to meet you on the air. Hope we could spend a wonderful morning together. An hour in the morning is worth two hours in the evening. 一天之计在于晨,若您有个美好的晨间生活,相信您一天的生活都是美好的。A hard beginning makes a good ending. 常言道:善始善终。
【习题答案及点评】
We have been learning Sentences of Unreal Condition which express a speaker's subjective wishes and conjectures. And what he says is opposite to the present fact. To begin with, I am about to be out with the answers to the translation exercises left last time.
please translate the following sentences in two ways. 这里说到用2种方式翻译,就是用正常语序翻译和使用倒装句翻译。
1 万一她对芭蕾舞感兴趣的话,请她打电话给我。(这句话可以用四种翻译法。)
If she should be interested in ballet, please give me a call.
If she should be interested in ballet, you can ( will ) give me a ring.
If she should be interested in ballet, you would ( could )give me a ring.
Should she be interested in ballet, please give me a call.
【点评】
2 虚拟条件句中的从句如果是含有should+动词原形的话,主句可以使用“陈述语气”或者是“祈使语气”,第一句主句是祈使句,第二句主句是陈述句。
2 要不是他们贷款,我们的生活就很困难。
If it weren't for their loan, our life might ( would) be very difficult.
Were it not for their loan, our life might ( would ) be very difficult.
【点评】
这句话可以判断为对现在情况的说明,也可以判断为对过去情况的说明,至于对过去情况如何翻译,we’ll talk about it in the future.
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