2010年12月英語四六級考試翻譯高分訓練題(14)

　　1. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.

　　2. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.

　　3. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.

　　4. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

　　5. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant with drawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

　　6. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. "You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?"

　　7. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column', "lies not in how well it can control expression_r_r but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression_r_r the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."

　　8. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month's stockholders' meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society's ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

　　9. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" of "a touch on the brakes" ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.

　　10. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America's, have little productive slack.

　　1.一些機構終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機構，包括教堂，倡導生命之權的團體和澳大利亞醫(yī)學協(xié)會，尖銳地抨擊這個法案，指責法案的通過過于匆忙。但是大勢已定，不可逆轉。

　　2.在澳大利亞--人口老齡化，延長壽命的技術和變化看的社會態(tài)度，這些因素都在發(fā)揮作用一一其他的州也會考慮制定相似的關于安樂死的法律。

　　3.當然，例外是存在的。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯?shù)膫髡�，和沒有禮貌的出租車司機也并不少見。然而人們常常得出這樣的觀察意見，這使得它值得被討論一下。

　　4.我們生活在一種藥品(毒品)的醫(yī)學用途和社會用途都很廣泛的社會里：一片用來止頭痛的阿斯匹林，一些用來社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神所喝的咖啡，一支用來定神的香煙。

　　5.對藥品的依賴性首先表現(xiàn)為不斷增長的耐藥量，要產生想得到的效果所需要的藥品劑量越來越大，然后表現(xiàn)為當停止用藥后，令人不快的停藥癥狀的出現(xiàn)。

　　6.上星期參議員羅博特多爾質問時代華納公司的高級管理人員們："難道這就是你們希望能夠成就的事業(yè)?你們已經出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅我們的孩子們嗎?"

　　7. "對任何一個民主社會的考驗，"他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中寫到，"不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達，而在于這個社會是否能給予思考和表達的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結果是多么的富有爭議或令人不快…"

　　8.在-上個月的股東大會上關于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說："音樂不是社會問題的原因"，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個教師，并用說唱音樂與學生們進行溝通。

　　9.有很多用于描述貨幣政策的詞匯，例如"輕踩剎車"以"操縱經濟軟著陸"，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學。沒有什么比這更遠離實際情況的了。

　　10.經濟學家們對英國和美國的有利的通貨膨脹數(shù)據(jù)尤其感到驚訝，因為傳統(tǒng)的計量方法顯示兩國的經濟，特別是美國的經濟，幾乎沒有生產蕭條的時候。