2010年12月英語四六級考試長難句翻譯練習(7)

　　1. Of course, it would be as dangerous to overreact to history by concluding that the majority must now be wrong about expansion as it would be to re-enact the response that greeted the suggestion that the continents had drifted.

　　2. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: who were the consumers? What were their motives? And what were the effect of the new demand for luxuries?

　　3. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what.

　　4. With respect to their reasons for immigrating, Grassy does not deny their frequently noted fact that some of the immigrants of the 1630’s, most notably the organizers and clergy, advanced religious explanations for departure, but he finds that such explanations usually assumed primacy only in retrospect.

　　5. If we take the age-and sex-specific unemployment rates that existed in 1956 (when the overall unemployment rate was 4.1 percent) and weight them by the age- and sex-specific shares of the labor force that prevail currently, the overall unemployment rate becomes 5 percent.

　　6. He was puzzled that I did not want what was obviously a “ step up” toward what all Americans are taught to want when they grow up: money and power.

　　7. Unless productivity growth is unexpectedly large, however, the expansion of real output must eventually begin to slow down to the economy’s larger run growth potential if generalized demand pressures on prices are to be avoided.

　　8. However, when investment flows primarily in one direction, as it generally does from industrial to developing countries, the seemingly reciprocal source-based restrictions produce revenue sacrifices primarily by the state receiving most of the foreign investment and producing most of the income—namely ,the developing country partner.

　　9. The pursuit of private interests with as little interference as possible from government was seen as the road to human happiness and progress rather than the public obligation and involvement in the collective community that emphasized by the Greeks.

　　10. The defense lawyer relied on long-standing principles governing the conduct of prosecuting attorneys: as quasi-judicial officers of the court they are under a duty not to prejudice a party’s case through overzealous prosecution or to detract from the impartiality of courtroom atmosphere.

　　1、當然，對歷史反應過度以致結論說關于擴張的問題大多數(shù)人都錯了與重新形成對大陸漂浮建議理論的反應一樣，是危險的。將來對于這些關鍵問題的研究毫無疑問是必要的，然而不應該否定最近研究結論的說服力，在18世紀的英格蘭對于一些微不足道和有使用價值的商品和服務的需求，預示了我們今天的世界。

　　2、然而這種消費革命的情況還有疑問，三個關鍵的問題是：消費者是什么人?他們的動機是什么?對于奢侈品的新型需求的效果是什么?

　　3、盡管從生產廠商和服務行業(yè)認為他們的顧客需要并實際生產的產品或者提供的服務來推斷他是可能的。但只有對實際的消費者填寫的個人資料的研究才能清楚地描述顧客的需求。

　　4、對于他們移民原因的細節(jié)，Grassy并不否認他們經常提出的事實-17世紀30年代的一些移民主要由組織家和牧師組成，提出了要離開的宗教解釋，但他發(fā)現(xiàn)只是以回顧的方式推定的基本情況。

　　5、如果我們將1956年(當時的平均失業(yè)率為4、1%)的年齡和性別失業(yè)率分來用今天一般的勞動力中年齡性別比來計算的話，平均失業(yè)率就是5%了。

　　6、他很迷惑我并不想要明顯的是所有美國人被教導長大后要追求的東西：金錢和權力。

　　7、除非生產力的增長出人意料的大，不然實際產出的擴大最終要開始減緩以適應經濟的可持續(xù)發(fā)展，這樣才能避免價格的綜合需求壓力。

　　8、然而，當投資基本上流向一個方面時，就像一般從工業(yè)化到一般發(fā)展中國家一樣，看起來是基于雙方資源的規(guī)定產生的收入損失主要由接收大量外國投資和創(chuàng)造大部分收益的國家來承擔-即發(fā)展中國家一方。

　　9、盡可能沒有政府干預地追求個人利益被看作為通往人類幸福的道路和進步，而不是像希臘人強調的集體社會中的公共義務與參與。

　　10、辯護律師依靠長期作用的準則來約束原告律師的行來：作為法庭的準司法人員，他們有責任不能過分起訴來偏見性對待一方的案子或者破壞法庭的公正氣氛。