考研英语词汇引申及翻译技巧之把握词义理解

　　将下列句子译成汉语，注意划线部分

　　1. Philip’s father was a surgeon in good practice and his hospital appointments suggested an established position.

　　2. At the other extreme, American policy had also failed either to develop a strong conservative political base or maintain the ability to prevent the Nationalists from pursuing a suicidal civil war.

　　3. They were unarmed and unprotected, knowing perfectly well the danger ahead. Still, they went, plugging gamely along.

　　4. The most economical age to capture an elephant for training is between fifteen and twenty years, for it is then almost ready to undertake heavy work and can begin to earn its keep straight away.

　　5. He did not oppose labor organization nor balk at the strike as a weapon of labor; rather, he took his heroes and heroines from the labor movement and wove his plots within their struggles.

　　6. Does job enlargement pay? The proponents say yes, and back up their conclusion with enthusiastic anecdotal reports.

　　7. Wherever the fault may lie the fact remains that it is the theatre at Oxford and not at Cambridge which is on the verge of extinction.

　　8. When one weighs the opposing forces, the elements of space and time, and the sea-land transfer problem, one sees that Churchill’s foot-dragging made sense.

　　9. And then we realized that until now our attitude had been: let the patient come to us. Now we knew that we must go to the patient.

　　10. First the electroencephalograph shows that while there I a change in the pattern of activity during sleep, there is no evidence that the total amount of activity is any less.

　　11. What the Chinese people are altogether unprepared for, however, is the death of Mao without the comforting presence of Chou En-Lai as chief mourner. If Mao has been China’s spiritual guide these many years, Chou has been its security blanket. The second may well turn out to be the more sorely missed.

　　12. The United Nations has forged a framework guaranteeing the flourishing of man and respect for his values.

　　13. The other side of the mind is now exposed——the dark side that comes uppermost in solitude, not the light side that shows in company.

　　14. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.

　　15. The draft resolution urges the United Nations to send its peacekeeping troops to the region in accordance with the resolution adopted at a special meeting last May.