New lesson i. The representation of the main contents of Chapter 7 ()

ii. A study of the translating techniques in detail: Part One

1Even Mr. Lincoln was mocked as country yokel, but saved the Union and still presides in marble on the edge of the Potomac ().1 2

1Next dreadful thing to battle lost a battle won.2Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on his continent a new nation, covered in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

3 Thus somehow shades that lay half of a parting was juggled away.4The glimmering shades that lay half asleep between the door of the house and the public highway were a hind of spiritual medium, seen through which the edifice had not quite the aspect of belonging to the material world.

1It is no use doing what you like; you have to like what you do.2No admittance for passengers.3It is easer to marry than unmarry.4One cant be too careful in matters like this.

5If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, an investment in knowledge always pays the beat interest.

Parataxis,1Mammoth() complexes of cities are developing in the area of the East Coast and the East North-Central states, on the Pacific and Gulf coasts, and near the shores of the Great Lakes.

2The prime minister suggested that the trading pattern should be diversified, that composition should be rational, and that export of labour forces, joint ventures, processing with supplied materials and tourism should be further developed. It should not be confined() to the mode of barter.

1Spring has no speech, nothing but rustling and whispering. Spring has so much more than speech in its unfolding flowers and leaves, and the coursing of its streamers, and in its sweet restless seeking!

2My old friend Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for years before he returned to England. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down to the country. He had no sooner returned than he bought a fine house and went to live there. Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still summer it rained continuously and it was often bitterly cold.

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2Subject to the Contractors responsibilities and liabilities under the contract, the Contractor shall bear the amount of the retained liability (excess) stated in Appendix 12 in cases where the Contractor is responsible for the loss, damage or injury.12()

3Do not fret because of evildoers.Do not envy the wicked;for the evil have no future;the lamp of the wicked will go out.(The Old Testament, Proverb 24)24

4 A wise man is one who hears the overall situation in mind, puts the general interests above all and grasp the major issues.5. The dark Blue Ridge Mountains in which I well, great-hipped, big-breasted, slumbers() on the western sky.

6What does gay mean, Mom? a seven-year-old boy asked his mother.Why do you ask, Ben?Because I heard it on TV. They said God is going to pu-nish all gays with AIDS.GAY7,GAYS()

7. The two sides of the brain are not independent even though they have different jobs to do.8He felt s continual impulse and craving and greed, something like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

1. The policemen went among the villagers in disguise and saw if there were straws in the wind.

2. George likes to work with his hand. When it comes to books, he is a square peg in a round hole.3. A month ago he was a man of mould, today he seemed truly touched by divine spirit, which spiritualized and elevated him.

4. By all the attentions of his wife, he found himself converted into a very happy and submissible married man.5. Let American English confront a novel problem alongside British English, and immediately its superior imaginativeness and resourcefulness become obvious.

1(1) Energy imports and consumptions must be reduced, competition enhanced by rigid enforcement of pertinent laws, and general monetary growth retained.

2What John said made his wife stare with mouth open.3And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental() medicine, you who have always derided your superiors-behold!

21Nor until yesterdays cocktail party did I make a nodding acquaintance with Mr. And Mrs. Black.

Not infrequently does the septuagenarian walk over distance to Daming Lake Park.2No law-breaker can go unpunished.There must never be any special citizens who can violate laws and discipline with impunity().

31 The waiter stands as stiff as a barrel beside the table, ready at all time to answer the diners call./

2 Seeking pleasure is like drinking poisoned wine.3A good wife is the crown of her husband.4Mr. Irving is known as Mr. Buttinsky () among his neighbours. And he is always breaking a butterfly on the wheel.

5 Assad earlier said that Camp David was the final striptease() in which the Israelis wont even leave him with a fig leaf.6His statement is nothing but a left-handed compliment.

7The employees request for an increase in wage fell on deaf ears, and they received no increase at all.8In the long run, wealth is like health its utter() absence can breed misery, but having it doesnt guarantee happiness.

1 (Simile) ABas, like, as if, as though Like climbing a mountain, we struggle up three feet and fall back two.

I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery blooding. on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(-) 2 (the metaphor) (a compressed simile)

I will do anything I can to help him through life's dangerous sea. Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and right of man in the modern world.() Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding.

3 (the metonymy) The buses in America are on strike now.buses drivers)

Well, said the doctor. I will do all that science can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.()

4 (the hyperbole)

Most American remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.(...)eternalendless..

5 (the personification) The first day of this term found me on my way to school, beautiful flowers smiling and lovely birds singing in the wood.(,,.),.

The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare.() A 6 (the irony)

What fine weather for an outing!() 7 (the alliteration ) I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me.()testing treating

A miserable, merry Christmas() Such is the glorious messiness of English. That happy tolerance, that willingness to accept words from anyway, explains the richness of English and way it has become, to a very real extent, the first truly global language. ()

9 (pun) (pun).,,, True Height () height Hiroshima - the Liveliest City in Japan-

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10. You are overwhelming jade, as white as snow, as smooth and moist as grease, as brilliant as candles, and as firm as rock.

A miserable, merry Christmas() Such is the glorious messiness of English. That happy tolerance, that willingness to accept words from anyway, explains the richness of English and way it has become, to a very real extent, the first truly global language. ()

Part Two Practice

1. The runaway inflation is back on track. And the talks about it are occupying the story-of-the- spot. But to say that an effective remedy for the ailment is already in the pipeline would be going far down the road. One might say, however, that they have crossed a new threshold. Each of the candidates is claiming credit for this in the hope that the popularity of the advance will rub off on him.

2. The film star lent his name to the efforts to raise money to help the flood victims.3. We were stranded on the mountain all night and the arrival of the rescue party was a sight for sore eyes.4. When Anne wore her short dress at the party, she raised several eyebrows.

1. He is a fool who can not be angry, but he is really a wise man who will not. The habit of keeping pleasant is indeed better than an income of a thousand dollars a year. The life without cheerfulness is like the severe winter without the sun.

2. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

3. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comforts and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

And then she would bid the girls hold up their heads; who, to conceal nothing, were certainly very handsome. Mere outside is so trifling a circumstance with me that I should scarcely have remembered to mention it, hat it not been a general topic of conversation in the country. Olivia, now about eighteen, had that luxuriance of beauty with which painters generally draw Hebe; open, sprightly, and commanding. Sophias features were soft, modest, and alluring. The one vanquished by a single blow, the other by effects successively repeated.

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1. Your soul is as pure as snow, your personality is as noble as pine trees! All praise to you, our beloved teacher.2. This film star is a nine days wonder; I doubt whether anyone will remember her in a years time.

3. She is a social butterfly. ()4. Experience is the mother of wisdom.5. She is shedding crocodile tears.6. Mark my words, the first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.

7. Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. (J. K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat)2003200

8. Books are a guide in youth and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.9. Love is the master key that opens the gate of happiness. 10. You are in my mind and in my heart. You are in the very air I breathe. You are part of me. Forever.

III. SummaryIV.Consolidation1. P150-176 2. P79-89