20171220 考研翻译考句每日一练
【昨日回顾】
But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.
但美国特有地理条件的推动,不同民族之间的相互作用,以及在原始崭新的大陆维护旧世界方式的很多困难,这些条件引起了重大变化。
【今日长难句】
The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.
【结构解析】
1. 本句主干为主谓宾结构,即the first shiploads of immigrants/ crossed/ the Atlantic,译为:第一批满载移民的航船横渡大西洋。
2. bound for the territory 为the first shiploads of immigrants的后置定语,译为:前往某个领地的……; which is now the Untied States 为定语从句,修饰the territory.
3. a hundred years after the 15th -and 16th -century exploration of North America. 为时间状语,译为:在15—16世纪探索开发北美的一百多年之后,也可译为:人们在15世纪和16世纪探索了北美洲,一百多年后
【词的处理】
shipload / ˈʃipləud; NAmE -loud / n.[C] 船运
immigrant / ˈimiɡrənt / n.[C] 移民
bound for …前往……
territory / ˈterətri; NAmE -tɔ:ri / n.[C] 领土,领地
exploration / ˌekspləˈreiʃn / n. [C,U] 探索,开发
【参考译文】
The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.
译文1:在15—16世纪探索开发北美的一百多年之后,开往如今的美国这片领土的第一批移民船只横渡了大西洋。
译文2:人们在15世纪和16世纪探索了北美洲,一百多年后,第一批满载移民的航船横渡大西洋驶向这片土地,即现在的美国。
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