托福難句精選【翻譯社翻譯欣賞】

1． Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people, animals, or supernatural beings, and mined the desired effect – success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun – as an actor might.

　　戴著面具身著盛裝的人們，經常扮演各種其他人物、動物或超自然生靈，並且作為一個扮演者所能做的，就是期盼一個在狩獵或戰役中獲勝、降雨的來臨，陽光的重現的結果。

　　2．But these factors do not account for the interesting question of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time of giving birth.

　　但是這些事實不能解釋這個令人感興趣的問題，就是為什麼在一個特殊的靠近他們出生的地方如此的集中了這麼多懷孕的魚龍。

　　3．A series of mechanical improvements continuing well into the nineteenth century, including the introduction of pedals to sustain tone or to soften it, the perfection of a metal frame, and steel wire of the finest quality, finally produced an instruments capable of myriad tonal effects from the most delicate harmonies to an almost orchestral fullness of sound, from a liquid, singing tone to a ship, percussive brilliance.

　　十九世紀一系列持續的機械進步，包括踏板的傳入、金屬結構的完善和鋼絲完美的品質，最後產生了一種能容納無數音調——從最精緻的和絃到一個成熟管弦的聲音或從一個清澈的歌聲到輝煌的敲擊樂的效果——的樂器。

　　4．Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1972 as 「silent」, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent.

　　雖然我們習慣於談到1972年以前的電影是無聲的，但用一句完全感性的話來說，電影從來就不是沒有聲音的。

　　5．For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualifications for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces.

　　多年以來電影音樂的選擇程式完全掌握在導演和音樂督導手中，通常擁有這些權力的主要資格並非是自身的技藝和品味而更多的是因為擁有大量的個人音樂素材庫。

　　6．Rather, they were made of a top layer of woolen or glazed worsted wool fabric, consisting of smooth, compact yarn from long wool fibers, dyed dark blue, green, or brown with a bottom layer of a coarser woolen material, either natural or a shade of yellow.

　　更進一步，他們是由一個頂層是毛紡或光滑的精紡羊毛織物製作，包含光滑，緊湊的紗線來自長羊毛的纖維染成蘭黑色、綠色、或褐色底層含有粗糙天然的和暗黃色的毛紡材料。

　　7．For good measure, during the spring and summer drought, heat, hail, grasshoppers, and other frustrations might await the weary growers.

　　在春季和夏季，要精確量度乾旱、熱量、冰雹、蝗蟲和其他損失可能是一件疲勞的事情。

　　8．What we today call America folk art was, indeed, art of, by, and for ordinary, everyday 「folks」 who, with increasing prosperity and leisure, created a market for art of all kinds, and especially for portraits.

        我們今天所謂的美國民間藝術，實際上是普通老百姓的藝術、被普通老百姓創造的藝術和為普通老百姓和日常提到的「民間人士」的藝術，是一個他們在社會日漸繁榮和休閒情況下創建的一個包含各種各樣尤其是肖像畫種類的藝術的市場。

　　9．The people had no agriculture but, over thousands of years, had developed techniques and equipment to exploit their environment, basing their economy on fishing in streams and coastal waters that teemed with salmon, halibut, and other varieties of fish; gathering abalone, mussels, clams, and other shellfish from the rocky coastline; hunting land and sea mammals; and collecting wild plant foods.
　　
        他們沒有農業，但是經過幾千年，已經發展了探索自身環境的技術和設備。他們是基於大量出現鮭魚、大比目魚和其他多種魚類的自身流域和水岸捕魚的經濟；基於從洛磯山水岸聚集了鮑魚、蚌類、蛤和其他貝殼動物的經濟；基於捕獵地域和海洋哺乳動物的經濟；以及基於收集野生植物的食物的經濟。