内容正文:
1、 长难句翻译
1. The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
2. Today the task of reproducing pictures is incomparably more simple and reliable, with repro-graphic techniques that allow the production of high-quality prints made exactly to the original scale, with faithful colour values, and even with duplication of the surface relief of the painting.
2、 长难句翻译解析
1. The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
【语法详析】
本句的主干为 The Swedes were the first to recognize…。1. that public officials…can make mistakes… 作recognize的宾语从句;2. that they are serving the public 作belief的同位语从句。
【词汇精讲】
Swede /swiːd/ n. 瑞典人【名】Sweden 瑞典
inspector /ɪnˈspek.tər/ n. 检查员,督察 【动】inspect
(in内+spect=看进去=视察)
The mill was finally shut down by state safety inspectors.
工厂终于遭国家安全检查员关闭
over-zealously /ˌəʊ.vəˈzel.əsli/ adv. 过于热心地【形】zealous 热情的,狂热的
She was a zealous worker for charitable bodies...
她对慈善事业充满热忱。
An official from the Department of Health will be inspecting the restaurant this afternoon. 今天下午卫生部的一名官员要来视察这家餐馆。
He had to be protected from overzealous fans. 他不得不被保护起来,与过分热心的崇拜者保持距离。
【参考译文】
瑞典人首先认识到像文职人员、警察、卫生稽查员或税务官这样的公务员,会出错或者过分作为还自认为在为公众服务。
2. Today the task of reproducing pictures is incomparably more simple and reliable, with repro-graphic techniques that allow the production of high-quality prints made exactly to the original scale, with faithful colour values, and even with duplication of the surface relief of the painting.
1)结构分析
层次一:
主句:the task........reliable
状语:with reprographic......painting【with介词短语做原因状语, 表示整个主句的原因】
层次二:
主句内部:
主体:the task is more simple and relaible
修饰①:of the reproducing pictures(介词短语修饰task,表示task的内容)
修饰②:in