1 That as much as one-fourth of all timber harvested is not used proved to be false.

2 Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.

3 It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we must decline in this way, that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually die of old age, and that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eight.

4 It is recounted of Carlyle that when he heard of the illness of his friend, Henry, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.

2013考研英语翻译复习二 宾语从句

1 Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.

2 It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on the same premises, let us say the super natural, must be considered together, our own among the rest.

3 More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim, but close analysis of what is inevitable a very complicated package might confirm the skeptics’ fears.

4 A leader should show that he or she values the input of subordinates --- for example, by involving them in decisions about matters in which they have a direct stake.

　　2013考研英语翻译复习三 表语从句

1 The irony of the historian’s craft is that its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions to an unending process.

2 What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.

3 Galileo’s greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the earth.

4 One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feeling, traits of character, human nature, and so on.

2013考研英语翻译复习四 同位语从句

1 In Europe, as elsewhere multi-media groups have been increasingly successful: groups which bring together television, radio, newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.

2 Imagine the effect on a reasonably advanced technological society, one that still does possess the bomb, of making it aware of the possibility, of supplying sufficient details to enable the thing to be constructed.

3 Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women who together forged the Underground Railroad, a secret web of escape routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves form the American South.

4 Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a character who is incomplete if he cannot competently assess how his livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself.