’99MBA联考英语复习翻译部分.docVIP

MBA English-Chinese Translation Lecture Figures Many metropolitan areas are doubling their population --- not every thirty-five years, as the earth is generally --- but every eleven years! We do know that our Milky Way galaxy contains more than 200 billion suns, and that there are billions of other galaxies. Southeast Asia alone would have an energy consumption five times greater than that of West Europe in 1970. I had left school a couple of months before that and was not due to go to university until the following October. A quarter of the worlds population was affected by the disease; all in all, it killed 22 million people, almost twice as many as were killed in the war itself. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (fortnight, quarter, generation, century) It is ten to one that we will overfulfill our productive quota by the end of this month. Three-fourths of the oranges were ruined. The cost of a computer has decreased by 90%. The number of this kind of rare animal has dropped to about 100 in our country. His collection of coins is twice as large as hers. This plane can fly at a maximum altitude of 75,000 feet. The peddler offered me 50 dollars for the suitcase, but it turned out not worth half that much. Where shall we be in another ten years? Fewer than one in twenty recent graduates from public high schools have studied foreign language for more than two years. Time by the end of 1998 / in the early 20th century / in 300 AD / during the first quarter of 1900s / in the 1990s / in the second half of the year 3. Transformation Prep. To verb Land for peace Oil for food Rocket for satellite Everyone in the room was greatly surprised at what she said. One exception is Death Valley in California which is outside the tropics but much below sea level. Fifty years from now there is likely to be a world shortage of iron. Adj. To ver