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主语的翻译 例2：Don’t spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth. 译文：不要为了集聚那些只会变成尘土、化做灰烬的东西耗费你的精力、你的生命。追求物质远不如追求理想，因为只有理想才能使生命有意义，才有恒久的价值。 解析：译文第二句的前半句Pursue not so much the material as the ideal可以译为“与其追求物质不如追求理想”。可是，本段是强调理想的价值，所以使用话题句，“追求物质远不如追求理想”使“理想”居于凸显的位置。 主语的翻译 例3：Scientists are studying synesthesia because they believe it may help explain how the human mind takes in and deals with information from the worlds outside it. The condition first was reported by an English doctor more than one hundred years ago. Since then, scientists have found many different kinds of synesthesia. They say the two most common kinds are sounds and tastes that produce colored pictures in the mind. 译文：科学家们现在正在研究通感，认为研究通感有助于揭示人脑是怎样摄取和处理信息的。通感现象一百多年前一位英国医生就曾经研究过。一百多年来，科学家们又发现了许多情形各异的通感现象，并且指出：两种最常见的通感现象是听觉牵连和味觉牵连，声音和味道会使头脑中浮现出彩色图像。 解析：本段第二句“The condition first was reported by an English doctor more than one hundred years ago.”虽然采取主谓句可译成“一百多年前，一位英国医生首次报道了这种牵连感觉”。然而，该句的语义重心是“一百多年前”和“一位英国医生”，可下文的中心意思是说的通联感觉。因此上文采用“话题—说明”句式，译成“通感现象一百多年前一位英国医生就曾经研究过。”能更好地起到承上启下的作用。 主语的翻译 例1：The hypothesis of natural selection may not be a complete explanation, but it led to a greater thing than itself—an acceptance of the theory of organic evolution, which the years have but confirmed. 译文：自然选择的假设也许还不是一个完整的解释，但是，它引导人们接受了一个比它本身更重要的东西——生物进化论，这一理论随着岁月的流逝得到了全然证实。 例2： The sea receives you, envelops you in her warmth, soothes the urban tiredness out of you. She lets you gambol with her children, the waves, and even sends them to play with you. They push you gently and pull you back, sprinkle you till your very being exults in the exhilaration of being alive and one with nature. 译文：大海接待了你，她的温暖拥抱着你，都市生活的疲乏在此一扫而光。大海让你同她的孩子们——小海浪们一起嬉戏，甚至把他们送到你面前。孩子们友好地把你拖下去，又送上来，使你浑身喷洒着水，感到心旷神怡，与自然融为一体。 主语的翻译 例3：Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They contain th