和谐英语

2010年英语四六级阅读100篇(30)

2010-04-09来源:和谐英语
Vocabulary
  1. Norwegian 挪威的;挪威人
  2. coastline 海岸线
  3. recognition 承认;认识;赞赏
  4. countryside 乡下;乡民
  难句译注
  1. A new law limits exploration to an area south of the southern end of the long coastline; production limits have been laid down (though these have already been raised); and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a limited number of foreign workers.
  【结构简析】用两个分号连接三句句子。
  【参考译文】一条新的法律限制人们仅在长长的海岸线南端以南地区进行勘探考察;规定了石油生产限量(虽然已提高);石油公司雇佣外国工人不许超出限定额。
  2. With nearly 100 percent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose more of their workers to the oil industry.
  【参考译文】由于将近百分之一百就业率,每个人都能看出形式发展中服务行业和旅游行业的大部分工人会跑到石油工业方面去。
  3. Farmers and fishermen do not make up most of the population, but they are an important part of it, because Norwegians see in them many of the qualities that they regard with pride as essentially Norwegian.
  【结构简析】复合句。在because状语从句中that是定语从句修饰qualities。
  【参考译文】虽然农民和渔民并不占人口的绝大多数,可是他们都是人口的重要组成不分,因为挪威人在他们身上看到许多他们自豪地认为是挪威人的基本品质。
  写作方法与文章大意
  文章论述“挪威政府意欲控制石油工业”。采用对比写法。先提出政府新政策的种种限制。但石油工业有办法对付。人们都认为限制难以长久。其次讲述,从战时起,挪威政府一直执行开发北极圈北部地区的发展规划,也取得成功。但石油工业已经开始向南方进军,北方政策可能会失败。石油工业之影响超出北方,有些企业缩小,减少。最后一段是讲争论的焦点:石油对挪威生活方式构成了威胁,具体表现在对挪威理想的代表──渔民和农民的威胁。