口译笔译实战练习：长难句翻译100句（8）

1. The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the 19th century and then by several local geological journals in the 20th century.
这样一来最终的结果便是业余爱好者想在专业地质学期刊上发表文章就更难了，广泛使用的论文评审推荐制度又进一步强化了这一结果。评审推荐制度最早被使用于在19世纪的国家级刊物上，后又在20世纪被几家地方级地质学刊物所采用。

2. A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within one or two specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to come together nationally in a different way.
一个颇为类似的分化过程让全国的专业地质学家走到一起，组成了一两个专业学术社团，另一方面，业余地质爱好者们倾向于要么仍留在地方社团，要么以其他方式组成全国性机构。

3. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
遗憾地讲，这次新闻机构可信度调查只得到了一些含金量低的发现，比如新闻报道中的事实错误，拼写或语法错误。调查结果中还交织着一些令人搔首顿足的问题，譬如读者到底想读些什么。

4. I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&M wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customers' demands.
我认为，巨大的并购浪潮背后的最重要的推动力同时也促成了全球化的进程：即降低交通运输成本，逐渐减少贸易投资壁垒，以及大幅度拓展市场，这些都要求更大的经营管理规模，以满足消费者需求。

5. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress promoted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family."
一次侧面攻击伤害了我的自尊，阻碍了我事业的发展，这个攻击并不光明磊落，它让我不得不抛弃了那份引人注目的工作。尽管，在表面上，我还要以一个蒙受屈辱的政府部长的姿态，宣称"我只不过是想多和家人呆在一起" ，掩盖我的退出。

6. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life", and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status.
凯尔西不堪积劳重负，公开地辞去她在《她》杂志社的编辑一职，之后她发现：放弃那种"为生活忙碌"的人生信条，转而追求比较悠闲的生活，这带给你的回报远远大于赚大钱和社会地位。我也意识到了这一点。

7. While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline -- after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late '80s - and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class down shifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
在美国，这一返朴趋势是因经济的衰落而开始的——那是在八十年代末期裁员而引起大量的失业之后一一这种趋势还和提倡节俭的政纲相关；而在英国，最起码在我所熟识的中产阶级返朴归隐者中，追求简约生活的原因就多种多样了。

8. For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the '90s, down-shifting in the mid' 90s is not so much a search for the mythical good lift-growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one -- as a personal recognition of your limitations.
对于我这一代曾在整个九十年代为生活奔波的女人来说，90年代中期出现的归隐恬退与其说是寻求一种神话般的美好生活——用有机肥种植蔬菜，并且冒着放弃一切的风险——不如说是我们清醒地认识到了自己能力有限。

9. If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman' s notorious bad taste in ties.
如果你是你讲话对象群体中的一员，那么你就能够了解你们普遍都有的经历和问题，那么顺口评价一下餐厅中难以下咽的食物、或是老总总所周知的恶俗领带品位也并非不合适。

10. There are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy -- far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone.
现在已有一些机器人系统能够进行精确到毫米以下的脑部和骨骼手术——这要比极具技巧的医生单单靠双手做手术精确得多。