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Lesson Ten口语部分英译汉篇
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/07/11 14:48  新浪教育
  辽宁教育出版社于2003年1月出版了《王强口语》系列丛书,丛书共三册,并分别配有语音磁带,适合不同程度的英语学习者使用。以下是《王强口语》第三册第十课的口语部分英译汉篇。
  Interpret the following into Chinese。

  热身词语

  retire a rich man:have enough money to stop working and still be considered rich

  start out:begin the endeavor

  kinda offset the acreage:with a bigger farm, more product can be produced, and thus the cost of time, tractors, etc. can be made less of an impact (this is to offset) on total profitability

  margin:amount of profit compared to cost

  For a farmer, the return on your investment is so small now that it isn't really worthwhile.A younger person cannot start farming unless they have help from the father or somebody.'Cause you have to be almost able to retire a rich man to start out.The only way the farmers are making it today is the ones in business keep getting bigger, to kinda offset the acreage, the margin income.I don't know what's gonna happen in the future.I'm afraid its gonna get rough in time to come.

  well off:rich

  tractor:vehicle with large wheels used in farming

  City people, they think you're well off.When they drive by, I hear a lot of comments, 'cause most of my friends are city people.They drive by and see a big tractor and things settin' down.They envy me, but they don't know what's behind all that.

  crop:items to be grown on the farm

  harvest:collect the fully grown items

  figure down:work out in great detail

  beat:collect the crop before it is damaged by bad weather

  tense:make nervous or uneasy

  up:a word commonly used with "tense" (to tense up), and other words, such as "loosen" (to loosen up), "freshen" (to freshen up), "grow" (to grow up), etc.

  Farming, it's such a gamble.The weather and the prices, and everything that goes with it.You don't have too many good days.It scares when you see how many working days you actually have.You have so many days to get the crop planted and the same in the fall to harvest it. They have this all figured down to the weather and it's just a few days.You try to beat the weather.It tenses you up.Whether we needed rain or we didn't need rain, it affects you in different ways.I have seen a time when you're glad to hear the thunder and lightning.Then again, I've wished I didn't hear it.

  ya:you

  moisture:water content

  git:get

  Weather will make ya or break ya.The crops have to have enough moisture.If they don't have enough, they hurt.If you have too much, it hurts.You take it like you git.There's nothing you can do about it.You just don't think too much about it.My wife says it doesn't bother me too much. Of course, you still worry...

  ulcer:an ulcer is a sore area on or inside a part of your body which is very painful and may bleed

  management end:issues related to management or governance

  I don't believe farmers have as much ulcers as business people 'cause their life isn't quite as fast. But I'll say there will be more as times goes on. 'Cause farming is changing more. It's more a business now. It's getting to be a big business. It's not the labor any more, it's the management end of it.

  live with:accept as part of life or a life situation

  wore down:persistently tired and uninspired

  Your day doesn't end.A farmer can't do like, say, a doctor-go out of town for the weekend. He has to stay with it. That's just one of the things you have to learn to live with. I'd say a majority of the time a farmer, when he comes in at night and goes to bed, he's tired enough he's not gonna have trouble sleepin'. Of course, he'll get wore down.

  store:save in a secure place

  combine:a machine used in farming that threshes and cleans grain while moving across a field

  planter:a machine used in farming that automates the process of planting seeds in the field

  We'll soon be storing the fall harvest.Machinery and a lot of equipment and everything ready to go when the crops mature. That's the big problem: machinery. Combine, you're speaking of twenty thousand dollars. And the eight-row planter for the spring, that's expensive. It's such a large investment for what small return you really get out of it. You won't use it but a month or two out of the year.

  eighty-acre:eighty acres in size

  My father-in-law helps me an awful lot in the spring and a little in the fall.He drives the tractor for me. My daughter, she drives a tractor when school is out.When I was home there on the farm, there was five children, three boys, and we were on an eighty-acre farm. It took all of us, my father and three boys.You can see the difference machinery plays in it.

  take over:assume/start the jobs (left vacant by retiring farmers)

  originate:be born and raised at

  The number of farmers are getting less every day and just seems like it's getting worse every year.The younger ones aren't taking over.The majority of the people originated from the farm years ago.But it's been so long ago that the young ones now don't realize anything about the farm.What goes with it or anything like that.The gamble that the farmer takes.

  The city people, when they go to the grocery store and the price of meat is raised, they jump up and down.They don't realize what all is behind that.They're thinking of their own self.They don't want to put up that extra money-which I don't blame them either.The same way when I go to buy a piece of equipment.I go jump up and down.

  outlaw:make illegal

  end:perspective/outlook

  And chemicals in farming, it's getting to be quite expensive.It seems as though we can't farm without it.They're trying to outlaw a lot of 'em, but I don't know.From my end of it, I'd hate to be without 'em.Seems as though if we didn't have chemicals, we wouldn't have crops.It seems like the bugs and the weeds would just about take care of 'em if we didn't have the chemicals.But I don't know ... on the other end, either ... whether it's good for our country or not.

  organic farming:a type of farming that uses only natural ingredients and is environmentally conscious

  operator:organization

  What do you call these-organic farming?They have a lot of good points, but I never did see a large organic farm.They're just more or less small operators.I don't think you can do it on a large scale enough to be feeding a nation.You can see many small organic farms.They used to call 'em truck farmers.They had routes to town and deliver produce and like that.He more or less retailed his product to individual homes.He just couldn't get big enough, just like everybody else.

  spray:treat with a chemical

  blight:a plant disease that results in withering without rotting

  fungicide:a chemical agent that destroys fungi

  They're using airplanes more all the time.We had our corn sprayed this year by a plane-for blight.You hire a plane, he furnishes the material, and he does it for so much an acre.We had it sprayed twice-with fungicide.

  punch a clock:work according to a fixed schedule

  When you get a good crop, that's more or less your reward. If you weren't proud of your work, you wouldn't have no place on the farm. 'Cause you don't work by the hour. And you put in a lot of hours, I tell ya. You wouldn't stay out here till dark and after if you were punchin' a clock. If you didn't like your work and have pride in it, you wouldn't do that.

  lonesome:lonely, feeling dejection from being alone

  You're driving a tractor all day long, you don't talk to anyone. You think over a lot of things in your mind, good and bad. You're thinking of a new piece of equipment or renting more land or buying or how you gonna get through the day. I can spend all day in the field by myself and I've never been lonesome. Sometimes I think it's nice to get out by yourself.

  confined:trapped-feeling

  smelly:having an unpleasant odor

  odor:aroma, smell or scent

  The grass is greener on the other side of the fence, they say. When I got out of high school I worked one summer in a factory in Evansville. I didn't like it. I've always been glad I worked that one summer. I know what it is to work in a factory for a little while.The money part of it's good, but the atmosphere, confined.The air and everything like that.I wasn't used to a smelly factory.They have a certain odor. You don't have it out in the field.

  Purdue:Purdue University, a large university in Indiana

  make:be successful as

  I might say I've been real lucky in farming.My wife has helped me an awful lot. She's worked ever since we've been married. My girl, she likes it and loves to get out on the tractor. Our boy really worked. He liked the farm and worked from the time he was old enough until he left.He graduated from Purdue last spring.From observing him from the time he grew up, I would say he'd make a good farmer.He's in Georgia now.He's in management training.He realized he could make more money in some other position than he can farming.I hope he isn't putting money ahead of what hereally wants to do.He says he likes what he's doin', so... It seems like if they once get out and go to college, there's very few of 'em do come back.They realize that as far as the future and the money could be made from farming, it just wasn't there.So that was one thing that turned his mind away from it. Of course, he can always change. I'm hoping ...

 

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  Lesson Ten口语部分汉译英篇
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