高级笔译专题解疑指导（3）

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Translation Technique: Omission (I)
! p1 i8 |7 ]4 i" V" _1.       Permit me first to thank our Chinese hosts for your extraordinary arrangements and hospitality. My wife and I, as well as our entire party, are deeply grateful. 首先，请允许我对中国主人十分出色的安排和款待表示感谢。我和我夫人以及全体随行人员都深为感激。
2 ~* V2 g0 D9 P. n+ ?- o, R& {+ u' S8 J. z2.       I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. 我马上对这种用手指在手心里写字的游戏产生了兴趣，接着就模仿起来。
4 h' \4 P1 @. a5 @3.       Several times on his trip to China, which he made as a guest of the Chinese Government, Bill’s birthday occurred while he was in Beijing. 比尔作为中国政府的客人访问中国，好几次都赶上在北京过生日。
4.       Hunger puts an end to love, or if not hunger, time. （古希腊一小诗，钱钟书：《管锥篇》）患相思病者之对治无过饥饿，岁月亦为灵药。
, T: X( |) @7 d. [: z5.       Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. (语出《旧约全书》，钱钟书：《管锥篇》) 谷升为陵，山夷为壤。（一切山洼都要填满，大小山冈都要削平。）
' h! L3 S% N" S5 n6.       The common end of all narrative, nay, of all Poems is to convert a series into a Whole: to make those events, which in real or imagined History move in a strait Line, assume to our Understandings Circular motion--- the Snake with its Tail in its Mouth.（语出Coleridge，钱钟书：《谈艺录》，1984年，中华书局，第432页）笔迹之直线顺次者，诗中写来，当使之浑圆运转，若蛇自嘬其尾然。
7.       中国作为人类文明的发祥地之一，在几千年的历史进程中，文化传统始终没有中断。As one of the cradles of human civilization, China has all along maintained its cultural tradition without letup in its history of several thousand years.
8.       中国作为一个发展中的沿海大国，国民经济要持续发展，必须把海洋的开发和保护作为一项长期的战略任务。As a major developing country with a long coastline, China, therefore, must take exploitation and protection of the ocean as a long-term strategic task before it can achieve sustainable development.
' `4 E& T1 l1 {8 ]9.       现阶段中国已经实现了粮食基本自给，在未来的发展过程中，中国依靠自己的力量实现粮食基本自给，客观上具备诸多有利因素。China has basically achieved self-sufficiency in grain at present stage, and there are many favorable objective factors for her to maintain such achievement by her own efforts in the course of future development.
5 T2 w5 [% ?: f2 F$ w1 W: W- _+ M# u10.   夺取这个胜利，已经是不要很久的时间和不要花费很多的气力了；巩固这个胜利，则是需要很久的时间和要花费很大的气力的事情。（《毛泽东选集》4卷，1439页） To win this victory will not require much time and effort, but to consolidate it will.