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1.向你父母问好
Please give my regards / love to your parents.
= Please say hello to your parents.
=Please send my best wishes to your parents.
2. 告诉我你缺席的理由。
Tell me the reason for your absence.
= Tell me the reason why you are absent.
= Tell me why you are absent.
= Tell me what cause you to be absent.
3. 我认为这部戏值得一看。
This play is worth seeing, I think.
= This play is worthy to be seen, I think.
= This play is worthy of being seen, I think.
= It is worth while seeing this play, I think.
= It is worth your while to see this play, I think.
4.你介意我打开窗子吗?
Do you mind if I open the window?
=Would you mind if I opened the window?
=Would / Do you mind my opening the window?
5. 和溜冰比起来，我较喜欢游泳。
I prefer swimming to skating.
= I prefer to swim rather than skate.
= I prefer to swim instead of skating.
= I would rather swim than skate.
= I like swimming better than skating.
6. 他刚走出家门雨就开始下了。
He had no sooner left home than it began to rain.
=No sooner had he left home than it began to rain.
=He had hardly / scarcely left home when it began to rain.
=Hardly / Scarcely had he left home when it began to rain.
=It began to rain as soon as we left home.
=The moment we left, it began to rain.
7. 那个问题太难了，我无法解决。
That problem is too difficult for me to solve.
= That problem is so difficult that I can’t solve it.
= That problem is not easy enough for me to solve.
= That problem is beyond my ability.
= It is so difficult a problem that I can’t solve it.
= It is such a difficult problem that I can’t solve it.
= It is such a difficult problem as I can’t solve.
8. 直到他昨天告诉我，我才知道此事。
= I didn’t know about it until he told me yesterday.
= Not until he told me yesterday, did I know about it
= It was until he told me yesterday that I knew about it
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9. 汤姆迟到了，老师很生气。
Tom’s being late made the teacher angry.
= The teacher was angry at Tom’s / Tom being late.
=That Tom was late made the teacher angry.
=Tom being late, the teacher was angry. (from
www.nmet168.com)
= The teacher was angry, because Tom was late.
10. 我在回家的路上碰到了一个老朋友。
I happened to meet an old friend of mine on my way home.
= I met an old friend of mine on my way home by chance / by
accident.
= I met with / came across an old friend of mine on my way
home.
= It happened that I met an old friend of mine on my way
home.
11. 我们去看看汤姆出什么问题了。
Let’s go to see what’s the problem with Tom.
= Let’s go to see what’s the trouble with Tom.
= Let’s go to see what’s the matter with Tom.
= Let’s go to see what’s wrong with Tom.
= Let’s go to see what’s happened to Tom.
12. 众所周知，地球绕着太阳转。
It is known to everybody that the earth travels round the
sun.
= As is known to everybody, the earth travels round the sun.
= The earth travels round the sun; as / which is known to
everybody.
= Everybody knows that the earth travels round the sun.
13. 努力学习，否则，你不会成功的。
Study hard, or you will not succeed.
= If you don’t study hard, you will not succeed.
=You will not succeed unless you work hard.
=Study hard. If not, you will not succeed.
14. 我相信你会通过考试的。
I’m sure that you will pass the examination.
= I’m sure that you will succeed in the examination.
=I’m sure that you will succeed in passing the examination.
=I’m sure that you will manage to pass the examination.
15. 60％的同学认为公园不应该收费。
Sixty percent of the students think that the park should not
charge entrance fees.
=Sixty in [out of] one hundred students hold the view that
entrance fees should not be charged for parks.
=Three fifths of the students believe that a park should be free
of charge.
=Three in [out of] five students are against the idea of
entrance fees.(from www.nmet168.com)
=In the opinion of 60% of the students, people can enter parks
for free [nothing].
=60% of the students have the idea that people should be allowed
to enter parks without charge.
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