第1个回答 2013-04-23
1. Such is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. ( Lesson 4)
句型解剖：Such + be动词 + 名词/名词短语 + that…… 这就是……/ 此乃……
上述结构的常规语序是：名词/名词短语 + be动词 + such + that……,其中that引导的such一词的同位语从句，即例句也能改成：Human nature is such that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. 而作者把such抛置句首，旨在起到强调作用.
联想运用：
1）人只有在失去后才懂得珍惜，在生病后才意识到健康的可贵，这是常见的事情。
Such is human nature that many people would not be grateful for what they have until they lose it and likewise, they would not be conscious of health until they are ill. 或者
Human nature is such that many people would not be grateful for what they have until they lose it and likewise, they would not be conscious of health until they are ill.
2） 这就是生活，每个人都靠卖某种东西而生存：老师靠卖知识而生存；哲学家靠卖智慧而生存；牧师靠卖精神安慰而生存。
Such is life that everyone lives by selling something：teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comforts.
3） 社会上的情况就是如此，技术是必须付钱去买的，就像在商店里要花钱买商品一样。(新概念第三册，L27)
The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. 或者
Such are conditions of society that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop.
4） 这就是幸福，它像一只蝴蝶，当你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；当时如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。
Such is happiness that it is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
5） 这就是成功的秘诀，多一点点努力，多一点点决心，多一点点热情，多一点点持久，你就能创造出多一点点的奇迹。
Such is the secret to success that a little bit more efforts, a little bit more determination, a little bit more enthusiasm and a little bit more perseverance will help to achieve a little bit more miracle.
6) 我的生活原则就是：生活在现在而不是过去；不要让过去影响我的日常生活；不要让过去干扰我的思维；不要让过去妨碍我做到最好。
Such are my philosophies of life that “live in the present instead of in the precedent; stop the past from influencing my daily life; stop the past from interfering my thought; stop the past from reducing my personal best.”
7) 这就是人生，需要忍受的太多，能够享受的太少。
Such is life that there is much to be endured and little to be enjoyed.
8) 这就是经验，它并不是一个人能遇到什么，而是一个人能够处理他所遇到的一切。
Such is experience, that it is not what happens to a man but what a man does with what happens to him.
9） 这就是婚姻，它好比鸟笼，外面的鸟儿想进进不去，里面的鸟儿想出出不来。 Such is marriage, that it may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.
2. This can give rise to curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for Ellesmere Corporation. (Lesson 4)
句型解剖： ……,as is did in the case of sb / sth——某人、某事就是这么一个例子；就像某人、某事那样。在写作中，同学们往往习惯用 “sb/sth is such an example”作为过渡来表示 “某人、某事就是这么一个例子”, 殊不知该表达已经落入陈词滥调。而上述过渡短语“as it did in the case of”却给人眼前一亮、耳目一新的感觉。其中的“case”就等同于“example”。而该结构的具体用法是：as it did in the case of之前通过一句话来描述一件事情或者一个现象，然后跟上短语as it did in the case of，并在其后面补充具体某人或某事（做前面那件事的人或符合前面那个现象的事情），如果后面有进一步修饰的需要，可以像例句那样再添加一个定语从句进行补充说明。
联想运用：
1）有时候乱子会闹得很大，就像最近在悉尼所发生的那场连环交通事故那样, 造成100人死亡。
Things can go wrong on a big scale, as it did in the case of a pile-up accident in Sydney recently which claimed the lives of 100 people.
2）到真正偏僻地方去旅游并不是一件愉快的事情，就像我妻子在一次巴尔干半岛的周游所发现的那样，在那里她受到了冷遇。
Visits to really remote places are seldom enjoyable, as it did in the case of my wife on a tour to the Balkans where she received the cold shoulder.
3）美是稍纵即逝的，就像培根在他的文章中曾经提到的那样：美犹如盛夏的水果，是容易腐烂而难保持的；世上有许多美人，她们有过放荡的青春，却迎受着愧毁的晚年。
Beauty is like a flash in the pan, as it does in the case of an essay by Bacon which says “Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance”. （因为该句并没牵涉到一个过去的动作，而是描述一般状态，所以结构“as it did in the case of”可以灵活调整为“as it does in the case of”）
4) 有人能用手指看书或辨认颜色，甚至能透过厚实的门或者是墙看到东西；一个名叫Tina的女孩就是这么一个例子，她的视力和正常人一样，但能用皮肤的不同部位辨认东西甚至看穿坚实的墙壁。
Some people can read and detect colors with their fingers and even see through solid doors and walls, as it does in the case of a girl named Tina who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls.
5) 有些动物会对主人产生深厚的私人感情。最近有一只名叫Daniel小狗就是这么一个例子，由于不可避免的情况他和主人分开后，竟然拒绝进食，最后消瘦至死。
Animals will develop a considerable degree of personal affection to their masters, as it did in the case a dog called Daniel, who refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstances he had been deprived of his master.
3. Cats never fail to fascinate human beings. ( Lesson 9)
句型解剖：never fail to do sth——总能做某事；肯定会做某事。never fail to 的字面意思是“不会失败做某事”，但考虑到汉语语言的习惯，作者把它翻成“总能做某事”。其实这个表达使用了双重否定的结构：never是否定词，fail是具有否定意义的词。用never fail to do sth 表示“总能做某事”比“can always”表达更远离中式英文的嫌疑，同样也使说话口气更具强调性。
另外，我们还可以从这个短语中得到一定的启发： never/not/ no + fail、avoid、evade、 miss、shortage、freedom(远离)等带有否定意义的词，都能构成双重否定。
联想运用：
1) 如果你收到这样的恳求，你肯定会遵照执行的。
If you receive a request like this, you cannot fail to obey it!
2) 他总能在最后一刻赶到现场并替我解围。
He never fails to throw me a lifeline at the eleventh hour.
3) 每个人都受到了广告的影响。（新概念第三册，L26）
No one can avoid being influenced by advertisements.
4) 人人都得交税。
No one can evade taxes.
5) 你肯定会在人群中找到她，因为她是那样的艳丽耀眼。
You can’t miss her in the crowd for she is so gorgeous.
Easier said than done.说起来容易做起来难。
第2个回答 2013-04-20
A candle lights others and consumes itself.
蜡烛照亮别人，却毁灭了自己。
A cat may look at a king.
猫也可以打量国王，意为人人平等。A fox may grow gray, but never good.
江山易改，本性难移。
A good fame is better than a good face.
美名胜过美貌。
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
一知半解，自欺欺人。
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。
第3个回答 2013-04-20
Short accounts make long friends.
好朋友勤算账。
Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.
好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。
Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.
正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。
No rose without a thorn.
没有不带刺的玫瑰。
Like tree, like fruit.
羊毛出在羊身上。
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
抱最好的愿望，做最坏的打算。
呵呵，我很小气的，说六个，就六个