雅思每日每句词汇翻译解析5

英文原文

In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests--what and where they are, why they are important, what endangers them--independent of any formal tuition.

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中文翻译

知识点小结

1.词组in the face of sth.的意思是“在……面前;面对;纵使，不顾”，如in the face of reality(面对现实)。

2.“it is likely that…formal tuition”这个句子中，it是句子的形式主语，我们在Day 2讲过形式主语的用法，大家可以回头复习一下。这里真正的主语是that引导的从句。这个从句因为有插入语(两个破折号之间的内容)的存在所以比较长，大家在阅读时可以跳过插入语，先把句子读完整，即“children will have formed ideas about rainforests independent of any formal tuition”(孩子们不依赖正规教育形成了关于雨林的看法)。插入语部分是对ideas about rainforests的解释，即ideas的内容是什么。

3.endanger的意思是“使危及;使遭到危险”。大家学习一下en-这个前缀，它表示“进入某种状态，使成为……”，如enliven(使活跃)、enlarge(扩大)、enrich(使富裕)。

4.independent of意思是“不依赖于……的，独立于……的，不受……支配的”。

参考翻译

在频繁且通常是生动的媒体报导面前，孩子们可能已经形成了关于雨林的看法——雨林是什么，它们在哪里，它们为什么重要，危害它们的因素有哪些——不依赖任何正规教育。

与本次句子翻译相关的阅读项目

Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes--about the duration of a normal classroom period. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests—what and where they are, why they are important, what endanpers them—independent of any formal tuition. It is also possible that some of these ideas will be mistaken.

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

Write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

1. The plight of the rainforests has largely been ignored by the media.

2. Children only accept opinions on rainforests that they encounter in their classrooms.

汉英翻译练习

很多家长将玩电脑游戏视作浪费时间，因为他们认为这样做会减少对提高孩子成绩很关键的学习时间。

参考翻译

Most parents view playing computer games as a waste of time, believing it would reduce children's study time which is critical for improving their learning performance.

写作题目

Children spend a lot of time playing computer games rather than playing sport. Why has this happened? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

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