Adverbial Clauses
Put the following sentences into Chinese, paying attention to the adverbial clauses.
1. When Zhou Enlai’s door opened they saw a slender man of more than average height with
gleaming eyes and a face so striking that it bordered on the beautiful.
2. Inexpressible was the astonishment of the little party when they returned to find that Mr.
Pickwick had disappeared.
3. When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as
one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other.
4. It had been a fine, golden autumn, a lovely farewell to those who would lose their youth, and
some of them their lives, before the leaves turned again in a peacetime fall.
5. The assertion that it was difficult, if not impossible, for a people to enjoy its basic rights
unless it was able to determine freely its political status and to ensure freely its economic, social and cultural development was now scarcely contested.
6. Aluminum remained unknown until the 19th century, because nowhere in nature is it found
free, owing to its always being combined with elements, most commonly with oxygen, for which it has a strong affinity.
7. Majorie has been raised by a scheming aunt who has been planning to find a millionaire and
marry her off. So when at 17, she felt in love with a poor medical student, the aunt promptly arranged to take her niece abroad. In the 90’s that was still standard technique.
8. It was a day as fresh as grass growing up and clouds going over and butterflies coming down
can make it. It was a day compounded from silences of bee and flower and ocean and land, which were not silences at all, but motions, stirs, flutters, rising, each in its own time and matchless rhythm.
Long Sentences
Put the following sentences into Chinese, paying attention to their structures.
1. Behold! That golden sea with dazzling waves mountain-high—an immensity of wheat field
for three days’ fly, where my father stands shoulder-high, my elder brother exposing only his head, my granny falling into the sea upon her tread, above me golden billows surging like a crest of hundred feet and I hold my breath, jumping two times and three, which ends in a failure to reach the ears of wheat! (cutting)
2. There are swift flowing rivers, slow, sluggish rivers, mighty rivers with several mouths, rivers
that carry vast loads of alluvium to the sea, clear, limpid rivers, rivers that at some seasons of the year have very much more water than at others, rivers that are made to generate vast quantities of electricity by their power, and rivers that carry great volumes of traffic. (cutting) 3. Harry grew tired of watching the crowding lorries, the mount police with their effect of sleek
menace, the utility van dashing about, taking down and sending out wireless messages, the lieutenant confusedly studying the map to make out what the messages meant and appealing for aid now and then to the sergeant. ( reversing)
4. Is the claim of the G&C Merriam Company, probably the world’s greatest dictionary maker,
that the preparation of the work cost $ 3.5 million, that it required the efforts of three hundred scholars over a period of twenty-seven years, working on the largest collection of citations ever assembled in any language—is all this a fraud, a hoax? (cutting/ recasting)
5. The secret of the moon remained veiled until the latter half of the twentieth century due to the
lack of a lunar space carrier, for a series of questions concerning fuel, material, safe landing, propelling mechanism and particularly electronic computation etc. were too intricate to solve under the technical conditions early in this century, which have since been undergoing profound change and greatly improving. ( reversing/ inserting)
6. All members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from
membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter. ( splitting )
7. Americans who would be patriots must try to learn what it is that they have in common, what
it is in the republic that is worth cherishing and preserving until they know that, their patriotism will have no more content than a bright, loud afternoon parade. ( cutting / splitting ) 8. Computer language may range from detailed low level close to that immediately understood
by the particular computer, to the sophisticated high level which can be rendered automatically acceptable to a wide range of computers. ( recasting )
9. A complex bureaucracy favors the status quo, because short of an unambiguous catastrophe,
the status quo has advantage of familiarity, and it is never possible to prove that another course would yield superior results. It seemed no accident that most great statesmen had been locked in permanent struggle with the experts in their foreign offices, for the scope of the statesman’s conception challenges the inclination of the expert toward minimum risk. ( cutting / reversing / embedding )
10. He ranged the summer woods now, green with gloom, if anything actually dimmer than they
had been in November’s gray dissolution, where even at noon the sun fell only in the windless dappling upon the earth which never completely dried and which crawled with snakes-moccasins and water-snakes and rattlers, themselves the color of the dappled gloom so that he would not always see then until they moved; returning to camp later and later, first day,
second day, passing in the twilight of the third evening the little log pen enclosing the log barn where Sam was putting up the stock for the night. ( cutting / embedding / recasting / splitting ) 11. This spirit of fair-play, which in the public schools, at any rate, is absorbed as the most
inviolable of traditions, has stood our race in good stead in the professions, and especially in the administration of dependencies, where the obvious desire of the officials to deal justly and see fair-play in disputes between natives and
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