第二部分 例句据中国因特网信息中心的统计数据，中国的公共网络已覆盖365个城市，上网电脑达520万台，经常上网者达1,260万人以上，网址有32,000个。
　　According to statistics from China Internet Network Information Center, the public network covers 365 cities, and the number of on-line computers reached 5.2 million, with 12.6 million regular Internet users and 23,000 web sites.
　　今天的因特网具有强大的通信功能，它可以提供电子邮件、即时信息和聊天室等多种通信方式。
　　Today's Internet is a powerful way to communicate, including e-mail, instant messaging and chatroom services.
　　关注未来因特网的最佳方法是了解今日的因特网存在着什么问题。
　　The best way of looking at the Internet of the future is to ask what is wrong with today's.
　　今天，商务和通信二十四小时不停地进行着。在有线电视的新闻节目中所报道的事件不是在几点钟发生，而是在一个小时或30分钟前发生。当地时间已不再是一个有意义的时间标志。
　　Today, commerce and communications never cease but go around the clock. On cable-TV news shows, events did not happen at which hour, but an hour or 30 minutes ago. Local time is no longer the meaning marker of events.
　　高级口译笔记——饮食文化（Catering Culture）
　　VOCABLULARY烹调术 cookery色、香、味 color, aroma and taste佐料 seasoning刀功 slicing technique清炒 plain-frying煸 stir-frying爆 quick-frying炸 deep-frying煎 pan-frying焙 roasting清蒸 steaming氽 quick-boiling熏 smoking腌 salting
　　食谱 recipe回锅肉 twice-cooked pork slices in brown sauce炸猪排 fried pork chop北京烤鸭 roast Beijing duck什锦炒蔬 stir-fried mixed vegetables酸辣汤 hot and sour soup鸡茸蘑菇汤 cream of mushroom with chicken
　　主食 staple food馒头 steamed bread米饭 steamed rice扬州炒饭 Yangchow fried rice冷面 cold noodle炒米粉 fried ground rice noodles炸酱面 noodles with fried brown sauce paste油条 fried twisted stick锅贴 pan-fried dumping花卷 steamed twisted roll小笼包子 steamed meat dumpling粽子 rice dumpling wrapped in reed leaves
　　黑啤 dark beer黄酒/花雕酒 yellow rice wine烈酒 spitits/ strong liquor白干 white liquor佐餐酒 table wine（酒）加冰块的 on the rocks（酒）不加冰块的 straight up小啜 sip矿泉水 mineral water红茶 black tea清咖啡 black coffee全脂/脱脂奶 whole/skim milk酸奶 yoghurt
　　粟子 chestnut马蹄梨 water chestnut莲子 lotus seed藕 lotus root猕猴桃 kiwi fruit山楂 haw枣 Chinese date
　　餐前开胃点心 appretizer主菜 main course附菜 side dish餐后甜食 dessert什锦色拉 mixed fruit salad with ham什锦水果圣代 mixed fruit sundae民族风味餐 ethnic food小吃 snack冷盘 cold dish点心 pastry餐桌圆转盘 Lazy Susan
　　PRACTICE Translate the following passage into English评判中餐烹调的优劣可依据中餐的三大要素，即“色、香、味”。“色”作为“色、香、味”三要素中的首要标准，充分体现在宴会菜肴的装盘、摆放和图案上。最能显示色彩的是首先上桌的好道煞费苦心而精心制作的冷盘。“香”不仅是指鼻子对食物的直接感受，它还包括所选原料的新鲜成度以及佐料的合理搭配。“味”则体现了恰到好处的调味艺术，当然它也包括食物的质地，以及切菜的刀功。色、香、味这三大要素的高品质，只有通过选料、调料、适时烹调、把握火候、装盘上桌这些微妙步骤的细心协调，才能取得。
　　高级口译笔记——谚语口译（Interpreting Proverbs）③ 三、形异意合的谚语，这类谚语常常会被望“形”生“意”，造成误译。
　　1. A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.做贼心虚。
　　2. Accidents will happen.天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
　　3. A clear conscience is a sure card.为人不做亏心事，半夜不怕鬼敲门。
　　4. A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。
　　5. All your swans are geese.事与愿违。
　　6. As you make the bed, so you must lie in it.自食其果。
　　7. A watched pot never boils.心急吃不了热豆腐。
　　8. Count one's chickens before they are hatched.盲目乐观。
　　9. Danger is next neighbor to security.塞翁失马，安知非福？
　　10. Do in Rome as Romans do.入乡随俗。
　　11. Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.顺其自然。
　　12. Everybody's business is nobody's business.三个和尚无水吃。
　　13. Justice has long arms.天网恢恢，疏而不漏。
　　14. He knows most who speaks least./Still water runs deep.大智若愚。
　　15. Late fruit keeps well.大器晚成。
　　16. Many kiss the baby by the name of the nurse's sake.醉翁之意不在酒。
　　17. Misfortune might be a blessing in disguises.祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。
　　18. Names are debts.树大招风。
　　19. Nothing venture, nothing have.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
　　20. Rest breeds rust.生命在于运动。
　　21. Rome was not built in a day.冰冻三尺非一日之寒。
　　22. Save your breath to cool your porridge.各人自扫门前雪，莫管他人瓦上霜。
　　23. Short pleasure, long lament.一失足成千古恨。
　　24. Stick together through thick and thin.患难与共。
　　25. Take things as they come.既来之则安之。
　　26. The pot calls the kettle black.五十步笑一百步。
　　27. The shepherd would rather lose the wool than the sheep.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。
　　28. Things done cannot be undone.木已成舟。/覆水难收。
　　29. True blue will never stain.真金不怕火炼。
　　30. You cannot make a crab walk straight.江山易移，本性难改。