| 1. | We started selling company stock five years ago
直译是“ 5年前我们开始卖公司的股份” 。 |
| 2. | What was your reason for leaving that company
直译是“什么原因使你离开了那家公司？ ” 。 |
| 3. | You ' ll have all the papers in your hands tomorrow
直译是“明天你就可以拿到所有的文件了” 。 |
| 4. | I ' m ahead of schedule on my work
直译是“我在工作上超过了日程” 。 |
| 5. | It isn ' t going to happen overnight
直译是“它不是突然发生的” 。 |
| 6. | Go off into a corner to sulk 9 . blair is unlikely to roll back any of the previous ruling party ' s majoreconomic reforms
直译是“走开到一个角落里生气” gain nothing ，什么也没有得到。 |
| 7. | 21 . if iraq sticks to the road map laid out for it by the united nations , sanctions could be lifted without more ado
注： road map ，交通图道路图此处直译是“如果伊拉克按照联合国交通图向前走不偏离方向” 。 |
| 8. | Aureliano smiled , picked her up by the waist with both hands like a pot of begonias , and dropped her on her back on the bed
照着英文版直译是：奥雷良诺微笑，像捧起一盆秋海棠一样，双手抱起她的腰肢，把她仰面放倒在床上。 |
| 9. | It is because the term " extremely red object " or " hero has already been used by astronomers to identify the extremely red object in the universe
所谓hero其实是hyper extremely red object的缩写。如果直译是超极红天体。这个名词在用字上实在叠床架屋。 |
| 10. | Mandala is the spiritual map of the universe in buddhism . in sanskrit , it actually means circle , for the entire universe is believed to exist within a mystic circle
梵文称其为“曼陀罗”直译是“圆形围绕”就世俗象征性而言，即对于所依本尊无量宫殿中心做周围围绕。 |
