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2007年第3篇第11句
考研阅读逐句翻译
For much
of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a
saving-account model, with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed
payments for payments depending on investment returns.
词汇：
campaign
//v. 发起运动，开展运动
retiree
//n. 退休人员
结构：
For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social
Security to a saving-account model（主干）, //with
retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments
depending on investment returns（with介词短语做状语，其中trading…for…是分词短语作定语修饰retirees；后面depending on…也是分词短语作定语，修饰payments.）.
译文：
在去年的大部分时间里，小布什总统一直致力于将社保变成一种储蓄账户模式，让退休人员将其大部分或全部有保障的退休金用来投资，靠投资回报获得收益。
翻译思路：
这个句子是长句，但并不算难句。当然，需要拆分之后再翻译。
首先，要看到to move…to…，是“把…转变成为…”这个短语。
其次，后面with retirees是介词短语表伴随，说明上文小布什搞的这个改革（把社保改为存款模式）的做法。略微麻烦一点的是要看到trading…to…这个短语，意思是“用…来…交换什么”。这个模式的做法是 “用有保障的收入trading guaranteed payment来交换获得另一种收入payments”。而获得的这种收入（原文中的第二个payments），则有点不靠谱，需要靠投资回报，后面depending on…是分词短语作定语，修饰第二个payments。
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2007年第3篇第12句
考研阅读逐句翻译
For
younger families, the picture is not any better.
译文：
对于更年轻的家庭来说，情况也不好。
【作业】：
唐静 考研阅读逐句翻译2007年第3篇第13句
Both the absolute cost of
healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen — and newly
fashionable health-savings plans are spreading from legislative halls to
Wal-Mart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of
investment risk for families’ future healthcare.
唐静 考研阅读逐句翻译2007年第3篇第14句
Even
demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having
a weak elderly parent — and all the attendant need for physical and financial
assistance — have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
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