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2008年第3篇第09句
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That’s a far different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George most people remember from their history books.
词汇：
image //n. 形象，概念；印象，图片
cherry //n. 樱桃，樱桃树
chop //v. 砍
结构：
That’s a far
different image from the cherry-tree-chopping George （主句）//most people remember from their history books（定语从句）.
译文：
这跟很多人从历史书上读到的那个砍樱桃树的华盛顿的形象有点大相径庭。
翻译思路：
华盛顿，美国的开国元勋嘛，总有些传说。比如砍樱桃树，主要是说华盛顿从小就是一个诚实的孩子。还比如，有人说他的牙齿是“木制的”。不过，根据我的知识，好像这些都证明只是传说，没有实际佐证，并且似乎都不是酱紫的。
Allan Metcalf写过一本书Presidential Voices: Speaking
Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush，值得翻翻，其中有讲华盛顿这些事情。
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2008年第4篇第4句
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But recently, many historians have begun to focus on the roles slavery played in the lives of the founding generation.
词汇：
slavery //n. 奴隶制
founding //adj. 成立的，创办的，建立的
结构：
But recently, many
historians have begun to focus on the roles（主句） //slavery played in the
lives of the founding generation（定语从句）.
译文：
但最近，很多历史学家都开始关注奴隶制在开国元勋的生活中所起的作用。
【作业】：
唐静 考研阅读逐句翻译2008年第4篇第5句
They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.
唐静 考研阅读逐句翻译2008年第4篇第6句
And only over the past 30 years
have scholars examined history from the bottom up.
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