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语态的转换

科技英语问题中，被动语态使用相当广泛，在翻译时除少数仍保留被动形式外，大多数情况下要翻译成符合汉语习惯的主动语态，例如：

例4.Heat can be converted to energy and energy can be converted to heat.

热可以被转换成能量，能量也可以被转换成热。（被动语态保持不变）

例5.Other forms of energy can be changed to electric energy by generators.

发电机能把其他形式的能量转变成电能。（被动语态转主动语态）

表语从句

　　It seems that it is going to snow.

　　看起来要下雪了。

　　That is why Jack got scolded.

　　这就是杰克受到训斥的原因。

　　The question remains whether we can win the majority of the people.

　　问题是我们能否赢得大多数人民群众的支持。

　　His view of the press was that the reporters were either for him or against him.

他对新闻界的看法是，记者们不是支持他，就是反对他。

名词译成动词

⑵The dependence of the rate of evaporation of a liquid ontemperature is enormous.译为:液体的蒸发速度很大程度上取决于它的温度。⑶W ith the use of the increased temperature and pressure,the oil is cracked into lighter or heavier fracti.译为:利用高温,可将石油裂化成轻馏分或重馏分。⑷Where the source is normally mounted on a horizontalp lane surface,the corresponding free field is a hem isphere,andthus sound p ressure measurements are made at points on the sur2face of the hypothetical hem isphere.译为:在声源正常地安装在一个水平表面的地方,相应的自由声场就是一个半球面,这样就可在相应这个假设的半球面上的一些点测量声压级。Heatcanbeconvertedtoenergyandenergycanbeconvertedtoheat。