【正文】 extraordinary discovery made by Edison to see the significance of it.40. not (no) …unless…句型No increase in output can be expected unless a new assembly line is installed.41. better…than…句型Better my life should be ended by their hate, than that hated life should be prolonged to live without your love.42. as it were是一個非常常用的插入語，意思是好象，可以說等。 nor, because she had more readers, was Ella wheeler Wilcox a better poet than Father Hopkins.57. so…that, such…that是一個普通的句型，但在同一個句子里有兩處使用它卻比較少見。If I39。在翻譯成漢語時，往往可獨立成句，外形上不保留修飾的痕跡。I remember once being on a bus and looking at a stranger. He suddenly looked back at eyes met. My instinctive reaction was to avert my gaze. It occurred to me that if I had continued to maintain eye contact, I would have been rude and aggressive.64. It follows that…=It happens as a result…常常被譯為由此可見，因此，從前，可以推斷等等。clock, when a very big, very tall man, accosted them and demanded their purses.53. too…to句型Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.54. so much that…句型But he developed gradually a very musical English. He learnt to write sentences that fall away on the ear with a misty languor and it delighted him so much that he could never have enough of it.55. when引導(dǎo)狀語從句有時并不好譯，不能一看到when從句就考慮譯為當(dāng)……的時候，它還有許多種譯法。起讓步狀語的作用。As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart.26. if any結(jié)構(gòu)，if any和if ever，意思是果真有……，即使有……，表示加強語氣。You know but too yell to hold your tongue.14. no more …than…句型A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.15. not so much…as和not so much as …結(jié)構(gòu)，not so much…as=not so much as …，其中as有進可換用but rather，可譯為：與其說是……毋須說是……。something like譯為有點像，略似?？勺g為還沒有……到不能做……的程度，并不是……不……，無論怎樣……也不是不能……等。This more than satisfied me.32. good and …的副詞用法，譯為非常，很等。 I can see only with great difficulty, if at all.47. 由there引起的句型容易產(chǎn)生復(fù)雜的句子結(jié)構(gòu).There have been opened up to the vast and excellent science, in which my work is the beginning, ways and means by which other minds more accurate than wine will explore its remote corners.48. range from …to…結(jié)構(gòu)。No less obvious is the fact there are great numbers of people so constituted or so brought up that they cannot get so much pleasure out of processes and experiences resulting in a poorer life less full of meaning.60. what…of句型I can not say of myself what Johnson said of Pope: He never passed a fault unamended