【翻译硕士 | 每日一练】44

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1. Jerry wants to see Tom for discussing a trade deal. Due to the urgency of this matter, he wrote please reply ASAP, which means please reply _____ _____ _____ _____.

2. Lights are magnificent and could give people different feelings: _____ lights are beautiful and kaleidoscopic natural phenomena caused by nigh-energy particles from the outer space into high-latitude atmosphere while a _____ in the desert is only the fake reflection of a town or an oasis that might lead travelers into an even more dangerous situation.

3. Located between the European continent and North Africa, the _____ Sea has often been called the incubator of Western civilization, nurturing the Aegean civilization on the Balkan Peninsula. While the affix cel means sky, its counterpart ter means earth and ground. Examples include territory or the sea mentioned above (the sea in the middle of several lands). Then you would understand why ET (full spelling _____ _____) means aliens coming from the outer place.

4. Many would think that the biggest achievement of Henry Ford is the T model car, but a more important invention by him is the _____ _____ on which workers sit or stand still while products are transferred on a moving belt. This is a milestone invention that totally changed the way of manufacturing and is indeed an essential part in the second round of industrialization.

5. Masterpieces often have famous openings, such as the first sentence of _____ Karenina by the Russian writer Tolstoy: Happy families are all alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

【每日一练参考答案解析】44

1. reply as soon as possible 尽快回复

2. aurora lights 极光；mirage 海市蜃楼

3. the Mediterranean Sea 地中海；extraterrestrial life 地外生命（ET）

4. assembly line 装配线（流水线）

5. Anna Karenina《安娜卡列尼娜》