Sentence 27

英文原文：

For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces.

TOEFL: 1995.12

托福真题

参考翻译：

多年以来，为每部电影选择音乐（的权利）完全掌握在指挥及乐队领导者手中；时常，获得这样一种（为电影选择配乐的）地位的主要条件，与其说是（取决于）（指挥与乐队领导者所拥有的）技巧或品位，还不如说是（取决于）（他们）所拥有的一个大型个人音乐作品库。

知识点小结：

1.“A rest in B”的意思是“A处在B之中”。

2.“not A so much as B”的意思是“与其说A，还不如说B”。

与本次句子翻译相关的阅读题目：无

因为该句为老托福阅读中的内容，所以就不给题目了。但大家也要认真学习这句话的表达方式和结构，这样以后写文章的时候就可以派上大用场了。

汉英翻译练习：

学生在学业上取得的成功，与其说是源于天资聪颖，还不如说是源于后天的努力；所以，每天给学生布置家庭作业是很有必要的。

参考翻译：

Most students' academic success comes not so much from their natural intelligence, as it does from their eff ort. Therefore, it is necessary to assign homework to the students every day.

请将以上句子扩充后的中文段落翻译成英文：

学生在学业上取得的成功，与其说是源于天资聪颖，还不如说是源于后天的努力；所以，每天给学生布置家庭作业是很有必要的：因为每天的作业既是对以前和当天所学知识的复习，又是对将要学习内容的预习。

大家想一想，该翻译练习是不是可以用到下面的托福写作中呢？

写作题目：

Many teachers assign homework to students every day. Do you think that daily homework is necessary for students?

——2007.1.13

勇哥批改学生翻译练习：

潇尘：

改前：Students achieve success on their studies do not come from remarkable talents so much as the working hard after birth. Because of assignment everyday, it is a kind of review of knowledge formerly. In the maintime, it is the demands before having class to prepare for the lessons well.

改后：Students become successful in their studies not really because of their remarkable talents but from hard work. By doing their daily assignments, they are constantly reviewing previous knowledge. At the sametime, it is required that they had prepared for their lessons before coming to their classes.

KERR：

改前：The reason why students get success from school work is not talent so much as hard working. So, it is really necessary to make students do their homework everyday:because daily homework is not only a review of knowledge they learn in the day, but also a preview of the knowledge they will learn in the future.

改后：The reason why students succeed in school is not from talent so much as from hard work. So, it is really necessary to make students do their homework every day:because doing daily homework is not only a review of the knowledge they learned, but also a preview of the knowledge they will learn in the future.

帆：

改前：The principal qualification for gaining the achievements at school were not gift of intelligence so much as students' hard working; Therefore, daily homework is necessary for students: daily homework, is not only easy for us to review, but also is a approach of previewing.

改后：The principal qualification for gaining achievements at school is not the gift of intelligence so much as the students' hard work; Therefore, daily homework is necessary for students: daily homework is not only a way for them to review, but is also a means of previewing future learning.

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