GRE閱讀長(zhǎng)難句翻譯7

　　1. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups andthe Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. Butthe tide is unlikely to turn back.

　　2. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changingcommunity attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making asimilar law to deal with euthanasia.

　　3. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill manneredtaxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that itdeserves comment.

　　4. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) ispervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in themorning, a cigarette for the nerves.

　　5. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of thesubstance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance ofunpleasant with drawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

　　1.[參考譯文]一些機(jī)構(gòu)終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機(jī)構(gòu)，包括教堂，倡導(dǎo)生命之權(quán)的團(tuán)體和澳大利亞醫(yī)學(xué)協(xié)會(huì)，尖銳地抨擊這個(gè)法案，指責(zé)法案的通過過于匆忙。但是大勢(shì)已定，不可逆轉(zhuǎn)。

　　2.[參考譯文]在澳大利亞——人口老齡化，延長(zhǎng)壽命的技術(shù)和變化看的社會(huì)態(tài)度，這些因素都在發(fā)揮作用一一其他的州也會(huì)考慮制定相似的關(guān)于安樂死的法律。

　　3.[參考譯文]當(dāng)然，例外是存在的。在美國(guó)，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯?shù)膫髡?，和沒有禮貌的出租車司機(jī)也并不少見。然而人們常常得出這樣的觀察意見，這使得它值得被討論一下。

　　4.[參考譯文]我們生活在一種藥品(毒品)的醫(yī)學(xué)用途和社會(huì)用途都很廣泛的社會(huì)里：一片用來止頭痛的阿斯匹林，一些用來社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神所喝的咖啡，一支用來定神的香煙。

　　5.[參考譯文]對(duì)藥品的依賴性首先表現(xiàn)為不斷增長(zhǎng)的耐藥量，要產(chǎn)生想得到的效果所需要的藥品劑量越來越大，然后表現(xiàn)為當(dāng)停止用藥后，令人不快的停藥癥狀的出現(xiàn)。