10、date/go back to, date from 追溯到……年代 该短语常用一般现在时,不用于被动语态。 Whenever Grandma talks, she always likes to go back to her youth days. 祖母只要一谈话, 总是喜欢谈到她的青年时代。 trace back to “追溯到某某年代”, 一般要用人作主语;如果物作主语的话, 则使用被动语态。 The contact between our two countries can be traced back to last century. 我们两国之间的往来可以追溯到上个世纪。 汉译英。 1. 这座教堂的历史可以追溯到13世纪。 The history of this church dates from/back to the 13th century. 2. 她很怕水, 起因可归于儿时的一次事故。 Her fear of water can be traced back to a childhood accident. 3. 他的家族可追溯到清朝。 His family dates from the Qing Dynasty. 11、But the house on Mango Street is not the_way they described it at all.(P42) 但是芒果街上的房子完全不是他们所描述的样子。 the way + that/in which/(不填) 当the way作先行词, 其后接定语从句时, 从句可用in which或that引导, 也可省略。 汉译英。 1. 她笑起来和她妈妈一样。 She smiles the way (that/in which) her mother does. 2. 我不喜欢你嘲笑他的方式。 I don't like the way (that/in which) you laugh at him. ()1. (2010·上海卷)Wind power is an ancient source of energy ______we may return in the near future. A. on which |