英译汉指导：大学英语四级考试翻译练习5_大学英语翻译

英译汉指导：大学英语四级考试翻译练习5

　　While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so fatigue, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

　　Passage Four

　　Lincoln was a strong executive who saved the government, saved the United States. He was a President who understood people and when time came to make decisions he was willing to take the responsibility and make those decisions no matter how difficult they were. He knew how to treat people and how to make a decision stick and thats why he is regarded as such a great administrative.

　　Carl Sandburg and a lot of others have tried to make something out of Lincoln that he wasnt. He was a decent man, a good politician, and a great President, and theyve tried to build up things that he never even thought about. Ill bet a dollar and a half that if you read Sandburgs mouth and mind that never even occurred to him. He was a good man who was in the place where he ought to have been at the time important events were taking place, but when they write about him as though belongs in the pantheon(众神庙)of the gods, thats not the man he really was. He was the best kind of ordinary man and when I say that he was an ordinary man, I mean that as highpraise, not deprecation. Thats the highest praise you can give a man. Hes one of the people and becomes distinguished in the service that he gives other people. He was one of the people, and he wanted to stay that way. And he was that way until the day he died. One of the reasons he was assassinated was because he didnt feel important enough to have proper guards around him at Fords Theatre.