【例1】 My point is that the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately following it is inevitable.
【译文】我认为一代人对下一代人的抱怨是难免的。
【分析】原句虽短,但要正确分析句子结构也不容易。由于受inevitable惯用法的影响,很多人可能直接将it is inevitable 看作一句话,这样就没有正确分析句子结构,结果必将影响到翻译的质量。事实上,这句话的主干是my point is that the complaint is inevitable, it是following的宾语,指代one generation。另外,本句也要注意complaint…about的用法和the one 的指代(the one generation)。
【例2】 In reality, the lines of division between sciences are becoming blurred, and science again approaching the “unity” that it had two centuries ago—although the accumulated knowledge is enormously greater now, and no one person can hope to comprehend more than a fraction of it.