1）With the prices and house rents increasing rapidly, many young university graduates cannot earn their living, let alone support their parents. （21 words）
译文：随着（由于）物价和房租迅速上涨，许多年轻大学毕业生无法挣钱养活自己，更不用说赡养父母了。
2. not so much…as …（=less … more …）的译法：
2）In order to detect the misprints in a single print, the proofreader has to notice not so much the meaning of what he reads as the exact shape and order of letters and words in the text. （37 words）
5）They teach very well, and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment. （2006试题）
6）While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past. （36 words）
7）But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.
8）What he has demonstrated, he believes, is that lack of control over an event, not the experience itself, is what weakens the immune system. （24 words）
译文：他认为，他所论证的是，缺乏对事件的驾驭能力而不是经验本身是削弱免疫系统的原因。
6. 定语从句的前置合译法：
9）On the whole, such a conclusion can be drawn with a certain degree of confidence, but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the others with whom he is being compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possessed. （58 words）
10）This assumption rests on the fallacy of the inherent laziness in human nature; actually, aside from abnormally lazy people, there would be very few who would not want to earn more than the minimum, and who would prefer to do nothing rather than work.
11）There is no agreement whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work in general or to the research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical inquiry. （29 words） 译法：上面整句采用逆序法翻译。
12）Individual manufacturers do not necessarily rely on their relatives because they cannot obtain financial support from commercial banks. They may actually avoid them because they assume that the banks either cannot understand their special needs or charge unreasonably high interest rates. （41 words）
12. not that…，but that…或强调形式：It is not that…，but that…的汉译：
13）Our boast is not that we have more ideas or brilliant ideas but that our ideas are better tested.
译文：我们自我夸耀倒不是因为我们的主意多或我们的主意好，而是因为我们的主意都是经过更好检验的。
13. It was not until that…与Not until…的译法：
14）As was discussed before， it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic medium. （=It was discussed before that not until the 19th century did the newspaper become the dominant pre-electronic medium.）
译文：正如以前谈过，直到19世纪报纸才成为电子时代以前的主导媒体。
14. as引导的特殊状语从句的译法：当作定语从句来翻译
15）Dr. Pyke contended that the scientific revolution， as we call it， is largely the improvement and invention and use of a series of instruments that expanded the reach of science in innumerable directions.