一、译前自测-ECO选段(英译汉)
建议落笔翻译，若手头暂无纸笔，也可先进行视译。
A robotic lawnmower keeping the grass neat and tidy outside a modern industrial building in Carrigtwohill, near Cork in Ireland, is a good indication that something whizzy may be going on inside. And so it proves. The airy production hall contains row after row of 3D printers, each the size of a large fridge-freezer. The machines are humming away as they steadily make orthopaedic implants, such as replacement hip and knee joints. Even though several hundred employees’ cars are parked outside, the hall is almost deserted. Every so often a team appears, a bit like a Formula One pit crew, to unload a machine, service it and set it running again to make another batch of implants.
二、相关词汇学习与积累
robotic lawnmower 自动割草机
keep the grass neat and tidy 把草坪修剪得整齐利落
whizzy 采用最新技术的;
e.g. a whizzy new handheld computer 技术先进的新掌上电脑
airy production hall 宽敞的生产车间
airy 通风的(宽敞、空间大);漫不经心的，无所谓的;轻率的
e.g. He dismissed her with an airy wave. 他随手一挥就把她打发走了。
e.g. airy promises/speculation 轻率的诺言;无端猜测
fridge-freezer 双门冰箱
orthopaedic implants 矫形外科植入体
replacement hip and knee joints 人工髋关节和膝关节
The hall is almost deserted车间内却几乎不见人影
e.g. deserted streets 空无一人的街道
pit crew 后勤维修人员
Formula One pit crew 一级方程式赛车的维修人员
三、双语对照参考(水平好得同学可对译文进行润色)
A robotic lawnmower keeping the grass neat and tidy outside a modern industrial building in Carrigtwohill, near Cork in Ireland, is a good indication that something whizzy may be going on inside. And so it proves. The airy production hall contains row after row of 3D printers, each the size of a large fridge-freezer. The machines are humming away as they steadily make orthopaedic implants, such as replacement hip and knee joints. Even though several hundred employees’ cars are parked outside, the hall is almost deserted. Every so often a team appears, a bit like a Formula One pit crew, to unload a machine, service it and set it running again to make another batch of implants.
在爱尔兰科克郡(Cork)附近的小镇卡里格图厄尔(Carrigtwohill)，一座现代化工业建筑外，一台自动割草机把草坪修剪得整齐利落，让人想到大楼内可能有某些高科技玄机。确实如此。宽敞的生产车间里摆放着一排排双门冰箱大小的3D打印机。这些机器嗡嗡作响，源源不断地制造出人工髋关节和膝关节等矫形外科植入体。尽管大楼外停着数百名员工的汽车，车间内却几乎不见人影。偶尔会有一队人闪现——有点像一级方程式赛车的维修人员。他们关停某台机器，维修它，然后重新开动，继续制造另一批植入体。
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