长难句翻译练习
对于以下句子:(1)划出主干 (2)划出逻辑连接词 (3)翻译
1. Insulation protects the leatherback everywhere but on its head and flippers.
Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are the one part of
the leatherback that is likely to become chilled. There is not much that the turtle can
do about this without compromising the aerodynamic shape of the flipper.
TPO-15 A Warm-Blooded Turtle
2. Unlike rain, which returns rapidly to the sea or atmosphere, the snow that
becomes part of a glacier is involved in a much more slowly cycling system.
TPO-15 Glacier Formation
3. The largest terrestrial planet, Earth has a diameter only one quarter as great as the
diameter of the smallest Jovian planet, Neptune, and its mass is only one seventeenth
as great. Hence, the Jovian planets are often called giants.
TPO-16 Planets in Our Solar System
4. In the fourteenth century, a number of political developments cut Europe's overland
trade routes to southern and eastern Asia, with which Europe had important and
highly profitable commercial ties since the twelfth century. This development, coming
as it did when the bottom had fallen out of the European economy, provided an
impetus to a long-held desire to secure direct relations with the East by establishing a
sea trade.
TPO-17 Europe’s Early Sea Trade with Asia
5. The sheer scale of the investment it took to begin commercial expansion at sea
reflects the immensity of the profits that such East-West trade could create.
TPO-17 Europe’s Early Sea Trade with Asia
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