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1. Yuan Longping, a Chinese plant scientist, has helped to alleviate famine and poverty across much of Asia and Africa
中国植物科学家袁隆平帮助从亚洲到非洲的大片地区解决了饥饿和贫困问题
可借鉴之处：
“解决饥饿和贫困问题”的翻译：Alleviate famine and poverty（动词不用address，而用alleviate）
2. Mr. Yuan had been increasingly unwell since a fall in March during a visit to a rice breeding research site.
自从今年3月参观一个水稻育种研究基地时摔了一跤后，袁隆平的健康状况越来越不好。
可借鉴之处：
形容健康状况每况愈下，一天不如一天时可以用此处的have been increasingly unwell
3. His research made him a national hero and a symbol of dogged scientific pursuit in China.
袁隆平的研究让他成了一名民族英雄和中国坚持科学追求的象征。
可借鉴之处：坚定不移的，决不放弃的dogged
顽强抵抗：Dogged defense
坚定不移的追求：dogged pursuit
4. Hundreds left flowers at the funeral home where his body was being kept.
有数百人在停放他遗体的殡仪馆前献了鲜花。
可借鉴之处：献花的表达：left flowers at……
在……墓前敬献鲜花 left flowers at someone’s tomb
5. By 1970, Mr. Yuan was growing frustrated with his halting progress in creating more productive rice crops.
1970年时，袁隆平对自己在提高水稻产量方面进展缓慢越来越感到懊恼。
可借鉴之处：be + growing+ 形容词+介词表示对……越来越……
Be growing satisfied with……对……越来越满意
6. He hit upon a shift in strategy: search for wild varieties across remote areas of China for more promising genetic material.
他突然有了一个改变策略的想法：去中国偏远地区寻找野生品种，以获得更有希望的遗传物质。
可借鉴之处：突然想到，突然发现hit upon/on
Hit upon an idea 突然有了主意
Hit upon a strategy 计上心来
Hit upon a good nickname 想到了一个好的昵称
7. A breakthrough came when Mr. Yuan’s team came upon a stretch of wild rice near a rail line on Hainan Island in southernmost China
在中国最南端的海南岛，袁隆平的团队在一条铁路附近找到一片野生水稻，这是第一个突破。
可借鉴之处：
中国最南端的表达：southernmost China
类推：中国最北端：northernmost China
中国最西端：westernmost China
中国最东端：easternmost China
8. At that time, the world of rice scientists was full of talk of developing hybrid strains.
当时，世界水稻科学家都在讨论培育杂交品种的问题。
可借鉴之处：世界水稻科学家的表达the world of rice scientists
类推：世界生物学家：the world of biologists
等等
9. they also taught farmers a wide range of advanced rice-growing techniques that produced further gains.
他们也向农民传授了一系列先进的水稻种植技术，让产量进一步提高。
可借鉴之处：一系列并不一定总是用a series of, 也可以使用a wide range of等等
10. Mr. Yuan ended up playing a far larger role than if he had confined himself to laboratory work and writing papers.
这让袁隆平最终起了更重要的作用，而不是只将工作局限于实验室和写论文上。
可借鉴之处：
最终……，以……告终end up doing
最终并不一定必须用finally或者eventually翻译。
我最终一个人完成了所有的工作。
I eventually finished all the work myself
I ended up doing all the work myself.
11. He took the initiative in donating crucial rice strains in 1980 to the International Rice Research Institute, which later used them to develop hybrid varieties that could also grow in tropical countries.
1980年，他主动向国际水稻研究所捐赠了关键的水稻品种，该研究所后来用这些品种开发出也可在热带国家生长的杂交品种。
可借鉴之处：主动做……take the initiative in doing
12. Yuan Longping was born on Sept. 7, 1930, in Beijing — or Beiping, as it was then called — into a family that was unusually well-educated for that time.
袁隆平1930年9月7日出生在北京（当时称北平）一个对当时来说是受过异常良好教育的家庭。
可借鉴之处：当时叫……as it was then called
13. “She was an educated woman at a time when they were uncommon,” he said in a memoir published in 2010. “From early on I came under her uplifting influence.”
“她是当时少有的知识女性，”袁隆平在2010年出版的回忆录中写道。“我从小就受到她良好的熏陶。”
可借鉴之处：受到某人的良好熏陶 come under one’s uplifting influence
14. Mr. Yuan was the second of six siblings.
袁隆平在六个兄弟姐妹中排行老二。
可借鉴之处：be the second of six siblings在六个兄弟姐妹中排行老二
可用来翻译：xx家中排行老几
比如，我家中排行老三
I'm the third of my siblings.
15. He entered college in 1949 and chose to specialize in agronomy in a school in the southwest.
1949年他进了大学，选择了在西南的一所学校读农业科学。
可借鉴之处：攻读……专业
可用specialize in
我大学读的是经济学。
I specialized in economics during my college.
16. After graduating in 1953, Mr. Yuan took a job as a teacher in an agricultural college in Hunan Province, keeping up his interest in crop genetics.
袁隆平1953年大学毕业后在湖南省一所农学院当了教师，继续对作物遗传学保持着兴趣。
可借鉴之处：当了……，成了……took a job as……
17. Mr. Yuan soon settled on researching rice, the staple food for many Chinese people, searching for hybrid varieties that could boost yields and traveling to Beijing to immerse himself in scientific journals that were unavailable in his small college.
袁隆平很快决定研究水稻，这是许多中国人的主食。他寻找可以提高产量的杂交品种，去北京钻研他所在的小院校无法获得的科学期刊。
可借鉴之处：settle on doing 认定……选定……决定……
你给宝宝起好名字了吗？
Have you settled on a name for the baby yet?
immerse oneself in……埋头做……专心从事……潜心钻研……
18. his death brought an outpouring of public mourning in China
他的逝世在中国引起了公众的哀悼。
可借鉴之处：outpouring of public mourning可用来翻译举国哀悼，全国悼念等
19. Mr. Yuan is survived by his wife of 57 years, Deng Zhe, as well as three sons.
袁隆平的遗属包括结婚57年的妻子邓哲和三个儿子。
可借鉴之处：be survived by遗有……死后遗下……
比如：他死后留下了妻子和一儿一女。
He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.
结束自己的生命，自杀Take one’s own life
开辟……的道路Open the way to……
老百姓 ordinary people
饿急了 Famished
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