重復法（5）

英語中的同位語，在譯文中有時也可以重復先行詞。

1)The President announced, with obvious relish, that the planes took off from "Shangri-la", the fictional, remote retreat in the Himalayas.

這位總統(tǒng)洋洋得意地宣稱，這批飛機是從“香格里拉”起飛的，而“香格里拉”是一個虛構的喜馬拉雅山中的世外桃源。

2)All of these arrangements were a prelude to the ball, the hostess' ultimate prize.

所有這些安排都只是這次舞會的序曲，舞會才是女主人的最終目的。

3)Water can be decomposed by energy, a current of electricity.

水可由能量來分解，所謂能量也就是電流。

4)No one dared to walk out of Johnson's Administration, because they knew if they did, two men were going to follow their ass to the end of the earth, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover and the head of the Internal Revenue Service.

沒有人敢向約翰遜辭職。因為他們知道，要是誰膽敢這樣做，就會有兩個人在他們屁股后面跟到天涯海角，這兩個人便是埃德加·胡佛先生和國內稅務局局長。