本内容针对专业四级的英译汉 或汉译英，还有英语专业研究生翻译方向的考生。让我们一起每天都做些练习。翻译最大的特点，就是你必须真正掌握一定的词汇。
Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir announced Sunday that a coup plot by the opposition Popular Congress party has been completely aborted.
Coup plot表示“政变阴谋”，coup除了表示“出乎意料的行动;策略、妙计”以外，还有“政变”的含义。例如：The party staged a bloodless coup.(该政党发动了一起不流血的政变。)
据悉，政变策划者是身陷囹圄的人民全国大会党领导人哈桑·图拉比的支持者。他们密谋于次日下午2时在首都喀土穆动手。但在"密谋"实施前数小时，苏丹当局将其扼杀在萌芽状态。除政变领导人、人民全国大会党通讯部长哈吉·阿达姆·优素福外，其他政变参与者几乎全部被捕。
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he was "very disappointed and surprised" that his son had continued to receive payments until this February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq's oil-for-food program, the subject of numerous corruption investigations.
Annan told reporters that he had been working on the understanding that payments to his son, Kojo Annan, from the Swiss-based firm Cotecna Inspection S.A. stopped in 1998 "and I had not expected that the relationship continued."
On the understanding that是一个固定词组，表示“如果，以……为前提条件”，例如：Participants of this action will only be accepted on the understanding that they are aware of these risks and wish to participate of their own free will.(只有那些了解自己所冒的风险、并出于自愿的参与者才能够参加此次行动。) I gave her some money on the understanding that she should spend it on books .(我给了她一些钱，前提是她得把这钱花在买书上。)
此前，安南曾两度在联合国表示，他的儿子是在该公司实习，1999年底离开，并没有涉及该公司任何有关石油换食品计划合约。