试题题干
Directions:
Translate following text into Chinese. Write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)
Although we try our best, sometimes our paintings rarely turn out as originally planned! Changes in the light, the limitations of your palette, and just plain old lack of experience and technique mean that what you start out trying to achieve sometimes doesn't come to life the way that you expected.
Although this can be frustrating and disappointing, it that this can actually be good for you! Unexpected results have two benefits: you can quickly learn to deal with disappointment, and realise that when one door closes, another opens. You quickly learn to adapt and come up with creative solutions to the problems the painting presents, and this means that thinking outside the box becomes second nature to the painter!
Creative problem solving skills are incredibly useful in daily life, and mean you're more likely to be able to quickly come up with a solution when a problem arises.
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试题解析
翻译时注意语序的调整与语义的表达，需保持语句通顺，行文流畅。
考点：turn out：结果是；limitation：局限性；palette：调色板；lack of experience and technique：缺乏经验和技术；frustrating and disappointing：令人沮丧和失望；creative solutions：创造性的方法；come up with：提出，想出。
句子结构：
第一段第一句为although引导的让步状语从句。Although we try our best, sometimes our paintings rarely turn out as originally planned!句意为：尽管我们竭尽所能，但是有时我们的画很难吻合原意。
第一段第二句为that引导的宾语从句：...mean that what you start out trying to ...
第二段第一句同样为although引导的让步状语从句。第二句realise that...为that引导的宾语从句。
第三段第一句的后半句 “...quickly come up with a solution when a problem arises...”为when引导的条件（时间）状语从句。