一、改变语序

改变语序，一般指倒装。倒装分为语法倒装和修辞倒装。考研难点一般在修辞倒装。修辞倒装主要是为了强调，一种是强调句子的表达重心，一种是强调一种表达语气，比如命令语气，假设语气(虚拟语气的倒装属于此类)疑问语气和否定语气。这些倒装常和一些连词或者副词(如nor/so/only/never/until等)密切相关。下文所举例子基本是从这个角度出发选择出来的。

背诵例句：

1、He wrote a novel, and no sooner did he have the synopsis of a story ,but he would invite a crowd of his friends outdoors and read it aloud to them.

译文：他写小说时刚刚构思出剧情轮廓就赶紧邀请一群朋友到野外，然后把剧情梗概大声地念给他们听。

2、Only after studies provided evidence of the harmful effects of this program, has it been possible to modify TV programming policies.

译文：除非研究提供证据表明这个节目有不良影响，否则电视节目的播放政策不会改变。

3、And never before has it been so undeniable that mutually beneficial international institutions of cooperation are a vital global necessity.

译文：过去人们从来没有这么坚信各国互利的国际合作机构是全球不可或缺的要素。

4、Lonely was seeing his son only once a month since the divorce.

译文：离婚后，他每月只能看儿子一次。这使他感到孤独。

5、So involved with the book do the boy become that his mother often have to force him to break.

译文：那男孩对这本书如此着迷，以至于他的母亲不得不总强迫他停下。

6、The material destruction of the war was not so great but that it could by this time have been repaired, had a good peace been made without delay.

译文：假若当时立即恢复了和平，战争在物质方面的破坏无论怎样大，到一也能够得到修复了。

7、Scientists do not know exactly how the virus damages the immune system, nor do they understand why the natural antibodies developed to destroy the virus are ineffective.

译文：科学家们迄今未能确定这种病毒破坏免疫系统的机理，他们也不明白旨在破坏这种病毒的天然抗体为什么无效。

二、使用插入语

插入语，是因为分裂了句子的结构而得名的，所以，这个术语主要是从语法功能角度出发提出的，对语法形式没有多大考虑。插入语一般是主谓结构或者介宾结构。使用插入语主要是为了调整语气和增加补充信息，并且更主要目的是为了平衡句子结构，避免头重脚轻。插入语是主谓结构，一般都是“sb say/reason/suggest”这种格式，阅读问题不大，翻译时要提到句首。【南京大学考研资讯及资料,请登录www.njuyz.com】插入语是介宾结构也是如此处理。定语从句和分词做定语时，如果是插在主谓结构之间也可以看作是插入语。考研翻译中出现最多的插入语是用破折号插入的新话题或者补充信息。这种插入标志很明显，只是翻译处理会有些棘手。另外，因为一些句子成分(一般是定语)过长而出现后置，也可看作是插入现象。只不过这种插入只是句子原有成分间的位子变化，没有新增成分。

背诵例句：

1、Demonstrations are being staged in the town. where opposition is mounting to the construction of a nuclear waste storage plant near the river.

译文：这个城市不断发生示威游行，而且这种反对在河边建造核废料储存厂的呼声日高涨。

2、Most experts see in this a paradox -- an endless conflict between the desire to conform and the desire to remain apart.

译文：大多数专家都从中看到一种矛盾，即从众的欲望和试图与众不同的欲望之间的绵延不断的冲突。

3、Those，unaware of what is happening in society today may be surprised to learn that few academic philosophers study death, happiness and so on.

译文：那些人不了解当今社会发生的事情，所以发现现在的哲学家很少研究死亡和幸福之类的东西时会感到奇怪。

4、Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently—this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done --is not being civilized.

译文：即使善于驱使别人去为自己打仗，并且告诉他们怎样打才最有效——这毕竟是征服者和将军们干过的事——也不能称其为文明行为。

5、Science moves forward , they say ,not so much through the insights of great men of genius as because of more ordinary things like improved techniques and tools.

译文：他们说，科学的进步与其说源于天才伟人的真知灼见，不如说源于诸如改进的技术 和工具等更为普通的东西。