《大学英语教程》第三册第三课中有这样一句话A professor of mathematicsat the university was about to conduct an experiment which,as they all antici-pated,was doomed to end in failure(见College English,Book 3,p.54,外语教学与研究出版社)。与此书相配套的自学辅导对此句的翻译欠妥,现分析如下。 原译:比萨大学的一位数学教授将要当众做试验。这项试验正如人们所预料 In the third lesson of the third volume of College English Tutorial, there is a saying that professor of mathematics at the university was about to conduct an experiment which, as they all antici-pated, was doomed to end in failure (see College English, Book 3 , p.54, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press). The translation of this sentence by the self-study counseling associated with this book is not adequate. The analysis is as follows. Original translation: A mathematics professor at the University of Pisa is going to test in public. This test is as one would expect