《大学英语》精读第二册第一单元汉译英练习中有这样一道题:“几天前,由三位医生和两位护士组成的医疗队出发到山区去了。”参考译文为:“The medical team,composed of three doctors and two nurses,set off for the mountainous are a few days ago.”在这道题的翻译中,“由……组成”译为“(be)composed of”。由此,我联想到comprise,constitute,compose,consist of,make up,be made up of这组同义动词(或短语动词)。 In the first unit of “College English” quiz, Volume 2 Chinese translation exercises, there is such a question: “A few days ago, a medical team consisting of three doctors and two nurses set out to the mountains.” References: ”The medical team, composed of three doctors and two nurses, set off for the mountainous are a few days ago.“ In the translation of this question, ”consisting of“ is translated as ”(be)composed of". From this, I think of corporate, compassion, compose, consist of, make up, be made up of this set of synonymous verbs (or phrasal verbs).