时间:2019-02-20 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   说起办公室里的Secretary,可能我们第一反应出的意思都是秘书,不过下面这个句子要注意了:


  "I chose the tall secretary where mother sat so often writing letters by a sunny window."
  译这句话时要格外小心,否则就会把tall secretary译成了高个子秘书,岂不闹出笑话?
  其实"secretary"在这里是一种书写的桌子,一般上面还附有一个小书架,所以全话的意思是:我选择了那个高大的写字桌,过去每逢阳光明媚的日子,妈妈常坐在窗前的桌旁写信。
  "Secretary"的意思还是很多的,除了常见的“秘书”之外,它还是“书记”,如中共中央总书记的英文说法是"the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China."省委书记是"Secretary of a provincial 1 Party Committee. "书记处是"secretariat",它是"secretary"的变体。
  秘书长的顺序正好和总书记倒过来,是"sec—retary—general", 如联合国秘书长是"the Secretary General of the United Nations."
  可还有许多职务从中文字面看并没有“秘书”字样,但英语仍需用"Secretary ",如美国国务卿(the Secretary of State)、财政部长(the Secretary of Treasury)、教育部长(the Secretary of Education)、国防部长(the Secretary of Defense)等.
  最后我们来说说,办公室的秘书还可以怎么说呢?有一种不太常用的叫法,叫做girl Friday,它大概是从man Friday演化而来的。英国小说家笛福写了本《鲁宾逊漂流记》(点击查看英文原著>>),男主角的仆人就叫man Friday。

adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
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