英语角-圆桌会议 RoundTable1226 - 奇葩翻译重现江湖
时间：2019-03-05 作者：英语课 分类：英语角-圆桌会议
英语课
Topic1 "Optional Class System" in High School, is it necessary or not?
The Ministry 1 of Education said it would introduce a new student assessment 2 system to supplement the national college entrance exam, as a way to reform the country's test-centric approach to education. Education experts indicate that high schools in China may adopt a "Class-selection-system" to coordinate 3 with the reform.
Do we need such a system in high school?
Topic2 An open letter from a teacher at Sichuan UniversityOn Dec 23, an open letter from Zhou Ding, a history teacher at Sichuan University, aroused heated discussion on the Internet, which makes him controversial online. In the letter, Zhou criticized the current higher education system in China and pointed 4 out the problems Chinese universities are facing.
Did the complaint in the open letter make sense?
Topic3 Weird 5 TranslationsMany public venues 6 in China put up signs in both Chinese and English, with the influx 7 of millions of overseas tourists and an increasing number of expats living in China.
But some of these venues should have been more thoughtful and dedicated 8 in providing the information in English.
The latest translation mishap 9 was spotted 10 in Xi'an North Railway Station (wait, according to regulations it should be translated as Xi'an Bei Station), in which the sign "Please wait behind the yellow line" becomes "Please wait outside a noodle". The actual Chinese is "请在一米线外等候".
Is there a serious problem of bad English translations in China?
Topic4 Gome Cancels Orders for Cars with Wrong PricingA well-known e-commerce website in China has unilaterally canceled orders for cars sold on its websites after it found a mistake on the price tag.
Hong Kong-listed home appliance retailer 11' Gome mistakenly set the prices for a BMW car worth at 1.7 million yuan, at 170,000 yuan on its e-commerce unit.
The pricing mistake was taken as a special deal by customers who placed a dozen or so orders within just several hours of the trading.
What went wrong? Who has more reason?
Topic5 A High School in Xi'an Banns X'mas in CampusA high school in Xi'an issued a Christmas ban to its students on Dec. 24, prohibiting them from celebrating Christmas Eve but requiring them to watch a video about Confucius instead. The management said that it was a measure to ask the students to value traditional Chinese culture. Does it make sense?
n.(政府的)部；牧师
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额
- This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
- What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？
adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调
- You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
- Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。
adj.尖的，直截了当的
- He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
- She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
n.聚集地点( venue的名词复数 )；会场；（尤指）体育比赛场所；犯罪地点
- The band will be playing at 20 different venues on their UK tour. 这个乐队在英国巡回演出期间将在20个不同的地点演出。
- Farmers market corner, 800 meters long, 60 meters wide livestock trading venues. 农牧市场东北角，有长800米，宽60米的牲畜交易场地。 来自互联网
n.流入，注入
- The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.这个国家实在不能接纳这么多涌入的难民。
- Textile workers favoured protection because they feared an influx of cheap cloth.纺织工人拥护贸易保护措施，因为他们担心涌入廉价纺织品。
adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的
- He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
- His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
n.不幸的事，不幸；灾祸
- I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.不好了，你儿子在操场上出了点小意外。
- We reached home without mishap.我们平安地回到了家。
adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。