时间:2019-03-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   如果一个人连母语都学不好,他就不可能学好外语。


  记得报纸上曾有这样一条新闻,其中有一句话:巴基斯坦对印度的核攻击是早有准备的。您琢磨一下,就会发现,这句话有严重的语病,因为它有两个截然相反的意思,一个是巴基斯坦核攻击印度,一个是印度核攻击巴基斯坦,因此不同的人,对这句话会有不同的理解,翻译成英语,就会有两种不同的说法(请看下面)。
  ①Pakistan's nuclear attack upon India is deliberate.(巴基斯坦核攻击印度这件事,是蓄谋已久的。)
  ②Pakistan is ready to India's nuclear attack.(面对印度的核攻击,巴基斯坦已经做好了准备。)
  还有一条新闻,其中有这样一句话:他是这次飞机坠毁事故的132位死难者中唯一幸存的。这句话也有严重的语病,人死难了,就不可能再幸存,幸存了,就不可能再死难,因此,如果我们把这句话按照字面翻译成英语(请看下面第一句),就会造成外国读者的困惑。正确的说法应当是:这次飞机坠毁事故有132位死难者,他是唯一的幸存者(总共133人,请看下面第二句)。
  ①He is the only survivor 1 among 132 victims of the plane crash.
  ②He is the only survivor of the plane crash killing 2 132.
  据我了解,经常有外国朋友批评我国英语译文的质量不高,比如生硬、死板、含糊、晦涩等等,究其原因,除了翻译者自身的英语水平限制之外,我一直认为,还与汉语原文的质量不高有直接关系。我写这个小帖子的目的,就是想说:汉语写不好,英语恐怕也写不好,汉语水平低的人,英语水平恐怕也不会高。

n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
  • The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
  • There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
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学英语单词
5-Thioglucose
Abreiro
Achromobacteraceae
aethereality
american federation of teachers(aft)
amperameter
argentate
betoken
biostabilizations
Bon-Encontre
Buchberg
cabeza la vaca
center for computing and automation
charge priming device
cheese grinder
circulation supply system
close joint chain
continue port
depreciation insurance
disparadised
doomsday
driftingmanagement
dynamic range of coefficient variance
dynamic Stark splitting
edaphic climax community
educationable
employee savings plan
erection procedure
eutypella sydowiana
gas-oil separator
glasseyes
governor with automation loading
gradient of potential
greising
half-blooded
health-benefits
home-builts
hyperite (gabro-norite)
in any form
install cost
instantaneous transfer rate
intermittent acting mill
japanized
jazz buff
justles
Kāshān, Daryā-ye (Kashan Deryasy)
lady's waist
lateri-
lease with option to purchase
legal requirement
limited scanning
macaws
mercuric acetate
mesoplastral
misresemblance
moment of area
movable-bed stream
multistability
nondeviator
normal boiling fluid
onset of fluidization
operative cholangiography
opponent-process
ox-eye agate
parachute rigging
pite
point drop
pointer swizzling
pseudohypertrophic
Punnett square method
rachitomy
radioisotopic dilution
radius of corner
ratio-meter
replica set
repossession
Rinchnach
sample-changing mechanism
sand pit
shalotts
shoe inserts
Shwesaga
side fire helical antenna
silhouetting
slate-coloured
sod grass
sodium filter
SSPX
streakless
suckauhock
swamp blueberry
Syreitschikovia
transactional database
travelling-wave modulators
true vocal cord (or vocal cord)
unencapsulated source
unlawful meeting
up braid ing
vetuss
vladivostokians
zinc diisobutyl
zirconia glass