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。
标签: 学习方法
学英语单词
a cat in the pan
aci form
andalou
angina nosocomii
Aquileian
attitude disturbance
baby's pap
basilicok
beretlike
bheu-
brown forest soil
building finishing
calyptrimorphous
canbra oil
carbonated wine
Carex liqingii
central stringer
chane
charlie l.
China Ocean Shipping Supply Corporation
chrismal
classification of system
coinstantiate
come into bud
contact inhibitor
contractual democracy
converse domain
counting printer
CYT-18
Denticipitoidei
differential dynamical system
diphenmethanil
Dolcontral
draconis
enter mode
Federal standard
Fourier sectrum
full growth
furnace burdening
gabionades
gainliest
general relativity
genus acrocliniums
grose
ground vegetative cover
hack the sea
Hammerschlag's phenomenon
hard-surfaced
harlean carpenters
heat-removal mechanism
himantopus stilts
horizontal architecture
Huixiang Juhe Wan
hyperperfect number
hypersomia
in properticn
indirect comprehension
isopotentials
jacket launching
Lagotis integra
line Of occlusion
macroheterogeneity
mcternan
metradynamomete
mezzo staccato
Midland Bank
New Zealand on Air
orebi
out-smile
outsqueezing
overapplied overhead
Phlomis ruptilis
phyllochlamys
pneumatic aeration
poor diesel fuel
prophoretin
prototyping card system
quhow
ragment
rangh
reflected beam kinescope
regenerated forest under strip system
removal of engine
reverse valve stem
Route Twisk
semilunar ganglion (or gasserian ganglion)
Seneffe
snipiness
sorabji
tazmanias
terminal user
thermodenuders
thermodynamic yield
total preparation
triethyl methyl lead
ultralow frequency
undescriptive
unnun
war-leader
windsong
yamadoris