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A number of his patients were hounding him for Viagra when it first came out in 1998.
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1998年当伟哥刚出来时,好些病人都追着他要。
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The pediatrician Linda used was out on house calls,but her receptionist was very sympathetic.
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琳达使用的儿科医生已出外就诊,但她的前台小姐倒是很有同情心。
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In the meantime,some friends gave me a housewarming,which turned a regular Thursday night into a Friday night party.
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同时,一些朋友为我举办了乔迁庆典,把普通的周四晚上变成了周末晚会。
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A hundred thoughts flashed through my mind all at once in the split second before he spoke.
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在他说出口的一刹那,千思万绪涌上了我的心头。
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多练内功
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在前面的“经验之谈”中,我提到汉译英要尽可能避免掉入汉语的“陷阱”。其实,能否避开这种陷阱,就要看你对英语本身的熟悉程度了。
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例如:如果把“我去美国之前,我和她说了,如果她不吃好点儿,锻炼锻炼,那我回来时,她不见得还活着。”翻译成英语,你会怎么翻译呢?我让一个已在美国读完两年研究生课程的朋友翻译,结果是:“Before I went to the United States,I said to her that if she didn’t eat something good,and did some exercises,she may not live to see me back.”还行,我想外国人应该能看明白。这样的汉译英句子,虽然没什么错误,但一看就知道,不具备英语本身应有的那种连贯性,也就是说,前后之间的关联体现得不明确。让我们比较一下下面的译文:When I left for the United States,I told her if she didn’t start trying to eat healthy and do some exercises,she may not be alive when I returned.你不难看出,在这个汉译英句子里,英语固有的元素比较多,前后呼应也比较自然。例如,before I went to the United States(“之前”和“去”是汉语“陷阱”,中国人中十个有九个是这么翻译的)与后面的句子没有形成呼应,而When I left for the United States,其中的left for就体现了这种承上启下的匠心。同样,在if she didn’t start trying to eat healthy中,start的使用也体现了一种逻辑关系,表示她以前没有好好吃饭,现在应当开始好好吃饭了。汉语“吃点儿好的”,中国人听后都明白其中的意思,但是,eat something good会引起英语国家读者的不解,不知道你这个good的标准是什么。在这样的情况下,用eat healthy更能表达原文的意境而不产生歧义。其实,在我将这段中文翻成英文时,当时想的并不像我现在分析得这样详细,更多的是一种语言习惯,英语就是这么说的。所以说,要想避开陷阱,还要多练内功。
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John hung his head,“I’ve been to all the doctors.”
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约翰耷拉着脑袋,“我已经看过所有的医生了。”
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She wasn’t going to be talked about as if she were some husband-stealer.
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她不想被别人说成是偷汉子。
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Apparently,she preferred the hustle and bustle of family and friends to the secluded room we had arranged for her.
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显然,她喜欢家人和朋友们熙熙攘攘的来往,而不是被关在我们为她安排的幽静的小屋里。
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英语淘宝 I
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Lucas stared down at the corpse and felt his chest turning icy cold.
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卢卡斯垂眼看着尸体,感到自己的胸口冰凉。
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To deplete inventories,Ford idled 15 plants for a combined 19 weeks in January.
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为了减少库存积压,一月份福特让15家装配厂累计停产了19周。
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