大学英语四级段落翻译.ppt

C-E Translation Practice 11. 铝：aluminum。 12. 嵌有银器的木筷：“嵌有银器”指“嵌有银丝”，故译为“wooden chopsticks inlaid with silver thread”。其中inlay表示set pieces of (designs in )wood, metal, etc., in the surface of another kind of wood, metal, etc. so that the resulting surface is smooth and even(镶；嵌)，inlay的过去式、过去分词均为inlaid。 13. 因为银器碰到一些有毒物品会起变色反应：“起反应”可译为react to，“起变色反应”可译为“react to sth. by changing color”。故整个分句可译为“since silver reacts to a number of poisonous substances by changing its color”。 参考译文(Referential Translation) Chopsticks, or kuaizi, are the most distinctive eating tool at the Chinese dining table. For thousands of years we Chinese have always regarded chopsticks the simplest possible and the most efficient tool for transporting bite-sized morsels of food from a bowl to the mouth. As early as in the Zhou Dynasty (11th-3rd century B.C.), chopsticks were used for picking up meat and vegetable, while hands were used for rice. The Chinese term for chopsticks during this period was zhu, a character whose sound was homonymous with anthor word meaning to stop. Since the character was taboo on ships, which were not supposed to step en route, it was changed to kuai, a word homonymous with another word meaning quick. Then, another character zi was added as sort of suffix, as occurs with the names of many common objects in the kitchen, such as beizi(cup), panzi(plate),guozi(pot), zhuozi(table),etc. Chopsticks, which are roughly uniform in size throughout China, can be made of a variety of materials, including bamboo, wood, lacquer, jade, ivory, plastic, aluminum, silver and gold. Special long bamboo chopsticks are generally used in the kitchen. In the past, wooden chopsticks inlaid with silver thread were used to test whether poison was put in a meal, since silver reacts to a number of poisonous substances by changing its color. 拓展练习1（Supplementary Practice） 中国人使用筷子的方法很有艺术性，各人有各人的方法，就好像签名一样，不尽一致。中国人一般都能所心所欲地用筷子夹起一粒米、一粒豌豆、一只滑溜溜的蘑菇或海参。对于那些用餐时只会使用刀叉的西方人来说，掌握用筷的方法和技巧开始时难度也许很大，也很有趣，需要很大