数字的翻译

数字的翻译

数字在社会中运用广泛，也深深地反映在语言中，成了语言的一个有机组成部分。

翻译应根据两种语言的表达习惯，采取不同的翻译方法。 有时候英汉两种语言表达方法基本相同，这时可采用直译的方法。有时英汉两种语言有十分相似的表达法，但因为表达习惯不同，采用了不同的数字，这时可将数字进行替换。有时在译语中找不到对应的表达法，而直译又不符合译语习惯，可略去数字，采取意译的方法。

数字的翻译等值翻译：

a drop in the ocean

within a stone's throw

kill two birds with one stone     A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.

数字的翻译不等值翻译：

at sixes and sevens

on second thoughts   by ones and twos

Two heads are better than one.     Can you come down a little? --Sorry, it's

one price for all.

He had one over the eight after he drank only half bottle of the wine 。

数字的翻译

I always believe my sixth sense.

He talks about you nine times out of ten when we have a chitchat.

    The parson officially pronounced that they

became one.    

I used to study in France in the year one.

数字的翻译

FURTHER PRACTICES

数字的翻译1. It was in 1949 that he came to this town ．

2. Classes begin at eight every morning.

3. One boy a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.

4. Two is company ， but three is none ．

5. When three know it ， all know it ．

6. The wounded soldiers crawled on all fours to a nearby village.

7. The simile is on all fours with the thing illustrated ．

数字的翻译8. Instead of chopsticks he simply used his bunch of five.

9. He knows how many beans make five ．

10. The news of her sudden death really knocked me for six.

11. His brother is known to be no better than himself in inclination ． In the old phrase it is six of one and half a dozen.

12. Seven times seven (Seventy times seven)did I take counsel with my soul.

13. at sixes and sevens

数字的翻译14. He had one over the eight and promised to go fifty-fifty with them.

15. This film star is a nine day’s wonder ： I doubt whether anyone will remember her in a year’s time ．

16. He is a decent man and is always dressed up to the nines.

17. Here’s a man, an army officer, in such rotten shape that if l sent a good horse after him now it’s ten to one he couldn’t get on him ．

18. The car didn’t arrive until the eleventh hour ．

19. A boy of six eleven, he had just turned 17 when the coach took him in the provincial eleven.

     

数字的翻译20. Which of us can hope to strike twelve every time?

21. He was then talking nineteen to the dozen with half a dozen of teenager.

22. He used to take forty winks after lunch .

23. “What is it ？ What hurts you ”“？ My eyes. They’re hurting like sixty ．

24. “What a chapter of chances,”said my father, “It was a hundred to one.”