文化对比与翻译(5)

英语文化比较

诗中有画，画中有诗。－There is poetry in the paintings, and there are paintings in the poetry. 人无千日好，花无百日红。－Man cannot be always fortunate; flowers do not last forever. 满招损，谦受益。－Haughtiness invites losses while modesty brings profits.

年饭－family reunion meal on the eve of the Spring Festival

扑克牌打烂了。－The playing cards are already in shred.

他的衣服穿烂了。－His clothes are worn-out.

走一步看一步。－Take one step and look around before taking another.

中国留学服务中心－Chinese Service Centre for Scholarly Exchange

汉语茶话会－Chinese-Speaking party

真好玩儿！－What fun!

你是怎么溜出来的？简直易如反掌。－How did you get escaped? Well, it’s a piece of cake. 接电话－answer the telephone

芦笛岩是桂林最精彩的岩洞。－Reed Flute Cave is the most magnificent of all in Guilin. 红眼－pink eye/to be green-eyed

人与自然－People and Nature

中华全国妇女联合会（全国妇联）－All-China Women’s Federation(ACWF)

主任医师－professor of medicine

主治医师－consultant

《妇女权益保护法》－Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women

“钻石”牌手表－ “Diamond” Brand Wrist Watches

在农村，特别是比较偏僻落后的农村，还残存着少数包办买卖婚姻的陋习。－In China’s more remote and backward rural areas, corrupt practices exist in the form of forced marriages… 随笔栏－gossip column

领导班子年轻化、知识化、专业化－a younger, better-educated and more professional leadership 团结奋斗，开拓进取－to work hard with a united and pioneering spirit

“增产”牌洗衣皂－ “Zengchan” Brand Washing Soap

《唐明皇》－Emperor Tang Ming Huang

“索”牌－Solid

沉默啊！沉默啊！不在沉默中爆发，就在沉默中灭亡。－Silence! Silence! Unless we burst out, we shall perish in this silence.

寻寻觅觅，冷冷清清，凄凄惨惨戚戚。 梧桐更兼细雨，到黄昏，点点滴滴。 －I look for what I miss, I know not what it is, I feel so sad, so drear, So lonely, without cheer…On parasol-trees a fine rain drizzles As twilight grizzles.

拿锄头刨黄莲—挖苦。—To dig Cotis with a hoe—dig.

蜜蜂是在酿蜜，又是在酿造生活；不是为自己，而是为人类酿造最甜蜜的生活。—Making honey is also creating life, a most sweet life, not for themselves but for others.

作品的生命力，大约和作家的胆识大有关系；短命，常常是由于短见。—The vitality of a work is probably closely related to the courage and insight of its author; its short-livedness is often due to its author’s short-sightedness.

正如民间所说：“宁要浦西一张床，不要浦东一间房”。——A famous phrase in Shanghai for a time is, “I’d rather own a bed on the western bank than an apartment on the eastern bank.”

鸡皮疙瘩－gooseflesh;

水底捞月－to fish in the air;

鄙人当尽力而为－Yours truly will do his best.