高級口譯考試指導:口譯複習第五十六期

「句1」Such subtle flattery got hime almost everthing.
　　由於他霤須拍馬的手段運用得如此嫻熟，他想撈到的東西幾乎都撈到了。
　　這裡的“flattery”起到原因的作用。
　　「句2」這所全國重點大學爲社會輸送了大批的人才。
　　The national key university has prepared batched of qualified graduates for the society.
　　這裡“輸送”是一個模糊的詞，其實真正的意思是“培養”。“人才”這裡指大學生。
　　段子：
　　每個女人都夢想著收到一顆閃閃發光的、價值連城的大鑽石。現在科學家們發現了宇宙中的鑽石。但是這顆鑽石是絕大多數熱戀中的男人怎麽也夠不著的——精確的說距離有50光年。宇宙科學家們透露他們發現了一塊重達10的46次方尅拉的寶石。這塊石頭直逕達2500英裡，重5× 10的42次方磅，藏在人馬座中一顆白矮星的中心，是在情人節那天被發現的。
　　Every woman dreams of receiving a huge， sparkling and priceless diamond. Now scientists have discovered the largest diamond in the universe. But it's well beyond the reach of the most lovestruck men - 50 light years to be precise. Space scientists revealed that they had discovered a ten billion trillion trillion carat gem. Measuring 2，500 miles across and weighing five million trillion trillion pounds， the rock was found on Valentine's Day buried in the core of a white dwarf star in the constellation Centaurus.