2011年笔译中级:十秒钟翻译训练(十七)

来源:微学网发布时间:2011-08-27

  I know my children are going to encounter hardship, and I’m praying they won’t be naive. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere. So I’m changing my prayer. Because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not.我们已祈祷了太多的安逸,但却少有实现。
  单词提示:
  encounter v. 遭遇; naive adj. 天真的
  答案:Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met.本句节选自《Growing Roots》
  1.前半句中祈祷某物最简练的表达就是pray for sth.
  2.后一句中“少有”的表达,除了seldom,还可以用few,hardly,rarely来表达。