词义具体化

5.2　词义具体化

原文:She hadn't been told Bette's other name，or she'd forgotten it．

译文:没人告诉过她蓓蒂姓什么，要不然就是她忘记了。

原文:Most comets are extremely faint objects，far below the limit of the unaided eye．

译文:大多数彗星都非常暗淡，远非肉眼可见。

原文:He had surfaced with little visibility in the policy decisions．

译文:在决策过程中，他已经不那么抛头露面了。

原文:He went hot and cold by turn．

译文:他感到一阵热、一阵冷。

原文:Don't sir me so much．

译文:别跟我先生长，先生短的。

原文:The pupil of the eye responds to the change of light intensity．

译文:瞳孔随着光线强弱的变化而放大或缩小。

原文:Profit margins are about 23%，better than for other Disney divisions，which post margins in the high teens．

译文:利润率约为23%，超过迪斯尼公司的其他部门，后者的利润率接近20%。

原文:They stood and stared at each other，pale as culprits．

译文:他们站在那儿，你看着我，我看着你，面如死灰，像犯人似的。

原文:The girls lowered their heads，pinched each other gleefully，and giggled．

译文:女孩子们低下头，开心地你掐我一下，我捏你一把，格格地笑着。

原文:Then the father with deep reverence，and a devout eye alternating between the pill and heaven，lifted his voice in a benediction．

译文:接着，父亲毕恭毕敬地高声感谢天主，虔诚的眼睛一会儿盯着小药丸，一会儿望着天。

原文:High voltage current is usually carried by overhead wire system so as to prevent living things being electrocuted．

译文:高压电通常采用高架线传送，以防人畜触电。

原文:These alteration of mood were despair and joy of Ethan Frome．

译文:她这样一会儿一种情调，叫伊坦时而灰心，时而高兴。

原文:What is known is that weight extremes in either direction are definitely unhealthy．

译文:众所周知，过度肥胖或消瘦肯定都不健康。

原文:Note，therefore，that when we calibrate the scale to read in ohms，these calibrations go backward．

译文:因此，请注意，在把刻度标成欧姆读数时，这些刻度是从大到小的。

原文:The square on the longest side of any rightangled is equal to the squares on the other sides added together．

译文:直角三角形的斜边的平方等于另两条直角边的平方之和。

原文:No reproduction is granted by implication or otherwise of this information．

译文:本资料不得私下或公开翻印。

原文:My maternal grandmother，it is true，was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven，but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty．

译文:我外祖母固然是在风华正茂之年就弃世了，当时她只有67岁，但是我的祖父、祖母和外祖父却都活到了80岁以上。

原文:Mexicans，when they are not actually starving or actually being murdered，sing and dance and enjoy sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north of the Mexican frontier．

译文:墨西哥人只要不是快饿死或被人杀死，就会又唱又跳，又吃又喝又晒太阳，那种活得有滋有味的样子，在美国和加拿大着实少见。

原文:I have seven grandmothers and eleven aunts，and I am their only successor．

译文:我有奶奶、姥姥、姑奶、姨姥共七个，姑妈、姨妈、婶婶、大娘十一个，而我是他们唯一的继承人。