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汉译英典型误例分析 一 选词不当 E.g. 1 她拒绝对这件事发表意见。 She refused to express her opinion on this matter. (She refused to comment on the matter.) E.g. 2 这些工人省吃俭用，为的是为国家多积累资金。 These workers save food and expenses to accumulate more funds for the country. (These workers live frugally to accumulate more funds for the country.) E.g. 3 在揭露社会罪恶的同时，这本小说的攻击目标是那些学者阶层。作者要求人们将党的团结置于小派别的争吵之上。 While exposing the social evils, the main attack in this novel is directed against the literati. And the author of this novel begs people to set party unity above the bickering of wings.(splinter groups) For Discussion 你能介绍一本好书给我吗？ Could you introduce me a good book? 今年春天由党中央召开的全国科学大会，动员全国人民为祖国的科学、技术现代化而努力。 The National Science Conference convened this spring by the Party Central Committee sparked off the entire nation to dig in towards the modernization of science and technology. 即使商品质量好，也不能漫天讨价。 Even quality goods must have a price limit. 我们把狄更斯的成功归功于他高尚的感情。 We owe Dickens’s success to his noble feelings. 在晚会上，邀请一位外国老师为我们唱几首民歌。 At the party a foreign teacher was required to sing some folk songs for us. 最近人口统计显示中国人口已超过10亿。 The latest census shows that China’s population has surpassed one billion. 在人际关系问题上我们不要太浪漫主义。 In interpersonal relationship, we do not need too much romanticism. 因此，在他的实验室所招的学生中，除一名来自德国外，其余五位均是亚裔学生。 Hence, of all the students recruited into his laboratory, except for one German, the other five were all from Asia. 得病以前，我受父母宠爱，在家横行霸道。 I were deeply loved by parents and so arrogant in the home before got illness. 二 搭配不当 20年来，中国的科学家们为祖国做出了贡献。 In the past twenty years, the Chinese scientists did great service to their motherland. 中国人民不用多久就会变得富裕起来。 It won’t be long before the Chinese people will become well off. 尽管是一个大学生，小郑连一封英文信都写不好。 In spite of a college student, Xiao Zheng cannot write an English letter properly. 任何新生事物的成长都是要经过艰难曲折的。 The growth of any new thing always has to experience difficulties and setbacks. 中国的革命吸引着世界各国人民，中国的社会主义现代化建设，也在得到世界各国人民的支持和帮助。 China’s revolution attracted all