《世纪商务英语》翻译讲义Company Introductions.doc

Key to sentence 15, unit 2 In the contemporary period, Shanghai as a metropolis infested by foreign adventurers. since the opening of its commercial port, there was a bitter, blood-and-tear history of many miseries and inequalities. Referred to as the Paradise of Adventurers, Shanghai was indeed home to “human sludge and filth” where one could find opium, dissolute women and gamblers. It was a place that made people indulge in luxury, dissipation and sensuous pleasures, even inducing people to become degenerate. However, there is a different picture of Shanghai as a modern metropolis. It has been full of vitality and vigor, displaying its unique intelligence and wisdom, characterized by an innovative and enterprising spirit. It has the courage to assume risks and is in possession of both the awareness and mechanism of competition. Such a metropolitan mentality inspires its residents, encouraging them to keep abreast with the changing epochs and to make efforts toward greater progress. Unit 5 Company Introductions Company Introduction Fixed Expressions engage in, handle a large range of business including…. hold/abide by the principles of….., based by the motto of the company, with the enterprise spirit of…. approved, appointed, permitted feature, integrate, combine foreign-funded enterprise joint venture cooperative enterprise wholly foreign-owned enterprise Translation and Tranlatorese(翻译腔) 翻译腔,是指一种带有生硬外语风格的翻译方式,是翻译实践中的常见病’s parents were cotton pickers in Peru until they opened a tailor shop in downtown Lima. 藤森的父母在秘鲁采摘棉花为生，一直到他们在利马商业区开设裁缝店为止。 藤森的父母原本在秘鲁采摘棉花为生，后来他们改行杂利马商业区开裁缝店。 There were many forces at work which made virtually inevitable the discovery of America at about the time Columbus accomplished it. 有许多使美洲的发现俺成为实际上不可避免的事的力量已经在哥伦布完成这一发明时期前后起着作用。 美洲的发现实际上是势所必然的，因为哥伦布到达美洲的前后时期，就已经有许多重要因素在起作用。 轻纺工业产品的花色品种增多。 The designs and variety of light industrial and textile products have increased. Ligh