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5.3 汉语四字成语的运用 不论原文是成语与否，都可考虑译成汉语的成语。 1. They wisely keep their own counsel and did not express their opinion too loudly. 他们明哲保身， 决不大声发表言论。 2. Why do you love to find fault with someone? 你为什么总爱吹毛求疵？ 3. To many Americans, China is still a faraway place —— unknown, unseen and fascinating. 仍然有许多美国人觉得中国远在天涯海角，鲜为人知，令人心驰神往。 4. He received this information with the utmost calmness and unconcern. 听到这话他镇定自若，无所牵挂。 5. How coldly and pitilessly! 多么冷酷无情啊！ 5.4 俚语的翻译 俚语是比较通俗的口语词，有的带有粗俗性，有的带有方言性。俚语不仅出现在口语中，而且也出现在戏剧、电影、电视以及小说的对白中。 5.4.1 委婉语的翻译 Euphemism is “a mild or vague or periphrastic expression as a substitute for blunt precision or disagreeable truth” 英汉语都有委婉语，尤其见于表达有关不雅、不洁、令人生畏、令人讨厌的人或事物。如： “死亡” 汉语：逝世、寿终、作古、谢世、归寂、坐化、牺牲、阵亡、殉职、捐躯、百年、与世长辞、崩驾、晏驾、薨、卒、不禄等等。 英语：pass away, go to one’s Maker, sleep with one’s fathers, join the great majority, join the angels, pay the debt of nature, be with God, be asleep in the Arms of God, go to glory, go to a better world, cross over the Great Divide, sleep the final sleep, go west, breathe one’s last, take one-way ride, lay down one’s knife and fork, hide one’s name under daisies, no Mayday, “上厕所” 大便，小便、方便 大解、小解、解手 去1号，去洗手间，去补妆，去卫生间 英语： pay/answer a call of nature wash one’s hands use the bathroom, relieve oneself, do a job for oneself, do one’s business Can I add some powder? Fix one’s face coke-stop, nature stop go to one’s private office visit Lady Periam, visit the sand-box lavatory , latrine, ladies’， men’s bathroom, toilet, WC, loo dressing room, lounge powder room “怀孕”： Irish toothache to wear the apron high have a white swelling to be expecting a lady-in-waiting swallow a watermelon seed to be in a delicate/interesting condition in a family way eating for two a mother-to-be 汉语: 有喜、重身子、双身子、产妇 “老人”： 汉语： 年迈、年长、上了年纪、上岁数、年事已高等等 英语： senior citizen, elderly people advanced in age, the longer living seasoned man golden age sunset years third age “身体胖” 英语： big gal/girl broad in the beam chubby, plump, portly To fill