中级口译Lecture 6.ppt

Lecture 6 Interpreting numbers 环保、创新 数字传译 千=thousand，百万=million，十亿=billion 万=ten thousand 和亿=hundred million 开始处理较大的数字。(降低数字的精度)如：听到一个数字“四千五百万四千零七十二”， forty million 1 “零”的读法 零可以读作zero, naught, oh, nil, nothing, etc., 其中，最多的是用zero, naught, 和oh。 3.03: 3.003: 0.005 2 时间 机场车站使用的是24小时制，遇到不足10点的就要不上一个0。例如：9:30读为oh nine thirty。 广播报时用的是格林尼治时间（Greenwich Mean Time/Universal Time）如：22pm读为22 hours GMT(BBC常用), 22 hours Universal Time（VOA常用）。 Educators appointed to study the decline noted that by age of sixteen most children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television ——more time than they have spent in school. Their conclusion is that television is a cause of the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score decline. 受命研究这一下降原因的教育工作者们指出：到16岁为止，大多数孩子已经花了10，000至15，000小时看电视，这比他们在学校度过的时间还长。他们的结论是，电视是学业能力测试成绩下降的一个原因。 Up to the present, foreign investors had altogether established over 490,000enterprises in China with an actually placed investment volume of nearly US $540billion. Foreign investment is now widely seen in numerous areas including manufacturing, services, agriculture and infrastructure. To date, of the world’s top 500 multinational companies, more than 400 have invested in China and among them, 30 plus have located their regional headquarters in this country together with 600 RD centers. 目前外商在华投资累计设立企业49万家，实际投入的金额近5400亿美元。外商投资已遍及制造业、服务业、农业、基础设施等诸多领域。目前，全球最大的500家跨国公司已有400多家在华投资，其中30多加设立了地区总部，而研发中心则超过600家。 There are more rich people than ever before, including some 7 million millionaires, and over 400 billionaires. From sipping champagne to taking trips into space, they are getting plenty of pleasure——though as our survey of the new rich shows, these sad souls have worries, too. As for the poor, the gap between them and the rich is rising, even in the industrialized countries where for much of the 20th century the gap had narrowed. In 1999, British income inequality reached its widest level in 40 years. 当今世界富人之多超过以往任何时代，百万富翁有700万左右，亿万