• 【双语资讯】农民啊,你把人类变矮了

    【双语资讯】农民啊,你把人类变矮了

    据英国《星期日泰晤士报》6月12日报道,科学家发现,与依靠捕猎和采集为生的祖先相比,现代人类的身材缩小了大约10%。Scientists have found that modern-day people are about 10% smaller and shorter than their hunter-gatherer forebears. Most of the decline in physical size has happened in the past 10,000 years, and has been accompanied by a 10% decline in brain size.

  • 【双语资讯】妻子睡眠质量好坏关系婚姻幸福与否

    【双语资讯】妻子睡眠质量好坏关系婚姻幸福与否

    根据《每日邮报》6月14日报道:一项调查显示,妻子睡眠存在问题可能会毁坏婚姻,而丈夫夜间失眠则不会造成相同的影响。A study shows that wives have trouble sleeping could ruin the marriage, but a man’s inability to fall asleep at night does not have the same effect.

  • 【双语资讯】澳为保动物权屠宰场安装摄像头

    【双语资讯】澳为保动物权屠宰场安装摄像头

    据《悉尼先驱晨报》13日报道,澳大利亚动物保护组织准备在所有进口澳大利亚活体动物的国外屠宰场安装摄像头,以保证这些动物得到恰当的处理。Animal welfare group PETA has offered to install cameras in all foreign abattoirs receiving live animals from Australia to ensure they are treated properly.

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    【双语资讯】“电子警察”五花八门:纽约请清洁工兼职拍违章

    据美国《赫芬顿邮报》13日报道,纽约市政府正向州政府申请试点,给一些清洁工配备照相机,让他们拍摄违章停车。The municipal government of New York is seeking state approval to install cameras on some of the street cleaners in a pilot program aimed at taking pictures of the parking violators.

  • 【翻译点津】添加

    【翻译点津】添加

    句子:这家台湾厂商在其生产的饮料中添加了有害人体健康的塑化剂。 误译:The factory in Taiwan increased plasticizer which was harmful to human health in the drinks it produced. 正译:The factory in Taiwan added plasticizer which was harmful to human health in the drinks it produced.

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  • 添加

    解释:“添加”指加入另类东西,不能将“添加”译为 to increase。因为to increase 的意思是 to make sth greater in amount or number,即“加入同类东西,使总量增加”。而to add的意思是 to put sth together with sth else so as to increase the amount or number,即“加入另类东西,使总量增加”。

  • 故意“不顾”还是“顾不上”?

    我们可以看出ignore和disregard这两个词都强调故意“忽略”或者“不顾”本来应该注意或顾及的事物,是一种疏忽大意或一意孤行的独断行为。

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