【英文寫作的樂趣】

Fun with English Writing (3)

【英文寫作的樂趣】

19)  原文：So you have to put up with my half-( baked English.

Improvement: So you have to accept my poor English. (half-baked烤一半?)

按，put up with (容忍) + 負面的事 (用容忍太客氣也太嚴重)

【中文】：因此你不得不忍受我半生不熟的英語。(用half-baked是17世紀時代的用法，指ill-conceived構想不好或not completely thought-out思考不完全或不成熟的想法。若指非正式或洋涇濱英語，可用pidgin English, 或用broken /poor English

另註：

「半生不熟」在英語指食物的烹調，應說’half-done; 若全熟則說 "well-done” ；但I am all done. 指全部做完某件事(包含用餐)= I finish +Ving +某事。

建議更正: So you have to accept my poor English. 或

So you have to pardon me for my broken English.

                          “不成熟的想法若尚未付之實現，還好”

20)  原文：I would say my feelings are still very fresh and raw and it will probably take me some time yet.

Improvement: my painful feelings are still fresh…或my painful feelings are not over yet..；some more time to get them over. (yet is not properly used因yet不宜用在肯定句子)

註：raw= uncooked未煮熟的，或未整理的，如a piece of raw land一塊生地(未測量或設計用途的) ；raw beer 生啤酒；life in the raw 自然(赤裸的) 人生

【中文】：我倒要說，本人喪失親人之痛仍存，也可能要過一段時間才會平靜下來。

建議更正: I would say my painful feelings (of losing someone)are still new and it will probably take some time to get them over.

21)  原文：I hardly read any of your communiqués.

Improvement: messages (communiqués. 法文：為兩國之間的聯合公報)

【中文】：我幾乎不看你的信。

    建議更正: I hardly read any of e-mail messages sent by you.

22)  原文：However, don't you think 10 years is a decent long enough time to pass the baton?

Improvement: a time long enough to...；hand the job over (移交) 。pass the baton….. 交棒? 太中文化 。通常，英文用 ”A succeed B”(A接或繼承B的職務；或A +hand 某事over to B- A 移交某事給B)

另註：decent a. =proper, respectable, fair與long, enough均為adj. 不宜修飾time. …；enough應接 to+V…

【中文】：儘管如此，你不以為十年已經長得可以交棒了嗎?

建議更正: However, don’t you think ten years is long enough to hand over the job?

              

辭職了!

23)  原文：The professors stand high in my memory is xxx who taught American literature.

Improvement: Among the professors most remembered (原用法，中文意味濃厚)

Improvement: 詳下面

【中文】：在教授中記憶最深的就是教美國文學的那一位。

建議更正: Among the professors most remembered is the one who taught American literature.

24)  原文：He made Shakespeare quite interesting. Of course Father O'hara's humor made fun to attend his History of Western literature class. (Chinese English?)

Improvement: more appealing to students；brought fun to those attending his class of History of Western Literature

【中文】：他把莎士比亞的課變得使學生十分喜歡。當然郝神父的幽默感也把歡樂，帶給上他西洋文學史的學生們。

建議更正:He made the course of Shakespeare more appealing to students.  Of course, Fr. Ohara’s sense of humor brought fun to those attending his class of History of Western Literature.

25)  原文：Since I did not live in the dorm, I was not closed to most of my classmates.

Improvement: in dorms; familiar with

註：be closed關閉/打烊；be close to +人: 關係密切

【中文】：本人不住宿舍，故對大部分同學不熟。

建議更正: Since I did not live in dorms, I was not very close to (familiar with) most of other classmates.

台大女生四舍

Justin Lai  彙編

07/10/2015