5.2　詞義具體化

原文:She hadn't been told Bette's other name，or she'd forgotten it．

譯文:沒人告訴過她蓓蒂姓什么，要不然就是她忘記了。

原文:Most comets are extremely faint objects，far below the limit of the unaided eye．

譯文:大多數(shù)彗星都非常暗淡，遠非肉眼可見。

原文:He had surfaced with little visibility in the policy decisions．

譯文:在決策過程中，他已經(jīng)不那么拋頭露面了。

原文:He went hot and cold by turn．

譯文:他感到一陣熱、一陣冷。

原文:Don't sir me so much．

譯文:別跟我先生長，先生短的。

原文:The pupil of the eye responds to the change of light intensity．

譯文:瞳孔隨著光線強弱的變化而放大或縮小。

原文:Profit margins are about 23%，better than for other Disney divisions，which post margins in the high teens．

譯文:利潤率約為23%，超過迪斯尼公司的其他部門，后者的利潤率接近20%。

原文:They stood and stared at each other，pale as culprits．

譯文:他們站在那兒，你看著我，我看著你，面如死灰，像犯人似的。

原文:The girls lowered their heads，pinched each other gleefully，and giggled．

譯文:女孩子們低下頭，開心地你掐我一下，我捏你一把，格格地笑著。

原文:Then the father with deep reverence，and a devout eye alternating between the pill and heaven，lifted his voice in a benediction．

譯文:接著，父親畢恭畢敬地高聲感謝天主，虔誠的眼睛一會兒盯著小藥丸，一會兒望著天。

原文:High voltage current is usually carried by overhead wire system so as to prevent living things being electrocuted．

譯文:高壓電通常采用高架線傳送，以防人畜觸電。

原文:These alteration of mood were despair and joy of Ethan Frome．

譯文:她這樣一會兒一種情調(diào)，叫伊坦時而灰心，時而高興。

原文:What is known is that weight extremes in either direction are definitely unhealthy．

譯文:眾所周知，過度肥胖或消瘦肯定都不健康。

原文:Note，therefore，that when we calibrate the scale to read in ohms，these calibrations go backward．

譯文:因此，請注意，在把刻度標成歐姆讀數(shù)時，這些刻度是從大到小的。

原文:The square on the longest side of any rightangled is equal to the squares on the other sides added together．

譯文:直角三角形的斜邊的平方等于另兩條直角邊的平方之和。

原文:No reproduction is granted by implication or otherwise of this information．

譯文:本資料不得私下或公開翻印。

原文:My maternal grandmother，it is true，was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven，but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty．

譯文:我外祖母固然是在風華正茂之年就棄世了，當時她只有67歲，但是我的祖父、祖母和外祖父卻都活到了80歲以上。

原文:Mexicans，when they are not actually starving or actually being murdered，sing and dance and enjoy sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which is very rare north of the Mexican frontier．

譯文:墨西哥人只要不是快餓死或被人殺死，就會又唱又跳，又吃又喝又曬太陽，那種活得有滋有味的樣子，在美國和加拿大著實少見。

原文:I have seven grandmothers and eleven aunts，and I am their only successor．

譯文:我有奶奶、姥姥、姑奶、姨姥共七個，姑媽、姨媽、嬸嬸、大娘十一個，而我是他們唯一的繼承人。