作為非native speaker，我們想把英語說得地道，就必須下功夫“入鄉隨俗”。下面這些Chinglish的正解你都知道嗎？

01. 我希望你不要拖我的后腿。

[誤] I hope that you won't pull my leg.

[正] I hope that you won't hold me back.

注：Pull one's leg 是“愚弄某人，開某人的玩笑”的意思，相當于make fun of sb.。英語中與“拖后腿”相對應的表達是hold sb. back 或be a drag on sb.等。

02. 學校里，那些長得人高馬大的家伙常來找我的麻煩。

[誤] At school, those big and strong guys always come to find my trouble.

[正] At school, those big and strong guys always come to pick on me.

注：Find my trouble是“發現我的難處”的意思，而英語中“找某人的麻煩”用短語 pick on sb. 它不僅表示“挑剔某人、找某人的碴”，而且還包含tease（取笑、戲弄）或bully（威脅、欺侮）的意思。

03. 原來如此。你一解釋我就明白了。

[誤] So it is. I understand soon after your explanation.

[正] So that's how it is. I understand soon after your explanation.

注：So it is的意思是“的確如此”，它是用來表示對對方觀點的贊同的。例如：

A: It is a fine day today!
今天天氣不錯??！

B: So it is.
是啊。

表達恍然大悟時，英文要用So that's how it is或So that explains it, 或更簡單地道的說法Oh, I see。

04. 這個教授教得很爛。

[誤] The professor teaches badly.

[正] The professor is so terrible.

注：有人認為第二句的意思是“這個教授很可怕”，其實不然。英語中terible意思很靈活，例如：feel terrible指身體“不舒服”；The food is terrible則是說食物“難吃極了”。而第一句純屬中文式的表達。

05. 我沒料到這個無恥的女人居然同她好友的丈夫調情。

[誤] I had not expected that this shameful woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.

[正] I had not expected that this shameless woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.

注： Shameful通常指某事物是“可恥的，丟臉的”，而shameless表示having or showing no feeling of shame；immodest or impudent，它一般用來指人“不知羞恥的，不要臉的”或“傷風敗俗的”。原文也可譯為：It's shameful that the woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.

06. 東施效顰。

[誤] Doingshi imitates Xishi.

[正] The ugly imitates the beautiful in such a distorted way that the ugliness of the ugly becomes worse.

注：把原文按照字面意思直譯過來，恐怕只有中國人能夠理解。要想讓外國人明白這個中國成語，就要對譯文進行解釋性加工了。同樣，“情人眼里出西施”不是Xishi is in the eye of the beholder，而是Beauty is in the eye of the beholder。

07. 你不好好學習，還想去牛津上大學。這可真是個不切實際的幻想！

[誤] You don't study hard, yet you want to go to Oxford. What an impractical illusion!

[正] You don't study hard, yet you want to go to Oxford. What an illusion!

注：漢語中的修飾語往往用得很多，目的在于加強語氣，但這種表達習慣在翻譯時必須進行處理。Illusion本身就有impractical的含義，而英語中在表意已經很明確的情況下是無需重復的。

08. 想讓他答應這樣的要求恐怕不大可能。

[誤] I'm afraid it is impossible for him to agree to such a request.

[正] I'm afraid it is unlikely for him to agree to such a request.

注：Impossible表示“完全不可能”，所以與原文有出入。在英語中，probable表示的可能性最大，其次是possible，再次是likely。而常用的句式為it is probable/possible/likely for sb. to do sth.，或sb. be likely to do sth.。

09. 最近的人口統計顯示中國人口已超過12億。

[誤] The latest census shows that China's population has surpassed 1.2 billion.

[正] The latest census shows that China's population exceeds 1.2 billion.

注：Surpass和exceed譯成中文雖然都是“超過，勝過”的意思，但出現具體數字時要用后者。

（來源：網絡 編輯：劉明）