1、English-Chinese:1 Volkswagen(VW)AG Chairman Ferdinand Piech poured cold water on the current craze for mergers and acquisitions in the auto sector-a trend the German car maker itself encouraged with no fewer than three acquisitions in the past year alone.大众汽车(VW)股份公司的总裁费迪南皮耶希向汽车行业目前的疯狂并购行为(仅该德国汽车制造商
2、本身去年就至少进行了3次并购)泼冷水。2 Speaking at the companys annual news conference,Mr.Piech said he now believes that it is cheaper for companies to develop their own product lines rather than acquire fading brands.He said VW plans to go it alone in the truck sector.Mr.Piech had previously been in the hunt for a
3、truck maker to complete VWs product range,and was in talks earlier this year with AB Volve about buying the Swedish company,but Volkswagen broke off those talks when it became clear that Volve was only selling its car division,which it eventually sold to Ford Motor Co.for$6.5 billion.皮耶希先生在公司的年度记者招待
4、会上说,他现在相信,许多公司开发自己的产品线要比收购衰落的品牌更合算。他宣布大众公司计划独自进军卡车领域。此前,皮耶希先生曾试图寻找一家卡车制造商以完善大众公司的产品线,而且今年早些时候与AB沃尔沃公司就购买这家瑞典公司进行了谈判。当大众公司意识到沃尔沃公司只是想出售其轿车部门后,就中止了这些谈判。最终,沃尔沃公司以65亿美元的价格将其轿车部门出售给了福特汽车有限公司。3 “We have been checking interesting acquisition targets over the past few years and have come to the conclusion t
5、hat there wasnt anything worthwhile,”Mr.Piech said.“All of the acquisitions Ive seen in my time in the industry have been much expensive than setting up a company from scratch.”“过去几年,我们一直在审查让人感兴趣的收购目标,得出的结论却是,没有值得收购的公司,”皮耶希说,“我所见到的工业收购比白手起家建立一个公司成本更高。”Chinese-English:扩大内需是中国经济社会发展的基本立足点和长期战略方针。中国正处在
6、工业化、城镇化进程加快,人民收入水平提高和消费结构升级的发展阶段,在转变外贸增长方式、扩大进口、加强知识产权保护,为全球贸易和世界经济继续做出贡献的同时,巨大的国内需求和广阔的国内市场是中国经济发展的持续动力,这就决定了中国的发展应当而且有可能实现以国内需求为主。Chinese-English:中国保持固定资产投资以合理的规模和速度增长,发挥投资对经济增长的推动作用。中国通过实行正确的收入分配政策和消费政策,更多的依靠国内消费需求拉动经济增长。近年来,国内投资和消费需求均呈较快增长态势。1该段中文有一些专业术语,那么它们的翻译要十分到位,这些术语有:扩大内需:expand domestic d
7、emand 知识产权:intellectual property 工业化:industrialization 城镇化:urbanization 消费结构:consumption structure 增长方式:growth mode2“工业化、城镇化进程加快,人民收入水平提高和消费结构升级的发展阶段”这部分的译文the pace of industrialization and urbanization is being quickened,the peoples income level is increasing and their consumption structure is bein
8、g upgraded有几个地方需要改进:三个并列结构最好使用相同的语态,而不是主动语态和被动语态混合使用。“人民收入水平提高”不应译成the peoples income level is increasing,应该译成the peoples income is increasing;这里,“水平”是个范畴词,这是汉语名词的一个特点,比如“发展情况”、“教学工作”、“浪费行为”等中的“情况”、“工作”和“行为”均属于这类范畴词。这些范畴词在翻译中应该省译,上面三个短语可分别译为develop-ment、teaching、wasting。根据分析,可以将整句译为:China has entere
9、d a period when the pace of industrialization and urbanization is being quickened,the peoples income increased and their consumption structure upgraded.4“中国正处在工业化、城镇化进程加快,人民收入水平提高和消费结构升级的发展阶段,在转变外贸增长方式、扩大进口、加强知识产权保护,为全球贸易和世界经济继续做出贡献的同时,巨大的国内需求和广阔的国内市场是中国经济发展的持续动力,这就决定了中国的发展应当而且有可能实现以国内需求为主。”这是一个复杂的长
10、句,不可能译成一句英文,所以根据前后的逻辑关系和意群,将之划分为三层,即三个句子,然后译成三个英文句子:China has entered a period when the pace of industrialization and urbanization is being quickened,the peoples income increased and their consumption structure upgraded.While changing its mode of foreign trade growth,increasing imports and strengthe
11、ning intellectual property protection,and continuing to make contributions to global trade and the world economy,China keeps up its driving force to maintain sustained economic development through its huge domestic demand and domestic market.This has determined that China should and most likely will
12、 mainly rely on domestic demand for its development.4“近年来,国内投资和消费需求均呈较快增长态势。”In recent years,domestic investment and consumption needs are increasing at a rather rapid rate.首先应该在domestic investment and consumption needs前面根据语境添加its,即Chinas,因为在英语中,ones是一个很重要的连接手段;其次,英文中的rate表示速度时,前面一般用great修饰,而不用rapid
13、或fast修饰,因此,将译文改译如下:In recent years,its domestic investment and consumption needs are increasing at a rather great rate.Sentence translation:1)The trade surplus was down 19 percent from January as a government spending spree aimed at cranking up the economy fuelled demand for imports.2)Of course,thou
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