Cocktail最常见的意思是“鸡尾酒”,今天要讲的是它的另一个意思:
(Noun)A mixture of other substances.
Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory.
另一个例子在这儿:
......, almost all the smaller types, along with their cocktail of toxic substances, such as mercury, nickel and cadmium, are chucked in the bin and end up in landfill.
这个“cocktail”意思好理解,就是指一些混合物,但要翻译起来还真没那么容易。译成“混合物”有点别扭,译成“许多”又怕漏掉什么意思。以上两段文字分别试译成:
科学家在化工厂旁边那条河的下游发现许多污染物,混杂在一起。
......,而小型电池,连同混在其中的汞、镍、镉等有毒物质一起,差不多统统被丢进了垃圾桶,最后被填埋。
Friday, 15 May 2009
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