40個容易譯錯的句子，你會怎麼譯？

1. Do you have a family?

譯文：你有孩子嗎?

同理，start a family不是成家，而是生第一個孩子的意思。

2. Its a good father that knows his son.

譯文：就算是最好的父親，也未必了解自己的兒子。

3. I have no opinion of that sort of man.

譯文：我對這類人很反感。

have no opinion of ：對…印象不好。

4. She put 5 dollars into my hand,"you have been a great man today."

譯文：她把5美元塞到我手上說：「你今天表現得很好。」

5. I was the youngest son, and the youngest but two.

譯文：我是最小的兒子，但是我還有兩個妹妹。

6. The picture flattered her.

譯文：她比較上照。

7. The country not agreeing with her, she returned to England.

譯文：她在那個國家水土不服，所以回到了英國。

8. He is a walking skeleton.

譯文：他很瘦。

walking skeleton 骨瘦如柴的人,可行走的骨架

9. The machine is in repair.

譯文：機器已經修好了。

10. He allowed the father to be overruled by the judge, and declared his own son guilty.

譯文：他讓法官職責戰勝了父子親情，最終宣布兒子有罪。

11. You dont know what you are talking about.

譯文：你是在胡說八道。

《瘋狂動物城》中有一句：

Yeah, that Gideon Grey doesnt know what he』s talking about.

12. You dont begin to understand what they mean.

譯文：你根本不知道他們在幹嘛。

13. They didnt praise him slightly.

譯文：他們大大地表揚了他。

14. Thats all I want to hear.

譯文：我已經聽夠了。

15. I wish I could bring you to see my point.

譯文：你要我怎麼說你才能明白呢。

16. You really flatter me.

譯文：你讓我受寵若驚。

17. He made a great difference.

譯文：有他沒他結果完全不一樣。

make a difference：有影響，有關係，創造不同。

18. You cannot give him too much money.

譯文：你給他再多的錢也不算多。

19. The long exhausting trip proved too much.

譯文：這次旅行礦日持久，我們都累倒了。

20. The monk is only not a dead man.

譯文：這個和尚雖然活著，但跟死了差不多。

21. A surgeon made a cut in the patients stomach.

譯文：外科醫生在病人胃部打了個洞。

22. You look darker after the holiday.

譯文：假期過後，你看上去更結實了。

23. As luck would have it, he was caught by the teacher again.

譯文：不幸的是，他又一次被老師逮個正著。

24. She held the little boy by the right hand.

譯文：她抓住小男孩的右手。

如果by 改成with，那就是她用自己的右手抓住小男孩。

25. If you think he is a good man, think again.

譯文：如果你認為他是好人，那你就大錯特錯了。

think again，重新考慮，意味著開始的想法是錯的。

26.She has blue eyes.

譯文：她長著雙藍眼睛。

27. That took his breath away.

譯文：他大驚失色。

28. Two is company but three is none.

譯文：兩人成伴，三人不歡。

兩個和尚抬水吃，三個和尚沒水吃……

29. The elevator girl reads between passengers.

譯文：開電梯的姑娘在沒有乘客時看書。

30. Students are still arriving.

譯文：學生還沒有到齊。

31. I must not stay here and do nothing.

譯文：我不能什麼都不做待在這兒。

32. They went away as wise as they came.

譯文：他們一無所獲。

和來時相比，他們走時聰明程度沒有變化。

33. I wont do it to save my life.

正確譯文：我死也不會做。

34. Nonsense， I dont think his painting is any better than yours.

譯文：胡說，我認為他的畫比你好不到哪去。

35. Better late than the late.

譯文：遲到總比喪命好。

the late...已故的

36. You dont want to do that.

譯文：你不應該去做。

37. My grandfather is nearly ninety and in his second childhood.

譯文：我祖父快90歲了，什麼都需要別人來做。

second childhood：老年糊塗；第二童年。

38. Work once and work twice.

譯文：一次得手，再次不愁。

兩個work的意思有差別。

39. Rubber easily gives way to pressure.

譯文：橡膠遇力容易變形。

40. If his grandmother had known of it shed have died a second time.

譯文：要是他奶奶知道，她會從棺材裡爬起來。

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