中文的博大精深很多時候讓英語使用者嘆為觀止,就拿英語的性別稱謂來講,漢語里面可以用“他”指代所有人而沒有歧義,但在英語里面卻一定要區(qū)分"he"和"she",尤其在雅思托福寫作的時候,性別稱謂怎么寫尤其重要。
中文的博大精深很多時候讓英語使用者嘆為觀止,就拿英語的性別稱謂來講,漢語里面可以用“他”指代所有人而沒有歧義,但在英語里面卻一定要區(qū)分"he"和"she",尤其在雅思托福寫作的時候,性別稱謂怎么寫尤其重要。
盡量不用通性代詞he,除了明確地指代一個男性人物時,都要設法避免使用之。可以根據語境需要,選用下列替換方式:
1) 采用復數形式:
Sexist: When bathing a baby, never leave him unattended.
Revised: When bathing babies, never leave them unattended.
給嬰兒洗澡時,一定不能讓他們無人照料。
2) 用we/us/our改寫原句:
Sexist:From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Revised:From each of us according to our abilities, to each of us according to our needs.
各盡所能,按需分配。
3) 改用第二人稱:
Sexist: No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Revised: You don‘t know what your true character is until you have run out of gas, purchased something on the ! installment plan and raised an adolescent.
只有當汽車大的油用光了,按分規(guī)付款方式購物和撫養(yǎng)大一個孩子時,人的本來品性才會顯露出來。
4)改用被動語態(tài)
Sexist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Revised: One who, when given the choice of two evils, chooses both.
一個在兩種惡行之中要作出選擇就兩者都選的人。
5)完全省略代詞:
Sexist: What a person thinks of after he becomes a departee?
Revised: What a person thinks of after becoming a departee?
一個人離去后,會作何感想呢?
6)用冠詞替代:
Sexist: Can a critic give his opinion of an omelet without being asked to make one?
Revised: Can a critic give an opinion of...?
評論家議論煎蛋時難道到非要他去自己煎雞蛋嗎?
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