100个热门话题汉译英—"山寨"

汉语关键词：

山寨，山寨工厂，山寨手机

英语关键词：

moutain village, mountain hamlet, stockaded moutain village, fortified moutain village, fenced moutain hamlet,moutain stronghold,moutain fastness, knockoff factory,shoddy factory,emulational,animitation of,shoddy, knockoff,ripoff,pirate,unlicenced

句子：

这些手机是一家山寨工厂生产的。

误译：

These mobile phones were made by a cottage factory.

正译：

1)These mobile phones were made by a knockoff factory.

2)These cell phones were produced by a shoddy factory.

解释：

香港将“山寨工厂”译为cottage factory，指的是中、小型企业在住宅楼宇或简陋建筑物内设置的非正规厂房内的工厂。这个词来自cottage industry，原指英国产业革命时家庭小规模制作，主要是生产纺织品。香港将cottage industr的译为“山寨工厂”，实指小企业经营的作坊工业，与国内的“山寨工业”无关。同样，香港将cottage factory 译为“山寨工厂”，实指小规模作坊，与国内的“山寨工厂”无关。国内的“山寨工厂”指“有嫌疑仿冒或伪造著名品牌商品的生产厂家”，应译为knockoff factory，shoddy factory。

“山寨”的第一个意思是泛指“山村”。英语可以译为moutain village, moutain hamlet.例如：

1.当喜讯传到苗族山寨时，村民们奔走相告。

When the good news spread to the moutain village of Miao ethnic group, the villagers ran around passing on the message.

2.她大学毕业后，自愿到贵州西部的一个山寨当小学教师。

After he graduated from the university, she volunteered to act as a primary school teacher in a moutain village in the west of Guizhou Province.

3.在山寨入口处，一群当地的少女，边唱民歌，边向旅游者敬献她们自制的米酒。

At the entrance of the moutain village, a group of local young girls, singing folk songs, offered tourists rice wine brewed by themselves.

4.这个山寨非常小，因此村民们彼此很熟悉。

The moutain hamlet is so small that the villagers know each other very well.

"山寨"的第二个意思是“筑有栅栏等防守工事的山庄”。英语可以译为stockaded moutain village,fortified moutain village, fenced moutain hamlet.例如：

5.村民们坚守山寨，抵御强盗的入侵。

1）The villagers held their stockaded moutain village against the invasion of the bandits.

2) The villagers held their fortified moutain village against the invasion of the bandits.

3) The villagers held their fenced moutain hamlet against the invasion of the the bandits.

"山寨"的第三个意思是 “旧时绿林好汉占据的山中营寨”。 英语也可以译为“moutain stronghold，moutain fastness。例如：

6.债主在大厅摆酒席，宴请来山寨访问的绿林好汉。

The brigade chief held a grand banquet in the great hall, in honour of the outlaw heroes who were visiting the moutain stronghold.

7.官军向位于山顶的盗匪山寨发动了进攻。

The government army launched on offensive against the bandits' moutain fastness, which was located on the moutaintop.

8.盗匪们车回到他们的山寨中准备过冬。

The bandits withdrew to their moutain fastness for the winter.

"山寨"的第四个意思是指“有嫌疑犯仿冒或伪造著名品牌商品的生产厂家".英语可译为knockoff factory, shoddy factory.例如：

9.这种相机是山寨厂生产的。

1)This kind of camera was made in a knockoff factory.

2)This kind of camera was produced in a shoddy factory.

"山寨"的第五个意思是指“仿制，粗制滥造或盗版现象". 人们对"山寨"有不同理解，因而有不同译法。强调"仿制的"，译为emulational或animation of，强调" 粗制滥造的"，译为shoddy，knockoff，ripoff；强调"盗版的"，译为pirate，unlicenced。例如：

10."中国山寨电视"正在筹备一个山寨版春节晚会。

CHINA COUNTRYSIDE TV (CCSTV)is making plans for a spring festival gala, which will be an inmitation of the CCTV Spring Festive Gala.

11. 许多平民百姓喜欢看山寨明星的表演。

1）Many ordinary people enjoy the performance given by those star imitators.

2)Many ordinary people enjoy the performance given by those celebrity imitators.

12.根据保守估计，山寨机已占据我国三分之一的手机市场销售份额。

According to a conservative estimate, emulational cell phones have had a one-third share of the domestic market.

13.山寨机因价格低廉和功能齐全而受到农民工的青睐。
Emulational  mobile phones have won the favor of the rural migrant workers for their low prices and all necessary functions.

14.这个顾客投诉说他刚买的山寨机因质量低劣而死机了。

1）The customer complained that the shoddy mobile phone he had just bought went dead because of poor quality.

2)The customer complained that the knockoff mobile phone he had just bought went dead because of poor quality.

3)The customer complained that the ripoff mobile phone he had just bought went dead because of poor quality.

15.没有人知道这个山寨手机是哪里制造的。

1)Nobody knows where this pirate cell phone was made.

2)Nobody knows where this unlicenced cell phone was produced.

                                                                                                 （To be continued...)