100个热门话题汉译英—房奴

房奴，按揭

英语关键词

mortgage slave，mortgage

句子

这么高的房价已使我沦为房奴。

误译

Such high housing price have rendered me a house slave.

正译

Such high housing price have rendered me a mortgage slave.

解释

不可将house slave译成房奴。 house slave与field slave 形成对比，指当年美国从事家务劳动的黑奴，即“家奴”：而field slave是从事农耕劳动的黑奴，即“田奴”。例如：

1.乔治的祖母是从事家务劳动的黑奴，祖父是从事农耕劳动的黑奴。

George's grandmother was a house slave and his grandfather was a field slave.

2.家奴通常生活得比田奴好，他们通常吃得好一点，而且有时候能得到主人家扔掉的旧衣服。

House slaves usually lived better than field slaves. They usually had better food and were sometimes given the family's cast-off clothing.

3.简是个家奴，她被主任强迫嫁给另一个黑奴。

Jane was a house slave who was forced by her master to marry another slave.

"房奴"的意思是"按揭购房者"。英语可以译作mortgage slave。例如：

4.房奴被采用来描述那些按揭还款超过月薪一半的人。

Mortgage slave is adopted to describe those people whose mortgage payment is more than half of their monthly salary.