CATTI三级笔译综合词汇学习 :从外刊记词汇
来源 :中华考试网 2020-11-27
中CATTI考试中翻译选材常源于Economist、The New York Times等主流外刊,因此,平日学习中,外刊积累必不可少。
例: Clothing releases the most microfibers while being machine-washed, and many of those fibers elude filtration in treatment centers, ultimately ending up in waterways and oceans.
语法剖析:Clothing releases the most microfibers //while being machine-washed(省略了clothing is), and many of those fibers elude filtration in treatment centers, //ultimately ending up in waterways and oceans(现在分词作结果状语).主干:Clothing releases...and many of those fibers elude...(并列句)注:while引导时间状语从句时,若从句主语和主句主语一致,且从句谓语含有be,则从句中有时可省略主语和be,while后可直接跟现在分词/过去分词/介词短语/名词/形容词
词汇详解:1. release [rɪˈliːs]V.①~ sb/sth (from sth) to let sb/sth come out of a place where they have been kept or trapped 释放;放出;放走例:Firefighters took two hours to release the driver from the wreckage.消防队员花了两个小时将司机从汽车残骸中救出来。
②to express feelings such as anger or worry in order to get rid of them 发泄;宣泄例:She burst into tears, releasing all her pent-up emotions.她放声大哭,发泄出全部郁积起来的情感。
③~ sb (from sth) to free sb from a duty, responsibility, contract, etc. 免除,解除(某人的职责、责任、合同等);解雇例:The club is releasing some of its older players.俱乐部正在解聘一些老队员。
④to make sth available to the public 公开;公布;发布例:Police have released no further details about the accident.关于这次事故,警方没有透露更多的细节。
N.①[不可数名词, 单数] ~ (of sb) (from sth) the act of setting a person or an animal free; the state of being set free 释放;获释
例:The government has been working to secure the release of the hostages.政府一直在努力争取使人质获释。
②[不可数名词, 单数] the act of making sth available to the public 公开;发行;发布例:The new software is planned for release in April.新软件计划四月份发行。
③[不可数名词, 单数] the feeling that you are free from pain, anxiety or some other unpleasant feeling 解脱;轻 松感例:a sense of release after the exam考试后的解脱感
2. elude[iˈluːd]V.①to manage to avoid or escape from sb/sth, especially in a clever way (尤指机敏地)避开,逃避,躲避例:The two men managed to elude the police for six weeks.这两个男人想方设法逃避警方追捕达六个星期。
②if sth eludes you, you are not able to achieve it, or not able to remember or understand it 使达不到;使不记得;使不理解例:He was extremely tired but sleep eluded him.他累极了,却睡不着。形近词:exude[ɪɡˈzuːd]V.①if you exude a particular feeling or quality, or it exudes from you, people can easily see that you have it 流露,显露(感觉或品质);(感觉或品质)显现例:She exuded confidence.她显得信心十足。
②if sth exudes a liquid or smell, or a liquid or smell exudes from somewhere, the liquid, etc. comes out slowly 流出,渗出(液体);散发出(气味);(从某处)渗出,散发出来例:The plant exudes a sticky fluid.这种植物分泌出一种黏液。
3. filtration [fɪlˈtreʃən][不可数名词](chemistry 化) the process of filtering a liquid or gas 过滤;滤清;滤除
短语积累:end up : If you end up doing something or end up in a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to最终;结果;到头来例1:If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want.如果你不知道自己想要什么,到头来你可能得非所愿。例2:If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want...如果你不知道自己想要什么,到头来你可能得非所愿。
参考译文:衣物机洗时释放出的超细纤维最多,而这些纤维未经过处置中心的过滤,最终流入水道和海洋。