1.reform一詞的搭配法
reform可以和以下動(dòng)詞連用:
accomplish/effect/initiate/make/start reforms
bring about reforms
carry a reform into effect
advocate/propose/urge reforms
“深化改革”在我國(guó)出版的英語(yǔ)報(bào)刊上常譯成deepen reform.一般說(shuō)deepen做及物動(dòng)詞時(shí)常與knowledge, understanding一類詞連用。“深化改革”中的“深化”就是“進(jìn)一步”的意思,可譯成:
intensify the rural reform
further carry out reforms
as the reform further develops/is carried forward/is pushed forward
2.“改革開(kāi)放”的表達(dá)法
“改革開(kāi)放”可譯成the policy of reform and opening up 或the reform and the open policy。切不可與the open-door policy(“門戶開(kāi)放”政策)混淆?!斑M(jìn)一步開(kāi)放”或“門要開(kāi)得更大”可譯成reform and opening up went one step further;further reform and opening up。
“加快改革開(kāi)放的步伐”可譯成accelerate the pace of reform and opening up。
3.“堅(jiān)持”怎么譯?
“堅(jiān)持”可以譯作adhere to, persevere in, persist in, hold on to, stick to, keep to等,如:
adherence to the socialist road, to communist party leadership, to the people's democratic dictatorship and to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zetong thought.
adhering to a coordinated and balanced program of development.
persevere in the pursuit of 1 central task and 2 basic points
persisting in reform and opening up
hold on to socialism
stick to this attitude
keep to the socialist orientation
adhere to 的意識(shí)是“堅(jiān)持維護(hù),支持”,“信仰堅(jiān)定”,“忠于”,如:“堅(jiān)持黨的基本路線”可譯作 adhere to the party's basic line,“堅(jiān)持無(wú)產(chǎn)階級(jí)國(guó)際主義”可譯作adhere to proletarian internationalism。
persevere in 和persist in 一般用于行動(dòng),都有“在困難或遭到反對(duì)的情況下繼續(xù)”的意思;但persevere in 帶褒義,表示“不屈不撓”,而persist in 帶貶義,表示“頑固,不聽(tīng)開(kāi)導(dǎo)”,如:
perseverance means success.
persevere in one's studies/armed struggle
persist in one's errors/asking insulting questions
hold one to 的意思是“抓住不放”,用于beliefs, ideas, principles時(shí)表示“堅(jiān)持信仰”,即使他人影響或情況使人產(chǎn)生懷疑,也不改變或放棄,如:
hold on to one's views
stick to 的意思是“粘住,不離”;和choice, decision, principle, belief 等詞連用時(shí),也有“不變,不放棄”,“堅(jiān)持”的意思。
keep to 有“不離”,“不違背”,“遵守”的意思,如:
keep to the main road
keep to prearranged plan
keep to 用于decision,belief,rules時(shí)有“堅(jiān)持”的意思。此外,“堅(jiān)持”也可譯作insist on, keep up, uphold 等。
insist on 多用于意見(jiàn),主張,表示“硬要”,“堅(jiān)決要求”,如:
we insist on an interview before we accept any ma candidate.
she insisted on her innocence.
he insisted on going innocence.
keep up 的意思是“繼續(xù)”,如:
keep up one's studies/piano practice/the attack/the good work
uphold 的意思 是“支持”,贊同“,可和law, principle, system, practice連用,表示“堅(jiān)持”?!拔覀凕h堅(jiān)持辯證唯物主義和歷史唯物主義的世界觀”可譯作our party upholds dialectical materialism and historical materialism as its world outlook.