【漢譯英1】波士頓咨詢(xún)公司最近做的一項(xiàng)研究顯示，到2020年中國(guó)將會(huì)有2.2億家庭收入在2萬(wàn)到100萬(wàn)美元的富裕消費(fèi)者。這些消費(fèi)者中75%住在“較小城市”。隨著網(wǎng)絡(luò)的發(fā)展，較小城市的消費(fèi)者的一種必然趨勢(shì)是他們更加依賴(lài)社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)上的信息。很多網(wǎng)絡(luò)顧客都是通過(guò)微信、微博和QQ空間分組的。據(jù)估計(jì)今年中國(guó)將會(huì)有2.5億消費(fèi)者進(jìn)行網(wǎng)購(gòu)，位于四線城市的消費(fèi)者平均每人會(huì)花費(fèi)他們50%或者更高的工資在網(wǎng)購(gòu)上，這一數(shù)據(jù)要比一線城市的消費(fèi)者的花費(fèi)高。
【參考譯文】A recent study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group says there will be 220 million affluent consumers, who are from households earning between $ 20,000 to $ 1 million, in China by 2020, and 75 percent of them will live in “smaller” cities. With the development of the Internet, an inevitable trend among these consumers is they are much more dependent on information from social networking services. Many of the website’s customers are “grouped” by Wechat, Weibo and QQ Zones. It is now estimated that 250 million Chinese consumers will shop online this year and the average shopper in a fourth-tier city in China will spend 50 percent or more of their income on e-commerce than those in top-tier cities.
【漢譯英2】聘金是中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗的一部分。這一習(xí)慣在整個(gè)中國(guó)都很普遍。但是近幾年來(lái)其標(biāo)準(zhǔn)不斷上升，致使大多數(shù)家庭都很難達(dá)到。高額的聘禮常?！皳尳佟绷诵吕筛改副厣姆e蓄，甚至引起家庭糾紛。此外，許多新婚夫婦被迫舉行奢侈的婚禮宴會(huì)，在這個(gè)過(guò)程中，大量債務(wù)的累積可能使他們的新婚生活變得辛酸，至少在最初階段是這樣。想想老一輩節(jié)儉的婚禮，雖然簡(jiǎn)簡(jiǎn)單單，但也幸福美滿，沒(méi)有給他們婚后的生活帶來(lái)任何負(fù)擔(dān)。
【參考譯文】Endowment may be part of Chinese tradition, but the standards have become so high in recent years that a majority of families are finding it difficult to meet them. The high endowment amounts often rob grooms’ parents of their life’s savings and causes family disputes. Besides, many newly married couples are forced to host extravagant wedding ceremonies to keep up with the Joneses and, in the process, run up huge debts that could turn their married life sour, at least in the initial phase. Considering the frugal wedding of many parents, simple but happiness, didn’t have any bearing on their married life.