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1、讲师：刘畅微博：刘畅的南瓜地英语二：翻译长难句伴学（5）2016年：难度0.478，均分7.17。本文节选自 National Geographic 杂志2015年6月一篇题为 Surviving the Sneaky Psychology of Supermarketers（战胜鬼祟的超市心理学）的文章。文章用词并不难，但有些词汇并非其最常见含义，翻译时需特别注意多义词的词义选择。The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time aspossible within its doors.The re

2、ason for this is simple:The longer you stay inthe store,the more stuff youll see,and the more stuff you see,the more youll buy.And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.The average supermarket,according tothe Food Marketing Institute,carries some 44,000 different items,and many carrytens of thousands

3、more.The sheer volume of available choice is enough to sendshoppers into a state of information overload.According to brain-scan experiments,the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us.Afterabout 40 minutes of shopping,most people stop struggling to be rationally selective,

4、and instead begin shopping emotionally which is the point at which weaccumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within itsdoors.被动的处理（转词性/泛指人称）；lure的中文选择（诱惑？诱使？）；修饰成分前移；within介词的动词化

5、处理（在门里 待在店内）The reason for this is simple:The longer you stay in the store,the more stuff youll see,and themore stuff you see,the more youll buy.this的指代关系；for this前移；the more the more句式语序（还原成正常语序）stuff：东西，物品，玩意儿The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possiblewithi

6、n its doors.超市的设计就是要诱使顾客尽可能久地待在店内。The reason for this is simple:The longer you stay in the store,the more stuff youll see,andthe more stuff you see,the more youll buy.其理由很简单：你在店里逗留越久，看到的东西就越多，看到的东西越多，买的就越多。And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.汉语习惯The average supermarket,according to the Food Mark

7、eting Institute,carries some 44,000 differentitems,and many carry tens of thousands more.插入语提前；专有机构名的确定；省略成分的补充；carry熟词僻义；many指代；more的比较average:ordinary;not special 普通的；平常的；一般的marketing:the activity of presenting,advertising and selling a companys products in the bestpossible way 营销；销售活动carry:if a s

8、hop/store carries a particular item,it has it for sale 销售；出售item:a single article or object 一件商品（或物品）And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.而超市里的东西多得很。The average supermarket,according to the Food Marketing Institute,carries some44,000 different items,and many carry tens of thousands more.按食品营销研究院所

9、说，普通超市售卖约44,000种各式货品，而且许多超市的货品还要多出成千上万种。The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of informationoverload.available choice定语前置化翻译；volume指的是“items”的数量；overload词义确定sheer:used to emphasize the size,degree or amount of sth（用来强调事物的大小、程度或数量）the sheer volume=large amountov

10、erload:too much of sth 过多；过量；超负荷According to brain-scan experiments,the demands of so much decision-making quickly becometoo much for us.定语前置化翻译；程度表达的转译demands pl.(of sth)(on sb)things that sb/sth makes you do,especially things that aredifficult,make you tired,worried,etc.（尤指困难、使人劳累、令人烦恼等的）要求The she

11、er volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state ofinformation overload.单是可供选择的货品数量就足以让购物者陷入信息超负荷的状态。According to brain-scan experiments,the demands of so much decision-makingquickly become too much for us.根据大脑扫描实验，如此之大的决策量带来的负担会很快令我们无法承受。After about 40 minutes of shopping,most

12、people stop struggling to be rationally selective,and instead begin shopping emotionally which is the point at which we accumulate the50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.时间状语+主语+谓语 1+谓语 2+非限定性定从+at which 定从+that 定从 shopping转动词；stop struggling根据中文调整表达；instead转折；emotionally对应

13、rationally；三个定从的处理；intended注意时态虚拟After about 40 minutes of shopping,most people stop struggling to be rationallyselective,and instead begin shopping emotionally which is the point at which weaccumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.购物约40分钟后，大多数人就不再费心去理性选购，而是开始冲动购物

14、了就是从这一刻起，我们把本来根本没打算买的那一半东西堆进了购物车。英一2015年48：But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America,/the interplay of thevaried national groups upon one another,/and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world waysin a raw,new continent/caused significant changes.【词法】geographic 地理的；peculiar to s

15、b/sth 为某人/某事物所特有；interplay 相互影响；raw 未经加工的，自然状态的【句法】the force 主语1；of geographic conditions 后置定语；peculiar to America 后置定语；the interplay 主语2；of the varied national groups upon one another 后置定语；and the sheerdifficulty 主语3；of maintaining old-world ways 后置定语；in a raw,new continent 地点状语；caused significant

16、changes 谓语+宾语48.But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America,the interplay of thevaried national groups upon one another,and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw,new continent caused significant changes.【答案】但美洲特有地理条件的作用，不同族群间的相互影响，加上在一片蛮荒新大陆上维持旧大陆方式的巨大困难，所有这一切引起了意义深远的变化。Thanks for Listening!主讲老师：新东方在线 刘畅微博：刘畅的南瓜地