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发表于 2019-12-11 23:03:00
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只要英译说得过去,外媒想要引述中国的说法,打个引号就行:% H2 R5 P, Z% |3 A- |2 R
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! ?' H9 E# d- ?& N4 t Wei claimed in his remarks that XXX is an " evil cult, " in effect asking the General Assembly to take sides: u. O" Z( p) M7 I* B4 l& M+ Y! D
became a concern to the Chinese government, which branded it a “heretical cult.” ) E' t$ B3 `1 A l
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你看见没,用cult也不算什么大毛病,大不了加几个形容词修饰一下,打个引号,让读者知道是中国的说法,就行了
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如果就此以为「evil cult」是《现代汉语词典》里面描述的那个意思,那就大错特错了,请看September/October 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs 里面的文章 God's Country:/ j. |$ [5 B: P' `' S: D
# G: l+ n+ M2 Y" {Fundamentalists, despite some increase in their numbers and political visibility, remain less influential. This is partly because the pervasive optimism of the United States continues to limit the appeal of ultra-Calvinist theology. Moreover, religious politics in the United States remains a coalition sport -- one that a fundamentalist theology, which continues to view Catholicism as an evil cult, is ill equipped to play.
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- G' v, F+ J, ]+ R5 J不打引号,照字面用,就是「邪恶的异端」,可以用来表达新教徒对天主教的看法。 |
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