(黄色书刊及音响制品现己难觅踪迹,这证明了中国的扫黄运动正在取得进展。)
6)Some austere measures should be taken to check the unhealthy tendencies which, according to the press exposures, were rampant in some localities.
(从新闻媒介所暴露的情况来看,不正之风在一些地区已非常严重,必须采取严格措施刹住这股歪风。)
7) The next objective for the Chinese people to strive for is to reach the well-to-do level.
(中国人民的下一个奋斗目标是在本世纪末达到小康水平。)
8) He works enthusiastically as ever even though he has retired from the leading post.
(尽管己退居二线,他的工作热情丝毫不减。)
9) Journalists should firmly object to the payoffs-aimed journalism which deviates from press ethics.
(新闻记者应坚决反对有偿新闻,因为它违背了新闻记者的职业道德。)
10) Many large companies in Shanghai have geared themselves to the international conventions and set up aftersales services accepting repairs and dealing with customers, complaints.
(上海的许多大公司都专门设有售后服务中心,接受维修业务和处理客户投诉,目的在于与国际接轨。)
以上诸例显示,阅读英语报刊不失为接触现代英语脉搏的一条事半功倍的捷径,这是传统教科书和一般双语词典所望尘莫及的。这一特点无疑有助于英语学习者紧紧跟上现代英语的发展步伐和提高英语的表达能力。类似的新词英译在英语报刊中俯拾即是,再举数例,以飨读者:
China's actual conditions 中国国情
bonded area 保税区
be honest in performing one's official duties 廉洁奉公
build a clean and honest government; construction of a clean government 廉政建设
abuse of power for personal gain; misuse of power for private interest 以权谋私
corruption reporting centre 举报中心
be responsible for one's own profit and loss 自负盈亏
jack up price 哄抬物价
with the inflation factors deducted; inflation adjusted 扣除物价上涨因素
bureaucrat profiteering; bureaucrat racketeering 官倒
single youth above the normal matrimonial age 大龄青年
agricultural people to be given non-agricultural status 农转非
现代英语中表达新事物、新概念的新词新义大多是率先出现在英语报刊中,然后再流行于世的。这是因为一件新事物的出现,首先需要通过媒体来向大众宣传,这样,新事物的名称也就通过新闻先被人们所认识了。如euthanasia(安乐死), AIDS [acquired immune deficiency syndrome (艾滋病)],elevated highways (高架道路), information superhighway(畔⒏咚俟?罚??beeper (无线传呼机,俗称“拷机”、BP机), cellular phone (移动电话),value-added tax (增值税),latchkey child (挂钥匙的孩子), CD [compact disc (光盘)], hula hoop(呼拉圈),surfing (冲浪运动),talk(ing) show(访谈节目;谈话类节目),karaoke (卡拉OK)等新词,无一不是通过英语报刊等媒介传播后而为人们所熟知的。
可见,新闻媒介是日新月异的当今世界政治、经济、科技、文化乃至社会生活等各个触角的最佳表现渠道,现代英语中新词语的出现与这些领域里产生的新事物、新问题、新现象等无不一一有着千丝万缕的关系。现代汉语里这类因现实生活中新事物而出现的新词也比比皆是,如“物质文明”(material progress )、“精神文明”(intellectual and ideological development)、“五讲四美三热爱” (five advocatings, four points of beauty and three aspects of love)、“扒分”(moonlight)、“斩(宰)客”(rip off)、“打白条”(issue IOUs)、“关系网”(network of personal connections )、“下海”(risk one's fortune in business)、“跳槽”(job-hop)等等。因此,这类新词的出现是伴随着特定的政治、社会等环境而产生的,因此他们具有明显的社会性,易于被读者所普遍接受。如1957年10月4日,前苏联发射了世界上第一颗人造卫星,开辟了人类探索宇宙的新纪元,一时举世翘首,瞩望天空。英语新闻报道将它按俄文字母拼为 Sputnik I Satellite.之后,sputnik一词因广为使用而被载入词典,解释为“人造卫星”。liuxuepaper.com