文学作品翻译:辛泊平-《现代人的流行病》英译
节选段把品牌当做品位,把冷漠当做修养。一身高档的行头,却在大街上随地吐痰、满口脏话;捧着时尚杂志,却不肯为老人让一下座。
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They tend to take brand for taste and indifference for cultivation. They never open their mouths without dirty filthy language. They were well dressed but spit at will on the street. They always carry some vogue magazine in hand but would not even offer their seats to senior citizens on buses.
身体早熟,能力超低;物质丰富,营养过剩。有的孩子上了大学竟然还不会叠被子、洗衣服,甚至不会系鞋带They are precocious physically but deficient mentally. As material affluence tend to cause over-nutrition, nowadays physically premature children are very common and many of them catch up with their parents in height in their teens. But many of them do not know how to make their bed, wash clothes, or even tie their shoestrings after they become college students!