数字翻译完整版

1、Translation of Numbers and Multiples,1. She is not more beautiful than you are. 她没有你漂亮。 2. She is no more beautiful than you are. 她跟你一样不漂亮。 3. She is not less beautiful than you are. 她比你漂亮。 4. She is no less beautiful than you are. 她跟你一样漂亮。,Contents,1.Definite numbers,2.Approximate numbers,3. Modifi

2、er of numbers,4.Numbers in multiples,英语中表示绝对数或精准数的时候，可用阿拉伯数字或文字(即数词)表示 (一)用数字表示的数量 1. At -275 by 2007 580kW-hr A4 paper is 297X210 mm.,1.Definite numbers,数字往往不很大，通常在六位数及其以下，用以记录年份、价格、温度、压力、金额、产量、功率、比率、尺寸、距离等，有时需要添加必要的量词或单位词。 用nl0 x表示的特别大的天文数字通常也是照抄。,2. 56,037,000 tons 20,000,000 gallons 3.78l06 barr

3、els of oil 9.5l09 kcal 220 kV,较大的数字常常需要进行数值换算，英语中没有万这一单位，万和十万均以千的累计数计算。 因此，ten thousand应译成“万；hundred thousand应译成十万。,3. 3,000,000 dollars 9,600,000 square kilometers 500,000,000 tons 较大的数字(须为“万”、“亿”的整倍数)可全部译成汉字。 4,253,000 kilowatts 425.3万千瓦(不宜译为四百二十五万三千千瓦） 97,346,000 cubic meters 9 734.6万立方米(不宜译为九千七百

4、三十四万六千立方米),(二)用文字表示的数量 four million barrels of oil 2 hundred thousand yuan six hundred thirty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-two people 5 billion five million million The magic number is 6.3 quadrillion electron-volts. 英语中用文字即数词表示的数量(也包括夹有部分阿拉伯数字的)，可根据具体情况将其译成阿拉伯数字或汉语。,2. Approximate number,

5、计数中常常会遇到不十分精确的数值，因而在表达中会有许多表示近似数或大约数的表达方法。请注意下列英语常用近似数表达方式的汉译： teens of. 十几(1319) tens of.数十/几十 decades of . 数十/几十 dozens of. 几十/几打 scores of.几十(一般多指四十以上). hundreds of几百/数百/成百上千的 thousands of几千/成千上万的 tens of thousands of . 数万/几万 hundreds of thousands of . 数十万/几十万 millions of.数百万/几百万/千千万万的 tens of mi

6、llions of . 数千万/几千万 millions and millions of . 亿万,3. Modifiers of numbers,The wire measures exactly twenty meters.,The machine worked for ten whole days.,The plane takes off at 8 oclock sharp.,这条导线刚好20米长。,这台机器整整运转了10天时间。,这架飞机8点整起飞。,He earns a cool half million dollars a year.,他一年收入整整50万美元。,Professor

7、 Johnson finished the experiment in twenty-four hours flat.,约翰逊教授完成这一实验正好用了24小时。,1. 表示“不多不少”、“恰恰正好”、“整整”： exactly，flat，just，sharp，whole，cool等,The T-shirt cost just 10 dollars.,买这个T恤衫正好花了10美元。,It is nearly / toward (s) 4 oclock.,It is somewhere about 4 oclock.,The price of this new machine is on the

8、border of/ in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars.,现在将近四点了。,现在四点左右。,这台新机器的价格约1000美元。,The book will only cost 15 dollars or so.,这本书只要十五美元左右。,About / Some / Around / Round twenty passengers were killed in the road accident.,这次交通事故中约有二十名旅客死亡。,2. 表示“大约”、“不确定”：about，some，around，round，nearly，towards，so

9、mewhere about，estimated，approximately，on the border of，close to，or so等,Never spend in excess of your income.,There are three thousand odd students in this normal school.,Supplies of this commodity greatly exceed the demand.,花钱切勿超过你的收入。,这所师范院校有三千多名学生。,这种商品的供应大大超过了需求。,Upwards of seven thousand medical

10、 workers and twenty thousand PLA men have left for the earthquake district.,有七千多名医务人员和两万多名解放军前往震区。,The patients are children of three years old and upwards.,这些病人是三岁和三岁以上的儿童。,3. 表示“高于”、“多于”：more than, odd, over, above, long, past, or more, upwards of, higher than, in excess of , exceed等,The child cou

11、ldnt count past 20.,这个孩子不会数20以上的数。,The price of that tricycle is less than /under /below fifty dollars.,He bought the coffeepot at 6 dollars off the list price.,那辆三轮车的售价还不到50美元。,他以低于价目表6美元的价格买下了那把咖啡壶。,4. 表示“少于”、“差一些”、“不到”：less, less than, below, not more than, under, short of, off, to, within, as fe

12、w as等,The invention cost each family not more than one dollar a week.,这项发明使每个家庭每周最多花费1美元/不到一美元。,Its five minutes to five now.,现在是5点差5分。,The motor ran 450 solid days on end.,The experiment will take three months at least.,The temperature at the suns center is as high as 10 000 000 ,马达连续运转了足足450天 。,实验

13、至少需要三个月时间。,太阳中心的温度高达摄氏1 000万度。,They covered full twenty reference sources on clone in a single day.,仅用了一天时间，他们就看完了足足20种有关克隆的资料。,There were no less than 3 000 dead and wounded in the 911 terrorist attack.,在911恐怖袭击中，死伤者多达3 000多人。,5. 表示数目、数量多时：full, solid, at least, all of, no less than, asas，等,They co

14、vered all of ten miles.,他们走了实足十英里。,There is at most / only room for one person.,That solar-energy car weighs only / merely / barely / scarcely / but 500kg.,至多只有可容纳一个人的空间。,那辆太阳能汽车重量仅有500公斤。,6. 表示数目、数量少：only, merely, barely, scarcely, but, at most, no more than, scant 等,Inspection time for the install

15、ation was no more than 2 hours.,安装检验工作仅用了两个小时。,They covered a scant six miles today.,他们今天走了仅6里路。,英语表示表示纯粹数量的增加或减少时 Increase (rise, raise, grow, go up) /decrease( diminish, fall, reduce, lower, drop, go down) +数词(含分数、百分数等) The production of cars in China went up 300 thousand last year. 去年中国的汽车产量增加了30

16、万辆。 For the 24-hour period following 13:00 December 14, air temperature dropped 7.6 . 在12月14日13时以后的24小时，气温下降了 7. 6,7. 表示增减量：,The total value of Chinas exports to the US rose by two thirds last year. 中国出口到美国的商品总值比去年上升了三分之二。 New boosters can increase the payload by 120%. 新型助推器能使有效负载增加120%。 The new ant

17、enna system uses a retarded wave principle that cuts antenna height to 40%. 新的天线系统采用了延迟波原理，使天线高度降低到(原有高度的)40%。（表示减少后的余量） The output of steel has increased to 10 million tons annually in this steel works. 这家钢厂的年钢产量已增加到1 000万吨。（表示增加后的总量）,The new type of mobile phone has five more functions than its ol

18、d model. 这种新款手机拥有的功能比其旧型号多出了五种。 The budget for research work expenditure of the university in 2009 is 20 million yuan lower than that of Beijing University. 这所大学2009年的科研经费预算比北京大学低了 2 000万元。 The output of cars in Europe last year was 24 percent less than in 2008. 去年欧洲汽车的产量比2008年下降了 24%。,1. be n times

19、 as a. (ad.)+ as,The grain output of this year is about three times as great as that of last year.,2. n times + a.(ad.)比较级+than,“是的n倍”或“比大（n1）倍”,今年的粮食产量大约是去年的3倍/比去年多两倍左右。,4. Translation of multiples,Asia is four times larger than Europe.,亚洲的面积是欧洲的4倍/亚洲的面积比欧洲大3倍。,This power plant is four times larger

20、 than that one. 这个发电站比那个发电站大三倍。,3. n times + upon/over,The industrial output in our factory this year is ten times over that of 1999.,今年我们工厂的产量是1999年的10倍。,The total output value of the citys light industry has grown three times over that of last year.,这个城市的轻工业总产值比去年增长了两倍。,He is five times upon your

21、age.,他的年龄是你的5倍。,He demanded double the usual fee. Out put should triple/treble by next year. We have produced four-fold as many electric fans as we did last year.,1. This wire is as long again as that one.,3. Brown has half as many books again as Peter does.,这根金属线的长度是那根的两倍。,布朗的书比彼得的书多一半。,2. Prof. Pe

22、ter has books as many again as I do.,彼得教授的书比我的书多一倍。,英语中还有一种用again而不用倍数词来表示倍数的方法A is as much （large，long，）again as B. 【= A is twice as much （large，long，）as B.】A比B多（大，长，）1倍（即A是B的2倍）。A is half as much （large， 1ong，）again as B. 【= A is one and a half times as much （large， 1ong，）as B.】A比B多（大，长）一半（即A是B的一倍

23、半）。,The population of this county has increased by a factor of 5.,By 2004 the production of primary copper has increased five fold.,该县的人口已经增长了4倍。,到2004年，原铜产量增长了4倍。,The sales of industrial electronic products have multiplied 5 times.,工业电子产品销售额增加了4倍。,The steel output has increased （by ）three times.,钢产

24、量已增加三倍。,5. “increase (rise, grow, go up等) + to + n times” “increase (rise, grow, go up等) + n-fold” “increase (rise, grow, go up等) + by a factor of + n”,“增加到n倍”、“增加了（n1）倍”,The price of rice has increased to three times.,大米的价格涨到了原价的3倍。,The enterprise management expenditure this year has decreased by t

25、hree times as against that of 2002.,The price of farm tools has decreased by a factor of 4.,该企业今年的行政管理开支比2002年降低了2/3。,农具价格降到原价的1/4。,The error probability of the equipment was reduced by 2.5 times through technical innovation.,通过技术革新该设备误差概率降低了3/5。,因为英汉语言在使用分数方面的差异（如汉语的分母中极少使用小数点），如果英语减少的倍数中有小数点时，则应换算

26、成分数。根据表达习惯英语中的2.5times，汉语一般不说“二点五分之一”，这时应换算成整数分母，即“降低到五分之二”或“降低了五分之三”。,6. “decrease (reduce，fall等）+ (by) n times” “decrease (reduce，fall等）+ n times as + a. (ad.) + as” “decrease (reduce，fall等）+ by a factor of n,“减少到n分之1” 或“减加少了n分之（n1）”,By using a new process the prime cost of the television set was

27、reduced by 3.4 times.,采用一种新工艺使这种电视的主要成本降低了71%。,算成整数分母，即“降低到5/17”或“降低了12/17”，但这样仍不符合汉语习惯。在不要求绝对精确的情况下，可进一步换算成百分数，即“降低到29%”或“降低了71%”。,In this region the grain output is now five timesfive-fold that twenty years ago,本地区现在的粮食产量是二十年前的五倍。本地区现在的粮食产量比二十年前增长了四倍。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seco

28、nds flat.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,The company spent a solid year on the acquisition of its rival.,该公司花了整整一年时间来收购其竞争对手。,This equipment will reduce the error probability by a factor of 5,这种设备使误差概率降低到原来的1/5。,The weight of the bicycle has decreased 3 times.,这种自行车的重量减少了2/3。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash

29、in 22 seconds flat.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seconds flat.,The company spent a solid year on the acquisition of its rival.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seconds flat.,该公司花了整整一年时间来收购其竞争对手。,The company spent a solid year on the acquisiti

30、on of its rival.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seconds flat.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seconds flat.,The company spent a solid year on the acquisition of its rival.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seconds fla

31、t.,该公司花了整整一年时间来收购其竞争对手。,The company spent a solid year on the acquisition of its rival.,约翰逊跑完200米正好用了22秒。,Johnson finished the 200-meter dash in 22 seconds flat.,The speed exceeded the average speed by a factor of 2.5.,该速度超过平均速度1.5倍。,A is as long again as B.,A的长度是B的2倍。,The sales of TV set have risen

32、 3.5 times.,电视机销售量增加了2.5倍。,If there were a bridge here, the distance would be shortened 4 times.,如果这里有座桥，距离将缩短3/4。,Their expense is as much again as what it was,他们现在的支出是过去的两倍。 他们现在的支出比过去增加了一倍。 他们现在的支出比过去翻了一番。,Their output has trebledtripled，compared with what it was,他们现在的产量是过去的三倍。他们现在的产量比过去增长了两倍。他们现在的产量比过去增长了百分之二百。,Their expense now double what it was,Their expense has increased by 100.,他们现在的支出比过去增加了百分之一百。,L