群租
“群租”本来指“房主把房子租给多人的租赁形式”。现在我国大中城市,一些房主或房屋中介公司把毛坯房分割成多个小房间,简单装修一下,然后出租给更多的人,以获取更多利润。“群租”,英语译为 group-oriented leasing/rental;“群租房”,英语译为 group-oriented leasing/rental house。例如:1. 近年来,在我国北京、上海和广州等大中城市出现了被称为“群租”的社会现象。 In recent years, in such large and medium-sized cities as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in China, there has occurred a social phenomenon called “group-oriented leasing”. 2. 在大城市,许多公寓房被分割成许多小房间,用于群租。In big cities, many apartments have been divided into many small rooms for group-oriented leasing. 3. 群租已引起许多社会问题与争论。Many social problems and disputes have been caused by group-oriented rental. 4. 这位年轻打工者对我讲述了他住在群租房的经历,在里面他与另外12名从事低收入工作的人分享空间。The young migrant worker told me about his experience living in a group-oriented rental house in which he shared the space with another 12 people in various low-income jobs.
“房主”或“房东”,英语可以译为 landlord(注意不要理解为“地主”);“女房东”,译为 landlady。“房屋中介公司”,英语译为real estate agency。“房客”,英语译为 tenant。例如:5. 一些房东热衷于群租,因为他们可以通过出租若干房间赚取比原先高数倍的金额。Some landlords and landladies are keen on group-oriented leasing because they can earn several times the original rental amount in renting out several rooms.
《小时代》
由郭敬明根据自己的同名小说改编的(adaptation based on the novel of the same title)电影《小时代》(电影海报上的英文名为Tiny Times,但是此译让人很难理解到底是什么意思。网上解释“小时代”有两个说法,一是“比大时代好的年代”,二是“小时候单纯的年代”,可是tiny times无法表示出这样的含义)第一、二部是2013年夏季很火的两部影片(a hit movie),从票房收入(box office income)看,第一部已达5亿元,第二部上映第一周4天就吸金(take in)1.6亿元,称得上是国产大片(homegrown blockbuster)了。
电影描述了现代上海青年人的生活,讲述4名对男孩着迷(boy-crazed)、爱逛商场(mall-loitering)的女大学生的感情生活和职场抱负(navigate romance and their professional aspirations)。她们从头到脚穿着名牌时装(draped from head to toe in designer clothes),看起来像随时准备去走戛纳红毯(ready to walk on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival)的样子,但是浅薄、乏味、崇拜坏男人(shallow, vapid, and beholden to bad men),动不动就为相貌出众的男性神魂颠倒(easily mesmerized by visually stunning males),电影里的男性一个个身材纤细、五官精致而带有女人气(with compact frames, exquisite facial contours and of androgynous demeanor),仿佛会青春永驻(look of perpetual youth)。
有人说,从电影里看到的简直是一派“礼崩乐坏”(with all courtesy and rites of society ruined)的景象,也有人批评该影片一点也不接地气(down to earth,意思是far away from reality)。 据《环球时报》
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