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翻译点津 时事热词英译(九)

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时事热词英译(九)


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来电显示 caller ID

蜡雕 wax carving; wax sculpture

拉动经济增长 fuel economic growth  

拉关系 try to curry favor with  

垃圾融资 junk financing  

垃圾邮件 junk e-mail

垃圾邮件 junk email; spam

垃圾债券 junk bond  

垃圾综合处理 integrated garbage treatment

辣椒手榴弹 chili bomb (An Indian defense official said scientists were using the world's hottest chili to develop chili bombs that can be used to control riots and combat separatists.印度国防部官员25日说印度安全部队正计划用世界上最辣的一种辣椒面制成手榴弹,以用于控制骚乱和打压叛乱活动。)

拉锯战 seesaw battle

啦啦队 cheering squad

啦啦队长 "cheer-leader, rooter king"  

拉力赛 endurance race

拉练 undergo field training by marching and camping

拉链工程 zipper project

拉尼娜现象 La Nina phenomenon  

蜡染 batik; wax printing

蜡像馆 wax work museum

拉选票 seek a vote  

拉闸限电 power rationing (Cold wave causes power rationing: A cold wave sweeping across large swathes of the country since Saturday has forced some provinces to ration electricity for industrial use, but State power company officials promised yesterday that supply to residents across those regions would not be affected.寒潮导致多地拉闸限电:自上周六开始侵袭我国多个地区的寒潮已导致一些省份限制工业用电,但国家电力公司的有关官员昨日承诺,这些地区的居民用电供应不会受到影响。)

来电显示电话机 caller ID telephone  

来料加工 process materials supplied by clients; accept customers' materials for processing  

来料、来样、来件加工产品 process products with materials supplied by clients

来世,下辈子 the next life

垃圾分类收集 separate waste collection

蓝筹股 blue chips  

滥发文凭 issue diplomas recklessly

滥发纸币 excessive issue of bank notes; excessive note issue

蓝光光盘 Blue-ray Disc

蓝盔人员 blue helmet personnel  

蓝领工人 Blue-collar worker

烂摊子 awful mess

蓝牙技术 bluetooth  

滥用权力 abuse of power

滥用职权 abuse one's power;misuse one's authority

浪子回头 return to the fold; turn over a new leaf; return of the prodigal son  

朗诵比赛 recital contest

兰花指 orchid fingers (In Peking Opera, finger movements express different emotions and characters. For actresses, this is called "orchid fingers".在京剧中,手势表达着不同的情感和性格。京剧旦角的这种手势就叫做“兰花指”。)

劳保医疗制度 labor medicare system

老大难” 问题 long-standing problem; big and difficult problem; lasting, complex and hard-to-solve problem

劳动服务公司 labor service company;service company

劳动定额 labor quota

劳动合同制 labor contract system  

劳动教养 education through labor; rehabilitation through labor; indoctrination through labor  

劳动力产权 labor property rights

劳动力的流动性 fluidity of labor

劳动力过剩 labor surplusmanpower surplus

劳动力资源配置 allocation of labor resources

劳动密集型 labor-intensive

劳动密集型产业 labor-intensive industry

劳动模范 model worker

劳动预备制度 vocational training system

劳动者素质 quality of the workforce

劳动争议 labor dispute

劳改农场 reforming farm; reform-through-labor farm

老化效应 aging effect

老黄牛 a person who serves the people whole-heartedly; an honest and industrious worker  

老龄委 senior citizens' work committee

老年保险制度 endowment insurance

老三届 junior and senior high school graduates of 1966~1968; school leavers of 1966~1968  

老少边穷地区 "former revolutionary base areas, areas inhabited by minority nationalities, remote and border areas and poverty-stricken areas "  

老生常谈,陈词滥调 cut and dried, cliché  

老鼠仓 rat trading. The term has recently come into the spotlight as some mainland brokers were believed to have made illegal profits by conducting so-called “rat trading” or a kind of scalping scheme in the stock market by cheating their clients.

劳务费 service charge; service fee

劳务市场 labor market

劳务输出 export of labor services

老爷式的态度 bureaucratic attitude

老一套 old practice; the same old stuff; the same old story; the beaten track

老油条 wily old bird; old slicker  

老中青三结合 combination of the old, the middle-aged and the young in the leadership

劳资 labor and capital

老字号 an old and famous shop or enterprise; time-honoured brand  

劳资纠纷 trouble between labor and management

老子天下第一 regard oneself as the No.1 authority in the world

老赖(欠钱不还) deadbeat (They are New York's Cheapest: an elite collection of wealthy fraudsters and deadbeats who owe more than $1 million each in state income taxes.)  

老龄化社会 aging society

老年学校 school for the aged

劳保 labor insurance

(面部)拉皮手术 facelift (The 65-year-old US Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared to have had a facelift in the lead up to the debate on October 2, a cosmetic surgeon said. The surgeon made the claims after comparing the photos of Biden taken before and on the debate day. The facelift is mainly made by tightening the temple and eyelids, the US media reported.有整容医生断言,65岁的民主党副总统候选人拜登在出席2日晚的辩论会前曾接受过拉面皮手术。美媒称,该医生通过对比辩论前后照片,指出拜登的"重灾区"位于眼部周围,手术拉紧了眉侧和眼睑。)

雷达覆盖区 radar coverage

雷达跟踪 radar tracking

累犯 recidivist; incurable criminal

勒紧裤带 tighten one's belt

累进税率 progressive tax rate

冷板凳 cold stool; an indifferent post or a cold reception; cool one's heels

冷门 ark horse; a profession, trade or branch of learning that receives little attention; an unexpected winner

冷遇 cold reception; indifferent treatment

冷战思维 Cold War mentality

冷笑话 bad joke (Some bad jokes are very popular in many online forums these days.如今,一些冷笑话在许多网络论坛里非常流行。)

乐透 lotto (一种彩票游戏)

离岸价格 free on board(FOB)

离岸金融市场 offshore market

篱笆墙 barriers/ blockage to inter-regional trading  

理财 arrange the finance;money management

力挫 defeat with utmost effort

立等可取服务 instant service; on-the-spot service

立法真空 legislation vacuum

利改税 substitution of tax payment for profit delivery  

力争上游 strive for the best; aim high

立国之本 the foundation underlying all efforts to build the country

理货公司 tally company  

利基 niche  

离经叛道 rebel against the orthodoxy

理论与实际相结合 integrade theory with practice

礼尚往来 courtesy calls for reciprocity; courtesy demands reciprocity  

历史遗产 historical heritage;legacy of history

历史遗留下来的问题 problem left over by history; an issue rooted in history

利税分流 payment of the tax plus a percentage of profits to the state

理顺经济秩序 straighten out the economic order

力所能及 within one's power;to the best of one's ability( capacity)

立体电视 three-dimensional television

立体开放口岸 trading port open to sea, land and air

立体农业 three-dimensional agriculture  

立体式报道 an in-depth and comprehensive report

立体思考 three-dimensional thinking

立体战争 three-dimensional war

离退办 office for the affairs of the retired workers  

离退休人员基本养老金 basic pensions for retirees  

理想雇主 preferred workplace (Samsung was selected as thepreferred workplace for a 2nd straight year in a survey of 1146 college seniors, done by Job Korea, a recruitment portal of South Korea.韩国就业门户网站Job Korea1146名大四学生进行的调查中三星连续第二年被选为韩国大学生的理想雇主。)

礼仪小姐 ritual girl  

礼仪小姐 guiding girl

礼仪小姐 Miss Etiquette (The final selection of Shanghai Expo Miss Etiquette was held in Hangzhou city, Zhe Jiang province on Jan 31, 2010.上海世博会礼仪小姐选拔活动总决赛于2010131日在浙江省杭州市启动。)

立于不败之地 be in an invincible position;remain invincible

联产承包责任制 system of contracted responsibility linking remuneration to output; contract system with remuneration linked to output  

连带责任 joint liability  

联防 joint defense

恋父情结 Electra complex

恋母情结 Oedipus complex

联购联销 joint purchasing and marketing

联合公报 joint communique

联合国反腐败公约 UN Convention Against Corruption

《联合国海洋法公约》 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

联合国环境署 UNEP (United Nations Environment Program)  

联合国会费 the UN membership dues (fee)  

联合国开发计划署 UNDP (United Nations Development Program)  

联合国粮农组织 FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation)  

联合国维持和平部队 United Nations Peace Keeping Forces

联合国维和行动 UN peacekeeping operations

联合;合并 merger

联合兼并 conglomeration and merger of enterprises  

联合联络小组 joint liaison group  

联合投标 syndicated tender  

连环杀手 serial killer (A female serial killer who terrorized Mexico City as the "Little Old Lady Killer" was sentenced to 759 years in jail on Monday for killing 16 elderly women.本周一,以"小老太太杀手"之名震惊墨西哥城的女连环杀手因杀害16名老年妇女而被判入狱759年。)

连环相撞 rear-end collision (A rear-end collision of at least 30 vehicles occurred at 10 am Monday morning at the Jianyang section of the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway, local media reported.据当地媒体报道,15日上午10时许,成渝高速简阳段发生特大车祸,至少有30辆车连环相撞。)

连环追尾 pileup (More than 100 cars and trucks are involved in the massive pileup on Highway 99 just south of Fresno as patches of dense fog obscured visibility on the heavily traveled roadway, the California Highway Patrol officials Paul Solorzano Jr. said.加州高速公路巡逻局官员保罗•索洛萨诺说,出事路段交通繁忙,属于弗雷斯诺市以南的第99号高速公路。当时雾很大,能见度很低,造成100多辆车连环追尾。)

联机环境 on-line environment

廉价商店 discount shop;budget store; discount shop

廉价市场 bargain market; bargain center

廉洁奉公,以正治国 (of an official) clean and devoted, and govern the state with his own example of uprightness  

联赛 league match

连锁店 chain store

连锁反应 chain effect; domino effect

练摊 to be a vendor  

联体婴儿 Siamese twins

联网 on-line;be networked

联想集团 Legend Group  

连续抽烟的人 chain smoker  

廉政公署 Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)

廉政建设 construction of a clean and honest administration  

廉政建设 build a clean and honest government; strive for a clean government

廉政、勤政、务实、高效政府 an honest, diligent, pragmatic and efficient government

廉租房 low-rent houses (The premier said the government plans to earmark 6.8 billion yuan in its 2008 budget to build low-rent houses for the urban poor.温总理说,今年政府计划投入68亿元为城市低收入者建设廉租房)

两岸民间行业组织 non-governmental trade organizations across the Straits

两岸三地 the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong

两岸直航促进会 Association for Promotion of Cross-Straits Direct Transportation  

两岸直航 cross-Straits direct transportation link

两岸直航包机 Direct Chartered Flight Across the Taiwan Straits

两大历史性课题(提高党的执政水平和领导水平、提高拒腐防变和抵御风险能力) the two major historic subjects of enhancing the abilities of administration and art of leadership and resisting corruption, guarding against degeneration and warding off risks

两弹一艇 "A-bomb, H-bomb and nuclear-powered submarine"

两弹一星 atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and artificial satellite

亮底牌 reveal the ins and outs

两个对等的政治实体 two equal political entities  

两个文明一起抓 place equal emphasis on material and ethical progress  

两会 two Conferences (i.e. the National People's Congress and the Chinese Political Consultative Conference)

粮食风险基金 grain risk fund

粮食流通体制 grain distribution system

粮食收购部门 (government's) grain procurement (purchasing) agencies  

粮食主产区 major grain producing areas

两手抓两手都要硬 grasp both links at the same time and attach sufficient importance to both  

两思(致富思源,富而思进) to think of the source of getting rich and of making progress after becoming affluence  

两条腿走路 walking on two legs

两头大、中间小 be small at both ends and big in the middle; a few at each extreme and many in between  

亮相 pose; state one's view

良性循环 virtuous circle  

两伊战争 the Iran-Iraq War

粮油关系 grain and oil rationing registration  

两院院士 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering  

两者不可兼得 You cannot eat your cake and have it.

量子力学 quantum mechanics

两岸关系 relations across the Taiwan Straits

两岸周末包机直航 cross-Straits weekend charter flight (Chen Ling, vice-director of the Fujian Taiwan affairs office, said: "The launch of the cross-Straits weekend charter flights marks a great leap forward for relations between the mainland and Taiwan." )

两个确保 two guarantees (确保国有企业下岗职工的基本生活,确保离退休人员的基本生活,保证按时足额发放基本养老金guaranteeing that the living allowances for workers laid off from state-owned enterprises and that the pensions of retirees are paid on time and in full)

食品安全 food safety

良种补贴 subsidies for growing superior grain cultivators

连环漫画 comic strip

联名存款帐户 joint account

连锁经营 chain-store operations

连体姐妹 conjoined twin sisters

连体婴儿 conjoined twin babies

疗效食品 remedy diet

《聊斋志异》 Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio  

劣等品 shoddy goods; substandard goods; lemon (informal)  

猎头公司 head-hunting company  

列席会议 attend a conference without voting rights

立法听证会 legislative hearing

利率形成和传导机制 setting and transmitting interest rates

临时巴勒斯坦国 provisional Palestinian state

临时工 temporary worker

临时牌照 temporary licence

临时医院 makeshift hospital (Aid officials in Haiti worked to clear rubble from roads, buildmakeshift hospitals and remove bodies from the rubble despite transportation problems and broken phone lines.在海地交通和通信阻断的情况下,救援人员正在清除道路上的碎石瓦砾,搭建临时医院,把尸体从瓦砾中挪开。)

临时政府 interim government (An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan proclaimed a new interim government on Thursday after clashes left dozens dead in the Central Asian country.在吉尔吉斯斯坦中部发生一场导致数十人死亡的冲突后,吉尔吉斯斯坦共和国反对派上周四宣布成立新的临时政府。)

临时主教练 caretaker coach [caretaker n.看管者;看门人;守护者 adj.临时代理的]

领海 territorial waters  

零和博弈 zero-sum game; zero game

 [又称零和游戏,与非零和博弈相对,是博弈论的一个概念,属非合作博弈。指参与博弈的各方,在严格竞争下,一方的收益必然意味着另一方的损失,博弈各方的收益和损失相加总和永远为“零”,双方不存在合作的可能。]

另类 a different, special, completely new or fashionable type or trend

另类音乐,非正统音乐 alternative music  

零配件 spare and accessory parts

另起炉灶 make a fresh start

灵巧导弹 agile missile

(建议)零售价 (suggested) retail price

领头羊 bellwether

领土归属 territorial entitlement

领土完整 territorial integrity

薪领工人 new-collar workers  

零排放屋 Zero Emissions House (The G8 summit in Hokkaudo, Japan, has clearly focused minds on environment issues and a fururistic "Zero Emissions House" will now be showcased following the summit. )

邻家女孩 the girl next door

临时抱佛脚 make hasty, last-minute efforts

临时价格干预措施 interim price control measure (The National Development and Reform Commission announced its decision Monday to scrap its interim price control measures on grain, food processed from grain, edible oil, meat, dairy products and eggs starting from January as a step to tackle inflation, now that the country's CPI, the main gauge for inflation, slowed in October for the 6th month in a row to 4%. Food producers and traders will resume the right to set prices of those products independently.发改委1日表示,因10CPI4%,同比涨幅连续第6个月回落,自121日起,将解除1月起为应对通货膨胀而对成品粮及粮食制品、食用植物油、肉、奶、蛋等食品类商品的临时价格干预措施,生产者和经营者可自主定价。)

临时线路 temporary line

流窜犯 mobile criminal  

留得青山在,不怕没柴烧 "Where there is life, there is hope."  

流动服务 mobile service

流动人口 transient population; floating population  

流动售货 mobile vending

流动图书馆 travelling library; bookmobile  

流动性负债 current liabilities

流动性资产 current assets

流动资产 current assets; liquid assets

流动资金 circulating fund; floating money; liquid fund; working fund

流水账 daybook;day-to-day account;current count

流通股 circulation stock

流通领域 circulation domain

流通企业 distribution firm

流通系统 system for the distribution of commodities

留校 work at one's Alma Mater after graduation

流行事物 the in-thing

流行文化 pop culture

流星雨 meteor shower

流行字眼 vogue word; in-word; often-heard word

溜须拍马 fawn on; apple polish

留学咨询 consulting on the study abroad  

六艺:礼、乐、射、御、书、数 "six classical arts: rites, music, archery, riding, writing, arithmetic"  

留职停薪 retain the job but suspend the salary  

流转税 turnover tax; indirect tax

六方会谈 the Six-Party Talks

流感监测站 influenza monitoring station  

流感疫苗接种 influenza vaccinations

流浪猫 stray cat

流氓软件,恶意软件 malicious software, malware  

流媒体 streaming media

留守儿童 leftover children

流通股 tradable share

流行偶像 pop idol

利息率 interest rate

利息税 tax on interest from deposits

龙的传人 descendants of the dragon—the Chinese people  

垄断行业 monopolized industry

隆乳 mammaplasty

龙头产品 flagship product  

(行业中的)龙头老大 leading enterprise; flagship of the industry

露马脚 give oneself away; reveal oneself; let the cat out of the bag; show the cloven hoof

陆地和海洋生态系统 terrestrial and marine ecosystems

陆基巡航导弹 ground-launched cruise missile

录取通知书 letter of admission; acceptance letter

录取线 admission line

路演 road show  

乱集资、乱摊派、乱收费 "unwarranted pooling of funds, arbitrary requisition of donations and exaction of fees from enterprises "

乱检查 make unwarranted inspections

乱码 messy code

乱收费 arbitrary charges

乱摊派 requisition donations arbitrarily

乱收费、乱摊派、乱罚款 "arbitrary charges, fund-raising quotas and fines"

劣质工程 shoddy engineering

轮岗 work shift

轮流(坐庄) in turn

论文答辩 (thesis) oral defense  

《论语》 Analects of Confucius  

轮值主席 rotating chairman  

裸奔 streaking (A recent Internet post publicizing 2 male students celebrating their graduation by streaking naked across campus at Fudan University in Shanghai has aroused heated online debate.近日,复旦大学的两名毕业生为纪念毕业,在毕业前一晚的午夜时分在校内裸奔并拍照留念,成为网络热议事件。)

裸婚 naked wedding (I was a little dismayed when I heard the word "naked wedding" on a news broadcast the other day, but then understood it was definitely not anything obscene.当我前几天在新闻广播节目上听到“裸婚”一词时,我有点不快,但很快就意识到这个词和淫秽没有关系。)

裸机 bare mobile phone  

裸体挂历 nude calendar.( Six members of Rylstone and District Women's Institute in the UK posed for a nude calendar for helping leukemia patients.英国瑞尔斯通妇女研究所的6个成员拍摄了她们的裸体挂历,来帮助白血病患者筹款。)

裸照 nude photo (French first lady Carla Bruni told Vanity Fair magazine that her husband was not upset when he learned of all the nude photos she did during her modeling days.日前,法国第一夫人布吕尼在接受美国《名利场》杂志采访时透露,萨科齐得知她当模特时拍裸照后,并不介意,也不生气。)

录取分数线 entry score

绿地覆盖率 forest coverage rate  

绿化 afforestation  

绿化运动 afforestation drive

绿卡 green card

旅客列车票价 price of passenger train tickets  

绿色奥运,科技奥运,人文奥运 Green Olympics, High-tech Olympics, People's Olympics  

绿色产品 green product

绿色电脑 green computer

绿色急救通道 emergency green path  

绿色科技 green science and technology

绿色能源 green energy resource

绿色农业 green agriculture

绿色企业 green enterprise

绿色食品 green food  

绿色通道(办证快捷通道) green channel; landscaped roadways  

绿色银行 green bank

旅行纪录片 travel documentary

旅行结婚 honeymoon trip; wedding vacation; wedding travel  

驴友 travelers.(A brand new tiny-roomed hotel will open in the center of Shanghai at the end of April, targeting travelers from home and abroad for the World Expo in 2010 and young people thereafter.一种新型"袖珍旅馆"将于4月底在上海市中心开张,主要用以满足世博会期间来沪的国内外"驴友"和年轻人的需求。)

绿色旅游 green tourism (In recent years, mountain regions are attracting great attention to Indian tourists in general and foreign tourists in particular. The potential mountain resources for promoting green tourism are enormous in the form of natural and cultural heritage such as biosphere reserves, flora and fauna, lakes and rivers and traditional rural resources. )

绿色通道(快速通道) green channel (China's banking regulators Wednesday ordered all the banks to open a "green channel" disaster relief donations from home and abroad and scrape the remittance charge.银监会周三要求各银行金融机构开辟抗震救灾捐款快速通道,不得向境内外汇往灾区的捐款收取手续费。)

履行义务 fulfill obligations

旅游车 touring bus

旅游城市 tourism city

旅游定点饭店 certified restaurant/hotel for tourism

旅游黄金周 golden week for tourism  

旅游热 tourism wave


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