2015年12月英语四级翻译练习：地铁报

　　2.第2句中的主语“北京、上海、广州等大城市”如果直译为Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities 则显得冗长，英译时宜用中心词“大城市”作主语，用介词like引出城市名作定语，再用all big cities的同位语。以使表达更为清晰顺畅。

　　3.第3句中的“在上班高峰期时在地铁站里”含有两个状语，一个为时间状语。另一个为地点状语。在英语表达习惯里，表时间的状语比表地点的状语要更远离中心语。故译为at the subway stations in the rush hours.

　　4.在最后一句中，“地铁之所以受欢迎是因为”如果直译为the reasons why the subway newpapers on popular are that…则显得生硬。再后接句子则更显拖沓，故此处宜用名词短语处理“地铁报受欢迎”，译为their being popular，作主语：“因为”译成lie in，作谓语，后接宾语从句：“名人动态”在此语境下指的是“名人的新闻”，故译为celebrity news：“配有”用介词with表示伴随。使句子简单流畅。

　　参考译文

　　At the beginning of twenty-first century, there appeared free subway newspapers in our nation. Big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, all have their own subway newspapersare usually handed out at the subway stations in the rush hours. Due to these subway newspapers. more and more people pick up the habit of reading words. Their being popular lies in that they know very well the needs of the target readers and timely offer some celebrity news, entertainment information, and local news. The articles are brief with abundant pictures.