Chris的英语学习时间--kiss me（P30/440F）

chrissie

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谢谢老张经常过来给予支持...
Chris会继续努力的 [s:27]

崇拜索普

The person you are trying to reach is out of range. Please try your call again.
这句话大家应该很熟悉，就是经常在手机上听到的“您拨打的电话无法接通/不在服务区请稍后再拨”不过在中国，很多手机通信服务商录制的中英文提示语好象不是这么说的。。。基本上是中国式英语。。。
那中国手机上是怎么说的,有句子吗

chrissie

引用第61楼崇拜索普于2006-05-16 00:31发表的“”:
The person you are trying to reach is out of range. Please try your call again.
这句话大家应该很熟悉，就是经常在手机上听到的“您拨打的电话无法接通/不在服务区请稍后再拨”不过在中国，很多手机通信服务商录制的中英文提示语好象不是这么说的。。。基本上是中国式英语。。。
那中国手机上是怎么说的,有句子吗

The number you called is out of service.
好像是这么说的。。。

崇拜索普

引用第62楼chrissie_cwj于2006-05-15 22:13发表的“”: The number you called is out of service. 好像是这么说的。。。

这样翻译也没什么问题啊,一个主语是THE PERSON,一个主语是THE NUMBER

swimguy

引用第63楼崇拜索普于2006-05-16 16:02发表的“”:

这样翻译也没什么问题啊,一个主语是THE PERSON,一个主语是THE NUMBER

当然我不是说所有的服务商录制的英文都是中国式英语。这句是没有什么大问题，但out of service用在这里有手机坏掉的意思，若要表达无法接通或不在服务区有些牵强。。。

chrissie

对的
out of service是停机的意思。。。搞错了。。。
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chrissie

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some Defect Prevention (Root Cause Analysis). He realised that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax.


兔子当然因输了比赛而倍感失望，为此他做了些缺失盍防工作（根本原因解析）。它很清楚，失败是因它太有信心，大意，以及散漫。


If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.


如果它不要自认一切都是理所当然的，乌龟是不可能打败它的。因此，它单挑乌龟再来另一场比赛，而乌龟也同意。


This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles.



这次，兔子全力以赴，从头到尾，一口气跑完，领先乌龟好几公里。


The moral of the story？ Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady.



则故事的有什么启示？动作快且前后一致的人将可胜过缓慢且持续的人。


If you have two people in your organisation, one slow, methodical and reliable, and the other fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast and reliable chap will consistently climb the organisational ladder faster than the slow, methodical chap.

如果在你的工作单位有俩个人，一个缓慢，按部就班，且可靠，另一个则是动作快，且办事还算牢靠，那么动作快且牢靠的人会在组织中一直往上爬，升迁的速度比那缓慢且按部就班办事的人快。


It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable.



缓慢且持续固然很好，但动作快且牢靠则更胜一筹。

chrissie

But the story doesn't end here. The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realised that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted.


这故事还没完没了。这下轮到乌龟要好好检讨，它很清楚，照目前的比赛方法，它不可能击败兔子。


He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route.


它想了一会儿，然后单挑兔子再来另一场比赛，但是是在另一条稍许不同的路线上。


The hare agreed. They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river.


兔子同意，然后俩者同时出发。为了确保自己立下的承诺－从头到尾要一直快速前进，兔子飞驰而出，极速奔跑，直到碰到一条宽阔的河流。


The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.


而比赛的终点就在几公里外的河对面。

崇拜索普

It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable.
GOOD sentence,I have it in my mind.

chrissie

引用第68楼崇拜索普于2006-05-23 22:52发表的“”:
It's good to be [glow=255,red,2]slow and steady[/glow]; but it's better to be fast and reliable.
GOOD sentence,I have it in my mind.

slow and steady
两个开头是s的单词连用，英语里我们把这种用法称为 alliteration 押头韵

读起来很好听的 索普可以读读看

大家也可以在平时积累一点这种词组 需要的时候用上

chrissie

好像长度有限制了，不知道怎么回事。。。

chrissie

The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.
兔子呆坐在那里，一时不知怎么办。这时候，乌龟

chrissie

The story still hasn't ended.
故事还没结束。
The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realised that the last race could have been run much better.
这下子，兔子和乌龟成了惺惺相惜的好朋友。它们一起检讨，俩个都很清楚，在上一次的比赛中，它们可以表现得更好。
So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.

chrissie

所以，他们决定再赛一场，但这次是同对合作。

They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back.

chrissie

它们一起出发，这次可是兔子扛着乌龟，直到河边。在那里，乌龟接手，背着兔子过河。。

On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.