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Today we are going to be talking about the most famous teacher, or should I say, the most famous English teacher here in China, Jack Ma. Recently he made a donation of 1 million masks and 500,000 test kits to the United States.
今天我們要聊的是中國最有名的教師,或者說最有名的英文老師——馬雲。最近他給美國捐了100萬隻口罩以及50萬份核酸檢測試劑盒。
3月16日,馬雲開通了其個人的推特帳號,並發布了第一條推文稱,第一批運往美國的口罩和冠狀病毒檢測試劑盒即將從上海起飛,並表示祝美國朋友一切順利。
本期《Albert說英聞》我們來看一下美國CBS NEWS是如何報導的。Chinese billionaire Jack Ma recently joined Twitter and used the platform to make a major announcement about his response to the coronavirus.文章開頭就提到馬雲的身份:Chinese billionaire/中國的億萬富翁, 然後說到他最近剛註冊了自己的推特帳號/recently joined Twitter。推特/Twitter是一家美國社交網絡及微博客服務的網站,在西方十分流行。川普可以說是世界上最愛發推特的總統!據統計,他每年發出的推特就多達3400條,怪不得一些人稱他是在「推特治國」。馬雲註冊推特之後,他利用這個平臺發布了一個重要的通知/消息。注意文章這裡表達「發布」這樣一個看似非常書面的動詞,用的是英文裡非常高頻的一個小詞make。這個make的對象就是an announcement,不過這裡畢竟是一條重要的消息,所以是make a major announcement。後面就是英文裡非常「擅長」的補充描述,告訴讀者what kind of announcement。英文裡除了可以用像that,which開頭的定語從句來補充描述前面的對象,還可以用非常豐富的各類介詞,就像這裡的announcement about his response to the coronavirus。字面意思是「有關他對於冠狀病毒的回應的通知」。你會發現這句話意思我們能懂,但是並不符合中文的表達習慣。這句話我們會習慣表達成:這個通知是關於馬雲如何對於冠狀病毒做出回應/如何去應對冠狀病毒的。可見中文裡我們往往喜歡用動詞去直接表達動作。但是英文裡有一個習慣是它會針對眼前的動作「拍一張照片」,即用一個名詞來形容一段時間內的動作。就比如說馬雲和他公司的員工們一起忙著給世界各地的人捐物資,幫助他們戰勝此次的冠狀病毒。那英文就像把這些動作拍一張照片,然後稱其為response,這也導致我們會比較生硬地去翻譯為:馬雲對於此次冠狀病毒的一種回應。英文非常喜歡用「名詞」,這是它區別於漢語表達習慣的一個重要特點。所以make a major announcement about his response...如果要用像函數一樣的形式寫下來,就相當於make A about B, A和B都是名詞。▼完整講解內容在《Albert說英聞》專輯更新,時長約22分鐘。
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma recently joined Twitter and used the platform to make a major announcement about his response to the coronavirus. The co-founder of the online retail giant Alibaba said he is sending a shipment of coronavirus test kits and masks to the United States.
"The first shipment of masks and coronavirus test kits to the US is taking off from Shanghai. All the best to our friends in America," Ma's first tweet ever read. He included photos of pallets of cargo ready to be loaded onto a flight to the U.S.
The first shipment of Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s donation of 1 million masks and 500,000 coronavirus test kits to the United States arrived in the US on Monday morning.
The supplies, which will be distributed by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were purchased in China since its factories have gradually resumed production.
原文連結 :
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-ma-coronavirus-test-kits-chinese-billionaire-alibaba-shipping-masks-supplies-to-united-states-donating/
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3075469/coronavirus-masks-and-test-kits-donated-jack-ma-arrive-us
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