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今天講一個使用頻率挺高的小詞表達:come into play.
說這個算「小詞」,因為這個詞組中出現的每一個單詞都屬於高中詞彙裡面吧。有時候看一個人的英語功底如何,就看他能不能把這些小詞用好~ 並不一定用得越是高深、越是天花亂墜的詞,就翻譯的越好。
先來看看字典裡的解釋:
Oxford Dictionary
Becoming active, operative, or effective.
Eg. Adding to the complexity, state ethics rules also come into play.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary
PHRASEto become an important factor in something; to go into force.
Eg. All your hard practice and preparation will now come into play in the finals.
這個詞的中文意思可以理解為「起作用」、「起到效果」,根據具體語境翻譯的時候可以發揮一下,例如「大展身手」、「用武之地」之類。
為了學習它的用法,讓我們來看看Financial Times 中的一系列例句:
Certainly, if television and other media move to the internet over the long term, Google's techniques would come into play.
當然,如果在未來較長時期內,電視和其它媒體都搬到了網際網路上,谷歌的技術就會有用武之地。
This is where a buying agent’s negotiating skills come into play, in order to smooth the path of a sale and keep both parties happy.
這時,買方代理的談判技巧盡可大展身手,以掃清房屋交易中的一切障礙,讓買賣雙方皆大歡喜。
「My feeling is that the industry's fundamentals have come into play again,」 he said.
波德魯格勒表示:「我感覺,船運業的基本面已經好轉。」
Some individuals are highly motivated to achieve the very highest price, but from time to time other factors come into play, such as ensuring the business is passed into the right sort of hands.
一些人強烈希望獲得最高價格,但時不時地,其他因素也會影響他們,例如確保企業轉移到合適的人手中。
「Non-native speakers are at their biggest disadvantage when emotions come into play,」 the reader wrote. 「In a heated debate, those able to use cynicism, sarcasm or other weapons requiring linguistic mastery have an unfair advantage — and I have seen such unfair advantage being used many times. It can determine the course of corporate careers. Like mine.」
「母語非英語人士在需要運用情緒表達的場合劣勢最大,」這位讀者寫道,「在激烈的辯論中,那些能夠使用挖苦、諷刺或其他需要語言功底的武器的人有著不公平的優勢,我見到過很多次有人利用這種不公平優勢。它能夠決定企業職場的道路。就像我的歷程。」
The cost of a full-time MBA – little change from $100,000 – might prompt a would-be student to think again about leaving the workplace in an economic recession to study full-time. But for online delivery, such considerations do not come into play.
全日制MBA課程的成本——接近10萬美元——可能會讓想攻讀MBA的學員三思,自己是否要在經濟衰退期間離開工作崗位,攻讀全日制MBA。但對於在線授課而言,幾乎不用考慮這種問題。
But Mr Summers' long-run structural targets will come into play once the economy is out of the woods. Redirecting resources away from finance and consumption towards exports and investment will require relative price shifts, for which the dollar has to move down.
然而,一旦美國經濟走出困境,薩默斯的長期結構性目標就將發揮作用。若想把資源從金融和消費轉移到出口和投資,就需要調整相對價格,因此美元將不得不貶值。那麼,現階段較為強勁且承壓能力更強的美元匯率,就可在復甦實現之後迅速協調好短期任務和中期目標。
Most analysts said the buffers were unlikely to come into play until the rest of the Basel agreement takes full effect in 2019.
多數分析師認為,在巴塞爾協議的其餘部分於2019年全面生效之前,資本緩衝機制不太可能實施。
Vale’s other business areas, such as its nickel operation, were also expected to recover after the end of industrial action in Canada. However, rising costs are expected to come back into play as Brazil’s strong currency, the real, and tightening supply drive up prices of labour and equipment.
預計淡水河谷的其它業務領域——比如鎳業務——在加拿大罷工行動結束之後,也將出現復甦。不過,鑑於巴西貨幣雷亞爾走強,以及不斷收緊的供給推高了勞動力和設備的價格,成本將再次步入上升軌道。
可見,這個詞的中文表達可以根據語境進行豐富地變化。
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