2016考研英语二翻译逐句解析
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The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors.
超市旨在吸引顾客在店内逗留尽可能长的时间。
be designed to :被设计用来做什么,目的是,旨在 lure:引诱,吸引; lure sb into doing sth :吸引\引诱某人做某事 within its doors:在店内,在超市里 翻译技巧:【前置法】 地点状语提前至被修饰的动词前翻译 (1)、直译:花费尽可能长的时间在店内 (2)、前置:在店内花费尽可能长的时间
The reason for this is simple:The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you'll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you'll buy.
其实这个原因很简单,你在店里逗留的时间越久,那么你看到的商品就越多,你看到商品越多,那么你买的东西就会越多
The more....the more....:越.....,就越.....; stuff:物品,东西,材料,商品;
And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.
超市里面陈列了大量的商品。
The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,00 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more.
根据食品营销协会的调查,一般超市会出售大约44000种不同的商品,而许多的超市还会多出成千上万种商品。
according to :此处为插入语 The average....and many....:为并列句 average:平均的,普通的,一般的 the Food Marketing Institute:食品营销协会/研究所。这里首字母大写一般都是专有名词,人名、地名、机构组织 marketing :销售,营销 institute:机构,研究生,协会 carry:携带,拿,搬运;此处引申为:出售,陈列 some 用在具体的数字之前表示:大约 tens of thousands more (items):成千上万的商品
The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload.
如此多的选择足以让购物者陷入一种信息过载的状态
the volume of :....的数量 sheer用来强调事物的大小,程度或者数量 the sheer volume of 如此多的;大量的 available:可获得的, send sb into a state of :使某人处于\陷入....一种状态 information overload:信息过载,信息超负荷
According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us.
脑部扫描实验表明,需要做出如此多的决策很快让我们难以招架
according to :引申为动词:表明,显示 【翻译技巧】 1、转译法----名词转动词 the demands of so much decision-making=demand to make so much decisions :需要做出如此多的决策
After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally – which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.
购物约40分钟以后,大多数人不再努力做出理性的选择,转而开始冲动购物,就在这个时候,我们的购物车里已经装了一半我们从不打算购买的商品
struggle to:努力做某事;挣扎做某事 stop struggle to :不再努力去做某事 rationally:理性地 rationally selective:做出理性的选择 shop emotionally 冲动购物 and instead:转而;而是 which is the point:定语从句 stuff in our cart:定语从句 accumulate:积累 intend doing:打算做某事