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【地道美语—纠正身边的外语标识》
本期节目由北京市人民政府外事办公室
与北京广播电视台外语广播联合推出，
一场《牵手冬奥—市民讲外语公益讲座》
特别直播，和外籍专家，
英语学习者一起来纠错公共场所英语标识，
建设北京双奥之城城市形象，
为冬奥双语环境建设积极贡献，添砖加瓦。
公共场所标识语翻译对城市文化发展具有深远意义。
公共标识语是国际化都市、
国际都市语言环境、人文环境的重要组成部分。
对公共标识语的任何歧义误解
会影响一个城市或地区的形象和对外交流，
也给外国友人带来诸多不便。
标识语翻译是一项比较复杂和困难的工程，
需要通过忠于源语、
注重跨文化知识和简洁
达到翻译的科学化和规范化。
14点电台直播
主持：京晶 美籍嘉宾：Mark
地道口语 157
Chinglish Signs
《纠错身边外语标识—
“牵手冬奥-市民讲外语公益讲座”特别节目》
对话跟读
Dialogue
1
Jingjing: Mark, thanks for meeting me outside again. Can you bear this hot weather?
京晶：马克，谢谢你又跟我在外会面。你能受得了这么热的天气吗？
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Mostly. But I broke a sweat coming here to meet you on time.
马克：差不多吧。但是为了能准时来见你，我出了一身汗。
Jingjing: You could've just texted me that you'd be a few minutes late. I would've waited.
京晶：你可以直接给我发消息说你会晚到几分钟。我会等着你的。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Nah, I ran to catch the bus, and then walked briskly here from the stop. I just need to go rinse my face.
马克：不是的，我跑着去赶公共汽车，然后从车站快步走到这里。我只是需要洗一下脸
Jingjing: The washroom's right over there. I'll wait for you a little ways past it.
京晶：洗手间就在那边。我会在不远处等你。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: OK, I'll be over in a sec. …. Wow, there was a funny sign in there. It said, “wash after relief”.
马克：好的，我马上就过来。…… 哇哦，那里有个好笑的标识。写的是:“wash after relief 减负后再洗。
Jingjing: I think it just means people should wash their hands after using the toilet, you know, to prevent the spread of disease.
京晶：我认为它想说的是人们应该在上完厕所后洗手，你知道的，防止疾病的传播。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: In Chinese, the first two of five characters are 便后biànhòu. The sign should say something like wash hands after using toilet.
马克：在中文标语里，五个字的前两个字是便后biànhòu。英语标语应该写wash hands after using toilet（便后请洗手）之类的话。
Jingjing: That doesn't sound like good grammar.
京晶：听起来语法好像不太对。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: It doesn't have to be, for a sign. Just take the sentence you want to say—please wash your hands after using the toilet—and remove a few of the obvious words.
马克：对一个标语来说语法正确不是必须。只要把你想说的句子——please wash your hands after using the toilet——去掉几个明显的字。
Jingjing: Why not wash hands after toilet?
京晶：那为什么不是wash hands after toilet?
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Too short. That might get visitors thinking that managers want them to wash the toilet, then their hands. Ha ha.
马克：那又太短了。这可能会让使用者以为厕所管理员想让他们先洗厕所，然后再洗手。哈哈。
Jingjing: Speaking of odd signs, there's one right there: “no naked flames”.
京晶：说到奇怪的标识，这里还有一个:“no naked flames”（进入景区，注意防火）
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: I've seen that one at so many parks, I've gotten used to it.
马克：我在很多公园都看到过，我已经习惯了。
Jingjing: Doesn't naked make you think of a person without any clothes on?
京晶：难道naked不会让你想到一个没穿衣服的人吗?
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: That's pretty much the only meaning of naked, since we don't use it for animals. But we also say you can see something with the naked eye to mean you don't need a telescope or a microscope.
马克：这大概是naked仅有的意思了，因为我们不用它来形容动物。但是我们也可以说see something with the naked eye（用肉眼看一些东西），意思是你不需要用望远镜或显微镜来看。
Jingjing: Hmm. What word would you use instead of naked?
京晶：嗯。那你会用什么词来代替naked?
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Open: No open fires. I know someone with a match or a lighter might not think they're breaking the rules. But that's what signs say in English where I come from and that's what park workers can point to if anyone's breaking the rules. No open flames would be OK too, I guess.
马克：用Open: No open fires（禁止明火）。我知道有些携带火柴或者打火机的人可能不认为他们违反了规定。但在我的家乡城市这条标语用英语就是这样写的，如果有人违反规定，公园工作人员可以指着这条标语给他看。我想也可以用No open flames吧。
Jingjing: Hmm, so many things to keep in mind when writing a sign.
京晶：嗯，写标语的时候需要考虑的东西太多了。
Jingjing
New words : 习语短语
break a sweat:
汗流浃背
work, run, or do other physical activity that causes you to start sweating
<do something> briskly:
迅速地 轻快地
do something quickly, efficiently, carefully enough
Dialogue
2
Jingjing: What about this one: do not lie down. That's short enough, isn't it? And it doesn't have any grammar problems.
京晶：这个标语怎么样: do not lie down (请勿躺卧)。足够短，不是吗? 而且它没有任何语法错误。
jingjing
Mark
Mark: It's alright. No loitering is what signs like that usually say.
马克：这条没问题。No loitering (禁止逗留)这类标语通常都是这么说的。
Jingjing: This one's my favorite: the grass is smiling at you, please detour.
京晶：这条我很喜欢: the grass is smiling at you, please detour （小草微微笑，请你绕绕道）。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Ha ha. I like that one too. In a cartoon world, it'd probably be suitable. Hmm.
马克：哈哈。我也喜欢这个。在卡通世界里，这可能是合适的吧。是的吧。
Jingjing: What about be kind to the grass, stay on the path?
京晶：那be kind to the grass, stay on the path（请勿踩踏草坪）这么说怎么样？
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: That'd be perfect.
马克：完美。
Jingjing: Hey, there's one more I wanted to ask you about: slip carefully. I've seen different versions of that. What should it say?
京晶：嘿，还有一个我想问你的: slip carefully（慢慢地滑倒）。我见过很多不同的版本。它应该怎么说?
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Caution, slippery. That's a hard one to guess. Most of the wrong ones seem to suggest that someone should slip and ought to just do it with care.
马克：应该是Caution, slippery（小心，地面滑）。这个意思有点难猜。大多数错误的标语似乎是建议大家应该打滑，而且应该要小心谨慎地滑倒。
Jingjing: Uh huh. I don't know how someone could carefully slip.
京晶：对对。我没见过人怎么能小心地滑倒。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Wanna see me do it? Just give me a banana peel or a few marbles.
马克：想看我演示吗? 只要给我一根香蕉皮或几个玻璃球。
Jingjing: I don't have either of those with me. I'll take a rain check.
京晶：这两样我都没有。改天我带来吧。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: OK. I'll be ready to slip with care anytime. Oh, that reminds me: I saw one that said watch out for slippy.
马克：好的。我随时准备着小心翼翼地滑倒。哦，这倒提醒了我: 我看过一个标语写的是watch out for slippy。
Jingjing: Who's Slippy? That sounds like a naughty cartoon character.
京晶：Slippy是谁? 听起来像是一个淘气的卡通人物。
Jingjing
Mark
Mark: Yeah, I've been looking over my shoulder for him ever since seeing that sign. Slippy could be anywhere.
马克：是啊，自从看到那个标语，我就一直在回头寻找他。Slippy可能出现在任何地方。
New words : 习语短语
loitering:
闲逛 游荡
idling; standing, sitting or lying inappropriately in a public place
detour:
绕行道
a way around a main route
take a rain check:
遇雨改期 延期
plan to ask for a favor later (one that is offered now)
look over <one's>
shoulder for <someone>:
回头看 小心提防
pay attention, expect to see someone anytime, avoid being taken by surprise
“take a rain check”
字面意思是“拿一张雨票”，为什么会是“改天、下一次”的意思呢？这个短语的起源是出自美国的棒球文化，如果球赛进行时天公不作美，骤然倾盆大雨的不得不暂停，观众可领“雨票”，或用原票存根作为“雨票”（rain check），球赛改期举行时可凭之入场。由此衍生出了将“take a rain check”使用在约定推迟的情况下
Look over one’s shoulder
可表示动作上的往后看，向后瞧；其引申义为时刻小心警惕。
常
见
错
误
错误与正确译法：（红错）
1. 宾客止步Guest go no further
no visitors / no visitors beyond this point
2. 出口处Export
departures Exit
3. 由此换乘电梯
Take advantage of that an electric elevator from this
elevator transfer point / transfer elevator here
4. 退货处 Goods return
returns / refunds and exchanges (no need to say “goods”, because that's made obvious by everything around the sign, like a supermarket or a department store full of merchandise which everybody knows are goods)
5. 存包处Bag keeping
left-luggage service
6. 电话预约 Telephone be speak
phone appointments
7. 烘手机Bake the mobile phone
electric hand dryer (what came up from a Yandex image search second to beautiful girls)
8. 一次性用品A time sex thing
adult intimacy products / adult intimacy shop
9. 民族园Racist Park
ethnic minority park
10. 现金存取款机 Currency recycle system
ATM (automatic teller machine)
11. 宫堡鸡Government abuse chicken
kung pao chicken (宫堡鸡丁)
12. 生鱼块Chop the strange fish
sashimi (no need to add “pieces” at the end, because when are they ever not pieces?)
13. 麻婆豆腐Beancurd made by a pockmarked woman
mapo tofu
14. 陈皮Chen's skin
prunes
15. 干姜 The Ginger
dried ginger
16. 远志Far Ambition
great ambition (? no idea of context, but that's the translation, possibly the Chinese title of Charles Dicken's work, Great Expectations? No time to do further investigation now)
17. 干货（店） Goods
dried fruit
18. 青山绿，星火毁 Green, the blue mountain brings; destruction, the spark leads to
A spark can destroy green hills. (“prevent forest fires” if there's no need to be poetic toward someone who is considering lighting their cigarette here)
19. 进入景区,请注意防火 No naked fire here, please
no open fires
20. 保护环境从我做起Protect CircumStance begin with me
Environmental protection begins with me.
21. 请勿喧哗 No Louding
no shouting (Please keep your voices down in this area. / speak softly / quiet please)
22. 小心地滑Slip carefully
caution: landslide area
23. 有您的参与,垃圾不会无家可归 If you would like to join us, rubbish will never be homeless
With your help, litter is avoided. → no littering (less inspirational-sounding, but also less of a nonsense-trap)
24. 限高三米The limit is high 3 rice
3-meter clearance (assuming this is the entrance to a tunnel or the road going under a bridge) (if not, and freakishly tall people are being prohibited from riding a roller coaster, for example, then “height limit: 3 meters”)
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