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问题描述
Countries still trade disproportionately with their geographic neighbours.
这句为什么翻译成这样：各国仍然将重点放在与邻国的贸易往来上。
或者可以翻译成更好的句子。
老师答疑
刘老师：
Countries still trade disproportionately with their geographic neighbours.
这句为什么翻译成这样：各国仍然将重点放在与邻国的贸易往来上。
【答】根据语境，翻译中的“意译”是必要的，但“过度”意译则是不可以的。网友这句话的确是“过度意译”了，已经失去了原有英语的意思。
我觉得，即便没有上下文，这句话的意思也是显而易见的。可以这样翻译：
1. 各国与邻国间的贸易仍然不成比例。
2. 相邻国家间的贸易仍然是失衡的。
无论怎么翻译，这个关键词disproportionately 是必须重点翻译的：“不对称地；不相称地；不按比例地；比例失调地；不成比例地；不均衡地；太大(或太小)地；太长(或太短)地”。
陈老师：
Countries still trade disproportionately with their geographic neighbours.
这句为什么翻译成这样：各国仍然将重点放在与邻国的贸易往来上。
参考译文：各个国家仍然与他们周边的邻国进行不成比例的贸易往来。
或者可以翻译成更好的句子。
(1)trade with 与…进行贸易往来;与....进行交易；与...进行交换
He always trades on his social standing to trade with others.
他经常利用自己的社会地位与别人进行交易.
If you don't like your book, I'll trade with you.
如果你不喜欢你的书, 我和你对换.
Trade with that country was suspended for ten years.
和那个国家的贸易中断了十年.
(2)disproportionately (数量或尺寸)不成比例地，不相称地
Babies often seem to have disproportionately large heads.
婴儿往往显得头部过大.
Those who left were probably disproportionately black and poor.
那些离开的人里可能黑人和穷人占多数.
Yet it has already added disproportionately to the brimming pot of hatred.
然而,它却无疑为中东局势火上浇油.
Despite the health hazards, cigarette smoking is disproportionately frequent among young women.
尽管吸烟危害健康, 但是年轻女性的吸烟频率依然高得不成比例.
Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
提交的图形?比例较大的内容.
Those who left disproportionately black and poor.
离开的人口中黑人和穷人的比例非常小.
This wall is disproportionately long.
这堵墙高得不协调.
His benefits were disproportionately generous.
他的收益不成比例地高.
Freud saw man as motivated disproportionately by sex.
弗洛伊德认为人主要受到性的主宰.
The young suffer disproportionately from the regime's failures.
年轻人不同程度地承受着政府的失败.
(3)geographic adj. 地理学的，地理的;
The city's success owes much to its geographic position.
这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置.
Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines.
环境问题并不理会这些地理界限.
The current survey will have a wider geographic spread.
当前的调查将在更广泛的地域范围內进行。
(4)neighour n. 邻居; 邻近的人[物]; 邻国; 世人
(1) n.邻居;邻人
I got chatting with my neighbour in the garden.
我在花园里和邻居聊了一会。
(2)n.邻座;身边的人;邻近的人
The woman prodded her neighbour and whispered urgently in his ear.
那位女士捅了捅邻座，急切地在他耳边低语。
(3)n.邻近的同类物
Each house was packed close behind its neighbour.
每幢房子都紧挨着前面的房子而立。
(4)n.邻国
the
美国北部的邻国，加拿大
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