本文选择的大学是正在进行百年校庆的复旦大学,这里仅以其中的History of Fudan为例。与湖南大学的英语网页一样,该部分很难找到一个完全正确规范的英语句子。本文只指出其中的主要问题,如何修改,让读者自己去思考,也算是为参加大学英语六级考试和英语专业八级考试的同学提供一次改错和翻译练习的机会吧。
1. Fudan University is a national ranked university with long history.
问题1:a national ranked university是什么样的大学?
问题2:long history前应加一个什么冠词?
2. It was established by Ma Xiangbo in 1905, initially named Fudan Public School.
Its name “Fudan” was given from the Confucian Classics ----- “Itinerant as
the twilight, sun glows and moon luminesces” ----- means unremitting effort.
问题1:Its name “Fudan” was given from the Confucian Classics中的given应如何改进?
问题2:这里的动词mean在句子中应该充当什么成分,使用何种形式?
3. During the presidency of Li Denghui from 1917 to 1937, Fudan enrolled more
students with Arts, Science and Business three departments, preparatory and
middle-school department.
问题1:Arts, Science and Business three departments这种说法符合英语表达习惯吗?
问题2:这里的with搭配是否恰当?
4. In 1929, Fudan adjusted its department, expanded to include News
Department, Municipals Department, Law Department and Education Department,
totally 17 departments subjected to Arts, Science, Law and Business Schools.
问题1:adjusted its department中的department为何用单数?当时复旦大学只有一个系吗?
问题2:Municipals Department是什么系?
问题3:前半部分已经提到Law Department,后半部分又说totally 17 departments subjected to Arts, Science, Law and Business Schools。它们之间到底是什么关系?
5. In 1937, Fudan developed to be a complex university with Arts, Science, Law
and Business Schools and 16 departments.
问题1:a complex university是什么样的大学?
问题2:develop to be表示“将会发展成为”,用此来描述1937年大学的发展恰当吗?
6. The University is affiliated with a middle-school, experiment school and
incumbency primary school.
7. On Dec. 25, 1941, the First Meeting of Fifth Conference of the Highest
Executive Authority of the Nationalist Government voted to change the primate
Fudan University (Chongqing) to be a public university with Wu Nanxuan as its
president.
问题1:“私立”的英文拼写是primate吗?
问题2:change the primate Fudan University (Chongqing) to be a public university中的to是介词还是动词不定式小品词?其后应接名词还是动词不定式?
8. Since the foundation of new PRC in 1949, Fudan University became one of the
key universities of China.
问题1:新中国的“成立”能翻译成foundation吗?
问题2:这句话能用一般过去时吗?
9. For the invitation of its president Chen Wangdao, Mao Zedong wrote the
name personally.
问题1:这里的介词for是否恰当?
问题2:译文仅说Mao Zedong wrote the name,你能推测出毛**写的是什么名字吗?
10. Those original application departments are switched out and other Arts and
Science departments of over 10 universities in East China were joined.
问题1:这是一个由and连接的并列句,为何前一句用一般现在时,而后一句却用一般过去时?应如何修改?
问题2:switch out是什么意思?英语中有这种搭配吗?
11. In national program “Seventh Five-year plan”, “eighth Five-year plan”
and “Ninth Five-year plan”, Fudan was included into key projects, being developed
to be a complex university with Literary, Socialism, Science, Technique and
Management Science.
问题4:Literary, Socialism, Science, Technique and Management Science这个平行结构符合英语平行要求吗?换言之,这个平行结构中,为何Literary用形容词形式,而其他用名词形式?
问题5:学科名需要大写吗?
问题6:include与什么介词搭配?
12. The first one is the college adjustment in the whole country in 1952.
The second one was 20 years after reform and opening.
The third one was the combination of Fudan University and Shanghai Medicine
University to be a new Fudan on Apr. 27, 2000.