第三节 英语副词译成汉语时充当定语
1. Unlike other ethically derived foods that enjoyed faddish popularity in modern
America, pizza never masqueraded as exotic.
与其他风靡现代美国的源于民族风味的小吃不同，比萨饼从来没有乔装称异国食品。
“ethically”译成 “民族风味的”，做定语修饰“小吃”。
2. politically meaningful 具有政治意味。
“politically”译成 “政治的”，做定语修饰“意味”。
3. Surprising because, no matter how much you disagree with most of what he stand
for politically, you can’t help but admire the passion for Christian service and racial
equality his mother nurtured in him.
说它令人称奇是因为，无论你多么反对他大多数的政治主张，他在母亲的培育下所
拥有的那份对基督服务精神和种族平等观念的热情都会让你禁不住加以赞赏。（同上）
4. This is not making something happen politically in the world.
这不是使世界上发生一些政治事件。（同上）
5. That the philosophers’ speech acts overlap the applied linguists’ communicative
functions has been thoroughly discussed.
关于哲学家的语言行为与应用语言学家的交际功能的重叠已经进行了彻底的讨论。
“thoroughly”译成“彻底的”，做定语修饰“讨论”。
当然上句也可以译成“人们彻底地讨论了哲学家的语言行为与应用语言学家的交
际功能的重叠问题。
6. The US and UK armies had experimented with energy-harvesting devices that could
be built into soldiers’ boot. One application for this technology was to provide a
power supply to run radio telephones traditionally powered by unwieldy
rechargeable batteries.
美国和英国军队也实验过几种可置于士兵靴内收集能量的装置。该技术的应用之
一就是为无线电话提供电源、而传统的方法则是用笨重的可充电电池提供电能。
“unwieldy”译成 “笨重的”，做定语修饰“电池”。
7. Divinely granted free will.
神圣的自由意志的担保。（公开课字幕翻译，译者没有弄明白副词是过去分词的
逻辑主语）（改译：神赐予的自由意志。）
“divinely”译成 “神圣的”，做定语修饰“担保”。
8. He wrote what we call colloquially the Nativity Ode.
他写了这首被称作口语体的《圣诞颂》。
“colloquially”译成 “口语体的” ，做 “《圣诞颂》”的定语.
9. It would guarantee essentially the status of Paradise Lost as scripture itself, as
something divinely authorized or perhaps even divinely authored.
同圣经一般被神圣的权威化或者是出自权威之手般的地位。
“divinely”译成 “神圣的”，做定语修饰“权威化”。
10. He needs to prove theologically not just poetically or narratively.
不仅是诗中或文字叙述中的证明，还要神学上证明。
“theologically”、“ poetically”以及“narratively”译成 “神学上的”、“ 诗中的”及
“文字叙述中的”，做定语修饰“证明”。
11. It’s hard to say anything decisively. 很难得出关键的结论。
“decisively”译成 “关键的”，做定语修饰“结论”。
12. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson Tuesday implored members of the Senate Banking Committee to quickly
enact legislation that would permit the government to buy up bad housing-related
loans that have negatively impacted credit markets.
联邦储备委员会主席本.伯南克和财政部长鲍尔森请求参议院银行业委员会
迅速通过立法允许政府购买与住房有关的不良贷款，因为这些贷款已经对信贷
市场产生了负面影响。
“negatively”译成 “负面的”，做定语修饰“影响”。
13. such stories collectively. 广为传说的故事
“collectively”译成 “广为传说的”，做定语修饰“故事”。
14. All kinds of medically promising materials. 各种各样有医用前途的材料。
“medically”译成 “医用的”，做定语修饰“前途”。
15. In creativity research, we refer to the three Bs—for the bathtub, the bed and the
bus –places where ideas have famously and suddenly emerged.
在创造力的调查中，我们提到那三个 B——浴缸（bathtub）、床（bed）和公共汽车
（bus）这些是出了名突然会冒出好主意的地方。
“famously”译成 “出了名的”，做定语修饰“地方”。
16. Nastia Liukin must have been genetically destined to be a gymnast.
娜斯佳·柳金是一个天生注定的体操运动员。
“genetically”译成 “天生的”，做定语。
17. strategically-located nation. 处于战略要地的国家。
“strategically”译成 “战略”，做定语修饰“要地”。
18. They can be scientifically studied. 得到科学的研究。
“cientifically”译成 “科学的”，做定语修饰“研究”。
19. Ratatouille is a blithe concoction, as well as miraculously textured piece of
animated design.
《美食总动员》的故事轻松愉快，动画设计的精妙构思令人叹服。
“miraculously”译成“精妙”，做定语修饰“构思”。
20. The incident was historically important not only because of the children
damaged, but because if led to a legal ruling that subsequently inhibited
pharmaceutical companies from developing and manufacturing vaccines.
该事件的历史重要性（意义）不光是由于孩子们受到了伤害，而且因为它导致
了一项法律规定的产生：此后禁止制药公司研发和生产疫苗。
“historically”译成 “历史”，做定语修饰“研究”。
21. A step backwards historically. 历史倒退。（同上）
22. This is historically invalidated. 没有经受住历史考验。（同上）
23. It is not historically conditioned. 不受历史条件的限制。（同上）
·132·24. The way they have improved profitability is to do what they historically do.
他们一向以来的惯用伎俩。（同上）
25. It’s textually based medicine. 纸上谈兵式的医学。
“textually”译成 “纸上谈兵式，做定语修饰“医学”。
26. They act differently. 他们有不同的作用。
27. a classically oriented poem. 古典主义的诗。
词 汇 积 累
1. dawn n 黎明；开端
the dawn of modernity. 现代的开端。
2. day n 白昼；时期
a. day labors. 白天的工作。
b. day workers. 按日计酬的工人。
c. the days of wars. 战争岁月。
3. deal n 交易；（美）政策
a. new deal. 新政。
b. not a big deal. 没什么。
4. death n 死；死亡；死神；毁灭
a. death wish. 死亡之愿。
b. death penalty. 死刑。
c. death scene. 死亡现场。
d. death bed. 死者床上。
e. death roll. 死亡名单。
f. merchant of death. 军火贩子。
g. life and death struggle with somebody. 生死较量。
h. death hand. 死亡之手。
i. jumpt to death. 跳楼自杀。
j. a sudden death lecture. 戛然而止的报告。
k. There will be death. 死定了。
5. debate n 辩论；辩论会
There is a big debate in philosophy as to whether or not these two things can really
come apart or not.
在哲学中关于这两个这两个问题能否分开存在很大争议。
