数字翻译

倍数增加的翻译方法
b. “… n times + as … as…”表示“是…..的n倍”; (1) Line A is twice as long as line B. (2) Wheel A turns four times as fast as wheel
B.
倍数增加的翻译方法
c. “…n times + 名词或that…”表示“为…..的n 倍” ;
(2) The production cost is about 80 percent that of last year.
d. “表示减少的动词+to+n%”表示减少后的剩余的数量 1) The new technology reduces sulphur
content from around 0.024% down to 0.006% at a chemical efficiency of 75%.
(2)The volume of the new machine tool was decreased twice than that of the old one.
倍数减少的翻译方法
c. “成n倍地减少”的表示法 …a n times (n-fold)+reduction
(1)The principal advantage of the products is a two-fold reduction in weight.
3. Efforts will be made to quadruple the GDP of the year 2000 by 2020. 国内生产总值到二０二０年力争比二０００年翻两番。
4. The earth's moon is located an average of 239,000 miles from the earth. It has a diameter of 2,136 miles, and its gravity is one-sixth that of earth's. 月亮离地球约有239，000英里远，其直径为2136英里， 重力为地球的1/6.
(2) The temperature of the furnace showed a three- fold increase over that of another furnace.
倍数增加的翻译方法
f. “表示增加意义的动词+by a factor of n”表示 “增加到n倍”;
(1)The output of diesel oil for farm use has been increased by a factor of five these years.
Practice
1.The great American scientist Millikan, in the early 20th century, actually weighed a single particle of electricity, which weighs only about half of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a pound.
the machine is reduced by more than 14%.
c. “n%+(of)+名词（代词）”表示增减，包括底数在内 (1) This year the factory has produced 220
percent the number of TV sets in 2005.
percent faster than that one. (2) The new-type machine wasted 10
percent less energy supplied.
b. “表示增减意义的词+by n%” 表示净增减 (1) The friction between the moving parts of
数字的翻译方法
倍数增加的翻译方法
a. “…n times +比较级+than…”表示净增加的 倍数 ;
(1) Some electronic computers can do calculations 500,000 times faster than any person can.
(2) Light waves are 2,000 to 10, 000 times longer than X-ray waves.
(2)The speed has exceeded the average speed by a factor of 2.3.
倍数增加的翻译方法
g. “表示增加意义的动词+by n times”表示净增 的数 ;
(1) The abrasive hardness of this material was increased by twice.
(1) The output of chemical fertilizer has been increased four times as against 2000.
(2) In 2001 the output value of this city’s light industry multiplied 6 times as against 2005.
倍数减少的翻译方法
a. “减少了n倍”的表示法 英语：1.“减少了n倍” 汉语：1.“减少到1/n+1” 或 “减少了n/n+1” (1)The plastic container is five times
lighter than that glass one. (2)This kind of plastic film is twice thinner
(2) This year the production of walkingtractors has increased by thrice.
倍数增加的翻译方法
h. “…as much (many, fast…) again as…”表示 “净增加一倍”
(1) The dam built this year is as long again as that old one.
(3) The sales of TV sets have increased 15 times since 2000.
倍数增加的翻译方法
e. “…a n times (n-fold) + increase…”表示 “增加到n倍”;
(1) There is a three times increase of our institute’s area as compared with lห้องสมุดไป่ตู้st year.
(1) The volume of the sun is about 1,300,000 times that of the earth.
(2) The earth is 49 times the size of the moon.
倍数增加的翻译方法
d. “表示增加意义的动词＋n times”表示“增加 了n-1倍” ;
6. Steel production this week totalled 327 289 metric tonnes, down 1.4% from 332 103 tonnes a week earlier but up 9.8% from 298 100 tonnes in the same week of 2003. 本周钢产量总数为327，289公吨，比上一周的332， 103公吨下降1.4%，而与2003年同一周的数据298， 100公吨比较增加了9.8%.
5. Unemployment has risen to over three million for the first time in six years and analysts expect the jobless total to rise by a further 40,000 this month. Manufacturing output has meanwhile steadied, after a nought point five per cent decrease last month. 失业人数六年来首次突破3百万。专家预测本月失业人 数约新增4万，而制造业产量继上个月下跌百分之零 点五之后已趋稳定。
(2) The workers in Workshop No.1 are as many again as those in Workshop No.2.
“half as much (many,fast) again as”表示法译为“一 倍半于”。
Wheel A is half as fast again as wheel B.
一位伟大的美国科学家米里坎，于二十世纪初， 真正地标出了单个电粒子的重量，其重量仅为 一磅的百万分之一的百万分之一的百万分之一 的百万分之一的百万分之一的一半（即1/ 2 ×1030）左右。
2. In 2011, China's GDP reached 9.5933 trillion yuan, almost tripling that of 2001, representing an average annual increase of 9.3 percent. 二００一年，我国国内生产总值达到九万五千九百三 十三亿元，比一九八九年增长近两倍，年均增长百分 之九点三。
1. 数十(不低于20) 2. 数十(不低于20) 3. 数打,几十(不低于24) 4. 几十(不低于40) 5. 不少,很多 6. 很多, 大批 7. 数以百计的
8. 数百
9. 几十万,无数 10. 大量的,数以千计的 11. 数千
12. 成千上万的
13. 数百万,许许多多 14. 千百万的
15. 亿万
7.With over 40,000 US-invested enterprises, the paid-in value of the total US investment in China now stands at 43 billion US dollars. Of the top 500 US companies, more than 400 have come to China, and most of them are making a handsome profit.
倍数增加的翻译方法
i. 动词double, treble, quadruple
(1) The number has trebled.
(2) The production of machine tools has been trebled in our factory.
(3) We have quadrupled the output of synthetic materials.
3)不确定数字的翻译
1. tens of 2. decades of 3. dozens of 4. scores of 5. by scores 6. in scores 7. by hundreds 8. hundreds of 9. hundreds of thousands of 10. by thousands 11. thousands of 12. thousands upon thousands 13. millions of 14. millions upon millions of 15. billions of
than that one. (3) A is 3 times less than B.
倍数减少的翻译方法
b. “成n倍地减少”的表示法 表示减少意义的动词+n times 汉语：1.“减少到1/n” 或 “减少了n-1/n”
(1)Switching time of the new–type transistor is shortened three times.
(2)The length of the plastic pipe is a three times reduction over that of the metal one.
百分数的翻译方法
a. “...n%+比较级+(than...)” 表净增减的数 (1) The can-sealing machine works fifty