【新聞英文字彙】你所不知道的Legacy,有43種語意!


前言

學新聞英文,不能從傳統英文的角度去看,不習慣看新聞英文的人,若依賴一般英漢辭典的註解,將不知其語意早已跟不上時代、嚴重與現代英文的用法脫節,以致遇到關卡就卡在那裏無法突破。

本教室提供的新聞英文翻譯,是四十年的經驗累積,希望對新聞英文有興趣的人能認真學習。

1.績
He is not a President who dreams of leaving behind a few treaties as his political legacy.
他不是那種希望留下幾項條約當政績的總統。

2.遺傳
My kids are taking steps (exercise, lots of fruits and vegetables) to counter the family legacy.
我的小孩都在採取步驟 (運動,多吃蔬果)來反制家族遺傳。

3.香火延續
The problem here really is the legacy. Gandhi is the torch-bearer of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty.
這裡的問題實際上就是這個香火延續,甘地是尼赫魯-甘地政治王朝的傳承人。

4.世襲
With the notable exceptions of the Roosevelt, legacy Presidents have been mediocre.
除了羅斯福父子之外,世襲總統都是平庸的。

5.成就
Lee’s little nation is a testimony to what hard work and discipline can do to improve lives.That, perhaps, is legacy enough.
李光耀帶領的小國證明只要努力和守法就可改善生活,這或許就是了不起的成就。
scientific legacies. 科學成就。

6.傑出貢獻
For Lions fans, his legacy is more than a list of boggling statistics.
對獅隊球迷來說,他的傑出貢獻絕對不只是一堆令人眼花撩亂的統計數字而已。
Baseball to celebrate Robinson’s legacy today.
棒壇人士今天表揚羅賓森的傑出貢獻。

7.事蹟
He left many remarkable and controversial legacies from his 22 years in power.
他在位二十二年留下許多不尋常、有爭議的事蹟。
To lure tourists, Rwanda might have tried to hide its brutal legacy.
為了吸引觀光客,盧安達可能會試圖隱瞞它慘無人道的事蹟。

8.功勞
The Yankees’ 27th championship will be Damon’s legacy.
洋基二十七度拿到世界冠軍要算戴蒙的功勞。

9.政績
If we don’t keep Congress, there won’t be a legacy.
我們保持不住國會就不會有政績。

10.產物
Those two phony images are the sad legacy of this election year.
這兩個虛假的形象都是這個選舉年的不幸產物。
India’s use of English is a legacy of British colonialism.
印度會使用英文就是英國殖民主義的產物。

11.蹟
archaeological legacy. 古蹟。

12.包袱
He leaves the legacy of economic reform.
他留下經改的包袱。
These policies threatened to be the President’s legacy.
這些政策恐有成為總統包袱之虞。

13.建樹
Many people have grave doubts about other aspects of his legacy.
許多人對他其他方面的建樹相當質疑。
Last week he talked exclusively with People about his legacy and his plans for the future.
上星期他接受時人雜誌專訪時談到他的建樹和未來的計劃。

14.功過
Sizing up Blair’s Legacy.
評斷布萊爾的功過。

15.資歷
As for Disney CEO Eisner, the notorious micromanager has a 20-year legacy to protect.
至於迪士尼的執行長艾思那,以管家婆著稱的她有二十年的資歷可以保護。

16.歷史地位
Good Presidents do not have to write books to shape their legacy.
好總統不用寫書來確立自己的歷史地位。
Bush’s legacy will depend on whether he can stabilize Iraq and get the troops home.
布希的歷史地位將依他能否穩定伊拉克政局以及將軍隊帶回而定。

17.歷史資產
That spirit of inquiry is Marco Polo’s greatest legacy.
那股探究未知世界的精神是馬可波羅最大的歷史資產。

18.光榮的一生
Suggestions of drug use cloud her legacy.
服用禁藥的傳聞讓她光榮的一生蒙上陰影。

19.陰影
Thirty years on, they still wrestle with Tiananmen legacy.
三十年過去了,他們還是難以擺脫天安門事件的陰影。

20.餘毒
It will take more than one election to clean up the legacy of authoritarian rule.
要清理極權統治的餘毒不是舉行一次選舉就可以了。
The legacy of Nazism did not altogether disappear from Germany after World War II.
二次大戰後納粹主義的餘毒並未完全從德國消失。

21.遺禍
Though the war ended 25 years ago, its legacy continues to affect the lives of Vietnamese. 
雖然戰爭在二十五年前結束, 它的遺禍卻繼續影響越南人的生活。

22.後果
One of the legacies of seven years of rule by the army chief is a Pakistan that has become deeply divided. 
被軍事領袖統治七年的後果之一就是嚴重對立的巴基斯坦。

23.後裔
He was a legacy of an aristocratic family. 
他是一個貴族世家的後裔。

24.造成的結果
Firestone has seemed slow and unresponsive, a legacy, perhaps, of its parent company in Japan. Firestone
似乎反應很慢,甚至沒有反應,這或許是它在日本的母公司造成的結果。

25.後座影響力
The answer depends on how enduring, and far-reaching his legacy turns out to be. 
答案端賴他的後座影響力會持續多久,有多深遠而定。

26.事業
His legacy took a body blow in 1988. 
一九八八年他的事業遭受嚴重的打擊。

27.地位
Thanks to VW’s legacy as a state-owned company, the state still holds an 18 percent stake. 
由於福斯公司具有國營事業的地位,這個州仍然持有百分之十八的股權。

28.殘餘勢力
The President worries that demolishing Zia’s legacy too rashly could spark widespread violence. 
總統擔心太快摧毀齊亞的殘餘勢力會到處引起暴力衝突。

29.後事
He says he doesn’t think about his legacy or how others might regard him when he is gone. 
他說他沒想到他的後事,也沒想到他走了之後其他人會怎麼看他。

30.結局
The legacy of this war still hangs in the balance. 
這場戰爭的結局仍在未定之天。

31.遺志
Ever since she was a girl, she has been obsessed with carrying on her father’s legacy. 
她從小就一心一意要完成父親的遺志。

32.經驗
He’s a Torre protégé and he will defer to Torre’s legacy. 
他是托瑞的子弟兵,會聽取托瑞的經驗。

33.紀錄
to explore the area’s brutal legacy of lynching. 
探討該區慘無人道的私刑記錄。

34.聲名
He has put himself in a position where his legacy as the greatest pitcher in Baseball will depend less on his E.R.A. and more on his DNA. 
他已經讓自己陷入一個他身為棒壇最偉大投手的聲名將由他的DNA而非由他的投手防禦率來決定的處境。

35.留下的資產
We are lucky to have his recordings, which are his legacy. 
我們有幸擁有他的唱片,那是他留下的資產。

36.傳統
Last year was the first time since September 11 when none of the legacy carriers was in bankruptcy. 
去年是九一一以來第一次沒有傳統航空公司倒閉。

37.廢料
They also argue that the industry has yet to confront its toxic legacy.
他們還說核電業者尚未解決其毒廢料的問題。

38.爛攤子
Of all of Suharto’s legacies, corruption has been the hardest to live down.
在蘇哈托的所有爛攤子當中,貪瀆是最難被人忘記的。

39.措施
People begin to bridle at the restrictive legacies these leaders left behind.
人民開始不滿這些領袖留下來的管制措施。

40.施政結果
His long-term legacy could include renewed ethnic tension and economy hobbled by corruption. 
他長期的施政結果可能包括族群再度緊張以及受到貪腐拖累的經濟。

41.過去
Some of the problems haunting Africa today are left over from its colonial legacy. 
非洲今日面對的問題有些是它的殖民過去所留下的。

42.傳承
On Sunday, Mr. Obama embraced the legacy by standing in for Mr. Kennedy. 
星期天,歐巴馬接替甘迺迪擁抱這項傳承。

43. (豐功)偉業
John Paul II’s legend and legacy. 
教宗保祿二世的傳奇與偉業。
Who can lay claim to King’s legacy?
誰能擁抱金恩的偉業?
The National Baseball Hall of Frame’s board of Directors has a very strong commitment to keeping his legacy alive forever. 
棒球名人堂董事會有相當的誠意要讓他的豐功偉業永垂不朽。

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資料來源:京文出版社【系列四】高階英漢翻譯詞典

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