《每日一句漢譯英》一周匯總 (41)

為期五天的香港佳士得(Christie's) 2012年春季拍賣會於周三落下帷幕，總成交額為27億港元（合3.517億美元）。拍品包括中國水墨畫、亞洲現代藝術品、葡萄酒和鑽石等各類藏品。

Christie's wrapped up its five-day spring auctions in Hong Kong on Wednesday, and the final bill is in: the auction house sold 2.7 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$351.7 million) of collectibles, ranging from Chinese ink paintings and Asian modern art to wine and diamonds.

Grammar and Style:

Run-On Sentences.

Just as there's nothing inherently wrong with a long word, there's nothing wrong with a long sentence. But it has to be grammatical. A run-on sentence is ungrammatical, not just long. It often happens when two sentences are run into one without the proper subordination or punctuation. Two sentences glued together with only a comma produce a comma splice, a kind of run-on: for instance, “The semester runs through April, the break begins in May.” There are a number of ways of fixing this comma-splice: “The semester runs through April. The break begins in May”; “The semester runs through April, and the break begins in May”; “The semester runs through April; the break begins in May”; “The semester runs through April, whereas the break begins in May,” and so on. See Semicolon and Dependent versus Independent Clauses

Source: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/r.html#runon

Comma Splice.

A comma splice is probably the most widespread variety of run-on sentence: it's where two independent clauses are stuck together with just a comma. You usually need some better way to attach them to one another: use a period or a semicolon in place of the comma; use a coordinating conjunction like and or or; or use a subordinating conjunction like because or although. [Entry added 10 December 2006.]

Source: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/c.html#commasplice

Notes:

Christie's
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christie's is an art business and a fine arts auction house, and currently the world's second largest, after Sotheby's, with sales in 2011 some $5.7 billion.[1]

Locations

Christie's main London salesroom is on King Street in St. James's, where it has been based since 1823. It has a second London salesroom in South Kensington which opened in 1975 and primarily handles the middle market. Christie's South Kensington is one of the world's busiest auction rooms.

As of January 2009,[5] Christie's had 85 offices (not all are salesrooms) in 43 countries, including New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Houston, Amsterdam, Moscow, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Rome, South Korea, Milan, Madrid, Japan, China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Dubai, and Mexico City. In 1995, Christie's became the first international auction house to exhibit works of art in Beijing, China.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie's

佳士得
維基百科，自由的百科全書

佳士得[1]（Christie's）是一家著名的藝術品拍賣行。

機構

佳士得在倫敦的主拍賣場位於聖詹姆斯的國王大街（King Street），這個拍賣場從1823年起就開始使用。這在倫敦的第二個拍賣場位於南肯辛頓，這個拍賣場開放於1975年並主要負責中部市場。南肯辛頓的拍賣場是全世界最忙碌的拍賣場之一。截止2009年1月[4]，佳士得在43個國家和地區共有85個機構（不完全是拍賣場），包括紐約、洛杉磯、巴黎、日內瓦、阿姆斯特丹、莫斯科、維也納、布宜諾斯艾利斯、柏林、羅馬、韓國、米蘭、西班牙、日本、中國、澳大利亞、香港、新加坡、曼穀、特拉維夫、迪拜及墨西哥城。

Source: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%B3%E5%A3%AB%E5%BE%97

周四，首艘同國際空間站(International Space Station)對接的私人飛船返回地球，精準濺落南加州海岸外的太平洋海域。

The first private spacecraft to visit the International Space Station made a dramatic return home Thursday with a precise splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast.

splash·down /ˈsplæʃˌdaʊn/ noun
plural splash·downs

[count, noncount] : the landing of a spacecraft in the ocean — see also splash down at 1splash

splash down
[phrasal verb] of a spacecraft: to land in the ocean
▪ The space capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico.

《白雪公主與獵人》(Snow White and the Huntsman)在上周末的北美票房榜上看到了一個“圓滿的結局”：早期票房估計顯示，這部改編自經典童話的影片在美國和加拿大收獲了5,630萬美元的票房成績。

'Snow White and the Huntsman' found a happy ending at the box office over the weekend, earning the gritty fairy tale retelling a healthy $56.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, according to early studio estimates.

grit·ty/ˈgrɪti/adjective
grit·ti·er; grit·ti·est

[also more gritty; most gritty] 1: containing very small pieces of sand or stone : containing grit
▪ gritty vegetables

2informal: having or showing a lot of courage and determination
▪ the story's gritty heroine
▪ I admire her gritty determination to succeed.

3: harsh and unpleasant
▪ The book describes the gritty realities of life on the streets.
▪ He gave us all of the gritty details of his divorce.

— see also nitty-gritty

nit·ty–grit·ty /ˈnɪtiˌgrɪti/noun

Meaning:

the nitty-gritty
informal: the most important and basic facts or details about something
▪ He deals with the nitty-gritty of running the department.

▪ We finally got down to the nitty-gritty of the problem.

▪ Let's get down to the nitty-gritty and find out what happened.

據中國國有媒體報道，曾潛逃國外的中國頭號通緝犯賴昌星被判處無期徒刑，一樁凸顯了中國官場腐敗問題程度之深並導致中國和加拿大關係緊張的案件就此完結。

A court sentenced a man once labeled China's most-wanted fugitive to life in prison, according to state media, bringing an end to a case that highlighted the depth of official graft there and had inflamed tensions between China and Canada.

3graft noun

[noncount] chiefly US: dishonest activity in which people with power (such as political leaders) use their position and influence to get money and advantages
▪ The newspaper published a series of articles exposing graft in the city government.

據研究機構IHS iSuppli稱，諾基亞Lumia 900的零部件成本為209美元，而一部與之類似的16G iPhone 4S的零部件成本為190美元。在不附帶手機套餐的情況下，Lumia 900的售價為450美元，而16G的iPhone 4S為649美元。

The components of the Nokia Lumia 900, which sells for $450 without a phone contract, uses $209 worth of parts, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. Meanwhile, the comparable 16-gigabyte iPhone 4S, sold for $649 without a phone contract, is made of components that cost $190, iSuppli says.