作为非native speaker，我们想把英语说得地道，就必须下功夫“入乡随俗”。下面这些Chinglish的正解你都知道吗？
01. 我希望你不要拖我的后腿。
[误] I hope that you won't pull my leg.
[正] I hope that you won't hold me back.
注：Pull one's leg 是“愚弄某人，开某人的玩笑”的意思，相当于make fun of sb.。英语中与“拖后腿”相对应的表达是hold sb. back 或be a drag on sb.等。
02. 学校里，那些长得人高马大的家伙常来找我的麻烦。
[误] At school, those big and strong guys always come to find my trouble.
[正] At school, those big and strong guys always come to pick on me.
注：Find my trouble是“发现我的难处”的意思，而英语中“找某人的麻烦”用短语 pick on sb. 它不仅表示“挑剔某人、找某人的碴”，而且还包含tease（取笑、戏弄）或bully（威胁、欺侮）的意思。
03. 原来如此。你一解释我就明白了。
[误] So it is. I underst and soon after your explanation.
[正] So that's how it is. I underst and soon after your explanation.
注：So it is的意思是“的确如此”，它是用来表示对对方观点的赞同的。例如：
A: It is a fine day today!
今天天气不错啊！
B: So it is.
是啊。
表达恍然大悟时，英文要用So that's how it is或So that explains it, 或更简单地道的说法Oh, I see。
04. 这个教授教得很烂。
[误] The professor teaches badly.
[正] The professor is so terrible.
注：有人认为第二句的意思是“这个教授很可怕”，其实不然。英语中terible意思很灵活，例如：feel terrible指身体“不舒服”；The food is terrible则是说食物“难吃极了”。而第一句纯属中文式的表达。
05. 我没料到这个无耻的女人居然同她好友的丈夫调情。
[误] I had not expected that this shameful woman should flirt with her best friend's husb and .
[正] I had not expected that this shameless woman should flirt with her best friend's husb and .
注： Shameful通常指某事物是“可耻的，丢脸的”，而shameless表示having or showing no feeling of shame；immodest or impudent，它一般用来指人“不知羞耻的，不要脸的”或“伤风败俗的”。原文也可译为：It's shameful that the woman should flirt with her best friend's husb and .
06. 东施效颦。
[误] Doingshi imitates Xishi.
[正] The ugly imitates the beautiful in such a distorted way that the ugliness of the ugly becomes worse.
注：把原文按照字面意思直译过来，恐怕只有中国人能够理解。要想让外国人明白这个中国成语，就要对译文进行解释性加工了。同样，“情人眼里出西施”不是Xishi is in the eye of the beholder，而是Beauty is in the eye of the beholder。
07. 你不好好学习，还想去牛津上大学。这可真是个不切实际的幻想！
[误] You don't study hard, yet you want to go to Oxford. What an impractical illusion!
[正] You don't study hard, yet you want to go to Oxford. What an illusion!
注：汉语中的修饰语往往用得很多，目的在于加强语气，但这种表达习惯在翻译时必须进行处理。Illusion本身就有impractical的含义，而英语中在表意已经很明确的情况下是无需重复的。
08. 想让他答应这样的要求恐怕不大可能。
[误] I'm afraid it is impossible for him to agree to such a request.
[正] I'm afraid it is unlikely for him to agree to such a request.
注：Impossible表示“完全不可能”，所以与原文有出入。在英语中，probable表示的可能性最大，其次是possible，再次是likely。而常用的句式为it is probable/possible/likely for sb. to do sth.，或sb. be likely to do sth.。
09. 最近的人口统计显示中国人口已超过12亿。
[误] The latest census shows that China's population has surpassed 1.2 billion.
[正] The latest census shows that China's population exceeds 1.2 billion.
注：Surpass和exceed译成中文虽然都是“超过，胜过”的意思，但出现具体数字时要用后者。
