如何翻译英语报刊经济文章
12. In the future:原义是“将来”,可根据上下文引申为“现在还未
实现”
13.原句中为了避免重复,在 m ight be后面省略了前面提到的in
the future。这在英语中很常见,但汉译时往往应恢复被省略
的部分(参见嫩教穋第8章“增词与引申”中的相关内容)。
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Should you join the browser wars
u Ditch your browser, writes Editor-in-chief Harry Mc
8 Cracken in Octobers PC World, a magazine widely read by
techies and power users What on earth is he talk ing a bout?
Like a growing number of the techies Mc Cra cken and many of
his sta ff have converted to Firefox, browser soft ware designed
to replace Microsoft s popular, hugely successful Internet Ex-
plorer.theupstartprogram(freeatwww.mozillaorg)now
accounts for some 3 of the U s. desktop market, according
to web-analytics firm WebsideStory. That number sounds pu
ny until you consider that it means rou ghly four million PCs
And while Internet Explorer retains a still over whelming mar-
ket share of 93 % it is used on a bout 1 15 million laptops and
desktops-Firefox is spreading like, well, wildfire: It snatched
all three of its points of market share bet ween June and Octo
Firefox is h ot mostly for one sad reason: Crooks, hackers
and ethically challen ged online marketers are using security
weaknesses in Internet Explorer to attack people s PCs and pri