策马翻译培训·词汇：13个最常弄错含义的翻译口译单词

其实是指拙劣的模仿或恶搞。你可以说艾尔

?

扬 科维奇的专辑是

travesty

（恶搞的）。鉴于

这个单词总是被人们和

trag edy

（悲剧）搞混淆，或许以后

travesty

“

悲剧

”< /p>

的含义吧。不过

到目前为止，这个单词跟

“

不好的事情

”

完全扯不上关系。

3. Ultimate

What you think it means: The one, the only. The best.

你认为单词的含义是：某个，唯一的，最好的。

What it really means: The last item of a list.

单词的真正含义是：列表中的最后一项。

Some people do actually use this one properly. You may see someone list off

a bunch of things and hear them say, “Okay, at the store we need eggs, milk,

juice, an

d ultimately, butter.” That is actually the proper use of ultimate. There

is no other context or added context. It simply means the last one.

到他们说：

“

嗯

……

我们要去商店买点鸡蛋、牛奶、果汁，最后（

ultimately

有黄油。

”

这才是< /p>

ultimate

的正确使用方法。这里不存在其他内容或补充内 容，

ultimate

就表示

“

最后一个

”

。

4. Conversate

What you think it means: To have a conversation.

你认为单词的含义是：进行交谈。

What it really means: Nothing.

单词的真正含义是：压根没有这个词。

Conversate

actually

doesn’t

exist

and

I’ll

prove

it

to

you.

Go

into

a

program

that

underlines

words

with

red

if

they’re

spelled

wrong.

Now

type

out

conversate. Did you see the red line? Conversate was meant to be a mixture

of conversation and converse and be used as a verb. However, converse is a

verb

and

there

really

isn’t

a

need

for

a

second

verb

to

describe

th

e

same

action.

Conversate

这个单词其实是不存在的，这我可以证明。找个能标红错误拼写的

程序，然后输入

conversate

这个单词，你应该能看到这个单词被标了红色 下划

线吧？

conversate

应该 是

conversation

（交谈）和

converse

（交谈）的混合词，

词性是动词。可是，< /p>

converse

（交谈）本身就是动词，根本就没必要再造一个 动

词来描述同一个行为了。

5. Peruse

What you think it means: To skim or browse.

你认为单词的含义是：略读或浏览。

What it really means: To observe in depth.

单词的真正含义是：深入观察。

When you peruse something, you are actually taking a

very close look at it.

When

you’re

at

a

record

store

and

you’re

just

running

through

a

stack

of

records, you are just browsing. If you pick up a record and look at the artist,

track list, and additional information on the back, then your are perusing. < /p>

当你

peruse

（深入观察）某事物时 ，说明你看得非常仔细。假设你在唱片店穿

过一排排的唱片架，那就是

< br>“

浏览

”

。如果你拿起一张唱片 查看背后的艺术家、

目录和其他信息，那就叫

peruse

（深入观察）了。

6. Bemused

What you think it means: Amused.

你认为单词的含义是：愉快的。

What it really means: Confused.

单词的真正含义是：困惑的。

This is one of the many words on this list that will make you strongly dislike

the

English

language.

Despite

looking

all

but

identical

to

the

word

amused,

bemused

doesn’t

even

come

close

to

meaning

the

same

thing.

If

y

ou

are

bemused then you are actually confused.

这个单词可能本清单中

“

荣膺

”

让你讨厌英语的原因之一。尽管

bemuse d

（困惑

的）在拼写上跟

amused

（愉快的）很相似，但这两个单词的含义却并不一样。

如果你< /p>

bemused

，说明你其实很困惑。

7. Compelled

What you think it means: To do something voluntarily by choice.

你认为单词的含义是：志愿选择做某事。

What it really means: To be forced or obligated to doing something.

单词的真正含义是：被迫或有义务做某事。

This

is

one

that

people

get

wrong

and

it’s

rather

understandable.

The

real

definition is very close to the definition people generally use. The difference is

the

motivation. When

people

say

compelled,

they

think

the

person

wants

to

perform the action. In fact, they are forced to do it regardless of their personal

feelings. Here’s an example. When you’re in court, you are compelled to give

honest

testimony.

You

may

not

want

to,

but

it

doe

sn’t

matter

because

you

have to.

这个单词被人们搞错其实倒也情有可原。它的真实定义和人们通常误用的含义< /p>

很接近，但区别就在于动机如何。当说到

compelled

（被迫）时，人们以为说话

者想做某事，但实际上，说话者是 有违自身情绪而被迫去做某事的。举个例

子，在出庭时，你就是

compelled

（被迫）如实作证的，你可能心里不情愿，但

不管怎样你只能这么做。

8. Nauseous

What you think it means: To feel ill.

你认为单词的含义是：感觉不舒服。

What it really means: To cause feelings of illness.

单词的真正含义是：令人不舒服的。

This

is

another

understandable

mishap

that

a

lot

of

people

make.

If

you

actually feel sick then you are nauseated. The object that made you feel ill is

nauseous. Here’s how this works. If you’re at an amusement park and

you’re

sitting next to a full trash can, the fumes from the trash may make you feel ill.

That

means

the

fumes

from

the

trash

can

are

nauseous

because

they

are

making you feel nauseated.

许多人用错这个单词也是情有可原的。如果 你果真感到不舒服，那么你会

nauseated

（作呕），让 你感到不舒服的东西是

nauseous

（作呕的）。请看下面

的例子。假设你坐在游乐园一个满满的垃圾桶旁边，垃圾桶里冒出的烟雾让你

nauseous

（令人作呕的），因

为它让你感到

nausea ted

（作呕）。

9. Redundant

What you think it means: Repetitive.

你认为单词的含义是：重复的。

What it really means: Unnecessarily excessive.

单词的真正含义是：过剩的。

This one is tough because you can use it wrong but unintentionally use it right.

When you repeat something a bunch of times, it can become redundant, but

redundant expands far beyond just repeating things over and over. A popular

thing companies are doing now is firing people but instea

d of calling it “getting

fired,”

they

call

it

“eliminatingredundancies.”

The

premise

being

that

the

employee

they’re

firing

is

unnecessary

andexcessive

and

they

are

thus

eliminating them. In pretty much any scenario where there is simply too much

of something, it is redundant.

这个单词有点复杂，因为你可能总会用错，却也不一定什么时候就用对了。当

< br>你不断重复某事很多次后，事情可能就会变得

redundant

（多余的），但是

redundant

这个词所包含的 意思远不止

“

不断重复

”

。当下公司都很流行解聘雇

员，但他们不会说

“

炒你鱿鱼

”

，而是称之为

< br>“

裁员

”

；但前提是，被裁的员 工是

可有可无的、多余的，这样就可以裁掉了。在很多情况下，如果某事太多太

剩，那就是

redundant

（多余的）了。

10. Enormity

What you think it means: Huge, enormous.

你认为单词的含义是：巨大的，庞大的。

What it really means: Profoundly immoral or evil.

单词的真正含义是：极其不道德的或邪恶的。

Don’t beat yourself up over this one because no one knows this one off the

top

of

their

head.

Enormity

sounds

like

enormous

and

as

with

many

of

our

other

examples,

here

we

expect

words

that

sound

alike

to

have

similar

meanings. Enormity simply means really evil. An example of how to use it is

the

following:

“The

enormity

of

the

crimes

committed

by

the

Nazis

in

World

War II.” It doesn’t mean the eno

rmous crimes, it means theheinous crimes.

不要因为用错这个单词而自责，因为没多少人能不假思索地知道这个单 词。

Enormity

（穷凶恶极）的发音和

< br>enormous

（庞大的）比较相近，正如先前提过

的 许多例子一样，对于发音相似的单词，人们也很容易认为它们的意思也一

样。

是指

“

极其邪恶

”

。举个例子来说明如何使用这个单词吧。

纳粹分

子在二战中犯下的罪行是

enormity

（穷凶恶极的）。

”

它不是说

enormous

（庞大

的）罪行，而是指十恶不赦的罪行。

11. Terrific

What you think it means: Fantastic, good.

你认为单词的含义是：妙极了，极好的。

What it really means: Horrific, to inspire fear.

单词的真正含义是：可怖的，令人害怕的。

This is another one that we expect will be changed in the dictionary eventually

because

barely

anyone

uses

the

real

meaning

anymore.

When

people

say

they

feel

terrific,

they

mean

to

say

they

feel

fantastic.

An

example

of

something terrific is King Kong. You see a giant monster and it inspires fear.

We’re going to loop awesome in with this one too. Awesome simply means to

inspire awe and people often use it to describe something really good.

我们认为这个单 词的含义以后也会在词典里重新修订，因为现在几乎没有人会

去使用它的真正含义。当人 们说感觉

terrific

（恐怖的）时，他们是指感觉

fantastic

（好极了）。《金刚》就是典型的

terrific

（可怖的）例子，因为它是巨

怪，让 人感到恐惧。在此顺便说说

awesome

这个单词吧。

Awesome

是指

“

让人

感到惊惧

”

，但现在人们用这个 词的时候主要是指

“

某事好极了

”

。

12. Effect

What you may think it means: To cause something to change.