《每日一句汉译英》一周汇总 (43)

本周一，由于英国人卡西(Paul Casey)因肩伤退出比赛，14岁的中国高尔夫球手张华创成为历史上入围美国高尔夫公开赛(U.S. Open)的最年轻选手，从而创造了他个人的历史。

14-year-old Chinese golfer Andy Zhang made history of his own on Monday by becoming the youngest player ever to qualify for this week's U.S. Open after Briton Paul Casey withdrew because of a shoulder injury.

上周末，22岁的中国高尔夫球手冯珊珊以低于标准杆六杆的总成绩夺得女子高尔夫LPGA锦标赛冠军，成为中国第一位赢得重要巡回赛事和锦标赛冠军的球手。

Over the weekend, 22-year-old Chinese golfer Feng Shanshan claimed women's golf's LPGA Championship title by shooting 6-under-par for the week, becoming the first Chinese player to win a major tour event and title.

par /ˈpɑɚ/ noun
plural pars

1: the number of strokes a good golfer is expected to take to finish a golf hole or course
[noncount]
▪ He made/scored par on the ninth hole.
▪ She finished the 18th hole three strokes under/over par.
▪ The 18th hole is a par 5. [=par for the 18th hole is five strokes]
▪ a par-5 hole
[count]
▪ He made/scored a par on the ninth hole.
▪ She made/scored nine pars in a row.

Golf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.

It is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses", each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."

Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.

The major championships are the four most prestigious men's tournaments of the year. In chronological order they are: The Masters, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open) and the PGA Championship.[36]

Women's golf does not have a globally agreed set of majors. The list of majors recognised by the dominant women's tour, the LPGA Tour in the U.S., has changed several times over the years, with the last change in 2001. Like the PGA Tour, the (U.S.) LPGA[41] has four majors: the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the LPGA Championship, the U.S. Women's Open and the Women's British Open. Only the last of these is also recognised by the Ladies European Tour.

For more see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf

过去15年间，中国已飞速发展成为全球制造业强国之一，几乎所有大型外国公司都已在中国建立业务。中国制造业不再仅限于生产用于出口的廉价基础部件，而是将主要精力投在生产精密产品和满足快速增长的国内需求上。

China has emerged so rapidly as a manufacturing powerhouse over the past 15 years that nearly all major foreign companies have set up operations there. And they are no longer simply building cheap production bases for exports but are focusing on sophisticated products and China’s booming domestic demand.

中国成功完成了其航天器的首次载人交会对接任务，这是中国欲在2020年前后发射空间站计划的重要一步。周一，神舟九号飞船与天宫一号空间实验室成功对接。

China successfully achieved its first manned space docking, an important step in the country's quest to launch a space station by around 2020.The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Monday docked with China's Tiangong-1 space laboratory.

¹quest /ˈkwɛst/ noun

plural quests

[count] formal + literary

1: a journey made in search of something
▪ They went on a quest for gold.

2: a long and difficult effort to find or do something
▪ a quest for answers

▪ The team's quest to win a championship finally came to an end.

▪ He refuses to give up his quest to discover the truth.

²quest verb

quests; quest·ed; quest·ing

[no obj] formal + literary: to go on a journey to find something
▪ They were questing for gold.

in quest of

: searching for (something)
▪ She is in quest of the perfect wine.

新近一份报告显示，亚裔是美国人数增长最快、受教育程度最高、收入最多的族裔。报告认为，这一多数成员为移民的社会群体对于日益依赖熟练劳动力的美国经济是一个有利因素。

Asians are the fastest-growing, most educated and highest-earning population in the U.S., according to a new report that paints the majority-immigrant group as a boon to an economy that has come to rely increasingly on skilled workers.

boon /ˈbu:n/ noun
plural boons

[count] : something pleasant or helpful : a benefit or advantage — usually singular
▪ What at first looks like an inconvenience can be a boon.— usually + for or to
▪ The new tax cut is a boon for homeowners.
▪ Reliable daycare is a boon to working parents.

迄今为止，中国建设世界一流航空业的目标尚未取得多少实际成效，但这并不是由于缺乏努力：中国正斥巨资研发新机型和建设航空基础设施，计划到2015年建设70座新机场，还有商用喷气式飞机C919，意欲和波音（Boeing）及空中客车（Airbus）的畅销机型相抗衡。

China's goal of building a world-class aviation industry has so far yielded few tangible results, but not for a lack of effort: The country is spending heavily on new aircraft development and aviation infrastructure, with plans for 70 new airports by 2015 and a commercial jet, the C919, meant to compete with best-sellers from Boeing and Airbus.