中翻英练习（4）：

 

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越来越多的中国人发现，每天挤时间看书越来越困难。
而在过去10年中，中国的互联网用户数量激增，这表明人们的阅读习惯正在发生巨大变化。 
专家将这一趋势归因于当今社会鼓励一夜成名或快速成功的社会价值观，而摒弃了过去的那种靠勤奋努力获得成功的观念。
在当今的读图时代，人们更喜欢新奇的、带有视觉冲击的东西。
然而，书集聚了知识的精华，这仅靠在互联网上浏览“速食”信息是无法得来的。

rapidly,
attribute to
social value
abandon
hard work
tendency
era of reading
eye shocking
fast food
contains
essence? 精华
表明 suggests
巨大？
更喜欢

 

Jack翻译：

More and more Chinese people have realized it's harder and harder to spare time reading everyday.
In the past 10 years, number of the Internet users in China has increased rapidly, which suggests the people's
reading habit is changing.
Professionals attributes this to the social vlaue that people are encouraged to become one-night famous or one-
day success, and abandon the troditional custom of gain success by hardwork.
In the era of reading, people prefer new，eye-shocking stuff.
However, books are the essence of knowledge that cannot be obtained by looking at "fast food" over the Internet.

 参考翻译：

A growing number of Chinese people are finding it increasingly difficult to spare some time to read each day.

 Meanwhile, the number of Internet users in China increased drastically over the last decade, an indicator that people's reading habits are changing dramatically. 

Experts attribute this trend to the current social values that  encourage overnight fame and success instead of good, old-fashioned hard work. In this picture-reading era, people prefer novel things with visual impact. However, books offer the essence of knowledge, which cannot be gained by only reading "fast-food" information online.

 

a growing number of 

increasingly hard to

each day

over the last decade

dramatically

attribute to

trend

overnight fame sucess 一夜成名或成功

picture-reading era 读图时代

visual impact 视觉冲击

 essence of knowledge 知识的精华

offer   提供

fast-food information

 novel things 新颖的事情