“We happen to know the exact date and place of the very first ‘OK’ and that’s not very usual for many words so why not celebrate that day? says Metcalf, whose book built on Read’s earlier research.
梅特卡夫说:“我们知道了OK诞生的时间和地点,这对于许多词语来说并不常见,所以我们为什么不庆祝这一天呢?他的书《OK:美国最伟大词语不可思议的故事》是在那位已故词源学家里德早期的研究基础上编撰的。
In a sense, the United Nations — where six languages are instantaneously converted by experts — celebrates the word every day. In fact, translators don’t even bother to render “OK in each diplomat’s chosen tongue because everyone on the planet understands it already.
从某种意义上来说,有专业译者同时翻译6种语言的联合国每天都在赞美OK这个词。事实上,翻译员们不用将OK翻译成外交官的母语,因为每个人都懂得它的意思。
“It’s a word that tends not to be translated, but transported, says Peter Connor, the director of the Center for Translation studies at Barnard College.
巴纳德学院翻译研究中心主任皮特·康纳表示:“这是个不用翻译,仅需传递的词。
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