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“高三学生”英语怎么说?

2011-11-17 11:46阅读:


高中英语“书面表达”题中常常出现“高一/高二/高三学生”这样的字眼,参考范文中几乎千篇一律地译作Senior One/Two/Three student。这是地道的Chinglish,以英语为母语的人不知道你说的是几年级学生。
在美国,从小学到高三共12年,从 grade one 一直到 grade 12。因此,小学一年级学生叫做 first grader (或 first-grader),初中一年级学生叫做 seventh grader (或 seventh-grader),高中一年级学生叫做 tenth grader (或 tenth-grader)。照此规律,“高三学生”应该是,事实上也是,12th grader。另外,“高三学生”也可以叫做 senior。Senior 在大学里指“大四学生”。请看释义:senior2 n [C] AmE a student in their last year of high school or university
注意:senior 表示“高三学生”或“大四学生”时做名词。
Senior High School 指“高级中学”。“初级中学”叫 Junior High School。
人民教育出版社的《高中英语》教材的英语名称 New Senior English for China 似乎不妥。什么叫senior English? 应该叫 English for Senior High School 才对。
中国的英语老师连“几年级学生”的英语都不会说真是太羞耻了!
更多权威例证:
1. The study..involved 4,500 schoolgirls between
the fifth and the 12th grade. (汉译:该研究涉及小学五年级到高中三年级的4,500名女学生。)(Shorter Oxford Dictionary)
2. first-grader/fourth-grader etc a student in one of the 12 years in an American school (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5th)
3. a first-year / year 9/ year 11, etc. student / pupil (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 7th)
4. second/eleventh etc grade: My brother is in sixth grade. a fifth-grade teacher ((Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5th)
5. Jen will be a sennior this year. (汉译:Jen今年要读高三[或大四]了。)
6. high school seniors (汉译:高三学生;高中毕业班学生) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 8th
7. I spent my junior year in France. (汉译:高二[或大三]这年我是在法国读的。注释:junior指高中或大学最后一年的前一年。)
以下是来自Wikipedia(维基百科)的一段文字:
There are 12 years of mandatory schooling. The first eight are solely referred to by numbers (e.g. 1st grade, 5th grade) so students may be referred to as 1st graders, 5th graders, etc. Grades 9 through 12 (high school) have alternate names for students, namely freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. (汉译:[美国]义务教育共12年,前8年完全用数字称呼,如一年级、五年级,所以学生可以被叫做1st graders, 5th graders等。9至12年级(高中)的学生还有另外的名称,及freshman, sophomore, junior and senior,注释:这分别相当于中国的初三、高一、高二和高三。)

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