The median number of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the world’s languages are spoken by fewer people than that.
该句选自2018高考英语全国1卷真题,请教各位老师,该怎么翻译好呢?
The median number of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the world’s languages are spoken by fewer people than that.
【翻译】世界上讲每种语言的平均人数仅为6,000人,这意味着世界上有一半的语言,使用者不超过此数。
我看见两位把median number 都翻译成“中位数”,这是一个很难懂的数学语言,不如直接翻译成“平均数;平均值”更直白。
此外,“讲话人的中位数仅为6,000”——这个翻译更是不可思议,不知所云。
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