中译英：我们这些小零售商（retailer）无法和超市在价格和销售等方面竞争。(compete）

Translation from Chinese into English:

(1)We small retailers are not in the position to compete with the supermarkets in the aspect of prices and sales .

(2)We small retailers can't compete with the supermarkets in respect of prices and sales.

(3)We, who are small retailers, can't compete with the supermarkets with regard to prices and sales.

(4) We small retailers can't compare with the supermarkets in terms of prices and sales

(5)In respect of pricing and selling, We small retailers can't compete with the supermarkets

prices价格。pricing定价。sales有时指降价销售。

练习题给出的标准答案是：We small retailers can’t compete with supermarkets in pricing and sales.

请问：

1.supermarket需要用复数形式吗？

2. in pricing and sales和您给出的in terms of prices and sales 是不是都是方式状语？

3. 原题中“等方面”没有翻译出来。可否加上，变为 "We, small retailers, can't compete with supermarket in terms of prices, sales and other parts."

  【答】最好把原翻译中的 pricing 改为 prices ，因为 pricing 是动名词，而prices 和 sales都是名词。

   1. supermarket是可数名词，从意思看，需要复数。但不需要特指，不需要加定冠词。

   2. 都可以，都是方面状语。in prices and sales中，in 表示“在......方面”。

   3. “等”可以翻译出来，要在 prices, sales后面加上etc.或者 and so forth 或者 and so on，而且在 etc.,and so forth ,and so on的前面用逗号。但不能说and other parts。

   【参考译文】(small retailers前面和后面的逗号和terms of的括号可以省略)

    1. We, small retailers, can't compete with supermarkets in （terms of ）prices , sales ,etc.

    2. We, small retailers, can't compete with supermarkets in （terms of ）prices , sales ,and so forth .

    3. We, small retailers, can't compete with supermarkets in （terms of ）prices , sales ,and so on .