翻译练习(12):Radical Uncertainty
第12期来了!这次好歹没拖太久~~
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The relevant analysis has evolved over centuries of economic thinking. It has yielded important empirical results relating to the “big questions” about wealth and poverty and human well-being. The analysis and the results to date are such that our introductory student should walk away from an economics course with a sense of what the state of play is in the discipline of economics.
参考译文:
相关分析经过了经济学思想数百年的演变,已经取得了与富裕和贫困以及人类福祉等“大问题”有关的重要经验成果。迄今为止的分析和结果既然是如此,那么入门阶段的学生在上完经济学课程时,就应当对经济学学科的现状有所理解。
简要讲解:
The analysis and the results to date are such that our introductory student should walk away from an economics course with a sense of what the state of play is in the discipline of economics.
are such that, such,这样的,如此;that,所以,因此,作连词引导结果状语从句。
walk away from an economics course with,带着……离开
the state of play, 当前情况
重点词汇:
1. empirical:adj. originating in or based on observation or experience 经验的
2. sense: n. an understanding about sth; an ability to judge sth 理解、判断
上次翻译的情况不怎么理想(我没想到
本期的练习如下,请以文后留言的形式提交译文。
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Much of the criticism, from post-Keynesians, Shackle(沙克尔) and others, of mainstream economics has taken its point of departure to be the radical uncertainty which shrouds the future. This uncertainty is seen as so impenetrable as to render absurdly irrelevant all those neoclassical theories built up from individual optimizing decisions, assumed to be made between well-defined alternative future possibilities.
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以上选自柯兹纳《市场过程的含义》第1章,目前我正在“主线经济学精读课”领读这本书,同时译校全书。欢迎大家点击下面的海报二维码加入,可以一起探讨翻译和阅读,还有赠书福利哦!
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