摘要
While reading China daily and Beijing Review to choose some materials for students’composition, the author found some problems worth discussing. The author collects some specificsentences, gives suggested corrections and makes explanations with a good will intention thenewspaper and the magazine will be run even better and will make new contributions to the publicizing of China. The author sums up his opinion as follows:a. use per cent to express a net increase,b. use x times or x folds to express an increase which includes the original one fold,and c.use increase by, go up by, rise by, drop by, go down by, etc. +per cent or a number to indicatethe net increase or decrease rather than simply increase,go up,rise,drop,go down, etc+per cent,or a number. The author has discussed these problems with an American expert of the English language who is teaching in Hunan Medical University and perfectly agrees with him.
While reading China daily and Beijing Review to choose some materials for students'composition, the author found some problems worth discussing. The author collects some specificsentences, gives suggested corrections and makes explanations with a good will intention thenewspaper and the magazine will be run even better and will make new contributions to the publicizing of China. The author sums up his opinion as follows:a. use per cent to express a net increase,b. use x times or x folds to express an increase which includes the original one fold,and c.use increase by, go up by, rise by, drop by, go down by, etc. +per cent or a number to indicatethe net increase or decrease rather than simply increase,go up,rise,drop,go down, etc+per cent,or a number. The author has discussed these problems with an American expert of the English language who is teaching in Hunan Medical University and perfectly agrees with him.
出处
《中国科技翻译》
1997年第3期19-20,31,共3页
Chinese Science & Technology Translators Journal
