英语新闻热词汉译英：“房奴”英语翻译解析
新年气象，带来的不仅是新希望，还有新“账单”——由于央行去年3次上调贷款利率，从本月起，房贷月供也随之增加约10%。网友集体大呼“房奴”伤不起？房奴的英语怎么说？具体应该怎么翻译？
mortgage slave，mortgage
句子：这么高的房价已使我沦为房奴。
误译：Such high housing price have rendered me a house slave.
正译：Such high housing price have rendered me a mortgage slave.
解释：不可将house slave译成房奴。 house slave与field slave 形成对比，指当年美国从事家务劳动的黑奴，即“家奴”：而field slave是从事农耕劳动的黑奴，即“田奴”。例如：
1.乔治的祖母是从事家务劳动的黑奴，祖父是从事农耕劳动的黑奴。
George's grandmother was a house slave and his grandfather was a field slave.
2.家奴通常生活得比田奴好，他们通常吃得好一点，而且有时候能得到主人家扔掉的旧衣服。
House slaves usually lived better than field slaves. They usually had better food and were sometimes given the family's cast-off clothing.
3.简是个家奴，她被主任强迫嫁给另一个黑奴。
Jane was a house slave who was forced by her master to marry another slave.
"房奴"的意思是"按揭购房者"。英语可以译作mortgage slave。例如：
4.房奴被采用来描述那些按揭还款超过月薪一半的人。
Mortgage slave is adopted to describe those people whose mortgage payment is more than half of their monthly salary.
mortgage slave，mortgage
句子：这么高的房价已使我沦为房奴。
误译：Such high housing price have rendered me a house slave.
正译：Such high housing price have rendered me a mortgage slave.
解释：不可将house slave译成房奴。 house slave与field slave 形成对比，指当年美国从事家务劳动的黑奴，即“家奴”：而field slave是从事农耕劳动的黑奴，即“田奴”。例如：
1.乔治的祖母是从事家务劳动的黑奴，祖父是从事农耕劳动的黑奴。
George's grandmother was a house slave and his grandfather was a field slave.
2.家奴通常生活得比田奴好，他们通常吃得好一点，而且有时候能得到主人家扔掉的旧衣服。
House slaves usually lived better than field slaves. They usually had better food and were sometimes given the family's cast-off clothing.
3.简是个家奴，她被主任强迫嫁给另一个黑奴。
Jane was a house slave who was forced by her master to marry another slave.
"房奴"的意思是"按揭购房者"。英语可以译作mortgage slave。例如：
4.房奴被采用来描述那些按揭还款超过月薪一半的人。
Mortgage slave is adopted to describe those people whose mortgage payment is more than half of their monthly salary.
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