做最好的自己，如何用英文準確翻譯?
做最好的自己，英語怎麼翻譯？之前我有發過一篇外刊雙語精讀「2019年做更好的自己」，全文如下可以看看。
Ways to Be a Better Person in 2019
如何在2019年成為一個更好的人
As we look back on the mania that was 2018, one thing is clear: We can do better!
在我們回望2018這一狂躁之年的時候，有一件事很清楚：我們可以做得更好！
作者緊接著提出了幾條建議：Ask people about themselves.問問別人的事情。 還有Less news = more happy.更少新聞=更多快樂。主要跟大家分享以下建議的精讀，這幾條建議真的非常好，
Hide the phones
藏起手機
We』re all getting wise to the harmful effects of screens, but what』s surprising is that the people responsible for the gadgets are keeping them far away from their own kids. In Silicon Valley, children are being asked to rediscover card games, board games and the outdoors. Maybe the rest of us should, too.
參考譯文：我們都意識到了屏幕的害處，但令人驚訝的是，那些製造出這些設備的人，卻讓自己的孩子遠離這些設備。在矽谷，人們鼓勵孩子們去玩紙牌遊戲和棋類遊戲，鼓勵他們參加戶外活動。也許我們也該這麼做！
第一句：We』re all getting wise to the harmful effects of screens, but what』s surprising is that the people responsible for the gadgets are keeping them far away from their own kids.
我們都意識到了屏幕的害處，但令人驚訝的是，那些製造出這些設備的人，卻讓自己的孩子遠離這些設備。
1. 句子結構分析：主幹部分是what』s surprising is that the people are keeping them far away from their own kids；其次responsible for the gadgets 是the people後置定語，完整的是（who are）responsible for the gadgets； keeping them中的them指gadgets。
2. get wise to sth：英文解釋是To find out, become aware of, more fully understand，即知道，瞭解，弄明白，是美國習慣用語。比如「我們意識到了食品添加劑的害處」，就可以說「We』re all getting wise to the harmful effects of food additives.」
3. What』s surprising is that：surprising指事物本身令人驚訝，surprised指事物使人感到驚訝，即something is surprising，somebody is surprised by something。相同用法的如exciting，excited；interesting，interested。例如，The book is interesting（這本書很有趣）；I am interested in the book（我對這本書很感興趣）。
4. gadget美[?ɡ?d??t]：小玩意，小配件，小裝飾，裝置，設備。比如我們經常把一些小玩意粘在一個地方，就可以這樣說：The gadget can be attached to any vertical surface.
這小玩意兒可以粘在任何垂直表面上。
還可以泛指一些設備，比如遙控器是設備，我們就可以說the remote-control gadget for the television 電視機的遙控器
第二句：In Silicon Valley, children are being asked to rediscover card games, board games and the outdoors. Maybe the rest of us should, too.
在矽谷，人們鼓勵孩子們去發現玩紙牌遊戲、棋類遊戲，以及戶外活動的樂趣。也許我們也該這麼做！
1. the outdoors可以表示戶外運動，比如「我喜歡戶外運動」就可以說Im a lover of the outdoors.
2. should, too：是省略了，這種省略在翻譯課程裏常見。完整的是Maybe the rest of us should rediscover card games, board games and the outdoors, too. 這句是在號召人們也應該學習矽谷的人們。手機這些對工作幹擾也是很大，平時如果是在工作，還是把手機放遠點，或者靜音哈，別讓手機控制了生活。
Watch your spending
留意你的開支
People in the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement are devoted to living frugally and investing their cost savings so they can stop working in their 30s or 40s. Even if you』re not ready to adopt all their tenets, cutting some spending (if you』re able to) can always help.
譯文：參與「FIRE」（經濟獨立、早早退休financial independence, retire early）運動的人致力於過節儉的生活，並把節省下來的花銷用於投資，這樣他們就可以在30或40多歲的時候退休了。即便你還沒有準備好全面採納他們的信條，削減一些開支（如果能的話）總是好的。
1. 句子結構分析：People in the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement are devoted to living frugally and investing their cost savings主句，so they can stop working in their 30s or 40s是由so引導的結果狀語. Even if you』re not ready to adopt all their tenets是讓步狀語, cutting some spending是主句的主語，doing作主語， (if you』re able to) 是放在括弧裡面補充說明的，can always help是cutting some spending的謂語動詞.
2. frugal美[?fruɡ?l]：樸素的；節省的，節儉的；花錢少的。生活簡樸，live a frugal life=live frugally。
3. tenet美 [?t?n?t]：原則，信條，教義
4. stop working 在這裡就是retire的意思啦！
5. cutting some spending (if you』re able to) can always help削減一些開支（如果能的話）總是好的。這句話很對，不是說讓你現在過得很節儉，三四十就退休，而是讓你稍微注意下開支，別一直當月光族啊！
Take back your time
拿回你的時間
Life is a crush of requests, both professional and personal. You must be the keeper of your time and allow yourself to say no more often. If you don』t, you may burn out and come to hate everything and everyone, including your friends and family and the things formerly known as 「fun」. Don』t let that happen to you in 2019.
高齋調整後的譯文：生活就是一眾蜂擁而至的要求，包括職業上的和個人的。你必須做時間的守衛者，允許自己更多地說不。否則，你可能會被耗盡，以至於厭惡所有的人和事，包括你的朋友、家人和以往稱之為「有趣」的事情。2019年，別讓這樣的事發生。
1. a crush of：成羣的。
如Everywhere he went he was mobbed by a crush of fans.
他所到之處都有成羣的歌迷簇擁著他。
2. the things formerly known as：省略了which/that are，即the things which/that are formerly known as 「fun」。 formerly known as 「fun」作things的後置定語，定語成分比較短，可以直接提到所修飾的名詞前翻譯，即「以往稱之為『有趣』的事情」。
3. something happen to somebody某事發生在某人身上，這裡的使用you更有號召力，就是呼籲，翻譯的時候看語境，這裡省譯更好,注意這個翻譯思維，我在翻譯課程裡面常講哈。
最後，2020年馬上來臨，希望大家好好利用新的一年，希望大家做個更加開心快樂，更加自信的人。
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