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几个英语<翻译>小问题,拜托了~

1.翻译upper shelf ---------这要根据不同的语境呀,要是说架子的话,就是上面一层的架子

2.翻译As a result you are already too old for fairy tales,and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. -------这是英国著名学者、文学家C.S.路易斯的一本杰出的巨著《纳尼亚王国传奇》系列中的一句话,书《纳尼亚传奇》就是以下面这封信开始的:

To Lucy Barfield

My Dear Lucy,

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be.

Your affectionate Godfather,

C.S. Lewis

从中我们可以知道这句话的原意:因为你的年龄已经不适合阅读奇幻小说,当它们被印刷并编订成册的时候,你还在一直成长。这是前面一句“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books.”的解释

3.upper case "大写字母盘"是什么? ---------没见过

4.表示"上流社会"的地道单词是?

--不是high society或polite society吧..? -----上流社会的说法太多了,没有什么地道不地道的,我去看了Wikipedia百科,它的解释是这样的:High society may refer to:

Upper class, group of people at the top of a social hierarchy

Socialite, person of social prominence, who spends significant resources entertaining and being entertained

In film, theatre, and television:

High Society (1924 film), silent comedy, Our Gang film

High Society (1956 film), famous MGM musical film

High Society (musical), 1998 Broadway musical, based on the 1956 film

High Society (TV series), 1995-1996 American sitcom

High Society (1955 film), Bowery Boys film

In literature:

High Society (novel), 2002 dark comedy novel by Ben Elton

High Society (magazine), U.S. pornographic magazine

High Society, story arc of the comic book, Cerebus the Aardvark, by Dave Sim

In music:

High Society (1956 album), soundtrack album from the film

High Society (Porter Steele), 1901 jazz standard written by Porter Steele

High Society (Enon album), 2002, band's second album

High Society (Epik High album), 2004, band's second album

High Society (High Contrast album), 2004, band's second album

High Society (Kottonmouth Kings album), 2000, band's second album

High Society (The Silver Seas album), 2006, band's second album

而"upper class"的解释是这样的:The upper class is a concept in sociology that refers to the group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. Members of an upper class often have great power over the allocation of resources and governmental policy in their area.

The phrase "upper class" has had a complex range of meanings and usages. In many traditional societies, membership of the upper class was hard or even impossible to acquire by any means other than being born into it.也就是说,你在正式的文章里面完全都可以用,没有什么地道不地道的,就像“long time no see”一样,它地道吗?它是中国华侨发明的,现在外国也有人用,英语是一门很多元化的语言。

那么"贵族阶级"呢? ----------就用the nobility吧,最常用了

5.请详细翻译一下盲人摸象--to draw a conclusion from incomplete data.------从不完整的数据中得出结论,draw a conclusion 是得出结论的意思