“剩女”用英語怎么說？

曾幾何時，“剩女”成了大城市的話題。這個詞讓一部分大齡單身女青年感到尷尬，不過也有自詡自己為“剩女”的自信御姐。今天我們就來看一看“剩女”如何翻譯為英文。

 

 

“剩女”可以說成：

1. single woman over 27/unmarried female above the age of 27

2. leftover woman

第1種翻譯是意譯，但是“剩女”的年齡到底是27還是28或是其他，見仁見智，不絕對。

第2種翻譯是直譯，其中l(wèi)eftover一詞和中文的“剩”精確對應(yīng)，Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English對leftover的解釋是：remaining after all the rest has been used, taken, or eaten。

如果想向外國人精確傳遞“剩女”的含義，建議這樣說：

“Shengnu” literally means "a leftover woman". It refers to a single woman who is above the age of 27. “剩女”的字面意思是“被別人選剩下的女人”，用來指過了27歲的單身女性。

以下是來自于BBC官網(wǎng)的文章(節(jié)選)，供大家參考：

Emotional advert about China's 'leftover women' goes viral

By Heather Chen

8 April 2016

Single women over 27 in China are known as "leftover women"

The issue of unmarried females, often stigmatised as "sheng nu" or leftover women, has long been a topic of concern in a society that prioritises marriage and motherhood for women.

By government definition, a "leftover woman" refers to any unmarried female above the age of 27