中英之鑒 中式英語之鑒143

　　[誤] My great great-grandfather had never left the mountain from birth to death.

　　[正] My great great-grandfather had never left the mountain from the cradle to the grave.

　　注：“從......到......”?？梢苑g成 from ...to...，如：from ancient times to the present(從古至今)，from beginning to end(從頭到尾)，from dawn to dusk(從早到晚)等。第一句翻譯錯就錯在將“生”和“死”翻得太直白了，不符合英語的習慣。