提到出租房，小伙伴们应该并不陌生，还记得正在热播的电视剧《欢乐颂》中的那5个女孩吗？她们也是住出租房。话说昨天新闻热议住建部允许出租房打隔断。新闻一出，爱翻译的我们，就要与时俱进，好了，跟上小编的节奏，看新闻学热词~~



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英文原文

Chinese authorities are reportedly considering a change to allow the use of partitions in rental properties.

新闻学热词

出租房隔断：partitions in rental properties

Partitions, 猛一看以为是个新词，其实不然，你认识它，只是没有在意，比如计算机术语里的磁盘分区英文是disk partition，扩展分区的英文是extended partition。

再拓展一下，房屋中除了隔断墙，还有其他两种墙体，就是承重墙和非承重墙，其中文意思，小伙伴们应该明白，小编就不再详谈，英文表达如下：

承重墙bearing walls/

main structural walls/

load-bearing walls

非承重墙 non-bearing walls

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英文原文

According to a report from China National Radio, the move is aimed at ensuring young people and newly settled residents can afford a place to live, and ensure the safety of properties and their inhabitants, against a backdrop of ever increasing housing costs for buyers and renters. Although partitioning has been banned for decades, the practice has nevertheless stayed popular in big cities.

跟新闻学热词

旨在：be aimed at /aim at doing /be designed to do

新市民：newly settled residents

确保房屋住用安全：ensure the safety of properties and their inhabitants

在……背景下：against the backdrop of... /amid /as （前两个后面接名词词组，另外，英文原文中的against a backdrop of 是错误的，这个词组一般要用against the backdrop of ，as后面接句子）

不断上涨：ever increasing

（ever属于一种构词法，比如不断下降ever-decreasing；不断变化ever-changing）

The move 和the practice是汉译英常用的替换词，一定要注意这两个词的用法哈，中文意思小编就不再解释了。

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英文原文

A recent survey by the Global Cities Business Alliance, a London-based not-for-profit organisation, found that Beijing was, by far, the most expensive city in the world to rent an apartment. "Affordable housing" is deemed to be somewhere between 30 to 40-percent of a person's monthly income. The rate in Beijing is well over 120 percent.

跟新闻学热词

非营利组织：not-for-profit organisation

总部位于伦敦的：London-based

全球商业联盟：the Global Cities Business Alliance

经适房：Affordable housing

北京也已经成为了全球租房负担最重的城市：Beijing was, by far, the most expensive city in the world to rent an apartment.

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下面这些“房子”，你都会翻译吗？

廉租房

low-rent housing

公租房

public rental housing

小产权房

houses with limited property rights

经适房

affordable housing

学区房

Xuequfang, literally school district houses

人才保障房

social security housing for talents

保障性住房

government-subsidized housing

商品房

commercial housing

限价房

price-fixed housing

两限房

houses of "Two Limits"(Houses with lower prices and limited areas)

二手房

secondhand/ previously owned houses

再补充两个：

按揭购房 buy a house on mortgage

月供 monthly installment payment