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Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

2202124  Introduction to Translation

Nonfiction (English-Thai) #4 Discussion

แบบฝึกหัดที่ 3

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4.  Each year, thousands of square miles of rain forest are burned or cut down in tropical countries, causing much damage to land, animals, and humans everywhere on earth.  Destroying the forests results in lifeless and useless desert.  Much of the variety of Earth’s life consists of creatures who live in the rain forests.  Destroying the rain forests thus threatens those animals.  Many species are becoming extinct before scientists ever find out about them.  The destruction of the rain forests threatens human life as well as animals.  As we breathe, we use up oxygen.  The oxygen is constantly being resupplied by plants and the tropical rain forests provide a major share of that fresh oxygen.  As we burn or hack down the rain forests, we are destroying more and more of the very oxygen supply we depend on to breathe. 

Reference

Discussion

• changing unit designating area from square miles to square kilometers

• rainforest v. rainforests

• rainforest – ป่าดิบชื้น (ศัพท์บัญญัติสาขาพฤกษศาสตร์) ป่าฝน ป่งดงดิบ 

• parallelism

• everywhere – ทุกที่ ทุกแห่ง ทุกหน ทั่ว

• Earth v. earth

  • Capitalization of celestial bodies

  • When should the word "earth" be capitalized?

  • "The Earth" or just "Earth" (discussion thread)

  • Capitalization

     

• desert – figurative or literal meaning?

• creatures – สรรพสัตว์ สัตว์นานาชนิด (บรรดา)สัตว์ต่างๆ

• threaten –

• thus – จึง

• species – ชนิด

• use up – (phrasal verb) to consume, deplete; ใช้ ใช้(ให้หมด จนหมด)ไป

• find out – know

• fresh – ใหม่

  There are several nuances in meaning for the adjective "fresh."  The ones that seem most appropriate in this context are in bold.  "Fresh oxygen" as used here means the additional or new oxygen produced by the tropical rainforests that replenishes the supply we and other animals use up by breathing.

  • additional

  • clean

  • healthy

  • impudent

  • inexperienced

  • new

  • original

  • refreshing

  • remembered

  • renewed

  • undamaged

  • unused

     

• result in –

  result from –

   

• share – not หุ้น

• hack down –

Case study: sentence

Much of the variety of Earth’s life consists of creatures who live in the rain forests. 

สิ่งมีชีวิตในโลกหลากหลายชนิดอาศัยอยู่ในป่าดงดิบเป็นจำนวนมาก?

the tropical rain forests provide a major share of that fresh oxygen

เป็นแหล่งผลิตออกซิเจนที่สำคัญ?

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