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>   三、“下岗”英译的“对等”与不对等 
    1 　 lay off 与“下岗”的“对等”lay off 一词在意思上与汉语的“下岗”在某些方面相近。国内外知名的英语词典对 lay off(或lay - off)的释义都大体相似。例如:《剑桥国际英语词典》 : stop employing ( aworker) esp. if it might be possible to employtheir again in the future (Procter ,1997 :803)《朗文当代高级英语词典》 : stop employinga worker ,especially for a period in which there islit tle work (尤指生意萧条时临时性) 解雇(雇员) ( Summers ,1998 :857)《兰登书屋韦氏美语学习词典》 : dismiss(an employee) ,of ten temporarily (Dalgish ,1997 :740)《牛津简明英语词典》 :discharge (workers)temporarily or permanently because of a shortageof worker ; make redundant ( Thompson , 2000 :771)《新牛津英语辞典》 : a temporal or perma2nent discharge of a worker or workers ( Pearsal ,2001 :803)《麦克米伦高阶英语词典》 :end someone’ semployment , especially temporarily , becausethere is not enough work for them (Macmillan ,2003 :806)《英汉大词典》 : (尤指生意萧条时临时性地)解雇(陆谷孙 ,1993 :1581)从上述几本知名的中外英语词典中 lay off的释义我们可以看出 ,lay off 这一表达解雇的用语具有两个特点:一是常指临时性的解雇(但也可表永久性的解雇) ,二是解雇的原因在于企业生意萧条 ,人本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供员过多。这就与我们所熟悉的另一表解雇的英语词汇fire 不同 ,fire所表达的是雇员由于工作表现不为雇主满意而被解雇(When a worker is fired ,he loses his job becausethe boss is not happy with his work ; when aworker is laid off , he loses his job because hiscompany doesn’ t have enough work for him. )(Elbaum ,1996 : 74) 英语中另一表解雇词汇为dismiss ,其释义为 send away (f rom one’ s em2ployment) ,则不说明解雇的原因。如是翻译 ,fire似可翻译为“开除” ,dismiss则可翻译为“解雇”。基于lay off 所表达的是因企业生意萧条 ,人员过多而解本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。