“達標”說法多
[ 2007-06-19 17:01 ]
企業(yè)環(huán)保要“達標”，學生成績要“達標”，食品質(zhì)量要“達標”……
驀然發(fā)現(xiàn)，“達標”竟是深入生活的常用詞匯。如何用英語形容“達標”？先看外電一段有關中國農(nóng)產(chǎn)品質(zhì)量達標的相關報道：
Chinese farm products are getting safer, the government said on Tuesday,
citing tests of fruit, vegetables, meat and fish in major cities that showed
more than 95 percent of products were up to
standard.
The Ministry of Agriculture, eager to reassure consumers following a series
of safety scandals, said on its Web site (www.agri.gov.cn) that all meat and
poultry products tested in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin and Kunming were
up to scratch.
報道說，農(nóng)業(yè)部農(nóng)產(chǎn)品質(zhì)量安全監(jiān)測結(jié)果顯示，我國農(nóng)產(chǎn)品質(zhì)量總體水平在不斷提高。北京、上海、沈陽等幾個大城市的蔬菜、畜禽產(chǎn)品、水產(chǎn)品監(jiān)測合格率均在95％以上。
報道中的“up to standard”指的就是“達標”。短語“up to”在此表示“達到、接近于、及得上”，如：The team didn't play
up to its best today.（球隊今天發(fā)揮的不是很理想。）此外，動詞詞組“to meet the (given)
standard”也可表示“達標”，如： to meet noise/water standards（符合噪聲/水質(zhì)標準）。
值得一提的是，短語“up to”除和“standard”搭配表示“達標”外，還可與“par, scratch, the mark,
snuff”連用。究其淵源，“par”源于高爾夫球（“標準桿數(shù)得分”，引申指“標準”）；“scratch/mark”源于拳擊比賽[裁判在拳擊場中間劃（scratch）的界線（mark），拳擊手若被擊倒，他必須在8秒鐘內(nèi)站起并回到規(guī)定的“界線”上]。
看下面幾個例句：Your work is not up to par this week. 你這星期的工作沒有達到標準。
Sorry but
that cloth you sent us isn't/(didn't come) up to scratch. It's too thin and the
color is too dark.（很遺憾你們送來的布料太簿、顏色還很合深，不符合標準。）
（英語點津陳蓓編輯）
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