今天的练习材料是2016年CATTI一级笔译真题，个人感觉不难，笔记也相对简单。
1. Print sales dwindled, bookstores struggled to stay open, and publishers and authors feared that cheaper e-books would cannibalize their business.
这句话里，dwindle表示to become gradually less or smaller （逐渐）减少，变小，缩小；是“逐渐减少”的意思，在翻译的时候就不要画蛇添足地译为“快速下降”、“骤降”等。struggle to do表示to experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something 竭力、尽力；翻译的时候要注意，这个短语包含两层意思: 一是尽全力去做; 二是做事过程中遭遇困难，有失败的可能。这两层意思都要译出来。翻译时要与attempt to do 和 fail to do 这两种表达方式区分开来。比如，在“I've been struggling to understand this article all afternoon.”这句话中，struggling to understand 既不能译成“试图理解”，也不能译成“难以理解”，而应该是“花了一下午才好不容易理解”。cannibalize表示to reduce the sales of one of its products by introducing a similar new product （公司的新产品）竞食，冲击（另一种类似产品的销售）。
2. E-books' declining popularity may signal that publishing, while not immune to technological upheaval, will weather the tidal wave of digital technology better than other forms of media, like music and television.
这里，immune to sth表示not affected by sth 不受影响。
🌰 You'll eventually become immune to criticism.
你终究会变得不在乎批评了。
upheaval表示a big change that causes a lot of confusion, worry and problems 剧变；激变；动乱；动荡；比如a period of emotional upheaval 情绪波动很大的时期。
🌰 The economic and social upheaval that will come from those kind of changes is profound.
由此带来的经济和社会动荡将会是巨大的。
weather作动词，表示to come safely through a difficult period or experience 经受住；平安地度过（困难时期）；
🌰 The company just managed to weather the recession.
这家公司勉强度过了衰退期。
3. The surprising resilience of print has provided a lift to many booksellers.
这里，resilience表示the ability of people or things to feel better quickly after sth unpleasant, such as shock, injury, etc. 快速恢复的能力；适应力，这里可以翻译为“韧性”。lift表示a feeling of being happier or more confident than before 较好的心情；更大的信心，相当于boost；provide/give sb a lift就表示“给某人更大的信心”。
4. Digital books have been around for decades, but they did not catch on with consumers until 2008.
这句话里面，be around 表示“存在”的状态，所以应该理解为“出现在市场上”。catch on表示to become fashionable or popular 流行；后面半句的意思是“在消费者中流行起来”。所以这句话的意思就是“其实电子书已经存在了几十年，但直到2008年，电子书才为消费者所追捧”。
5. The Kindle, which was joined by other devices, drew millions of book buyers to e-readers, which offered seamless, instant purchases online.
这句话里面，seamless表示with no spaces or pauses between one part and the next （两部分之间）无空隙的，不停顿的；instant purchase表示立刻、马上进行购买的行为，通常指消费者在没有太多考虑的情况下，迅速作出购买决策。也就是说有了Kindle这类电子书阅读器，消费可以无缝衔接，一键跳转直接购买电子书。
6. But those double- and triple-digit growth rates of the past plummeted as e-reading devices fell out of fashion with consumers.
这句话里，double- and triple-digit growth 中的“double-”后省略了digit，是英语的常见用法，digit表示any of the numbers from 0 to 9 （从 0 到 9 的任何一个）数字，数位；比如five digits表示五位数；这里double- and triple-digit growth rates意思就是“两位数和三位数的增长率”；plummet表示to fall suddenly and quickly from a high level or position 暴跌；速降；out of fashion与in fashion 是一对反义词，表示“过时的，不时兴的”。英语中有很多类似的表达方法，如 in order/out of order, in control/out of control, in sight/out of sight等等。
7. Almost certainly the tug of war between pixels and print isn't over.
这里，tug of war表示a situation in which two people or groups try very hard to get or keep the same thing （两人或两组的）激烈争夺；也就是我们说的“拉锯战”； pixels and print是英语中常见的指代用法，pixel本意是“像素（组成屏幕图像的最小独立元素）”，在这里指代“电子书”，print 指代纸质书，翻译时尽量将指代的对象译出来：电子书和纸质书之间的拉锯战。
好了，今天的笔记就到这里！
