中式英語之鑑:東施效顰

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東施效顰

[誤] Doingshi imitates Xishi.

[正] The ugly imitates the beautiful in such a distorted way that the ugliness of the ugly becomes worse.

注：把原文按照字面意思直譯過來，恐怕只有中國人能夠理解。要想讓外國人明白這個中國成語，就要對譯文
進行解釋性加工了。同樣，“情人眼裏出西施”不是 Xishi is in the eye of the beholder，而是Beauty is in the eye of the beholder。