中式英語之鑑:這個無恥的女人
我沒料到這個無恥的女人居然同她好友的丈夫調情。
[誤] I had not expected that this shameful woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.
[正] I had not expected that this shameless woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.
注:shameful 通常指某事物是“可恥的,丟臉的”,而 shameless 表示 having or showing no feeling of shame;
immodest or impudent,它一般用來指人“不知羞恥的,不要臉的”或“傷風敗俗的”。
原文也可譯爲:It's shameful that the woman should flirt with her best friend's husband.