中英之鉴 中式英语之鉴143

　　[误] My great great-grandfather had never left the mountain from birth to death.

　　[正] My great great-grandfather had never left the mountain from the cradle to the grave.

　　注：“从......到......”常可以翻译成 from ...to...，如：from ancient times to the present(从古至今)，from beginning to end(从头到尾)，from dawn to dusk(从早到晚)等。第一句翻译错就错在将“生”和“死”翻得太直白了，不符合英语的习惯。