中英之鑒 中式英語之鑒68

　　[誤] He is made to wear a green hat.

　　[正] He is a cuckold.

　　注：中文的“戴綠帽子”是指某人之妻與他人私通，但直譯成英文西方人只會(huì)按字面意思理解為“某人頭上被戴了頂綠色的帽子”，無論如何也不會(huì)理解漢語的喻義。而英語的 cuckold 是指“奸婦的丈夫”(a man whose wife deceives him by having a sexual relationship with another man)，所以用be a cuckold 才能正確表達(dá)原文的意思。