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以下節錄自香港《文匯報》1月9日報道：「鰂魚涌太古城發生疑因婚外情而起的雙屍倫常慘案！一名家庭主婦疑與任職大學導師丈夫感情生變後患上精神病。警方調查後不排除有人不堪被第三者介入致婚變，狠心以藥迷暈並勒死兒子後，再於窗邊上吊自殺畢命。」大家會怎樣把這段話翻譯成英文？
「婚外情」extramarital affair
「鰂魚涌太古城發生疑因婚外情而起的雙屍倫常慘案」：「鰂魚涌」是Quarry Bay；「太古城」是Taikoo Shing；「疑」通常用allegedly表示，解作「據稱」、「涉嫌」；「婚外情」是extramarital affair；「雙屍」沒有特定英文說法，這兒可說leave two people dead；「倫常慘案」即「家庭慘劇」，常叫family tragedy。
「一名家庭主婦疑與任職大學導師丈夫感情生變後患上精神病」：「家庭主婦」是housewife；「疑」再次出現，可考慮用動詞suspect；「大學導師」叫university tutor便可；「感情生變」可粗略叫relationship problems；「患上精神病」可說suffer from psychiatric illness。
「勒死」strangle somebody to death
「警方調查後不排除有人不堪被第三者介入致婚變」：「警方」是police；「調查」是investigation；「不排除」應是直譯自英文的rule out the possibility of ...（排除……的可能性）；「不堪」可說overwhelmed by，當中的動詞overwhelm解作「使難以忍受」；「第三者介入」可說intrusion of a third party，當中的intrusion解作「侵入」；「婚變」可叫marriage/marital breakup/breakdown。
「狠心以藥迷暈並勒死兒子後，再於窗邊上吊自殺畢命」：「狠心」可說heartlessly；「以藥迷暈」單單用動詞drug便可；「勒死」是strangle somebody to death；「上吊自殺畢命」可說commit suicide by hanging oneself。
因此全段可英譯如下：A family tragedy, allegedly caused by an extramarital affair and which left two people dead, occurred in Taikoo Shing, Quarry Bay! It is suspected that a housewife has been suffering from psychiatric illness after having relationship problems with her husband, who is a university tutor. Police, on investigation, does not rule out the possibility that somebody, overwhelmed by a marriage breakdown due to the intrusion of a third party, heartlessly drugged her son and strangled him to death, and then committed suicide by hanging herself by the window. ■MT Ness
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