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| Processed by: | richwarm (2023-10-12 03:33:39 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 74537 - submitted by 'encn' >> The translator who constructed this phrase mistook 'haven' for 'heaven' and might relate it to 购物天堂|shopping paradise. Financial regulation does not seem to be extending much beyond populist pseudo-measures on tax havens. 金融监管似乎不会远远超出针对避税天堂的平民主义伪措施的范畴。 www.ftchinese.com But in the United States alone, offshore tax havens are estimated to deprive the Treasury of $100 billion a year. 但是单在美国一个国家，据估海外避税天堂一年就让美国财政部损失1,000亿美元收入。 cn.reuters.com "The US Congress is involved in a fairly extensive debate on healthcare, leaving less time to focus on tax havens, " he said. 欧文表示：“美国国会正卷入一场规模浩大、关于医保问题的辩论，没有更多时间来关注避税天堂问题。” www.ftchinese.com ----------------------------------- Editor: I'm not prepared to accept that that's the etymology without good evidence. (By good evidence, I don't mean "somebody on the web said so".) I can easily imagine someone who is well aware that it's "tax haven" in English, and that "haven" is not the same as "heaven", but can't come up with a nice calque that rolls off the tongue (避稅避難所, for example, is less memorable, and less felicitous in terms of prosody, than the four-character term 避稅天堂), and therefore *chooses* to coin the term 避稅天堂, with 天堂 being *inspired* by the phonetic similarity of "haven" and "heaven", rather than mistranslated through sheer ignorance. (I can also easily imagine that it *was* just an ignorant mistranslation.) Not that it means a lot, but Wiktionary suggests that it was *not* coined by mistranslation: "Apparently a calque of English 'tax heaven'." On the other hand, Wikipedia says 部份傳媒將haven誤作heaven，因而誤譯為「避稅天堂」，但與法文Paradis fiscal字義相同。 |
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# 避稅天堂 避税天堂 [bi4 shui4 tian1 tang2] /tax haven (coined by mistranslation)/ + 避稅天堂 避税天堂 [bi4 shui4 tian1 tang2] /tax haven/ |