商务合同中不可避免地要用到数字翻译，但由于英汉两种语言存在差异，细微的数字差异会产生巨大的合同分歧，因而在翻译时需要谨慎。
1.表示“不多不少”、“恰恰正好”、“整整": exactly, flat, just, sharp, whole等
例:The wire measures exactly twenty meters.
译文:这条导线刚好20米长。
例:The machine worked for ten whole days.
译文:这台机器整整运转了10天时间。
例:The plane takes off at 8 o'clock sharp.
译文:这架飞机8点整起飞。
例:He earns a cool half million dollars a year.
译文:他一年收入整整50万美元。
例:The T-shirt cost just 10 dollars.
译文:买这个T恤衫正好花了10美元。
例:Professor Johnson finished the experiment in twenty-four hours flat.
译文:约翰逊教授完成这一实验正好用了24小时。
在商业发票中，常用 Say xxxxx only.即 xxx元整。
2.表示“大约”、“不确定”: about, some, around, round, nearly, towards, somewhere about, estimated, approximately, on the border of, close to, or so等
例:It is nearly/toward (s) 4 o'clock.
译文:现在将近四点了。
It is somewhere about 4 o'clock.
译文:现在四点左右。
The price of this new machine is on the border of/ in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars.
译文:这台新机器的价格约1000美元。
The book will only cost 15 dollars or so.
译文:这本书只要十五美元左右。
About / Some / Around / Round twenty passengers were killed in the road accident.
译文:这次交通事故中约有二十名旅客死亡。
3.表示“高于”、“多于”: more than, odd, over, above, long, past, or more, upwards of, higher than, in excess of , exceed 等
例:Never spend in excess of your income.
译文:花钱切勿超过你的收入。
There are three thousand odd students in this normal school.
译文:这所师范院校有三千多名学生。
Supplies of this commodity greatly exceed the demand.
译文:这种商品的供应大大超过了需求，
Upwards of seven thousand medical workers and twenty thousand PLA men have left for the earthquake district.
译文:有七千多名医务人员和两万多名解放军前往震区。
The patients are children of three years old and upwards.
译文:这些病人是三岁和三岁以上的儿童。
The child couldn't count past 20.
译文:这个孩子不会数20以上的数。
4.表示“少于”、“差一些”、“不到”:less, less than, below, no more than, under, short of, off, to, within, as few as 等
例:The price of that tricycle is less than /under /below fifty dollars.
译文:那辆三轮车的售价还不到50美元。
The invention cost each family no more than one dollar a week.
译文:这项发明使每个家庭每周最多花费1美元。
He bought the coffeepot at 6 dollars off the list price.
译文:他以低于价目表6美元的价格买下了那个咖啡壶。
It's five minutes to five now.
译文:现在是5点差5分。
5.表示数目、数量多时:full, solid, at least, all of, no less than, as ..as等
The motor ran 450 solid days on end.
译文:马达连续运转了足足450天。
The experiment will take three months, at least.
译文:实验至少需要三个月时间。
The temperature at the sun's center is as high as 10 000 000'C.
译文:太阳中心的温度高达摄氏1000万度。
They covered full twenty reference sources on clone in a single day.
译文:仅用了一天时间，他们就看完了足足20 种有关克隆的资料。
There were no less than 3 000 dead and wounded in the 9-11 terrorist attack.
译文:在9-11恐怖袭击中，死伤者达3000多人。
They covered all of ten miles.
译文:他们走了实足十英里。
6. 表示数目、数量少:only, merely, barely, scarcely, but, at most, no more than, scant等
There is at most / only room for one person.
译文:至多只有可容纳一个人的空间。
That solar-energy car weighs only / merely / barely / scarcely / but 500kg.
译文:那辆太阳能汽车重量仅有500公斤。
Inspection time for the installation was no more than 2 hours
译文:安装检验工作仅用了两个小时。
They covered a scant six miles today.
译文:他们今天走了近6里路。
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