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Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

2202124  Introduction to Translation

Nonfiction (English-Thai) #2 Discussion

แบบฝึกหัดที่ 3

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2.  There came a time, maybe 20,000 years ago, when men, instead of being merely a hunter, started to domesticate animals. The dog helped in their hunting activities and geese and duck were kept and bred as a source of food, which was easier than having to go out and hunt them. Once humans had domesticated animals they turned their attention to plants. Instead of being nomads, drifting from place to place following the game animals, they began to create farms and thus enter upon a more settled way of life.  Villages and towns sprang up in places where previously there had been only a hamlet.  Now animals and plants began to be kept not merely for food but also for interest’s sake or for their beauty.

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Discussion

• There came a time – 

• Men – does not mean only the male human

• merely 

• breed – เพาะพันธุ์ ผสมพันธุ์

• domesticate – ทำให้เชื่อง  ทำให้เป็นสัตว์บ้าน

• which – that geese and duck were kept and bred as a source of food 

• turn one's attention to

• plant – พืช

• nomads (n.) –

• game (animals) (n.) –

• thus –

• spring up (v.) – 

  • ผุด – too slangy? 

  • โผล่ – too slangy? connotes ghosts in Thai?

  • เกิดขึ้น – 

• hamlet (n.) –

• interest (n.) –

  for interest's sake, for the sake of something

   

• settled – 

  a more settled way of life

  • วิถีชีวิตที่เป็นหลักแหล่งขึ้น

     

• from place to place –

• Now in the last sentence is a bit problematic.

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