The language used in scientific and technical books is certainly not a different language from that of everyday life, but all the same it presents the foreign student with a number of special problems. (某大学研考英语试题)
[原译]科技书籍中所使用的语言与日常生活语言不一定不同,但是它同样给外国学生提供一些专门的问题。(《出国生、研究生英语试题答案》)
上面的译文正确吗?
all the same 确实可以作“同样的”解: It's all the same to me whether we meet on Tuesday or on Thursday. 但是上例中的成语 all the same 却是“然而”“还是”“仍然”“尽管如此”(nevertheless; anyhow; still) 的意思,例如:
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He has faults, but I like him all the same. 尽管他有缺点,但是我还是喜欢他。
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All the same, I would enter the contest if I were you. 尽管如此,如果我是你的话,我是会参加比赛的。
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Although we met with some difficulties at the beginning, we fulfilled our task all the same. 虽然我们开始时碰到了一些困难,但还是照样完成了任务。
[试译]科技书籍所使用的语言绝不是一种与日常生活语言不同的语言,但是科技英语仍然会给外国学生带来许多特殊的问题。