6) Every land has its own dining custom, and the United States is no exception. Americans feel that the first rule of being a polite guest is to be on time. If a person is invited to dinner at 6;30,the hostess expects him to be there at 6:30 or not more than a few minutes after. Because she usually does her own cooking , she times the meal so that the coffee and meat will be at their best at the time she asks the guest to come.

7) If he is late, the food will not be so good, and the hostess will be disappointed. When the guest cannot come on time, he calls his host or hostess on the telephone, gives the reason, and tells at what time he thinks he can come.

As guests continue to arrive, the men in the group stand when a woman enters and remain standing until she has found a chair. A man always rises when he is being introduced to a woman.

8) A woman does not rise when she is being introduced either to a man or a woman unless the woman is much older.

9) When the guests sit down at a dinner table, it is customary for the men to help the ladies by pushing their chairs under them. Even an American may be confused by the number of knives, forks, and spoons beside his plate when he sits down to a formal dinner. The rule is simple, however: use them in the order in which they lie, beginning from the outside. Or watch the hostess and do what she does.

10)The small fork on the outside on the left is for salad, which is often served with the soup. The spoon on the outside at the right is for soup, and so on. Sometimes there is a separate little knife, called a butter spreader, on a small bread-and –butter plate at the left. As the bread is passed , each guest puts his piece on the bread-and butter plate.

6)每個(gè)國(guó)家都有自己的餐飲習(xí)俗，美國(guó)也不另外。(直譯法)

7)如果你遲到了，食物就不會(huì)那么新鮮，女主人也會(huì)為此而感到失望。

(增譯法：增加詞匯是在譯文中增加一些原文中無(wú)其形而有其義的詞，其目的是為了使譯文的意義完整而明確，更符合漢語(yǔ)的表達(dá)習(xí)慣。本句增加了“為此”，使句子的意思更完整。)

8)而當(dāng)一位女士被介紹給男士或女士時(shí)，她無(wú)需起立，除非那是一位比她年長(zhǎng)的婦人。

(英語(yǔ)狀語(yǔ)從句用在主句后面的較多,而漢語(yǔ)的狀語(yǔ)從句用在主句前的較多,因此,在許多情況下,應(yīng)將狀語(yǔ)從句放在主句前面;而且長(zhǎng)句一般用分譯法。)

9)當(dāng)客人到餐桌旁準(zhǔn)備就餐時(shí)，通常男士應(yīng)幫助女士拉開(kāi)椅子讓她們坐下。(省譯法：by沒(méi)有譯出。)

10)靠左邊外面的小叉是用來(lái)吃色拉的，色拉經(jīng)常和湯一起上。

(增譯法，增加了“吃”，而且定語(yǔ)從句中被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)翻譯為主動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)。)