【双语阅读】“众筹婚礼”英语怎么说？

笑溜达 2016-02-16

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婚礼

近日，尿毒症女孩张燕在网络众筹婚礼的爱情故事感动了众网友，最终筹得资金如愿举办婚礼。

我们来看一段相关的英文报道

    Recently a wedding of Zhang Yan, a young woman who catches uremia, has moved many netizens.

    After Zhang was diagnosed with uremia in 2008, the medical expenses brought her and boyfriend's families into poverty. A wedding ceremony became out of reach of the couple.

    By chance, she learned about the crowd funding platform on the Internet. She wrote down their love stories, hoping to hold a crowdfunding wedding with the help of the platform. Their touching love story won support of 600 people and 16,000 yuan was raised online. At last, their wedding was held in a church in Changde last week.

    最近，尿毒症女孩张燕的一场婚礼感动了许多网友。

    在张燕2008年被诊断出患上尿毒症后，医疗费用使她和男友的家庭陷入贫困之中。对他们而言婚礼变得遥不可及。

    偶然间，张燕知道了网络众筹平台。她写下自己的爱情故事，希望通过这个平台举办一场众筹婚礼。她感人的爱情故事得到了600名网友的支持，在网络筹集到16000元资金。最终，他们的婚礼上周在常德的一座教堂举办了。

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【讲解】

文中的crowdfunding wedding就是“众筹婚礼”的意思，其中crowdfunding用作名词，意为“众筹”，如：crowdfunding platform（众筹平台）。现代众筹指通过互联网方式发布筹款项目并募集资金。除了众筹外，筹集资金的方式还有：bank loan（银行贷款）、credit card（信用卡）、investment bank（投资银行）等。

第二段中的动词短语out of reach意为“够不着，达不到”，如：Keep it out of reach by children.（置于儿童无法够到的地方。）