Question

考研-英语一句翻译不懂,谢谢指教

Since education majors have no on to look down on, they can only despise the professors in their own department. ----这是 钱钟书《围城》英译版的一句话.

have no on 如何理解?谢谢.请分析一下这里的语法结构.

参考完整的一段话是这样的:Ts'ao Yuan-lang guessed that Fang Hung-chien's knowledge of German was about as good or as bad as his own. Besides,Fang was a Chinese major,so he couldn't be too brilliant. For in a university, science majors look down on humanities majors, foreign language majors on Chinese majors , Chinese majors on philosophy majors ,philosophy majors on sociology majors, and sociology majors in turn on education majors. Since education majors have no on to look down on, they can only despise the professors in their own department.

Answer 1

教育专业没有什么专业来瞧不起，只能瞧不起自己系里面的教授了。

have no on 应该是一个省略 可以理解为have no one going on to look down on 为什么没会这么理解了，应为前面讲到的就像是一个食物链一样你吃我我在吃别人，这里就是你鄙视我 我鄙视别人 等到了教育专业，后面就没有什么专业跟在后面 going on 供他们教育专业鄙视啦！

Answer 2

我也不知道，但是给你说个笨招，对照下原版。

Answer 3

因为教育专业的学生找不到对象来瞧不起，他们就只能瞧不起本系的教授们了