Question

求助：英语翻译

中译英
原题：我们的祖先喜欢吃蒸煮食物，但用勺子很难舀出汤里的菜，所以发明了筷子。
我的翻译：Fond of cooking food but it was difficult to scoop out the food in the soup with a spoon, our ancestors invented chopsticks.
这样翻译有没有问题？我自己感觉哪里不对劲，主语相同的句子中间突然插入了一个it is adj.句型可不可以的？求解答啦蟹蟹( ˘•ω•˘ )

Answer 1

是的你的语感很好，已经意识到了形容词性短语fond of cooking food所修饰的主语在这里产生了歧义，到底是it还是our ancestors. 其实你可以构造两个并列的原因状语，修改如下：
Fond of cooking food but having difficulty with scooping out the food in the soup by a spoon, our ancestors invented chopsticks.
这样就是一个高分句子了。
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Answer 2

it is difficult这里不适合放在从句里，因为要和fond of 构成双宾结构，所以要修改。
我们的祖先喜欢吃蒸煮食物，但用勺子很难舀出汤里的菜，所以发明了筷子。
Out of the fondness of cooking steamed and stewed foods and troubles of scooping out vegetables from the soup, our ancestor invented chopsticks consequently.

Answer 3

Our ancestors like to eat steamed or boiled food, but it was difficult to scoop out the food in the soup with a spoon, therefore they invented chopsticks.
这样子翻译更合理些吧，我没用翻译软件，自己给你翻的。你的翻译没把“蒸煮”体现出来吧。