《出国留学人员英语阅读技能训练》第135页有如下句子:The three termsare not everywhere called by the same names;some schools call the“January-March period”“the Spring Terrm”,others call it“Easter Term”,“Hilary Term”or“Epiphany Term.”All this illustrates a very English individualism,harmlessenough but confusing and often rather pointless.对于这句话中的individualism一词,很多学生按英汉词典的释义,对号入座,译为“个人主义”.联系上下文看 The English sentence reading skill training for overseas students has the following sentence: The three terms are not locally called by the same names; some schools call the “January-March period” “the Spring Terrm”, others call it “Easter Term” , “Hilary Term” or “Epiphany Term.” All this represents a very English individualism, harmlessenough but confusing and often rather pointless. For the word individualism in this sentence, many students follow the definition of the English-Chinese dictionary and enter the seat, translated as “ Individualism”. See context