词类转译法（12）

　　(三)形容词转译成名词

　　1. 英语中有些形容词加上定冠词表示某一类的人，汉译时常译成名词。

　　1) They did their best to help the sick and the wounded.

　　他们尽了最大的努力帮助病号和伤员。

　　2) Robin Hood and his merry men hated the rich and loved and protected the poor.

　　罗宾汉和他的伙伴们痛恨阔人，热爱并保护穷人。

　　3) SS guards shoved each prisoner in the direction the doctor had indicated. Those who huddled pitifully together on the left were the old, the infirm, the ill, the very young. Judged unfit for work, they were being consigned to the gas chamber.

　　希特勒的党卫军按医生所指的方向把被监禁的人推过去。那些