英语问题请问：灵通英语高职高专读写译教程里有这样段句话：Carolynwasa24-year-oldcollegegraduate.Shehadabrightfutureaheadofher.However,shealsofacedtheproblemthatmanyup-and-comingcollegegraduatesfacetoda

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英语问题请问：
灵通英语高职高专读写译教程里有这样段句话：
Carolyn was a 24-year-old college graduate.She had a bright future ahead of her.However,she also faced the problem that many up-and-coming college graduates face today:student debt.Two-thirds of today’s college graduates finish school with student loans.The average of these student and federal loans is about 19,000 dollars.
这段话中的The average of these student and federal loans is about 19,000 dollars.这一句,我总觉得有问题,
首先：these student应该是students,因为前面说了3分之二的学生,所以这里应该是复数.
第二,这句话怎么理解都觉得有问题,课本把这句话翻译成：这些学生的平均负债和联邦贷款平均数额都是19000美元.这里就更费解了.
个人觉得这里应该是：the average of these students' loans is about 19000 dollars.
不知道这样理解是否正确,请大家多发表宝贵意见.

Answer 1

我觉得这句话没错.
这句话的意思是The average of these student loans and federal loans is about 19,000 dollars. 其中student loan是专有名词,不用写成 students' loan,federal loan应该也是专有名词.student loan和federal loan应该下分好几种类,所以用了loans.主语是average,所以用了is.本句中文翻译没有直译,是意译.直译的话应该是：学生负债（贷款）和联邦贷款的平均数都是19000美元.可能译者觉得此处意译更通畅,变通了一下.
而且学生贷款和联邦贷款不是一回事吧,关于这点我不是很清楚.学生应该有多种贷款方式,不止联邦贷款这一种吧.这句话的意思是学生平均贷款19000美元,而其中采取联邦贷款款额也是19000美元.
这是我的见解,欢迎讨论~~