英语翻译资格考试笔译点津： 句子：由于两家电影厂争拍同一题材影片，这两部电影的情节撞车了。 误译：As the two studios scrambled to produce a film on the same subject, the plots of the two films collided with each other. 正译：As the two studios scrambled to produce a film on the same subject, the plots of the two films overlapped with each other. 解释：这里“撞车”是“碰巧一样” 的意思。to collide 的意思是to strongly disagree in opinion，即“意见冲突”，不表示“情节或内容雷同”。to overlap的意思是to cover part of the same area of sth，即“部分范围重叠”，有“撞车”的比喻意义。 “撞车”的第一个意思是“车辆相撞”。英语动词可以译为 to collide，名词可以译为 collision。例如： 1. 昨天，两辆卡车在这里撞车了。 Yesterday, two trucks collided with each other here. “撞车”的第二个意思是比喻“时间冲突或内容重复”。英语可以译为 to happen to be at the same time, to overlap。例如： 2. 这两个会议撞车了，我只能参加一个。 As the two meetings happen to be held at the same time, I can attend only one of them. “撞”的第一个意思是“运动着的物体跟别的物体猛然相碰”。英语可以译为 to knock down, to bump into, to crash, to collide。