请将下面这段话翻译成英文:
刺绣(embroidery)是用针和线或纱线(yarn)在织物或其他材料上进行装饰的手工艺。刺绣最常用在无檐帽、有檐帽、外套、毛毯、礼服衬衫、长筒袜、髙尔夫球衫上。令人感到吃惊的是:在刺绣的发展过程中,从起初到后来更精美的阶段,让人感觉不到也说不出来有什么材质或技术的变化。另一方面,我们发现后来很少能达到早期作品中的技术成就和髙水准的工艺。
参考翻译:
Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric orother materials with needle and thread or yarn.It ismost often used on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dressshirts, stockings, and golf shirts.It is a striking factthat in the development of embroidery there are nochanges of materials or techniques which can be felt or interpreted as advances from aprimitive to a later, more refined stage.On the other hand, we find a technicalaccomplishment and high standard of craftsmanship in early works are rarely attained in latertimes.
1.令人感到吃惊的是在刺绣的发展过程中,从起初到后来更精美的阶段,让人感觉不到也说不出来有什么材质或技术的变化:“令人感到吃惊的是”可以理解为“这是一个令人吃惊的事实”,即It is a striking fact that...,后跟fact的同位语从句;“在...发展过程中”可用in the development of表示;“从起初到后来更精美的阶段可用from…to...短语,即as advances from a primitive to a later, more refined stage; “让人感觉不到也说不出来有什么材质或技术的变化,这个句子包含了一个定语从句,主句是there are no changes of materials or techniques,后跟which引导的定语从句;“说出”即“解释、说明”,可译为interpret,其同义词有:account、translate。
2.另一方面,我们发现后来很少能达到早期作品中的技术成就和高水准的工艺:“另—方面”可译为on the other hand;“技术成就”可译为technical accomplishment;“高水准的工艺”可译为high standard of craftsmanship。