Preface to the Chinese Edition
给中国编辑作序
Since its original design and implementation by Dennis Richie in 1973, the C programming language has spread far beyond its origins at Bell Labs.
original design and implementation最初设计和实现 spread far beyond 传播远超出 origins 起源于
c语言最初是 Dennis Richie在1973年设计并实现的，c语言已经从源头贝尔实验室，传播到了世界各地
It has become the common language for programmers throughout the world, and has given birth to two other major languages, C++ and Jav, that build on its syntax and basic structure.
given birth 孕育 syntax 语法 derivatives 派生物 upon 在... 之上 software rests 软件建立
c语言变成了世界范围内普遍的语言，基于它的语法结构孕育了其他主流语言，比如 c++ 和 Java，现在世界上许多软件的建立都是以c语言和它的衍生物为基础产生的
The spread of C required action to describe the language itself completely, nad to accommodate changes in the way it was being used.
accommodate 适应
c语言的传播需要我们对语言进行一些完整美术，并适应在使用它时，需要进行的一些改变
In 1988, the American National Standards Institute created a precise standard for C that preserved its expressiveness, efficiency, small size, and ultimate control over the machine while at the same time providing assurance the programs conforming to the standard would be protable without change from on computer and operating system to another.
Institute 学会 precise 严格的 preserved保存了 expresssiveness 表达丰富 efficiency 有效率的 ultimate根本的 assurance保证 comforming 遵照 portable 移植
在1988年，美国国家标准协会ANSI为c语言创建了一个严格的标准，为它保留了 丰富的表达，高效率，小尺寸 和对于机器彻底的控制；同事还保证遵守标准的程序可以不经过改变就能被移植到另外一个操作系统。
The standard was also accepted as an international standard under the auspices of the Internatonal Standards Organization, and thus brought the benefits of standardization to a worldwide user community.
accepted 把...视作 international standard 国际标准 auspices of 赞助 thus 因此
这个标准也被国际标准组织识别国际标准，因此给世界范围内的开发者带来益处
The standards committee was aware of the multi-national use of the C language, and thus provided, both in the language itself and in the library, support for "wide characters", which are needed to respresent text in Chinese as well as other languages that do no use the Roman character set.
committee 委员会 aware of 意识到 multi-national 多国的
标准协会意识到c语言被多国使用，在它的语言本身和它的库中都支持宽字符，这被类似于中国和其他罗马字符所需要
In spite of these evolutionary changes, C remains as it was from its inception, a compact and efficient toll for programmers of all backgrounds
in spite of尽管 evolutionary 渐进式变革 remains残余 inception起初 compact简介 efficient有效率的
尽管c语言渐进的变化者，但是它依然保持着它起初的样子，是各种背景程序员的简洁、高效的工具
The C language, and alse the Unix technology from which it grew, have been present in China for many years, as we know from visits to universities and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
grew 高兴 Academy研究所
我们通过拜访大学和中国科学研究所，了解到，语言和unix 科技已经在中国发展了很多年了
Students' learning has always been made more difficult by the lack of an authoritative translation of the material describing this work into a form convenient for study in China.
the lack of 缺乏 authoritative权威 translation翻译 material describing材料描述 conbenient实用的
学生学习非常困难，因为缺乏权威的翻译材料
We are delighted that Professor Xu has made this Chinese translation of The C Programmig Language available so that C will be more readily accessible to our colleagues in the People's Republic of China.
delighted高兴的 readily容易 accessible理解 colleagues同行
我很高兴胡教授已经翻译了c程序语言，以至于c语言这本翻译书的出版对于我们中国共和国的同行，能够更容易被理解，