汉译英常见错误 | 我们选他当我们的班长

[译] 我们选他当我们的班长。
[误] We elected him the monitor of our class.

[正] We elected him monitor of our class.
[注] 当 monitor, chairman, president, headmaster, king, captain 等词用来充当 elect, choose, make, appoint 等动词的宾语补足语时，该名词前不用 the，表示独一无二的头衔。