汉译英常见错误 | 听,有人在发出求救的呼声

[译] 听,有人在发出求救的呼声。
[误] Listen, someone is making a cry of help.

[正] Listen, someone is making a cry for help.
[注] a cry for help 表示“求救的呼声”,其中介词用 for,不用 of,有别于 a cry of “Thief! Thief!”(“叫喊“捉贼!捉贼!”)。