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[转载] 十二式翻译绝招

[转载] 十二式翻译绝招

作者:larryathena   来源:中国在线翻译网" O5 J9 X( J  |4 j* r7 `! h4 ~

( B8 R9 x/ ], I(一) 同义反译法
2 b0 k& O4 @  m( ^1 s) B例子: / V1 L& N6 P, H0 |( h6 ?
1. Only three customers remained in the bar.   \  [" z5 a: k
酒吧间只有三个顾客还没有走。(不译:「还留着」或「还呆在那里」)
7 Q* l9 Z9 ?+ x6 w$ R# m1 q1 U2. I'll be here for good this time.   h5 G7 \+ H# I# W1 A
这一次我再也不走了。(不译:「永远在此呆下去」)
2 m) X* h: r8 o% O+ @* _3. Please keep the fire burning when I'm out.
3 W$ ^8 Y; A3 U3 Q& t: M( l$ i/ u我不在家的时候,请别让炉子灭了。(不译:「我外出时,请让炉子继续烧着」) ) [: C$ k- Z9 r
4. "Wait, he is serious."
4 `# ]2 w6 M7 m) t( z「等等,他不是说着玩儿的。」(不译:「等等,他是认真的。」) 0 U2 f/ ?! ]. V* V7 ~
5. "Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!"
# H/ q1 q% @: b8 z3 ~! ^5 ^' @「听我说,克拉拉,对这孩子可不能心软。」(不译:「......对这孩子要坚定」) 0 C4 X3 p- L" X8 z

4 ^# @; Q, m- n$ }(二) 删减解释词 2 V0 m- w' K; w8 Z/ e6 X
例子: 7 g$ f  [/ o( V4 z7 U% b9 y
The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of
. I! Z& t- S) f4 G/ F4 ]refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a
+ s3 A2 z' b8 i( X' I6 wparticular gift to the quotation and mulatto women.
2 j7 i. c$ p6 h" C) d到南方去的人看见那些黑白混血的女郎,准定会注意到她们十之八九都赋有那种独特的优雅风度、那种柔和的声调和文静的举止。" S$ f6 H5 h7 o# A5 V

' n6 m4 g+ J4 d4 W(三) 短句拆译
- Q- r; b8 V' K1 h例子: 8 B9 h7 ]4 K0 N1 c. q( ^* ~3 U
" ...on one sunshiny morning in June , ..."
) N2 ]+ C5 W" f! K( q「在六月里的一天早上,天气晴朗,......」 ' i* u/ i  X6 Q: m! r3 K& {

4 `9 Y/ Y! Y5 c. P* b) Y(四) 译词推陈出新
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! h  e" L9 z5 x. w0 \# K- BWhen he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with - s2 t; F* _! W8 A- C+ n, ]5 U7 {4 i
doubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a 5 \! n7 g8 t; _$ r
lower.
: h* N  G2 @8 f% W原译:当他可以大胆行动的时候,他发现自己除了一个情人所具有的那种普通的害怕之外,心里还充满怀疑、顾虑和踌躇。
3 J7 s) V7 E! v- @+ S0 c改译:等到他不妨放胆去追求的时候,他却迟疑不定,顾虑重重。至于一般堕入情网的人那种种常有的提心吊胆的心理,那就更是难免的了。 % Z' O2 p9 {# ]/ u1 k0 y
原词 原译 改译
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when 当......的时候 等到......的时候 ' v3 I0 P, a3 {& Z5 u5 t$ w

: X* `: v$ {9 N7 c+ ^/ Gact with boldness 大胆行动 放胆去追求
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$ j  a) ^- Q# z+ o. \. Ra lover 一个情人 一般堕入情网的人 , o; t$ O8 F9 I6 v1 d+ M
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ordinary fears 普通的害怕 种种常有的提心吊胆的心理
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) J( P) g" H# S; v! I) H$ l" t. vin addition to 除了......之外 那就更是难免的了- V, [. p9 v/ x  W

2 h/ f; q- M7 l$ A8 I" t(五) 解释性添词 / W' ?9 f: R" H+ ?' n
例子: , R) H" p$ `- t& E/ N1 j7 |+ \9 w
"George, I'm ashamed of you! George, I couldn't have believed you would have
% g0 s1 ]- c4 X* K; u7 z; v! Ldone it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I
0 Z0 L  b9 Y; K. ?4 pnever thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet 3 D& l4 Z+ U" T3 A  i/ D. y
and the children to lie upon," said Mrs. Bagnet.
4 B: r6 L0 u$ d% g: {% A# }「乔治,我真替你害臊﹗乔治,想不到你会干出这种事情来﹗俗话说得好:『滚着的碌碡不长苔,流浪的汉子不攒财。』我早晓得你就是这么一个流浪汉﹗可真没有想到你连贝格纳特和孩子们靠它过活的那一点点财也骗走,」贝格纳特太太说道。
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1 t& I9 S9 L, U1 Y1 [* C+ n7 C(六) 词无定译
* o" e$ m7 z$ D) R7 o例子:
3 A4 T$ }0 w4 a8 eIt is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or
) w3 c! Q% A7 z  \* g- j8 Ycivilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later,
0 i! Q$ R3 A  d: ^9 Q+ M. g6 Yhe carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous . F$ \( W# d8 c7 w" v, j; L
conditions. , a5 g" G9 e9 N6 K1 T+ O7 i) T
我们根本不必追问政府是否根据刑法或民法对范德比尔特提出起诉。范德比尔特不仅逍遥法外,而且在两年后又以极其凶狠的手段对政府进行弓一次巨大的诈骗。
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(七) 精炼译词   g* e; K2 z' R% t; G8 r
例子:
+ e& q5 }& i8 l) o7 z3 T* D2 h$ A) WA new dignity crept into his walk. & q% L* Y8 i1 y  y( b! k
原译:走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。 $ N) D7 t% y! Y
改译:走起路来,不觉平添了几分尊严。 : ]+ k) ], i" ?7 k1 Q
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(八) 删削"When"字
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# H1 }# f' B/ n% [" m- k1. When he saw me, he was startled. 7 x% A5 L( Q  b4 p3 r
他看见我,吓了一大跳,(不译:当他看见我的时候,......)
# e+ F6 z/ ~/ l$ V8 v2. "When your gals takes on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the * y2 T- [" K% q% ~1 @3 [
head, and knocking on them round?" , s2 e$ v$ [  s" V; j5 Y
「你那些女黑奴哭得那么伤心,你还拿鞭子没头没脑的抽,把她们打得死去活来,那有甚么用呢?」(不译:当你那些女黑奴哭得那么伤心的时候,你还拿鞭子......) 3 c7 U4 Z) d* f& ~  z" P( ?+ A+ z

: L% {; _  b; \(九) 感叹词的不同译法 2 {: H+ j4 d+ t0 L) O
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1. "O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want
" P4 y: M+ K4 @$ Lthem!"
5 W- n3 g0 D6 k5 B1 C! ]"Why, Eva, your room is full now."
/ S: \( X) K* `% h「嗐,妈妈,别这样﹗我喜欢这些花,把花给我吧,我要﹗」
4 {6 y' k* s4 P「得了吧,伊娃,你屋里的花都满了。」 , }" G9 D9 I- d
2. "Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?"
2 H+ P6 o0 \+ ^& V1 g* ]0 I- T「哟,真是怪事﹗」玛利说,「你干嘛非要这个不可?」 9 o' ~* V; R1 D3 Y
3. ("...Haley, if you had any conscience.") 6 E: Z+ Q( W* M0 i  s# ~
"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to
# T2 P+ n! V, Dkeep - just a little, you know, to swaer by, as were," said the trader,
+ E4 o% o5 A; a& F$ l* n3 ljocularly; ...
6 P) ?( r; E1 x2 m% T2 ^& @2 i/ k"Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?" said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy
* {1 u- h& R* u* k6 y- r  g4 Hinterval of silence.
3 }, _' Z2 u" \, L(「......哈利,你要是有良心的话。」)
9 _  I& ~1 Z1 A- X「得,干这行当儿的人能有多少良心,我也有多少良心--瞧,我的良心就这么一丁点儿,够拿出来起誓就得,」奴隶贩子开着玩笑说;...... & a5 W/ j  S6 ?% G% R5 I
「那好,哈利,这桩买卖你打算怎么个做法?」谢尔比先生在一阵令人发窘的沉默之后问道。 0 u7 D; X4 I% W4 J  k, ]) P/ `

% R( T$ y) Z3 y$ u& w( i0 B(十) 顺拆法
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/ F6 k- ~9 @' K9 |His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue
% N/ D* I5 f+ p( {% Uworking/ for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic, 9 [7 Q4 U' d) O
social and demographic factors.
* u( g4 x! W: ^0 o原译:他的代表团同意执行主任关于该基金会应继续为更好地了解经济、社会和人口的相互关系而努力的意见。
6 X, Y  P! h* v. E  d改译:他的代表团同意执行主任的意见,/认为该基金会应继续努力,/ 以求更好地了解经济、社会和人口这三方面的相互关系。 1 e6 O0 {9 Y! [" P6 A. ~2 c) T

, z8 e5 i# |3 u- d(十一) 倒拆法
3 \  m2 x3 T1 @例子:
: [, E! C1 e2 \9 u1 TTo him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / % E2 \- s$ g3 l9 K2 c$ o# M+ H; N3 C
for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his
3 [; P9 ?4 O! O5 Vsupposed conditon. 1 A; `" S- m7 f( Z& [
要是一个英国女人看到他真像他自己所假定的那么烂醉,/ 她就会对他又恼怒,又厌恶,/ 而挪拉对他却又同情又宽容,/ 他在这中间看出了一点神圣的质量。
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& b9 W" Y  d* O8 q4 n(十二) 抽词拆句法
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, k9 ~3 [+ x+ d% x' E$ \All the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the
0 J: T. x6 j! d  v8 weye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of 5 k4 [* p4 e& a9 }' k2 g
growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.
, v7 t) c0 |5 t- Q3 }从边境到北京,一路上沿铁路线极目纵观,但见农村到处是茁壮的庄稼,彷佛铺上一块绿地毯,这说明丰收在望了。

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