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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0 E8 C! R1 l6 f( t

8 ~0 [: E5 L1 u, i# J" S(一) 同义反译法 : P" n( W9 Q" x. A
例子: # S# u3 _9 W  _2 N* |
1. Only three customers remained in the bar.
$ z+ B( X2 K- C; l酒吧间只有三个顾客还没有走。(不译:「还留着」或「还呆在那里」)
) j& s( S% @' A; t$ u5 {2. I'll be here for good this time.
' t4 Z3 w% `$ V$ W9 m" f" ]这一次我再也不走了。(不译:「永远在此呆下去」)
; f; @2 p- P% L7 M: n) I" E3. Please keep the fire burning when I'm out.
6 z$ T7 D( \, q0 Q+ F0 |5 a- j' E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」) ' {7 }7 l! j7 k5 v  y
4. "Wait, he is serious."
$ ?3 o; U4 u" Y& E「等等,他不是说着玩儿的。」(不译:「等等,他是认真的。」)
' y8 n+ R& [! Q5. "Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!"
9 `: u4 L' d( ^- E, s  x「听我说,克拉拉,对这孩子可不能心软。」(不译:「......对这孩子要坚定」) " f  o" |# X; y/ v& Z. \* f
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(二) 删减解释词
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The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of
1 g: @, N( C5 j- h& `refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a
6 ^( j+ D0 H. tparticular gift to the quotation and mulatto women. 2 F" {# p9 P7 t  T# t! M- X
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。
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(三) 短句拆译
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" ...on one sunshiny morning in June , ..."
3 K9 f7 E4 X7 |4 K「在六月里的一天早上,天气晴朗,......」
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) G( P: z% z3 |) U9 @+ z(四) 译词推陈出新 % C0 `5 B, Q: w3 X4 b
例子:   Y. G4 \) U' u8 U* q9 V+ X8 N; C
When he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with * ^" ]( B; o4 }2 Y0 f: A* [" i
doubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a + d9 ], G. d  m: Y, |" V* O
lower. 2 h# c8 Z' r8 }  Z+ o% K# D7 ^
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。 " D$ {! E3 d1 ^: t0 X9 R9 ~" }2 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。
, ?" K$ P' M  C1 L4 [6 Q. `原词 原译 改译 + i( z9 P5 I4 |' f" \( B- n- E/ H

& |  k- j# k( h! a7 W. j. {when 当......的时候 等到......的时候 ' E% d; V2 R0 N% Z4 N
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act with boldness 大胆行动 放胆去追求 * }7 ]1 \) W( k# m% M- ^/ d

( }; P+ ~9 I+ q- K' J0 @8 W4 y& ?+ A+ qa lover 一个情人 一般堕入情网的人
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0 w6 D# Z, @  Q, xordinary fears 普通的害怕 种种常有的提心吊胆的心理 + M) f7 e; W0 Y4 x. o- t
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in addition to 除了......之外 那就更是难免的了
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(五) 解释性添词
7 m5 W' k' F' ?3 o, h/ g) Y) S% t例子:
# d. t2 M& Z  D/ P( ~"George, I'm ashamed of you! George, I couldn't have believed you would have 6 J( ~) F" A+ b5 I! q, z/ z
done it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I ) r! U1 Q1 R% J/ j9 u! L
never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet
6 O6 \' U( r, d0 m  c7 x0 I% B! Oand the children to lie upon," said Mrs. Bagnet.
' h* n1 P! ~# ~8 S$ x( u「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。 + A' H, X7 g+ c' Z4 P8 M

8 W% M2 e9 Q% d7 E& k8 k* \% J(六) 词无定译 $ J3 i+ g" N9 d- l% L: A) h
例子: , K7 Y: `8 Y/ ?
It is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or
; ~& x( c  p, _8 r3 B& ecivilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later,
" }% I) A9 d! }/ z' j& J8 Uhe carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous
6 D  G* u/ }# ?  a7 H. ^% I+ wconditions.
2 J1 C0 K" ~) i% ~. l+ K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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5 y# c5 f! L( d; }* ?/ _(七) 精炼译词
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A new dignity crept into his walk.
) T8 ?' ?7 s3 M' z' W原译:走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。
- S6 `" ^" R% ]* G改译:走起路来,不觉平添了几分尊严。
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(八) 删削"When"字 / w5 k/ [* ]3 M) g
例子:
  P3 l  `: A5 p2 t) Z) j2 w. N1. When he saw me, he was startled.
; i# b" X4 E* [0 l他看见我,吓了一大跳,(不译:当他看见我的时候,......) # |' W3 L+ H- A% h+ P
2. "When your gals takes on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the ) q8 q/ J+ T$ X; \. j
head, and knocking on them round?" / N  k+ R5 l$ U' A. j' w
「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......) 5 \. c6 z' Z2 D2 g" N5 C- U& L2 D

  N. ~5 e1 L/ A; l5 F$ G: W(九) 感叹词的不同译法
0 x7 T: v: r+ X- Z5 U7 C  r例子: 6 p8 X* x0 y; h9 o2 C
1. "O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want ( K/ _% u0 }( M5 _# o$ C6 b6 \4 I
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"Why, Eva, your room is full now." ' R; w" D9 [1 ?
「嗐,妈妈,别这样﹗我喜欢这些花,把花给我吧,我要﹗」
' C5 m4 G( I9 G1 p- V& s  K) e2 l「得了吧,伊娃,你屋里的花都满了。」 % ]# r6 c5 F5 X1 t, M
2. "Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?" , ]9 k1 f$ \# E2 Y8 s
「哟,真是怪事﹗」玛利说,「你干嘛非要这个不可?」 - V# |' s7 [" b
3. ("...Haley, if you had any conscience.")
' ~" K* |* i4 w8 x* t$ X"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to $ k! o5 V, o; X" Z5 U( j$ ?4 v
keep - just a little, you know, to swaer by, as were," said the trader,
) `2 E7 H  ^8 {9 ~  c( ljocularly; ... ( ~8 A! F8 Q/ s# n: e
"Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?" said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy / s* I1 j, j' h2 r$ @8 d, w' q
interval of silence. $ Z5 A( W& p$ U7 l
(「......哈利,你要是有良心的话。」)
1 r" `6 ?" s. Y「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;...... " n7 O( a( G  T# c2 X8 s
「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。
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2 j0 I, g, K% v4 N(十) 顺拆法 9 m/ s9 E3 B* X3 Q8 C+ I6 t2 [$ u
例子:
6 x! o( [1 T. O! V7 rHis delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue
2 T2 ~7 W4 t  B2 lworking/ for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic,
, B) R+ n" G. C. u' N( Csocial and demographic factors. * \9 _  W5 I; e( ?
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。 & g% ?7 ?5 E/ C- J- V, C
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。
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1 @6 i+ X, n9 }) i(十一) 倒拆法
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To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / 4 z* S# t7 ]9 [- J1 s1 ?. |! f
for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his - E3 @; s1 V& K9 f
supposed conditon. ' ?5 [& E' v9 K2 T- l- M8 Q
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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) v. u9 L  c" @+ n, s5 @(十二) 抽词拆句法
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All the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the 3 C8 G5 x) o2 D8 f+ S9 B
eye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of # g& v( E. r6 i7 R/ k7 X) \/ L
growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.
( W* y: I! F/ @! Z$ n( W  X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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