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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. s: N! Y. _; u+ |: s- v

0 v0 i+ @) x. [(一) 同义反译法 - ?* Y7 B6 A; S: h. Y0 q5 U& }
例子:
& |# C8 s8 Y8 J, o5 G1. Only three customers remained in the bar. : H) c. A4 C8 l/ B/ g5 }
酒吧间只有三个顾客还没有走。(不译:「还留着」或「还呆在那里」) 5 ?& S% q2 k3 j- i
2. I'll be here for good this time. 1 m3 a# U! ]- x* t
这一次我再也不走了。(不译:「永远在此呆下去」)   f" \# P3 T* H8 J( n
3. Please keep the fire burning when I'm out.
4 [8 K, ?# Q# C# u6 I' V. D$ G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- H/ Q4 W+ [5 j1 n" T  |4. "Wait, he is serious."
( U1 n. k; S  O" E$ i「等等,他不是说着玩儿的。」(不译:「等等,他是认真的。」) 4 u4 ]3 \. q+ l8 r6 o
5. "Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!" ) h$ h% a7 P. k7 I- _9 s9 Q, t
「听我说,克拉拉,对这孩子可不能心软。」(不译:「......对这孩子要坚定」) $ `& m) ~: d! l5 ^  I$ D: s
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(二) 删减解释词
' ^( F: h& c7 l. C0 v4 ~; t例子: 6 j8 ^! Q  ^* f) _: u/ J
The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of + S2 u" W& h/ {+ `
refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a
' K% k1 W! N# S3 \. c4 q. K6 Jparticular gift to the quotation and mulatto women.
. p1 \: t/ Q8 N9 W; R7 I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。# V$ b! f+ ~8 s6 r: \0 \
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(三) 短句拆译 9 `6 i3 C+ c3 s9 D6 o/ C
例子:
3 G- w# {  g4 t' r4 D; j+ ~" ...on one sunshiny morning in June , ..."
6 r! D( Y9 y( Q" g1 S0 R「在六月里的一天早上,天气晴朗,......」
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(四) 译词推陈出新 3 c2 }( Z: n6 C1 f. U
例子:
2 }% n. s0 C, a9 w( `2 I! fWhen he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with ( t/ ~9 ~! c  g! {8 I0 A+ P& @
doubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a 6 O  `6 d( T* U7 B; o
lower. & o' w# p, ]) v
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。 - _( r, f. k5 T" S
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。 1 H9 [; G5 S0 ^
原词 原译 改译
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' y- K- [8 k  uwhen 当......的时候 等到......的时候 ; {7 E/ T0 z0 @

' c" H# h% ^3 w& J4 Iact with boldness 大胆行动 放胆去追求
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a lover 一个情人 一般堕入情网的人 7 ]# o; t+ U$ p. i, L" _

9 F) z7 j& X/ ?; L2 L% Yordinary fears 普通的害怕 种种常有的提心吊胆的心理 ' `$ j( N( l: O% H* M

1 z4 S! x+ c7 ]2 \0 @# o4 min addition to 除了......之外 那就更是难免的了
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. d$ X2 Q, J  I  h(五) 解释性添词
' h. N: w5 K- |6 }& i9 H& A3 F例子:
7 y2 ]' c" a3 r+ D% h: ~0 o" R"George, I'm ashamed of you! George, I couldn't have believed you would have # Y; K  W5 A$ ?: O
done it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I , ~- C3 k0 l6 V2 Q
never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet + H- U( V5 f# B5 b& Z
and the children to lie upon," said Mrs. Bagnet.
2 f3 |0 G& W, ~; B& T「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。 9 q6 X' M, u( p" s) t
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(六) 词无定译
6 n: `$ H- t8 q5 Q' J1 O例子:
$ b- E6 y" U3 ~9 S7 T9 e! _It is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or
" P/ C. J* y4 d: p4 @0 q5 Icivilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later,
% N% X' k% P' Y) yhe carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous : ]) N8 O! M( o$ C" t
conditions. 4 F* X; K! X. G/ M  w
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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* n" E. l3 r* @6 r' q! k. j(七) 精炼译词
* A( O. V. Y- D4 w2 w; P2 ?例子:
9 t) N6 D6 Y0 N; ?3 g% B. I/ N+ HA new dignity crept into his walk. 6 Z5 X0 z% ~5 I
原译:走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。
% ^* Q4 T* k% M改译:走起路来,不觉平添了几分尊严。
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0 b4 n" E+ n# u7 ?(八) 删削"When"字
2 Z, c/ R0 Z: _/ w. U. a; u例子:% I$ z# m8 g3 m' H! _
1. When he saw me, he was startled. 0 r$ l. C: h4 g# n5 M+ M
他看见我,吓了一大跳,(不译:当他看见我的时候,......)
1 T1 e& d: ^& b2. "When your gals takes on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the
5 F7 y6 }) j) q7 U4 chead, and knocking on them round?" 7 z4 h3 b' O5 J" e
「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......) 7 \* f" O) ^  o$ a; l+ ?5 E

* N6 N% y5 E" U2 T/ L' c$ |/ _! B(九) 感叹词的不同译法
, _$ K) [  j' r# W7 U) u( S! b例子:
" P/ }, V/ i1 y( P1 I1. "O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want
+ O, l# A: N3 R1 b! A9 C3 wthem!"
" G0 `- t3 E) j9 a"Why, Eva, your room is full now."
8 h5 A* H+ _% `「嗐,妈妈,别这样﹗我喜欢这些花,把花给我吧,我要﹗」
. T9 ^; s# E+ \" {" i8 y2 _8 |「得了吧,伊娃,你屋里的花都满了。」
5 a  I& U# O- P' F5 f9 F  @3 b2. "Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?" * g  n# `; B8 ^- }0 m) l  O
「哟,真是怪事﹗」玛利说,「你干嘛非要这个不可?」
: O/ e" ], _" ~% ?- d! y3. ("...Haley, if you had any conscience.")
% e5 D6 V9 J7 Y! E9 L! C"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to 6 i# R% L& T: {5 A# Q- S
keep - just a little, you know, to swaer by, as were," said the trader,
# K. A9 V6 S" s! d' E" [$ _4 vjocularly; ...
; j1 |1 x; G' m4 h  e, x% ["Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?" said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy * S! l0 q# N$ n4 q+ F" V; `: N
interval of silence.
, j( N8 h' p# A: T1 b(「......哈利,你要是有良心的话。」) 1 z% R8 N- ~" ?1 l" o- P# j5 W4 a
「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;...... : d3 E- l; C, D+ W
「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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(十) 顺拆法 $ g5 N7 K$ s$ j; i8 S, V# o8 N" z
例子: * Z2 }% g) S6 Y# z" @
His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue 2 y% ^& s$ D* L* M
working/ for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic, 8 s6 W5 Y% K. l
social and demographic factors.
$ p! s" t( O$ 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。
7 ~. g: u8 t, V7 z2 i, U1 A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。 ; A. }1 v# k- ]; o/ J
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(十一) 倒拆法 ' W; L3 I' F6 P
例子: 5 C% S8 J  C' {/ I& L/ n- |; P
To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / . q& o6 w( Z5 J5 y0 v
for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his
2 H8 t3 _  M% _  ?, _% L) isupposed conditon. . s; w8 z8 t& s% Q# ?2 |+ a
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。 9 k. ^& ^" p' E& A
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(十二) 抽词拆句法
1 d: t. \  N* K6 b- ^  C% J$ s3 k例子:
9 f8 B, ^/ n" e& @8 CAll the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the
, ?( E- i6 T+ f* geye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of 4 [. x9 [& a3 \) d7 g0 b. ~1 j
growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.
# T: w2 E% V4 }4 K- j* P$ |8 c! r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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