10第十单元 旅游资料

第十单元旅游资料

旅游资料中存在着大量的文化因素，这一点早已引起学者的关注。由于每个国家或民族的文化发展道路不同，各国旅游景点所展示的旅游资料必然会带有各自的文化特色。中国与西方国家是不同语种的国度，其文化差异就更大、更明显，因而旅游资料中的文化因素往往会给外国游客造成理解障碍。张宁在“旅游资料翻译中的文化思考”（2000）一文中把旅游资料中的文化文化因素归纳为下述几个方面：（1）历史典故（historical allusions）；（2）宗教信仰（religious beliefs）；（3）园林艺术（gardening / horticulture）；（4）民族风情（cultures and customs of the ethnic minorities）；（5）风味饮食（local delicacy）。因此，翻译人员采取适当的翻译策略，把这些文化信息从原文转移到译文，帮助外国游客来阅读理解。

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旅游翻译不仅要忠实于原文，而且要言简意赅，文情相生，渗透其中幽微。旅游资料中的文化因素往往会给外国游客的阅读活动造成理解障碍。文化因素的处理要遵循两个原则，即“以原语文化为基础，以译语读者为导向”。所谓以原语文化为基准，就是要尽量保留原语文化信息，从而促进文化交流；所谓以译语读者为导向，则是指旅游资料翻译既要忠实于原文，又不拘泥于原文。根据实际情况对原文作适当调整，采用不同的翻译方法来弥补文化差异而给外国游客造成的理解障碍。

第19课英语旅游资料汉译

英汉对比赏析

一、英语原文

The Real London

By Roger Mason

[1] London is bigger, dirtier and more crowded than one would imagine from the descriptions in many magazines and books. It has around 8 million inhabitants and sprawls over a huge area, mostly of suburbs where tourists seldom go. The city streets are narrow and often blocked by traffic. Most of the famous buildings are quite far apart, separated by rows of drab, ordinary buildings. We have no public space as impressive as Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square or Paris’Place de la Concorde, no ceremonial way as grand as Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue. And in a recent BBC poll, Buckingham Palace was voted one of the ten ugliest buildings in Britain. But an awesome crowed of workers walk over London Bridge every weekday morning on their way to toil in one of the world’s major financial districts, and there is a modern commercial development at Docklands with skyscrapers to rival those in Pudong. We have the largest and finest selection of theaters in the world, recently jointed by a faithful reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. It is built of wood with a thatched roof and has no electricity, so performances can only take place in summer daylight, as in the Bard’s day.

[2] Myths about London persist in China and other countries. As Mrs. Thatcher told everyone during her visit to Beijing, London isn’t foggy. The fog disappeared fifty years ago when homes, factories and railway engines stopped burning coal. Despite their traditional uniforms, police officers will laugh if you call them “bobbies”. We call them “the Bill” or “the Plod”and they have two-way radios, travel by car and maybe armed with guns. They are still polite to tourists and will give directions if you really are lost. If they ever existed, the warm-hearted Cockneys in the movies also went away at about the same time as the fogs. Slum houses were pulled down and their inhabitants moved to council flats (rented apartments provided by the local government) or the suburbs. Nowadays the people who live in downtown London are as varied as those of New York and Paris. We have the largest, most colourful street carnival outside South America, but also gangsters, drug abuse and racial hatred. More and more pubs (friendly neighbourhood bars that serve alcohol) are being converted into fast-food restaurants, shops and offices.

[3] There is a small Chinatown at the heart of the theatre and cinema district in Soho. A pedestrian street has Chinese gateways given by the Hong Kong business community, plus traditional lion statues and a monument. Shops and restaurants supply mixtures of Chinese and western food, the more genuine ones with menus in Chinese as well as English,