第四章 翻译的技巧参考译文

第四章翻译的技巧

Skills in Translation

.课堂互动2：翻译句子（参考译文）

1.The sky turned to a tender pallet of pink and blue.

【译文】天空变成了一块由粉红色和蓝色构成的色彩柔和的调色板。

2. She had never let him know—never breathed a word.

【译文】她根本就没让他知道，从未透露过真情。

3.The president now is on a poverty tour.

【译文】总统目前正在访问贫困地区。

4. She doctored in the countryside.

【译文】她在农村当医生。

5. The old man carefully doctored the split in the cane chair.

【译文】老人仔细修补藤椅上的裂口。

6. The mayor of New York City is the Time magazine’s 2001 Person of the Year.

【译文】纽约市市长是2001年《时代》杂志的风云人物。

7. The girls all like Bob because he is a football captain. Nothing succeeds like success.

【译文】所有的女孩子都喜欢鲍伯，因为他是个足球队长。有本事又有人缘。

8. An expensive failure can be made into an asset if you’ve learnt from it, but Monsanto still has some learning to do.

【译文】失败的代价虽然昂贵，然而只要你能从中汲取教训，那也是一笔财富。不过，曼山托公司仍然需要总结教训。

9．In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production.

【译文】人们在自己生活的社会生产中发生一定的、必然的、不以其意志为转移的关系，即同他们的物质生产力的一定发展阶段相适合的生产关系。

The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society —the real foundation on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.

【续】这些生产关系的总和构成社会的经济结构，即有法律的和政治的上层建筑建立其上，并有一定的社会意识形式与之相适应的现实基础。

The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness. (Karl Marx: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)

续】物质生活的生产方式制约着整个社会生活、政治生活和精神生活的过程。不是人们的意识决定人们的存在，相反，是人们的社会存在决定人们的意识。

（卡尔·马克思《政治经济学批判》）

10. There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month；but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by their contrast with the winter season. August has no such advantage. It comes when we remember nothing but clear skies, green fields and sweet-smelling flowers —when the recollection of snow, and ice, and bleak winds, has faded

from our minds as completely as they have disappeared from the earth —and yet what a pleasant time it is!

【译文】一年之中，八月的自然景色最美。春天固然美景多多，五月清新，鲜花艳丽，但此乃冬天的反衬所致，八月却不然。八月来临，寒风未至，雪冰无踪，记忆中只是令人愉悦的时光啊！晴朗的天空、碧绿的田野还有那芬芳的花朵。

Orchards and corn-fields ring with the hum of labor; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaves, or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooed the sickle, tinges the landscape with a golden hue. A mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend itself to the very wagon, whose slow motion across the well-reaped field, is perceptible only to the eye, but strikes with no harsh sound upon the ear. (Charles Dickens)

【续】果园里和麦田间回荡着劳动的歌声，果实压满枝头，枝条弯腰垂地，枝条垂地；麦田一片金黄，已收割的庄稼束捆成摞，整整齐齐，未收割的随着阵阵微风曲腰扭肢，似乎向割镰求爱；大地呈现一派祥和、丰收的景象；这时令的气息似乎也触及到每辆大车，车轮慢慢压过收割过的田野，声音悦耳和谐。

课堂互动3：翻译句子（参考译文）

1. We greatly appreciate your kindness.

【译文】我们非常感谢你的好意。

2. Do you appreciate the difficulties involved in this undertaking?

【译文】你是否意识到担任这项工作可能遇到的困难?

3. We all appreciate a holiday after a year of hard work.

【译文】我们全部体会到假日的乐趣。

4. He can appreciate classical music.

【译文】他能够欣赏古典音乐。

5. His failure to answer question made the police suspicious.

【译文】他不回答这一问题引起了警方的怀疑。

6. Man is extending his eyes with radar.

【译文】人(人类)借助于雷达扩大视野。

7. It cost him a sight of trouble.

【译文】这给他招来一大堆麻烦。

8. The instrument is of great interest, involving as it does a new principle of work.

【译文】该仪器由于涉及新的工作原理而具有意义。(as it does是个短语，意思是“实际上”，在句子中作状语)

9．On the evening of December 12, 1944, a host of German generals, the senior field commanders on the Western front, were called to Rundstedt’s headquarters, stripped of their side arms and briefcases, packed into a bus, driven about the dark, snowy countryside for half an hour to make them lose their bearings, and finally deposited at the entrance to a deep underground bunker which turned out to be Hitler’s headquarters at Ziegenberg near Frankfurt.

【译文】1944年12月12日晚上，西线的一批德军将领，都是战地高级指挥官，奉召到伦斯德司令部去。他们交出了随身携带的武器和公文箱包，被推进一辆大轿车里，在乡间黑黝黝的雪地里坐了半小时的车，弄得晕头转向，最后给卸在一个很深的地堡的入口处，原来这是希特勒在法兰克福附近的泽根堡大本营。

There they learned for the first time what only a handful of the top staff officers and army