1 概述及翻译错误分析

Euphemism
• He is a bicycle doctor. • He is a sanitary engineer/ recreation engineer. (household executive/ domestic help/ meat technologist/ tree surgeon…)
Idioms
• He is unlearned in literature to a proverb. • Sam took the news about the rising in price of oil with a grain of salt. • He never has words with his wife. • How come you cut him dead in the street. • John is rare and clever.
Euphemism
• • • • • • • She is eating for two. She swallowed a watermelon seed. He joined the great majority. Private Ryan bit the dust. I want to go to my private office. Where is John? I want to get some fresh air.
Idioms
• I shall not expect you till I see you. • Expect me when you see me. • The general manage gave Mike the bird. • She has given him a brush. • I didn’t like the fruit cocktail in the dinner.
Causes of mis-translating Polysemy
Eg. • After all my care in packing it, the clock arrived broken. • After the way he treated me I never want to see him again.
Intermediate Course of Translation
What is translation?
• Translation means translating meaning. —— Eugene A. Nida
• What is meaning?
What’s the meaning of DUCK?
Euphemism
• Indeed in our country workers have no chance of industrial actions. • Five percent of the graduating class are available for employment. • Strategic village was attacked, and three died. • The student has a tendency to stretch the truth.
• They backed into the champion. • He was backed into by a careless driver this morning.
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• Turn about is fair play. • He is not about to waste any time.
Polysemy
• He took the ball away from an incompetent manager. • Have a ball on your trip. • Some good friends are carrying the ball for us.
collocation
Culture-related
• Allusion 典故: myth/ fables/ fairy tales/ literary works/ the Bible/ historical people or events • Proverb/ idiom/ slang/ colloquialism • Figure of speech • …
Culture-related
E.g. • The book is right under the arm. • A bear in the air! • He is a bear at mathematics. • More beef! • He is real cold on the subject.
• He has got plenty of beef. • They are putting beef into the campaign. • He will listen to anybody’s beef against the President.
Culture-related
• He threw us an apple of discord and we soon quarreled again. • His Achilles’ heel was his pride—he would get very angry if anyone criticized his work. • you are the salt of the earth.
collocation
• The driving belt took charge and ran out.
Technical Terms
• Industrial averages were up. • If a particular cargo is partially damaged, the damage is called particular average.
• • • • • • I like roast Beijing duck. She is a sweet old duck. Will a duck swim? The young couple had a duck of boy. Be a duck and help me with this. Let’s duck in the bar for a drink.
Idioms
• The car cost me a small fortune. • Most students were absent from the lesson, he was among the rest. • Mr. King likes the hair-dresser because she always brown-noses him. • Jake ate his words in public.
Idioms
• • • • • • • Do you like high tea? He always eats at high table. It is a long lane that has no turning. She met her fate. Jim is not half bad at football. He has moved over her head. Jack paired off with Helen.