落花生翻译赏析

《落花生》翻译比较与赏析

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标题：落花生

译文1译: peanuts

译文2译：The peanut

译文3译：The peanut

分析：The＋单数名词：以个别的、具体的事物来象征一类相关的综合的抽象事物。The Peanut 让人联想到各种有关花生的东西。而文章主要是赞扬花生这一物种的优良品格以及其所传达的精神，所以The Peanut比peanuts 要好。

译文3 Behind our house there was a patch of land. "It would be a pity to let it go wild.” said Mother. “I suggest that since you are all so fond of peanuts you should grow some there.”We children and the little maidservants were all delighted. Some of us bought seeds, some dug up the plot and others watered it. In just a few months we had a harvest.

分析：“屋后”从逻辑上讲应该是房子的”后面”Behind，而不是房间的”后部”At the back of。“有一亩空地”用lay比用was更具动感。将“半亩”译为“half a mu”不如将其虚化为“a patch of”. mu这个词虽说已存在于英语词汇中，

但是英美的很多词典并没有收入。另外，文中妈妈说的话很长，译文2和3译中把Mother said放在句中作为插入语，使句子的结构更加平衡也更符合英文的行文特点。“爱吃花生”应该表达的是一种习惯，而like to eat一般表示某次心血来潮的想法。因此，enjoy eating比like to eat要好。在翻译“我们姐弟几个”时my brother, sister and I显得比较冗长，而us/we children则简洁精练。但译文1后面的servant girls和译文3 the little maidservants均有丫环的意思，与文中意思相悖。中文喜用排比，或者“有的……有的……”句式，用some …Some… others 显然比we … 更加准确。翻译本段最后一句时，译文2和3使用we had a harvest 既简练又把“居然收获”的惊喜表达出来了。翻译本段最后一句时，译文2和3使用we had a harvest既简练又把“居然收获”的惊喜表达出来了。然而，就“开辟出来种花生吧”一句，两种译文似乎都不尽完美。译文2 let us open it up and make it a peanut garden.首先open sth up 是“打开、开发”的意思，一般意义比较抽象。另外garden虽然有花园菜园的意思。可是a peanut garden显得比较艰涩难懂。而译文3的peanut plot似乎更好一些，另外，译文1 have them planted here.又显得过于简单。

选段二：妈妈说：“今晚我们可以做一个收获节，也请你们爹爹来尝尝我们的新花生，如何?”我们都答应了。母亲把花生做成好几样食品，还吩咐这节期要在园里的茅亭举行。那晚上的天色不大好，可是爹爹也到来，实在很难得!

译文1：Mother said, “How about giving a party this evening to celebrate the harvest and invite your Daddy to have a taste of our newly-harvested peanuts?” We all agreed. Mother made quite a few varieties of goodies out of the peanuts, and told us that the party would be held in the thatched pavilion on the peanut plot. It looked like rain that evening, yet, to our great joy, Father came nevertheless.

译文2："Let us have a party tonight to celebrate," Mother suggested, "and ask Dad to come for a taste of our fresh peanuts. What do you say?" We all agreed, of course. Mother cooked the peanuts in different styles and told us to go to the thatched pavilion in the garden for the celebration. The weather was not very good that night but, to our great delight, Dad came all the same.

译文3：Mother said, "Let' s have a harvest festival tonight and invite your father to taste our fresh peanuts. "We all agreed. Mother made a variety of dishes using our peanuts and instructed that the festival should be held in the thatched pavilion in the garden. The weather was not very good that evening, but even Father put in an appearance, which was a rare event.