英译汉教程6_省略的翻译技巧

• 过去几年，国际政治在和解的精神下有了积极的 发展。
Conclusion
Brevity in translation is secured by omitting excess words, but omission of words at the expense of meaning should be avoided . (减词不减意)
• 4. He lords it over his inferiors. ( idiomatic it ) • 他对下属摆架子，逞威风。 • 5. Where there is smoke, there is fire. (there in existential sentences) • 有烟必有火。/无风不起浪。 • 6. There is no telling when he will come. (There in idiomatic expressions) • 他什么时候来说不准。 • 7.There is no royal road to anything. (There in idiomatic expressions) • 任何事情都无坦途。
Omission of English articles
• • • • • 1. My father is a vigorous 86. 我父亲今年86岁，仍然健旺。 2. A parrot can talk like a man. 鹦鹉会像人一样说话。 3. The prime minister spoke to an astonished Commons. • 首相向惊愕不已的下议院致辞。
Omission of connectives
• • • • • • • English: hypotactic; plenty of connectives Chinese: paratactic; very few connectives 1. Wise men love truth, but fools shun it. 智者热爱真理，愚者回避真理。 2. Whatever you like to eat, just tell me. 想吃什么只管告诉我。 3. If you fail to enter the tiger’s den, how can you get the tiger cub? • 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。
Omission of words superfluous in Chinese
• Omission of pronouns（省略代词） • Omission of connectives（省略连接词） • Omission of prepositions and prepositional phrases（省略介词和介词短语） • Omission of verbs or particles（省略动词 或分词）
Assignment
• Comparison of translated sentences (P156-157) • Translation exercise (p162) • Oral assignment
Omission of pronouns used as objects
1. Read the story and tell it in your own words. • 读这则故事，用自己的话复述出来。 2.Gathering facts, confirming them, suggesting theories, testing them, and organizing findings, that is all the work of science. • 收集事实加以论证，提出理论加以检验， 整理所得结果，这就是科学工作的全部内 容。
Omission of pronouns
• Omission of pronouns used as subjects in sentences expressing universal laws （表达客观真理的句子中，
省略主语代词）
• Omission of pronouns used as objects（省略宾语代词） • Omission of possessive pronouns
Examples
1. It is 80 miles from the next station. (impersonal it ) • 离下一站还有80英里。 2. It was the more mannerly way to let him have his way. (anticipatory it ) • 顺从他的意思还礼貌一些。 3. Shall we walk it or bus it? (idiomatic it) 我们是走路还是坐公汽？
Omission of wordsቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱpeculiar to English
• Omission of the expletives it and there （省略语助词 it, there） • Omission of impersonal it • Omission of anticipatory it • Omission of idiomatic it • Omission of there in existential sentences • Omission of there in idiomatic expressions
Omission of possessive pronouns
• 1. Wash your hands before you have your meals. • 饭前要洗手。 • 2. She put her hands up to her cheeks, but her eyes seemed to look right into him. • 她双手捂住脸颊，但眼睛却好像直直地瞧 着他。
Omission of verbs or particles
• • • • • 1. The sky is high and the clouds are pale. 天高云淡。 2. The piece of meat weighs 5 jin. 这块肉5斤。 3. The last few years have seen positive developments in the international political scene, characterized by a spirit of accommodation.
Omission of prepositions and prepositional phrases
• 1. When a substance changes only in state or in form, it is a physical change. • 当一种物质只是改变状态或形式时，就是 物理变化。 • 2. Change of information, if any, concerning the content of this section, will be found in the appendix at the end of the book. • 本节内容如有更改，均见本书附录。
Chapter 6 Omission
Omission helps to achieve conciseness in the target text
• Brevity is the soul of wit. ----Shakespeare • The maximum of thought in the minimum of words ----Huxley
（省略物主代词）
Omission of pronouns used as subjects in
sentences expressing universal laws 1.Subtract 4 from ten, and you will get 6. • 10减去4等于6. 2. We can not see sound waves when they travel in the air. • 声波在空气中传播是看不见的。 3. When we want to move a body of great mass, we must apply a great force. • 要移动质量大的物体，就要用大力气。