英文翻译练习及答案

“中国的市场无限巨大（或前景无量）。”正在上海访问的耐克公司行政总裁（或首席执行官）对记者如是说。
>Unemployment has stubbornly refused to contract for more than a decade.
失业人数居高不下，已持续十多个年头了。
不恰当的翻译：
美丽 vs. beautiful
好男人 vs. good man
贫困家庭 vs. poor family
>巧妇难为无米之炊
Even a clever woman (or housewife) cannot make bread without flour; You cannot make something out of nothing.
d) Making translation newsier and more readable
Suggested Approaches
I. Condensing (fussy) ideas or loose structures into four-character Chinese phrases.
II. Make your Chinese more Chinese
>There is no doubt that she is her husband’s professional and intellectual equal.
毫无疑问，她在事业和知识方面都是与其丈夫并驾齐驱的。
该委员会裁定，假如政府能说明这些色情刊物和电影有辱妇女的人格，损害了她们的平等地位，那么政府查禁这些东西就是正当的。
>The man was lured (by a bar girl) to a nearby house and secretly filmed in a compromising position with the woman.
>The BBC reporters overwhelmed the police as much with courtesy as with force, and rushed to the scene in time.
英国广播公司记者软磨硬闯，冲破了警察的阻挡，及时赶到事发现场。
>The study found that non-smoking wives of men who smoke cigarettes face a much greater than normal danger of developing lung cancer. The more cigarettes smoked by the husband, the greater the threat faced by his non-smoking wife.
一名惊恐万状的穆斯林妇女喊出了众同胞的心声：“真主啊，救救我们吧！”
>There by the thousands they stood weeping silently or moaning a wailing.
在那里成千上万的人或伫立垂泪，或凄切啜泣，或哀声痛哭。
>”You chicken!” he cried looking at Tom with contempt.
“你这个狗熊 / 脓包！”他轻蔑的看着汤姆嚷道。
在波拉宫，悲痛至少暂时弥合了印度各宗派——印度教徒，伊斯兰教徒和锡克教徒——之间的分歧，使他们融为一体，同声哀悼。

用四字格的好处：
a) Condensing otherwise fussy ideas.
b) Achieving brevity
c) Vivifying a translator’s pen
>Companies with a big staff in Beijing find themselves squeezed between high operating costs and shrinking business.
在北京，员工队伍庞大的公司出现了运行成本高，业务量不断萎缩的局面，举步维艰。
III. Avoid Misinterpretation
>June’s World Cup in Seoul will be a security nightmare for Japan as well as South Korea.
六月份在首尔举办世界杯，其安全保卫工作不仅对韩国，而且对日本都构成了一个大难题。
>Some state-owned restaurants usually offer slow and rude service, less than appetizing food and appalling toilets.
有些国营饭店通常上菜慢、服务差、饭菜糟、厕所脏。
>… her rich black hair falling freely onto her shoulders, the intensity of her dark eyes.
乌发披肩，亮泽飘逸；一双黑眸，顾盼生辉。
乌亮秀发，瀑垂在肩；一双黑眸，波光潋滟。 (Better)
>The former White House intern repeatedly implied that she possessed compromising information about Clinton, which was, if published, liable to harm his reelection for presidency.
这项研究发现，妻子不抽烟而丈夫抽烟的，妻子的肺癌的可能性比一般人大得多。丈夫抽得烟越多，妻子受到的威胁也就越大。
>”The market in China is an almost bottomless pit,” the visiting Nike CEO told reporters here in Shanghai.
>宝钗独自行来，顺路进了怡红院……不想步入院中，鸦雀无闻。（红楼梦）
(David Hankes) … Not a bird’s cheep was to be heard.
(杨宪益) … To her surprise, the courtyard was utterly quiet.
>Within Birla House there was grief and mourning which at least for the moment fused the dissident sects of India --- the Hindus, the Moslems, and the Sikhs -- into a community of sorrow.
这名前白宫实习生多次暗示，她掌握着（有损）克林顿（名誉）的负面材料……
>Professor Wang was quoted as sating that his proposal had died a bureaucratic death.
据王教授说，由于官僚主义盛行，他的这一建议（提交后）便石沉大海（或杳无音信/不了了之）。
To be a good translator
l Target language
l Stylistic knowledge
l Source language
l Professional knowledge
l Cultural impact
>Gandhi’s Assassination: “Bapu (Father) Is Finished”
1）甘地遇刺：“巴普（爸爸/父亲）死了！”
2）甘地不幸遇刺，印度痛失国父。
3）甘地遇刺身亡，圣雄魂归九天。
>New Delhi, January 30, 1948 (United Press Association) --- Mohandas K. Gandhi was assassinated today by a Hindu Extremist whose act plunged India into sorrow and fear.
>The committee ruled that it was justifiable for government to outlaw pornographic magazines and films if it could show that the materials “degraded” women, thus compromising their equality.
甘地当即垮倒在地，同时还按印度教的方式，以手加额，表示宽恕凶手。三发子弹在近距离射中了他的身躯，其中一颗击中右胯，一颗射入腹部，另一颗打中了胸部。
>A panic-stricken Moslem woman echoed the thoughts of thousands with a cry: “God help us all!!!”
>Some personnel executives complained that many college graduates they had interviewed here had two-star abilities with five-star ambitions.
一些人事经理抱怨，在他们面试过的大学毕业生中，其中不少人都是些眼高手低（或好高骛远）之辈。
>According to experts, almost everything about President Bush’s looks and character are an image-maker’s nightmare.