新闻翻译

Course Name：Applied Translation 应用文体翻译

2012级本科英语专业2014-2015学年上学期Content: Practical translation drills新闻翻译练习（第十四周）

Goal: to practice E-C translation of news reporting.

Emphasis: to lay emphasis on the jargons of news reporting.

Assignment & Summary:

1. Understanding news journalism and complete the text with suitable words and translate.

(1) Amid further allegations of a cover-up, sources at the Home Office refused to comment on claims of a serious lapse in security at a nuclear power station.

(2) Discussions about controversial new measures to control anti-social behavior are continuing behind the scenes.

(3) According to figures from a recent opinion poll, the government’s popularity is falling.

(4) it emerged yesterday that the contents of a scathing report on Barkfield Hospital have already been leaked to the press. The report quotes a senior doctor as saying that…

(5) __________ continuing pressure on the government, information has been ________ to the press of a plan to _________ up the fact that Britain cannot meet the European Union’s renewable energy targets. _________ to reliable ________ inside Whitehall, officials have informed the government of this fact, and one expert was ________ as saying that Britain might only reach 9 per cent by 2020. meanwhile, discussions are continuing behind the ________ to see what __________ can be taken to reach the target.

2. Read the amazing but true human interest stories and replace the underlined words with a single word that has the same meaning which appears in the story and translate the news into Chinese.

(1) An operation 55 years later? Pencil it in

A German woman who has spent 55 years with the tip of a pencil lodged in her brain has finally had it removed. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil when she was four. It punctured her cheek and went into her brain causing excruciating pain, and she has lived with the ensuing chronic headaches ever since. At the same time, no one dared operate, but the remaining 2 cms of pencil were removed on Friday in a delicate operation. She is said to be making a speedy recovery.

(2) I had an unpleasant and very painful headache. ___________

Her medical condition is continuous and long-lasting. __________

After the fire, we lost sight of him in the resulting panic. _________

A piece of glass made a small hole in the tyre. __________

She’s too frightened to drive at night on her own. __________

The end of the cat’s tail is white. _________

3. Understanding political metaphors in news first and choose the correct expressions.

(1) The first cracks are appearing in the government. (a weakness in an idea, a system, or an organization.)

(2) People are wondering who is in the driving boat. (be in control of a situation=pull the strings)

(3) The PM doesn’t want MPs to rock the boat. (cause problems by making changes to a situation that is satisfactory as it is.)

(4) She laid the foundations of the party’s success. (create the basic ideas or principles from which