Chapter 4 翻译单位与语篇翻译-文档资料

Examples of Translation from Chinese to English: 1) 这些国家的经济形势每况愈下。
The economic situation in these countries is on the downgrade.
2) 为了迷人眼目，他们把自己打扮成革命者。
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Every one of them rolled up his sleeves for battle, high in morale and ready to win another brilliant victory.
5) 我们必须全力以赴，拿下这场球。
We must do our level best to win this game. 6) 照当时情况，他除了忍气吞声又能怎么办呢？
As things stood, what else could he do but swallow the insult?
7) 侵略者已经走投无路。
The invaders had come to the end of their tether. 8) 我讨厌游手好闲的人。
I dislike the people eating Baidu Nhomakorabeahe bread of idleness. 9) 你为什么要引狼入室？
【译文】法国人请客，通常只须做两个菜：一个头盘，一个主 菜，就够了。我们中国人请客，六个人吃六个菜再加一个汤， 是很平常的。那么多菜我们都能吃下去，而法国人请客，菜 虽少，我们也一样能吃饱。
【解析】该语篇用“usually”，“and”，“quite common”和 “whereas”体现了作者的意图，说话的逻辑关系，译文采用 “通常”、“平常”，“虽……也一样”等过渡、承接和转 折手法，准确地转达了作者的意图，体现了整体连贯性。”
Why did you set the wolf to keep the sheep? 10) 他是信口开河，他对经济一窍不通。
He is shooting off his mouth. He does not know the first thing of economy.
例6：The French usually have two courses for entertaining: a starter and a main course will be enough. It is quite common for us Chinese to treat six people to six dishes and one soup, and we can consume them all, whereas at a French dinner we can also eat our fill.
5) The light-fingered gentry frequented these shops. 梁上君子经常光顾这些商店。 6) He is reaping what he has sown. 他这是咎由自取。 7) She is an easy-going woman. She always
throws her cares to the winds. 她是个大大咧咧的女人，总是把忧愁抛至九霄云外。
8) That fellow is always fair without but foul within. 那个家伙总是口蜜腹剑。
9) That little girl has a ready tongue. 那个小姑娘真是伶牙俐齿的。
In order to throw dust into the eye of the public, they decked themselves out as revolutionaries. 3) 扪心自问，他不得不承认自己是错了。
By searching his heart he could not but admit that he was in the wrong. 4) 他们个个摩拳擦掌，士气很高，准备再打一个漂亮 仗。