第八讲课前准备：修辞与翻译

6. 修辞与翻译

一、了解下列修辞格

音韵修辞格(Phonetic Stylistic Devices)

alliteration, onomatopoeia，assonance, rhyme

语义修辞格(Lexical Stylistic Devices)

simile, metaphor, metonymy, personification, irony, hyperbole, understatement, allusion, euphemism, contrast, oxymoron, transferred epithet, pun, zeugma, parody, paradox

结构修辞格(Syntactical Stylistic Devices)

repetition, chiasmus, parallelism, antithesis, rhetoric question, anastrophe，anticlimax

二、修辞格的判断

1. Beware of the bottle.

2. He had seven mouths to feed in his family.

3. This diligent student seldom reads more than an hour per month.

4. The candidate met his Waterloo in the national elections.

5. I didn’t half like that.

6. My only love sprung from my only hate

Too early seen unknown, and known too late！

----- Romeo and Juliet

7. Make a way out of no way.

8. an audible stillness

bitter sweet relation

painful pleasure

an honorable villain

9. Never show the bottom of your purse or your mind.

10. Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.

11. He sprung to his feet, flung off his coat, drew his sword, jumped upon the

enemy, and burped.

三、修辞格的翻译

A.直译：

1、Among so many well-dressed and cultured people, the country girl felt like a fish

out of water.

2、I would my horse had the speed of your tongue.

3、薛蟠也假说来上学，不过是“三天打鱼，两天晒网”……却不曾有一点儿进益。

4、假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无。

5、“娘，他们……是要剥我们中国人的脸皮啊，你知道吗？”/ 骄阳下，柳树上，回答他

的是一片“知了，知了”的蝉声。

B.直译加注：

1、--- Why are parliamentary reports called "Blue Books"?

-- Because they are never red.

C.意译：

C1. 舍弃修辞格

1、You want your pound of flesh, don't you?

2、I spoke to them in hesitant English.

3、He is the mouth of the House in its relations with the Crown.

4、我半世的辛苦，全是替他们做马牛!

C2. 替换原修辞格

1、He was so fond of talking that his comrades nicknamed him “magpie”.

2、It is regrettable that our appeal remained a dead letter.

3、他看见别人生活比自己好，就犯红眼病。

4、Up and down he walked, up and down across the library floor.

5、层层的叶子中间，零星地点缀着些白花，有袅娜地开着的，有羞涩地打着朵

的；正如一粒粒的明珠，又如碧天里的星星。

6、From their slopes flow streams feeding the oases strung along the rim of inland

deserts.

7、She lost her heart and necklace at a ball.

8、Franklin Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed smiling attention.

C3. 增添修辞格

1、He determined to satisfy himself of the real state of the case.

2、I judge that there was going to be a crash by and by, but I was in now and must

swim across or drown.