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[转载] 十二式翻译绝招

[转载] 十二式翻译绝招

作者:larryathena   来源:中国在线翻译网
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(一) 同义反译法
1 ]  S+ v6 V6 `: }3 J) m例子: $ z- |, K0 a8 O1 R
1. Only three customers remained in the bar.
1 ^) b- c8 F5 ?) A, `; \9 l酒吧间只有三个顾客还没有走。(不译:「还留着」或「还呆在那里」)   S# q4 {4 w0 @! w5 C2 I" E$ E
2. I'll be here for good this time. ! s" R4 \# G7 `
这一次我再也不走了。(不译:「永远在此呆下去」) : {% v, Z+ ]8 v, A& X. F. y3 U& D
3. Please keep the fire burning when I'm out. " }4 Z) N! F& C1 d7 ?% i7 ~
我不在家的时候,请别让炉子灭了。(不译:「我外出时,请让炉子继续烧着」)
0 ?# |3 h3 K% z4. "Wait, he is serious."
- v! |. d% G1 Q$ s「等等,他不是说着玩儿的。」(不译:「等等,他是认真的。」)
) }8 C' j9 c# |5. "Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!" 4 v8 q9 w7 V/ A6 P' _  q$ m- N
「听我说,克拉拉,对这孩子可不能心软。」(不译:「......对这孩子要坚定」)
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7 s" A  ?; k' s" Y/ Y+ F(二) 删减解释词
8 v7 u# z6 W4 ~例子:
9 C& u, S; x- p8 y) w: q- cThe traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of
4 T* e4 \6 g: ^refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a
8 v. ~: A6 s0 o% ^! ~# o/ Oparticular gift to the quotation and mulatto women.
1 r0 Y. T" P+ e6 G2 y到南方去的人看见那些黑白混血的女郎,准定会注意到她们十之八九都赋有那种独特的优雅风度、那种柔和的声调和文静的举止。/ X8 E8 A" ~5 _) U. a* \

8 n9 P# d2 m2 i6 \! ~5 [' W" a(三) 短句拆译 ( l) u5 i; i4 N1 o
例子: $ a6 _' c  p' w, d2 J) a
" ...on one sunshiny morning in June , ..." 8 w9 w: m) ]4 A) u! L# D8 j- r
「在六月里的一天早上,天气晴朗,......」 / V$ d$ x! b' n
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(四) 译词推陈出新
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3 e' \1 @- V8 y7 S8 X% pWhen he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with : j" `* I8 K9 c. k' w
doubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a
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+ j* `8 [' J" u0 }) x6 H原译:当他可以大胆行动的时候,他发现自己除了一个情人所具有的那种普通的害怕之外,心里还充满怀疑、顾虑和踌躇。
* Z) Z/ L# V; C8 Z6 f1 r改译:等到他不妨放胆去追求的时候,他却迟疑不定,顾虑重重。至于一般堕入情网的人那种种常有的提心吊胆的心理,那就更是难免的了。
* E% }# h. ^& {& n原词 原译 改译 5 M$ J) |7 @5 N

, e, D2 h' ]: U6 K" R1 h3 Wwhen 当......的时候 等到......的时候
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act with boldness 大胆行动 放胆去追求
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( X0 T, v1 F" t5 w" s& a" sa lover 一个情人 一般堕入情网的人
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ordinary fears 普通的害怕 种种常有的提心吊胆的心理 4 U0 I! }3 V0 m+ W3 n
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in addition to 除了......之外 那就更是难免的了2 l$ `# j! E3 b: w# F

# C  I+ m- g. C0 \(五) 解释性添词 : C- ^( s. [" M& S
例子:
3 g- b' g9 d! \- U; I"George, I'm ashamed of you! George, I couldn't have believed you would have , Q$ C; m- k' P( O1 M' c
done it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I & _- r) n6 I9 E9 K9 z& e6 v7 E
never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet 7 D& n9 Y; a) Z" K$ u/ e
and the children to lie upon," said Mrs. Bagnet.
8 \2 `9 p6 F8 {3 \2 J1 c5 _「乔治,我真替你害臊﹗乔治,想不到你会干出这种事情来﹗俗话说得好:『滚着的碌碡不长苔,流浪的汉子不攒财。』我早晓得你就是这么一个流浪汉﹗可真没有想到你连贝格纳特和孩子们靠它过活的那一点点财也骗走,」贝格纳特太太说道。   o0 I4 d9 N4 K
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(六) 词无定译 ; j! h) ~& W- O. q
例子: ; {1 v2 \- f, U. b* `" e: b
It is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or
' P$ i. Q+ Y+ W! A; e2 |* zcivilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later,
, u( A& q2 n: ~$ L* ?he carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous
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0 [4 R$ s4 d7 }4 C' r. F) C. i我们根本不必追问政府是否根据刑法或民法对范德比尔特提出起诉。范德比尔特不仅逍遥法外,而且在两年后又以极其凶狠的手段对政府进行弓一次巨大的诈骗。' W7 e7 ]4 K9 Y5 J% Y+ ?0 l
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(七) 精炼译词
3 w/ I1 I. B+ v- E6 }( W0 U例子: 1 e& p6 y1 R5 N+ A* x
A new dignity crept into his walk.
8 m! \$ o5 [$ |+ r, p原译:走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。
7 K9 |) g+ H' H$ J! ]3 F- |1 v, x改译:走起路来,不觉平添了几分尊严。 9 U1 g8 D  p, R8 e& z8 M  m" p2 i

  y6 r8 l8 @, Y0 H$ P(八) 删削"When"字
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, x7 P) l/ r7 w1. When he saw me, he was startled. 6 _- m  Q; ?! ~  _9 w+ ~( W
他看见我,吓了一大跳,(不译:当他看见我的时候,......) 5 N+ _* ?$ ]/ z
2. "When your gals takes on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the 7 b2 q0 _0 Z6 U* p+ [* D; n  h
head, and knocking on them round?" ' B* Q9 H# o0 E( g" G5 v
「你那些女黑奴哭得那么伤心,你还拿鞭子没头没脑的抽,把她们打得死去活来,那有甚么用呢?」(不译:当你那些女黑奴哭得那么伤心的时候,你还拿鞭子......) 4 x) ]; `4 U8 w8 U6 q7 U2 W

) K, N/ b- Q( r2 V! C(九) 感叹词的不同译法 5 D7 w7 t/ u! k! q
例子:
0 b' P5 V9 u1 }+ M* d" Y6 [( L1. "O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want 5 _& c) \% G4 V, }1 I" p% l
them!" 2 X1 P& I3 G. T! c$ ~3 [- b( e* h7 H6 }
"Why, Eva, your room is full now." 1 k' ?! p2 E; p( U3 B8 }) t
「嗐,妈妈,别这样﹗我喜欢这些花,把花给我吧,我要﹗」 4 s, y+ N1 i- X
「得了吧,伊娃,你屋里的花都满了。」 6 c% m8 H  z/ ~5 W, r
2. "Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?"
4 n3 W! c& P$ y7 T& {「哟,真是怪事﹗」玛利说,「你干嘛非要这个不可?」 2 ?4 n' c, b* z7 b
3. ("...Haley, if you had any conscience.")
7 N+ I. _4 b" @- f"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to , L$ b& m+ b7 D4 Y& R5 P
keep - just a little, you know, to swaer by, as were," said the trader,
1 A, p! n# d( A8 l7 K! [( Y2 L- n: djocularly; ... , X( K5 e8 y5 o
"Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?" said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy 2 t* z3 e' M, W" B: Y
interval of silence. - O" Y5 x$ H* e1 Q
(「......哈利,你要是有良心的话。」) : w; b, M9 q& J. m$ ^
「得,干这行当儿的人能有多少良心,我也有多少良心--瞧,我的良心就这么一丁点儿,够拿出来起誓就得,」奴隶贩子开着玩笑说;...... 7 s# b% z6 x; h- v6 U" Z' Y
「那好,哈利,这桩买卖你打算怎么个做法?」谢尔比先生在一阵令人发窘的沉默之后问道。
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(十) 顺拆法
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His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue % g) }! H. K4 x! s- N" d8 k
working/ for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic,
, D7 J; _( g# Ssocial and demographic factors. : ^- h- r$ \6 ~3 S7 s( G
原译:他的代表团同意执行主任关于该基金会应继续为更好地了解经济、社会和人口的相互关系而努力的意见。 2 N( c8 n. N0 R! v
改译:他的代表团同意执行主任的意见,/认为该基金会应继续努力,/ 以求更好地了解经济、社会和人口这三方面的相互关系。 " J  O: a, [, ~6 [: R7 t+ M$ t

0 E- ~' J7 d( z: b9 w# o: Q; k(十一) 倒拆法 ( L! y9 e+ W9 Y  V# U  @3 ~
例子:
% K* \& G+ w3 g7 C! |To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / 2 x( Z* m, _; y
for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his
# ?! X4 d, v$ U; q5 esupposed conditon.
* x) R9 H' q9 y要是一个英国女人看到他真像他自己所假定的那么烂醉,/ 她就会对他又恼怒,又厌恶,/ 而挪拉对他却又同情又宽容,/ 他在这中间看出了一点神圣的质量。 + x! k; Z# |! `3 S6 x! w* ]# I

; V1 s5 H, r8 x! N( ~3 z/ b3 E(十二) 抽词拆句法
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& X/ [' ]+ i# W+ h% d0 QAll the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the
" N/ A& o' h8 g1 i  L5 {& F+ b2 ?eye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of
, `% ~: a' N5 ~; Dgrowing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests. : f# g: q7 |- ]# `* }' o( _8 b; s
从边境到北京,一路上沿铁路线极目纵观,但见农村到处是茁壮的庄稼,彷佛铺上一块绿地毯,这说明丰收在望了。

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