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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
) `$ C" E  W. K例子: 1 b3 K+ l" T0 h
1. Only three customers remained in the bar. ( Y- ?) {: f3 D
酒吧间只有三个顾客还没有走。(不译:「还留着」或「还呆在那里」)
! R! s2 r( M9 t2. I'll be here for good this time. " `% N6 w9 o- V: e- A0 k
这一次我再也不走了。(不译:「永远在此呆下去」)
- F; v' \8 J; x3. Please keep the fire burning when I'm out. ) q) h4 j# M1 X8 |( h
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」) / W$ g1 W2 V8 l0 v, v( q3 y4 v" t
4. "Wait, he is serious."
6 L8 z; Q! J7 f% L: I7 `% b+ n「等等,他不是说着玩儿的。」(不译:「等等,他是认真的。」) * e1 L7 G' L9 v: `8 T, p2 c" A
5. "Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!" " }6 Z0 x& @8 B- B4 L  A3 o
「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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(二) 删减解释词
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5 ]( k1 C) ]/ d$ G3 R, |" T% cThe traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of ' I& F% W& o1 K' s! x, n5 q6 b
refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a ( V0 e" U  W9 G. M
particular gift to the quotation and mulatto women. 6 V( q2 G7 j; {; l4 t4 E
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。
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' D0 P: k2 L+ V  M7 D(三) 短句拆译 9 G5 i) f9 o8 x6 l& ?
例子: * U% F- r3 R5 R: Y
" ...on one sunshiny morning in June , ..."
- h5 p. G4 k' |# g# b% U' X「在六月里的一天早上,天气晴朗,......」
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(四) 译词推陈出新 1 P- E0 b1 Y: t# N( B1 G
例子:
; I/ Q; Q; i0 k% a5 LWhen he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with
/ g$ o% D  |/ b' C. w; Qdoubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a 7 a1 ~( y! Z% \$ E3 m8 i6 S
lower. ' r: y! h* {0 ?5 \3 L( b
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。 - I$ t/ \: E% r* j  L
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。 7 Z! {4 N, A4 a/ v$ m1 c( x$ i
原词 原译 改译
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* O3 ]8 V. }" ~2 p1 gwhen 当......的时候 等到......的时候 / _* [2 j, }4 X" q& z7 W& ], T

/ ]1 A' ^# l# ]# v6 zact with boldness 大胆行动 放胆去追求
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a 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
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6 J+ |8 I' P% S  ?0 Lin addition to 除了......之外 那就更是难免的了7 u5 }+ a6 o( K! A% i# U

, O7 p4 u% Q' V# P7 B(五) 解释性添词
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) c5 z2 Y. m/ t  u/ a3 z' v1 p"George, I'm ashamed of you! George, I couldn't have believed you would have
0 S/ c! `4 @4 o7 ?3 A/ g1 r3 Zdone it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I & j. P6 A9 b8 J; h
never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet
" C7 }5 c; |2 k5 T: M( aand the children to lie upon," said Mrs. Bagnet. 4 B7 J9 ^! R' @8 `6 ^
「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。 / {! z9 {9 F5 U5 W( D5 ?+ E+ a  e% f

  A* x/ Z+ `  z7 T4 D. Q3 ~! c(六) 词无定译 3 B* ]5 \9 w7 m/ w/ _7 E; N  Z
例子:
/ J" H' C+ Q) D# vIt is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or 5 I7 p; o4 @( V+ H( b. X. N
civilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later,
, [' O9 S* x7 Ohe carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous
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6 F5 B* Y; n/ L5 U2 s3 G; ]7 G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。
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(七) 精炼译词
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! H$ Q  ]7 P% L8 b- uA new dignity crept into his walk. 2 b( A9 t7 k$ I7 Z* W$ D8 g
原译:走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。
9 z# A* z* R1 i( ]改译:走起路来,不觉平添了几分尊严。 ) h% h3 z! L0 ?) V- o& ^6 c

9 D6 K! S- z4 M6 q, p(八) 删削"When"字 0 h. j8 T. R5 @# o' {  E5 Y- ]( _
例子:0 j1 @3 q1 G4 ~7 Y7 U9 O
1. When he saw me, he was startled.
0 T4 J* X" P$ v  [他看见我,吓了一大跳,(不译:当他看见我的时候,......)
% {% o) z6 T' e$ o% _2. "When your gals takes on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the
) w3 Y5 R# [' m0 _/ |1 dhead, and knocking on them round?" ( N7 y9 K1 N9 q
「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......) 2 Q& S. {) ?# N$ Y/ P

( j/ ~9 B. R- ^- {- v3 s5 i! v(九) 感叹词的不同译法 ) m: W, m  a& P! j, {
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1. "O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want
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/ H) A; l& I3 V$ c"Why, Eva, your room is full now."
) ~( d! B; e/ g% e+ D「嗐,妈妈,别这样﹗我喜欢这些花,把花给我吧,我要﹗」 ; Z3 ^( ~; _* N6 w: _
「得了吧,伊娃,你屋里的花都满了。」 4 C+ n4 ~3 t- _$ d( @3 f9 V- O
2. "Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?"
4 l  z1 r1 j7 f5 k* z「哟,真是怪事﹗」玛利说,「你干嘛非要这个不可?」
8 ^; l) c  k8 z3. ("...Haley, if you had any conscience.")
6 _/ M, h$ G) s. |2 X2 M% [9 w0 K"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to
% b1 y9 J- s( ]4 I: M3 |keep - just a little, you know, to swaer by, as were," said the trader, $ v  L; s+ ~! Z
jocularly; ... 0 N; G6 W& P2 |3 D2 M& \
"Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?" said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy
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$ G3 }* V3 l; R1 x2 j& C2 G「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;......
% l- ]3 T- M, g# X「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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; s2 [: r+ F! {9 P% Y7 c(十) 顺拆法 9 m+ ]: _9 I0 |8 `. Y& l1 c
例子: ( a4 A( f7 J' h, K5 ]8 ~: V( K
His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue
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social and demographic factors.
5 B3 B- c. P, V2 ]5 W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。 8 ]2 |1 [4 o4 Z, Y( _, k/ J' }
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。
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(十一) 倒拆法
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( |+ Z; |* u4 Z/ Z0 S, }To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute /
5 b& @1 Z6 J+ J/ a. v: qfor the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his * {7 [# e* a/ l8 B+ q" S
supposed conditon.
) \$ E9 x7 T: \( A' c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。 - R. \/ N, s  r! M. b2 z

. m2 o, l9 W! t8 M& b# |: ^(十二) 抽词拆句法 . }$ L5 Z0 }" i( J
例子: ( w5 S1 [+ T5 W
All the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the   ~* @+ b* y0 B( {+ ~2 u
eye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of   h! @: |5 q: l* R7 B7 r! c
growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.
3 i2 o3 N# G; z. N+ i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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