高级翻译理论
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1.5分合移位法⊙切分(Division)1.The reform,while laid a solid foundation,need to continue to evolve to meet the ever increasing demand of citizens and businesses for better integrated,more effective services.【译文】但是公共部门管理改革是一场没有终点线的比赛。
//改革已经为今后的工作奠定了坚实的基础,但仍然需要继续深化,才能提供更协调和更有效的服务,满足公众和企业不断增长的需求。
2.The Last Shadow did not fare well in the United States,but it did develop a huge following in Europe where viewers who usually did not go for this movie genre embraced it wholeheartedly.【译文】《最后的影子》在美国表现欠佳,但在欧洲却大受欢迎,//欧洲的观众通常不太喜欢这一类型的电影,但这次却全心接受了。
3.We tried in vain to persuade him to give up his wrong belief.【译文】我们尽力劝说他放弃错误的信念,//但没有成功。
4.It was a dangerously foolish area to which they pinned down a major portion of U. itary power.【译文】他们把美国一大部分军事力量困在那个地区,//这(样做)是愚蠢而危险的。
5.Hitler’s black empire would suddenly collapse in rubble,blood,and flame. (Winds of War)【译文】希特勒的黑暗帝国顷刻之间就会在血泊与烈火中崩溃,//夷为废墟。
211、985学长学姐组建为大家答疑解惑笔记备份:叶子南:高级英汉翻译理论与实践比较遵照原文语言结构的译法就是直译,并不专指“逐字”的程度在经济、科学、新闻、政论等语篇中,语言形式不是关键因素,在英汉翻译中发挥中文的优势是译者始终要努力的方向。
功能对等>形式对等既然已传达信息为主,那么介绍原语文化不应以牺牲译入语为代价,否则靠近原语的译法会生成很多不符合译入语习惯的句子。
以读者为中心而非作者,在英译汉中尤为突出翻译本身就是一件让人左右为难的事。
英汉语义对比:举例如democracy中西感觉是不一样的;It is not funny译成这不好笑,根本没有将说话人愤怒的情感表达出来。
汉语是人治的语言,印欧语系是法治的语言句法对比:一、英语重形合,汉语则重意合:鸡声茅店月,人迹板桥霜。
何等简洁,不须加动词即可表情达意。
汉语结构较为松散,重意念。
将一个重形合的语言转化成重意合的语言,最常犯的错误就是将形合的特点transfer到意合的语言中,现在很多译文充斥着洋腔洋调,却美其名曰“忠实原文”。
二、状语对比------------------------状语从句的译法,参考中国翻译和本书翻译技巧定语对比--------------------------定语从句的译法,参考中国翻译和本书翻译技巧被动句对比-----------------------译法参考中国翻译和本书翻译技巧篇章结构的不同实际上是思维结构不同在语言上的反映。
汉语中所谓的“布局谋篇”就是我们翻译当中牵涉到的语段篇章的安排问题。
英汉翻译是否保留原句的布局特征,还是应该采用译入语的布局特征是一个值得注意的问题。
其实大多数情况下采用贪懒的办法也是译者不得已而为之,因为译者根本就没有真正看懂原文。
第二个问题是译者的翻译思想有问题,认为这类贴近原文的译法才是忠实的译法。
正确的翻译思想应该是译文必须像中文,不带翻译腔,因为原文有原文读者读时并没有翻译腔。
17. MayhewCapri is a gaunt rock of austere outline, bathed in a deep blue sea; but its vineyards, green and smiling, give it a soft and easy grace①. It is friendly, remote, and debonair②. I find it strange that Mayhew should have settled on this lovely island, for I never knew a man more insensible to beauty. I do not know what he sought there, happiness, freedom, or merely leisure; I know what he found. In this place which appeals so extravagantly③to the senses he lived a life entirely of the spirit. For the island is rich with historic associations and over it broods always the enigmatic memory of Tiberius the Emperor. From his windows which overlooked the Bay of Naples, with the noble shape of Vesuvius changing color with the changing light, Mayhew saw a hundred places that recalled the Romans and Greeks. The past began to haunt④him. All that he saw for the first time, for he had never been abroad before, excited his fancy; and in his soul stirred the creative imagination⑤. He was a man of energy. Presently he made up his mind to write a history. For some time he looked about for a subject, and at last decided on the second century of the Roman Empire. It was little known and it seemed to him to offer problems analogous with those of our own day.He began to collect books and soon he had an immense library. His legal training had taught him to read quickly. He settled down to work. At first he had been accustomed to foregather in the evening with the painters, writers, and suchlike who met in the little tavern near the Piazza, but presently he withdrew himself, for his absorption in his studies became more pressing. He had been accustomed to bathe in that bland sea and to take long walks among the pleasant vineyards, but little by little, grudging the time, he ceased to do so⑥. He worked harder than he had ever worked in Detroit. He would start at noon and work all through the night till the whistle of the steamer that goes every morning from Capri to Naples told him that it was five o’clock and time to go to bed. His subject opened out before him, vaster and more significant⑦, and he imagined a work that would put him forever beside the great historians of the past. As the years went by he was to be found seldom in the ways of men. He could be tempted to come out of his house only by a game of chess or the chance of an argument. He loved to set his brain against another’s⑧. He was widely read now, not only on history, but in philosophy and science; and he was a skillful controversialist, quick, logical, and incisive⑨. But he had good-humor⑩and kindliness; though he took a very human pleasure in victory⑪, he did not exult in it to your mortification.By William S. Maugham 【参考译文】卡普里岛在深蓝色的大海中,远远望去仿佛是一块朴实无华的荒凉的岩石。
1.6定语从句Ⅰ.译为定语1.There will come a day when people the world over will live a happy life under the sun of socialism.【译文】全世界人民在社会主义阳光下过幸福生活的一天是会到来的。
2.Those who did not die from smallpox usually carried scars on their faces for life.【译文】那些没有死于天花的人通常脸上会终生留下疤痕。
3.This is the very hotel where they spent their honeymoon.【译文】这正是他们曾经度蜜月的那家旅馆。
4.The technique of organ transplant,as a significant surgical breakthrough to heal the wounded and rescue the dying,has saved a good many patients who are on the point of death.【译文】器官移植手术是外科方面的重大技术突破,目的是救死扶伤,已经挽救了许多濒临死亡的病人的生命。
5.Mr.Murdoch who owns the New York Post indicated that U.S.newspaper’s editorial strategies were to blame for their financial problems.【译文】拥有《纽约邮报》的默多克先生指出,美国报纸的编辑战略应承担报纸财务问题的责任。
【解析】这里的定语从句的翻译是典型的前置法。
翻译时按照汉语的习惯加个“的”字。
6.The people who worked for him lived in mortal fear of him.【译文】在他手下工作的人对他怕得要死。
叶子南高级英汉翻译理论与实践第3版笔记和考研真题详解展开全文第一部分翻译技巧篇复习笔记第1章翻译的基本概念和问题一、翻译基本问题的提出1. 翻译的定义(1)语际翻译与语内翻译广义地说翻译包括的范围很广,甚至可包括语言和非语言符号之间的转换。
本书讨论的翻译就是指如何将某一语言活动的言语产物转换到另一语言中去,也就是语际(interlingual)翻译。
严格地说,翻译还应包括某一语言内不同变体间的转换,也就是语内(intralingual)翻译。
这两类翻译在本质上颇有雷同之处,而且其核心问题都是如何把原文的意思在译文中说出来。
(2) 探索翻译的新概念随着现代语言学的发展,各类应用语言学分支学科应运而生,探索翻译的工具越来越得心应手,出现了许多关于翻译的新的概念,如“忠实”、功能对等、等值、信达雅等等。
但翻译的本质仍然是在某一特定的社会环境内进行交流的过程。
概括来说,翻译的定义就是把原文中的意思在译文中表达出来。
2. 原文意思在译文中的表达在翻译过程中,有些句子如照字面直接译过来意思就会不够清楚。
(1) 句子中的有些意思会紧紧地结合在语言本身的形式上使得译者将语言的形式照搬。
例:It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.【译文】这是一条举世公认的真理:凡是有钱的单身汉,总想娶位太太。
【解析】本句中it为形式主语,真正的主语是后面的that从句。
从翻译技巧上看,可先译that从句,后译It is a truth universally acknowledged,但是鉴于原文的语言形式有一种讽刺的口吻,译者有必要依照原文的句法结构进行翻译。
(2) 意思和语言结构完全绑在一起,而英汉两种语言结构上的不同造成了不可译性(untranslatability)。
2. Has Democracy a Future?Back to the question: Has democracy a future? Yes, Virginia①, it does, but not the glorious future predicted in the triumphalist moment. Democracy has survived the twentieth century by the skin of its teeth②. It will not enjoy a free ride③through the century to come.In America, democracy must run a gauntlet of challenges. The most crucial is still Du Bois’ color line. Much depends on the availability of jobs, especially in the inner city④. If employment remains high, political action will mitigate racial tensions, particularly when minorities understand that in the longer run ethnic gerrymandering⑤will reduce, not increase, their influence. Tension will be mitigated even more by intermarriage. Sex—and love—between people of different creeds and colors can probably be counted on to arrest the disuniting of America.The national capacity to absorb and assimilate newcomers will remain powerful. The call of the mainstream will appeal far more than linguistic or ethnic ghettos, above all to the young⑥. English will continue as the dominant language. Indeed, in essentials the national character will be recognizably much as it has been for a couple of centuries. People seeking clues to the American mystery will still read, and quote, Toequeville.Technology will rush on according to Adams’ law of acceleration. But for all⑦the temptations of interactivity⑧and all the unpopularity of elected officials, I doubt that Americans will sanction the degradation⑨of representative democracy into a system of plebiscites. Capitalism too will careen on, through downs as well as ups, but laissez-faire ideology will probably wane as capitalists discover the range of troubles the unfettered market cannot solve, or makes worse. Unbridled capitalism, with low wages, long hours, and exploited workers, excites social resentment, revives class warfare, and infuses Marxism with new life. To move along constructive lines, capitalism must subordinate short-term plans and profits to such long-term social necessities⑩as investment in education, research and development, environmental protection, the extension of health care, the rehabilitation of infrastructure, the redemption of the city. Capitalists are not likely to do this by themselves. Long- term perspectives demand public leadership⑪ and affirmative government.From Foreign Affairs, September/October 1997 【参考译文】回到我们原来的问题:民主有前途吗?有!①民主是有前途,但并不像人们在必胜信念、乐观心态盛行时期所预测的那种光辉灿烂的前途。
第11章尤金·奈达和他的翻译理论一、奈达翻译理论概述尤金·奈达(Eugene A. Nida)终生从事圣经翻译和翻译理论的研究,著作等身,是公认的当代翻译理论的主要奠基人。
1. “功能对等”(functional equivalence)(1) 定义:前身是“灵活对等”(dynamic equivalence)。
简单讲,功能对等就是要让译文和原文在语言的功能上对等,而不是在语言的形式上对应。
奈达把功能分成九类,译文应在这些功能上与原作对等。
但他把判断对等与否的大权交给了读者的心理反应。
①表现功能(expressive)②认识功能(cognitive)③人际功能(interpersonal)④信息功能(informative)⑤祈使功能(imperative)⑥行为功能(performative)⑦情感功能(emotive)⑧审美功能(aesthetic)⑨自我解释功能(metalingual)(2) 理论来源①语言学领域对语言外的因素产生了兴趣,各种语言学分支渐次诞生,如心理语言学、社会语言学、语用学、符号学等。
奈达理论中读者心理反应这一基石基本上得益于上述语言学方面的发展。
②乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)的转换生成语法。
乔姆斯基的早期理论中有关语言表层结构和深层结构转换的模式在很大程度上为奈达描写功能对等提供了工具。
2. 奈达的研究重心的变化(1) 早期的奈达从语言内营造他功能对等的理论,用了诸如转换生成语法、语义成分分析等具体方法来描写他的理论。
发表于1964年的Toward a Science of Translating,主要在语言学的框架下讨论翻译(也涉及了语言外的因素)。
他在该书中将语义细分成语法意义(linguistic meaning)、所指意义(referential meaning)和情感意义(emotive meaning)。
(2) 越往后,奈达就越重视社会文化因素。
1.8被动语态Ⅰ.将下列被动句翻译成汉语,保留原句主语。
1.His pride must be pinched.【译文】他这股傲气应该打下去。
2.The happy man cannot be handed.【译文】吉人自有天相。
3.This oil is used as perfume.【译文】这种油可以用作香水。
4.On their domestic stations events in the Middle East were dismissed briefly.【译文】在他们国内电台的广播中,中东事件只轻描淡写地报道了一下。
5.A new student is kept on probation for one semester.【译文】新学生规定要见习一个学期。
6.The whole country was armed in a few days.【译文】几天之内全国武装起来了。
7.This sort of advertisement is seen everywhere.【译文】这类广告四处可见。
8.X-ray examination of the chest and heart should be routinely performed.【译文】胸部和心脏X线检查应列为常规。
9.The article had been translated into English,but with little elegance to speak of.【译文】这篇文章译成英语后失去了不少文采。
10.Specifically,clear standards are being setting up for accountability,transparence and participatory governance.【译文】具体而言,明确的标准正在制定之中,为问责制、透明度和参与施政订立明确的标准。
《高级英汉翻译理论与实践》读书报告作者:庞中燕来源:《校园英语》 2018年第51期文/庞中燕【摘要】《高级英汉翻译理论与实践》这本书是在2001年清华大学出版社出版的图书,作者是叶子南。
这部书出版至今,已经有了第三次的修订版本。
由此可见,这本书对翻译研究产生了巨大的影响。
近年来,国内翻译研究取得了很大进步,学习翻译专业的人数也越来越多,这部书对我们在理论研究和翻译教学方面都有很大的帮助。
作为一名从事英语教学和翻译工作的教育工作者而言,这部书对我的教育生涯起到了很大的作用。
【关键词】英汉;翻译;理论;实践【作者简介】庞中燕,广西国际商务职业技术学院。
叶子南,浙江绍兴人。
毕业于浙江大学外语系,后在浙江大学教授英语和英汉翻译课,近十多年来任教于美国加州蒙特雷国际研究学院(MIIS)高级翻译语言学院。
早年从事科技翻译,近来的研究方向是翻译教学与应用翻译理论。
除本书外,还著有《英汉翻译对话录》(北大版),Introduction to Chinese-English Translation(纽约版、台北书林版、外研社版,合著)、《灵活与变通:英汉翻译案例讲评》(外文社版)和《认知隐喻与翻译实用教程》(北大版)。
此外作者长期为《中国翻译》“翻译自学之友”专栏撰稿,并一直为中国外文局翻译培训班和中国译协全国高校翻译老师培训班讲课。
多年来,这部书流传甚广,成了英语翻译研究的入门教材以及翻译研究者的必读书目。
本书将英汉翻译理论讲解与翻译实践指导结合起来,第一部分为理论技巧篇,综述翻译基本概念、技巧,对比语言文化,评介中西评论;第二部分为翻译实践篇,节录社会人文、科技法律、小说诗文等领域的英文篇章作为练习,提供两种具有代表性的参考译文,并附上详细精到的批改点评。
本书第一部分首先提出了英汉翻译中最常见的问题,以此引出讨论的话题。
这些问题大致有:1.直译还是音译?2.功能对等还是形式对应?3.重原文的形式还是重原文的内容?4.靠近源语还是靠近译入语?5.以原作者为中心还是以译文读者为中心?6.原作者写作的目的还是译者翻译的目的?然后作者从不同的角度,围绕这些根本性问题加以讨论,既涉及翻译中治本的问题,如从语言文化对比角度看翻译,文化与翻译等内容,也涉及翻译中治标的题目,如翻译技巧、翻译单位等,既有中国译论的概述,也有西方译论的介绍,既有浅显的涉笔,也有深入的讨论。
1.1解包袱法1.the first black president【译文】第一位与黑人关系密切的总统2.the first woman president【译文】第一位关心妇女问题的总统3.presidential historian【译文】专门研究总统生平的历史学家4.opinion leader【译文1】能影响或左右舆论的人【译文2】意见领袖(台湾译法)kboy【译文】送牛奶的男孩6.fireman【译文】消防员7.postman【译文】送邮件的人8.sick room【译文】病房9.criminally insane【译文】刑事法庭鉴定为患有精神病10.a morning person【译文】习惯早起的人11.a body shop【译文】车身修理厂(洗车店)12.manage forests sustainably【译文】管理森林,以便使其可以持续发展13.digital gap【译文】数字鸿沟/数位落差(台湾译法)【解析】对于已经形成相对固定的说法的包袱,可不解。
14.peak load【译文】峰值负荷15.satellite communications ground station equipment repairer【译文】卫星通讯地面站设备维修人员16.The divorce is less culturally acceptable in a society that is family-oriented.【译文】在以家庭为中心的社会文化背景下,离婚是难以接受的。
17.I am pleased to be here to offer a U.S.business perspective on one of today’s great quality challenges:building a high skills/high wage workforce.【译文】我很高兴能来此介绍一下美国商界对当今我们在素质方面所面临的挑战的看法,这项挑战就是如何建立一支高技术、高薪金的劳动队伍。