第十二章 科技文献的翻译
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Sensing Human Activity:GPS Tracking感应人类活动:GPS跟踪Stefan van der Spek1,*,Jeroen van Schaick1,Peter de Bois1,2and Remco de Haan1Abstract:The enhancement of GPS technology enables the use of GPS devices not only as navigation and orientation tools,but also as instruments used to capture travelled routes:assensors that measure activity on a city scale or the regional scale.TU Delft developed aprocess and database architecture for collecting data on pedestrian movement in threeEuropean city centres,Norwich,Rouen and Koblenz,and in another experiment forcollecting activity data of13families in Almere(The Netherlands)for one week.Thequestion posed in this paper is:what is the value of GPS as‘sensor technology’measuringactivities of people?The conclusion is that GPS offers a widely useable instrument tocollect invaluable spatial-temporal data on different scales and in different settings addingnew layers of knowledge to urban studies,but the use of GPS-technology and deploymentof GPS-devices still offers significant challenges for future research.摘要:增强GPS技术支持使用GPS设备不仅作为导航和定位工具,但也为仪器用来捕捉旅行路线:作为传感器,测量活动在一个城市或区域范围内规模。
Unit 1 Genetically modified foods -- Feed the World?If you want to spark a heated debate at a dinner party, bring up the topic of genetically modified foods. For many people, the concept of genetically altered, high-tech crop production raises all kinds of environmental, health, safety and ethical questions. Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions -- and vocal green lobbies -- the idea seems against nature.如果你想在某次晚宴上挑起一场激烈的争论,那就提出转基因食品的话题吧。
对许多人来说,高科技的转基因作物生产的概念会带来诸如环境、健康、安全和伦理等方面的各种问题。
特别是在有悠久的农业生产传统和主张环保的游说集团的国家里,转基因食品的主意似乎有悖自然。
In fact, genetically modified foods are already very much a part of our lives. A third of the corn and more than half the soybeans and cotton grown in the US last year were the product of biotechnology, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 65 million acres of genetically modified crops will be planted in the US this year. The genetic is out of the bottle.事实上,转基因食品已经成为我们生活重要的一部分。
Intelligent Power Supply英文With the rapid development of electronic technology, application field of electronic system is more and more extensive, electronic equipment, there are more and more people work with electronic equipment, life is increasingly close relationship. Any electronic equipment are inseparable from reliable power supply for power requirements, they more and more is also high. Electronic equipment miniaturized and low cost in the power of light and thin,small and efficient for development direction. The traditional transistors series adjustment manostat is continuous control linear manostat. This traditional manostat technology more mature, and there has been a large number of integrated linear manostat module, has the stable performance is good, output ripple voltage small, reliable operation, etc. But usually need are bulky and heavy industrial frequency transformer and bulk and weight are big filter.In the 1950s, NASA to miniaturization, light weight as the goal, for a rocket carrying the switch power development. In almost half a century of development process, switch power because of is small volume, light weight, high efficiency, wide range, voltage advantages in electric, control, computer, and many other areas of electronic equipment has been widely used. In the 1980s, a computer is made up of all of switch power supply, the first complete computer power generation. Throughout the 1990s, switching power supply in electronics,electrical equipment, into the rapid development. In addition, large scale integrated circuit technology, and the rapid development of switch power supply with a qualitative leap, raised high frequency power products of, miniaturization, modular tide.Power switch tube, PWM controller and high-frequency transformer is an indispensable part of the switch power supply. The traditional switch power supply is normally made by using high frequency power switch tube division and the pins, such as using PWM integrated controller UC3842 + MOSFET is domestic small power switch power supply, the design method of a more popularity.Since the 1970s, emerged in many function complete integrated control circuit, switch power supply circuit increasingly simplified, working frequency enhancesunceasingly, improving efficiency, and for power miniaturization provides the broad prospect. Three end off-line pulse width modulation monolithic integrated circuit TOP (Three switch Line) will Terminal Off with power switch MOSFET PWM controller one package together, has become the mainstream of switch power lC development. Adopt TOP switch lC design switch power, can make the circuitsimplified,volume further narrowing, cost also is decreased obviousiy.Monolithic switching power supply has the monolithic integrated, the minimalist peripheral circuit, best performance index, no work frequency transformer can constitute a significant advantage switching power supply, etc. American Pl (with) company in Power in the mid 1990s first launched the new high frequency switching Power supply chip, known as the "top switch Power", with low cost, simple circuit, higher efficiency. The first generation of products launched in 1994 represented TOP100/200 series, the second generation product is the TOPSwitch - debuted in 1997 П .The above products once appeared showed strong vitality and he greatly simplifies the design of 150W following switching power supply and the development of new products for the new job, also, high efficiency and low cost switch power supply promotion and popularization created good condition, which can be widely used in instrumentation, notebook computers, mobile phones, TV, VCD and DVD, perturbation VCR, mobile phone battery chargers, power amplifier and other fields, and form various miniaturization, density, on price can compete with the linear manostat AC/DC power transformation module.Switching power supply to integrated direction of future development will be the main trend, power density will more and more big, to process requirements will increasingly high. In semiconductor devices and magnetic materials, no new breakthrough technology progress before major might find it hard to achieve, technology innovation will focus on how to improve the efficiency and focus on reducing weight. Therefore, craft level will be in the position of power supply manufacturing higher in. In addition, the application of digital control IC is the future direction of the development of a switch power. This trust in DSP for speed and anti-interference technology unceasing enhancement. As for advanced control method, now the individual feels haven't seen practicability of the method appears particularly strong, perhaps with the popularity of digital control, and there are some new control theory into switching power supply.(1) The technology: with high frequency switching frequencies increase, switchconverter volume also decrease,power density has also been boosted, dynamic response improved. Small power DC - DC converter switch frequency will rise to MHz. But as the switch frequency unceasing enhancement, switch components and passive components loss increases, high-frequency parasitic parameters and high-frequency EMI and so on the new issues will also be caused.(2) Soft switching technologies: in order to improve the efficiency of non-linearity of various soft switch, commutation technical application and hygiene, representative of soft switch technology is passive and active soft switch technology, mainly including zero voltage switch/zero current switch (ZVS/ZCS) resonance, quasi resonant, zero voltage/zero current pulse width modulation technology (ZVS/ZCS - PWM) and zero voltage transition/zero current transition pulse width modulation (PWM) ZVT/ZCT - technical, etc. By means of soft switch technology can effectively reduce switch loss and switch stress, help converter transformation efficiency.(3) Power factor correction technology (IC simplifies PFC). At present mainly divided into IC simplifies PFC technology passive and active IC simplifies PFC technology using IC simplifies PFC technology two kinds big, IG simplifies PFC technology can improve AC - DC change device input power factor, reduce the harmonic pollution of power grid.(4) Modular technology. Modular technology can meet the needs of the distributed power system, enhance the system reliability.(5) Low output voltage technology. With the continuous development of semiconductor manufacturing technology, microprocessor and portable electronic devices work more and more low, this requires future DC - DG converter can provide low output voltage to adapt microprocessor and power supply requirement of portable electronic devicesPeople in switching power supply technical fields are edge developing related power electronics device, the side of frequency conversion technology, development of switch between mutual promotion push switch power supply with more than two year growth toward light, digital small, thin, low noise and high reliability, anti-interference direction. Switching power supply can be divided into the AC/DC and DC/DC two kinds big, also have AC/AC DC/AC as inverter DC/DC converter is now realize modular, and design technology and production process at home and abroad, are mature and standardization, and has approved by users, but the AC/DC modular, because of its own characteristics in the process of making modular, meetmore complex technology and craft manufacture problems. The following two types of switch power supply respectively on the structure and properties of this.Switching power supply is the development direction of high frequency, high reliability, low consumption, low noise, anti-jamming and modular. Because light switch power, small, thin key techniques are changed, so high overseas each big switch power supply manufacturer are devoted to the development of new high intelligent synchronous rectifier, especially the improvement of secondary devices of the device, and power loss of Zn ferrite (Mn) material? By increasing scientific and technological innovation, to enhance in high frequency and larger magnetic flux density (Bs) can get high magnetic under the miniaturization of, and capacitor is a key technology. SMT technology application makes switching power supply has made considerable progress, both sides in the circuit board to ensure that decorate components of switch power supply light, small, thin. The high frequency switching power supply of the traditional PWM must innovate switch technology, to realize the ZCS ZVS, soft switch technology has become the mainstream of switch power supply technical, and greatly improve the efficiency of switch power. For high reliability index, America's switch power producers, reduce by lowering operating current measures such as junction temperature of the device, in order to reduce stress the reliability of products made greatly increased.Modularity is of the general development of switch power supply trend can be modular power component distributed power system, can be designed to N + 1 redundant system, and realize the capacity expansion parallel. According to switch power running large noise this one defect, if separate the pursuit of high frequency noise will increase its with the partial resonance, and transform circuit technology, high frequency can be realized in theory and can reduce the noise, but part of the practical application of resonant conversion technology still have a technical problem, so in this area still need to carry out a lot of work, in order to make the technology to practional utilization.Power electronic technology unceasing innovation, switch power supply industry has broad prospects for development. To speed up the development of switch power industry in China, we must walk speed of technological innovation road, combination with Chinese characteristics in the joint development path, for the high-speed development of national economy to make the contribution.中文智能开关电源随着电子技术的高速发展,电子系统的应用领域越来越广泛,电子设备的种类也越来越多,电子设备与人们的工作、生活的关系口益密切。
科技文本:科学专著、科学论文、实验报告、工程技术说明、科技文献、科普文献等•一、科技文本的特点与英译原则•(1)特点:用词严谨、准确,行文规范,逻辑严密,注重客观性,一般不带个人感情色彩。
已经从ESP中形成一个分支:EST.•(2)英译原则:• a.用词多样化,专业术语多,使用缩略语•purely technical words:•nuclear physics: proton(质子), neutron(中子), electron(电子), reactor(核反应堆), radioactivity(放射性).•semi-technical words:•fastener(建筑扣件), carrier(车床底座), gear switch(齿轮开关), clamp(夹钳), spade(铁铲).•non-technical words:•vapourate, minimize, reciprocate(报酬)科技文本缩略语的翻译:•(1)首字母缩写(acronym)•PC:Personal Computer•IDDD:International direct distance dialiry•DNA:dexoxybonucleic acid•DOS:Disc operation system•CPU:Central processing unit•Telecom:telecommunication•(2)拼凑法•Sicom:situation comedy Biorhythm:Biological rhythm Comsat:communication satellite Minicom:miniature computer •Psywar:psychological war Telecon:telephone conferenceb.语法特点:多用一般现在时;c.名词化现象,注意转换(汉语-动态语言,英语-静态语言)•eg.The house is under construction.•(The house is being constructed.)•例句:中国已经成功地发射了第一课实验通讯卫星。
英文文献翻译二〇一二年五月三十日Integrated wiring systemModern science and technology progress has made rapid development of computer and network technology, provides a more powerful computer processing capacity and network communication ability. The computer and network communication technology can greatly improve the modern enterprise production management efficiency, reduce the operation cost, and makes the modern enterprise can obtain more effectively and timely decision market information, provide more quickly, more satisfactory service to customers, in the competition. The computer and network communication technology has become a key factor in the success of the company.Integrated cabling system in order to meet the development needs is specially designed a set of cabling system. For modern buildings, such as the body, it adopted a series of nerve of high quality standard, modular combinations of material, the voice, data and image and control signal system using uniform transmission media, through comprehensive, integrated unified planning design in a set of standard cabling system in modern architecture, the three subsystems will connect organically, and system integration for the modern architecture provides a physical medium. Structured cabling system can directly related to the success of the modernization of the building, choose a high quality of integrated wiring system is of vital importance.Computer and communication networks are dependent on wiring system as the physical basis of network connections and information transmission channel. The traditional single application on a particular special layout techniques, lack of flexibility and development of, can not meet the rapid development of modern business needs of network applications. The new generation of structured cabling systems provide the user the required data, voice, fax, video and other information service connections, which allows voice and data communications equipment, switching equipment, information management systems and equipment control system , security system connected to each other, but also to make these devices with external communication networks. It includes the building to the external network or phone line connection Bureau,with the work area of voice or data terminals associated with all the cables and wiring components. Cabling system composed by different series of components, including: transmission media, line management of hardware, connectors, sockets, plugs, adapters, transmission electronic circuits, electrical protection equipment and support. Compared with the previous wiring, cabling system features can be summarized as:Practicality: after the implementation of cabling systems will be able to adapt to the modern and future communication technology development and implementation of voice, data, unified communications, signal transmission.Flexibility: wiring system can satisfy the requirements of various applications, information points to any connection of different types of terminal equipment, such as telephone, computer, printer, computer terminal, electric machine, various sensors and image monitoring equipment.Modularity: integrated cabling system in fixed in buildings, the level of all cable connectors are basic type of the standard, all voice, data and interconnection of building automation, network and image, with convenient use, equipment, change, management and expansion.Scalability: integrated wiring system is for future expansion, more use, easy to expand into new equipment.Economy: the integrated wiring system enables managers, and at the same time, reduce the modular structure, work because of the difficulty of future changes greatly reduced the cost or moving system.General: to meet the standard of international communication and computer network topology structure, can adapt different transmission speed communication can adapt to the requirement, can support and accommodate various computer network operation.1 workspace subsystemPurpose is to realize the workspace terminal equipment and level of connections between subsystems, the terminal devices connected to the information socket connection cables. Workspace used computer, networkequipment is distributed (on), telephone, or may alarm detector, camera, monitors, acoustics, etc.2 Horizontal subsystemPurpose is to realize information socket and management subsystem (jumper wire connection between frame), will lead to the management subsystem of user workspace, and to provide users with one accord with international standard pronunciation, satisfy the requirements and the high-speed data transmission information points. The subsystem of information from a job, decorate the socket to the inside of the administrative levels of the cable distribution frames. In the system of transmission medium of UTP (4) shielding twisted-pair cable, it can support the most modern communication equipment. If you need some broadband application, you can use fiber. Information ISDN8 for export by core RJ45 jack (standard), each information socket outlets can be flexibly according to actual application requirements and optional change purposes.3 the management subsystemThis sub-system connected by a cross, composed of interconnect patch panel. Management point of connection means to connect to other subsystems. Cross-connect and interconnect allows communication lines locate or relocate to different parts of the building to make it easier to manage communication lines, so that when the mobile terminal device easily plug. Interconnection distribution frame connections under different hardware sub-floor distribution frame (box) IDF and MDF (box) MDF, IDF can be installed on each floor of the trunk connection between, MDF is usually installed in the equipment room.4 vertical lines subsystemPurpose is to achieve the computer equipment, pabx (PBX), with the management subsystem of control center is building a connection between the main cable, routing. This is usually between two units subsystem, especially in the central point in the public system provides more line facilities. By building the system all vertical lines and more logarithmic cable support hardware, toprovide total distribution frames and main equipment room wiring between floors between the main distribution frames routing. Common medium is multi-cores cable and optical fiber cable twisted-pair.5.Equipment room subsystemThis subsystem is mainly from the devices in the cable, connectors and related hardware support, the role of the computer, PBX, cameras, monitors and other weak and connected to the interconnection of equipment up on the main distribution frame. Equipment includes computer systems, network hub (Hub), network switches (Switch), program-controlled switchboards (PBX), audio output devices, CCTV control devices and alarm control center, etc.6 Buildings subsystem (Campus):The subsystem will be extended to cable a building complex of other buildings of the communications equipment and devices, is part of a structured cabling system to support the provision of buildings in the hardware required for communication between. It consists of cables, fiber optic cable and into the Building Department, over-current over-voltage protection equipment and other related electrical hardware, commonly used medium is optical fiber. Compared with the traditional routing, integrated wiring construction as a modern information transmission system, its main advantages are: Traditional wiring specification due to lack of a unified, user must choose a variety of different application types of cables, connectors and wiring, resulting in duplication of cable laying waste, lack of flexibility and can not support the development needs of the user application re-wiring; integrated wiring system integration requirements of modern architecture transmission of voice, data, video and other information, using international standardized information interface and performance specifications, to support multi-vendor equipment and protocols to meet the rapid development of modern enterprise information application needs.Integrated wiring system, the user can according to actual needs or changing office environment, flexible and convenient way to achieve change and restructuring routes, adjusting the mode of building the network required to fully meet user business needs.Structured cabling system is the star topology wiring methods and standard interfaces, which greatly improves over all network reliability and manageability, significantly reduce system management and maintenance costs. The modular system design to provide a good system scalability and future-oriented application development support, fully guaranteed the user's investment in cabling, providing customers a long-term benefits.Cabling System can solve the traditional wiring methods exist many problems, provides long-term benefits of advanced and reliable solutions. With the rapid development of modern information technology, integrated wiring system will be indispensable to modern intelligent building infrastructure.综合布线系统现代科技的进步使计算机及网络技术飞速发展,提供越来越强大的计算机处理能力和网络通信能力。
Human Geomatics in Urban Design—Two Case Studies在城市设计中的人类地理信息学——两个案例研究Małgorzata Hanzl1,*,Karol Dzik2,Paulina Kowalczyk2,Krystian Kwieciński2,Ewa Stankiewicz2and AgataŁ.Wierzbicka2Abstract:The mapping of different aspects of urban phenomena and their relation to thephysical cityscape has been greatly extended by the use of geomatics.The tradition to basereasoning on‗understanding the world‘dates from the time of Aristotle.The extensionplan for Barcelona(Eixample),developed by Cerdà,which opened the era of modern urbanplanning,was preceded by analyses of rich data,describing both detailed demographicissues and physical structures.The contemporary,postmodernist city planning continuesthis tradition,although a shift towards analyses of more human-related issues can beobserved,covering,inter alia,citizens‘perception,cultural differences and patterns ofhuman activities with regard to distinct social groups.The change towards a morehuman-related perspective and the inclusion of urban morphology analyses are directconsequences of this trend.The required data may be gathered within a crowd-sourcingparticipation process.According to communicative planning theory,communication withthe wider public is indispensable in order to achieve the best results,and can be realizedwith the use of sophisticated IT tools.Evidence-based reasoning may be supported byimages of significant aesthetic values,which inspire immediate reactions.Keywords:GIS;crowd-sourcing;mash-up;education;urban planning;urban analyses摘要:不同方面的城市现象及其与物理城市景观的关系映射经由地理信息学的使用已经大大扩展了。
Text 121、随着人们对福岛核泄漏事故的担忧日益加剧,是否有可能精确计量核辐射对健康的直接和持续性影响?以下是核辐射疾病和日本面对的其他威胁背后的科学依据。
2、3月11号,日本发生了地震和海啸。
一场强大的,震级达9.0级的大地震袭击了日本的东北部,引发了波及美国西海岸的高达10米的海啸。
以下是这场灾难背后的科学依据。
3、紧随3月11号的地震和海啸而来的福岛第一大核电站不断发展的危机引起了人们对核辐射对健康的影响的担忧:核辐射的“危险“水平是多少?辐射如何影响健康?严重且长期的低剂量辐射有什么结果?4、尽管放射性水蒸气已经被释放,减小了毁坏的复合体反应堆内的压强,而且在那的三次爆炸导致更多的辐射泄露,但是由此导致的辐射水平激增并没有持续。
迄今报道的最高辐射水平是当地时间3月15号上午10点22分在3号反应堆测量的400毫西弗特的脉冲。
(西弗特是电离辐射的单位,等同于100雷姆;雷姆是X射线和伽马射线辐射的剂量单位)随着远离事故发生点,辐射水平剧烈下降。
位于西南方向大约220km的东京的辐射水平据报道只比正常水平略高一点。
5、华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校的健康物理学家和辐射安全官员Susan nghorst 说:“我们离人们应该担心的距离水平还很远。
”6、根据研究过1986年切尔诺贝利灾难的国际放射防护委员会副主席亚伯.岗萨雷斯所言,目前来自日本的关于辐射泄露水平的信息是不完善的,而且关于“可能出现最糟糕的情况”的推测是不切题的。
7、核辐射对健康的影响取决于它的水平,类型和持续时间。
放射性水平8、普通人每年暴露在0.2到0.3毫西弗特的本底辐射之下,这是宇宙射线和来自建筑材料以及环境中自然放射性物质的辐射共同作用的结果。
9、美国核能管理委员会建议,在这个背景水平之外,公众每年接触到的核辐射量应限制在1毫西弗特之内。
美国对辐射工作人员的限制是每年50毫西弗特,不过很少有工作人员接触到的核辐射量接近这个水平。
第十二章科技文献的翻译科技文献是对科技理论、科研过程、科研成果及其推广应用的陈述,其特点是用词准确、语言明了、行文简洁、表达客观、条理清楚、内容确切。
科技作品翻译要注意尽量符合这些持点,力求准确、清楚、通顺。
本章将从词汇、句法和文体三个方面,简要介绍科技文献的特点及其英译处理。
第一节词汇特点及英译科技文献中通常会出现大量的专业术语。
作品越专,专业术语用的也就越多。
因此,翻译此类文献,首先必须弄懂文章的科技内容,然后准确通顺地用英文表达。
一、专业术语翻译专业术语因专业而异。
翻译时,首先要熟悉专业知识,根据所译材料的不同学科和不同专业领域,仔细分析上下文,然后选择正确、符合专业要求的词汇。
拿不准时,要勤查专业英文资料、词典、互联网,或请教他人,以求得确切的译文。
例如:1.高清晰度电视High-definition television (HDTV)2.一艘吃水5米的船a ship of 5m draught3.温室效应the greenhouse effect4.遗传工程生物品种genetically-engineered organisms5. 克隆技术cloning technology6.纳米技术nanometer technology翻译这类词汇切不可望文生义,而应根据其所在学科领域和所处的上下文认真分析,搞清真实含义、选择恰当的英语对应词。
再如:1.如蓄电池的电平降低过甚,电话机随即自动断路。
The telephone turns off by itself if the level of power in the battery falls too low.2.直线被称作是一维的。
A line is said to have one dimension.3. 大气中臭氧层保护地球免受太阳的有害辐射。
Ozone in the atmosphere protects the earth from harmful radiation from the sun.4. 到2050年左右,土壤中细菌的碳释放量有可能大于林木的吸收量,地球会加速变暖。
Around 2050, the amount of carbon released from the soil by bacteria would be greater than the amount soaked up by trees, and global warming would be accelerated.二、非专业词汇的翻译科技文献中除了专业术语外,还有大量的非专业化的常用词汇。
在翻译中常会遇到一些词或词组,无法直接搬用辞典中的释义。
在此情况下,就要在弄清原文词义的基础上,根据上下文的逻辑关系和英语的搭配习惯,对词义加以引申,使译文准确、简明,符合该学科专业的表达习惯。
常采用的译法有如下几种:1.按照英语的搭配习惯引申词义:(1)人类对于自然界的变化规律始终怀有巨大的兴趣。
Man has always had a great interest in how nature works.(2)古希腊文明社会使用过七种金属:金、银、铜、铁、锡、铅和水银。
The classical Greek civilization knew of seven metals: gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and mercury.说明:英文中,civilization不能与use搭配,故我们把汉语的“使用过”译成英文的“knew of”。
(3)全息图像一定要直接透过底片才能观看。
因此,底片的尺寸使同时观看的人数受到限制。
The holographic image must be viewed by looking directly through the film. Consequently, the size of the film limits the size of the audience that may view it at one time.说明:汉语中“人数”是指复数,但英语中“audience”一词不能与“number”搭配,故译成“the size of the audience”,同时与上文“the size of the film”相呼应。
2.省略原文中的一些重复用词(1)按照传统说法,化学已逐步发展成了四大分支:有机化学、无机化学、物理化学和分析化学。
Traditionally, chemistry has evolved into four provinces: organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry.(2)材料首先发生弹性变形,然后发生塑性变形。
The material will deform at first elastically and then plastically.(3)这些气体在达到蒸发温度或接近蒸发温度时迅速释出。
These gases are normally released rapidly at or near evaporation temperatures.3. 用表示动作意义的英语名词来表示诸如“现象、作用、方法、方式、过程、原理、情况”等概念。
(1)我们不可能预见到每一件可能发生的事件。
We cannot foresee every possible happening.(2)必须克服技术资料不足的现象。
The lack of technical data must be overcome.(3)这种微波的传播原理要用方程来解释。
The propagation of such microwaves will be explained in terms of equations.练习(见教材第333~334页)第二节句法特点及英译与科技汉语相比,科技英语在句法上有物称多于人称、受事多于施事等显著特点。
此外,汉英科技文章不同的句法结构也决定了句子成分及句子结构转换的必然性。
本节将主要讨论科技文献汉译英中物称与人称的处理问题,以及句子成分或句子结构的转换问题。
一、物称与人称的英译处理人称即以有生命物体(包括人)作主语,物称指以无生命物体作主语。
科技英语重物称的特点主要体现在名词化结构和被动语态的广泛应用上。
下面分别举例说明:1.名词化结构的应用科技英语中名词化结构指主导名词后附加介词短语或非限定动词的结构。
名词化结构行文简洁,表达客观,内容确切,负载信息量大,便于写作修辞。
而这些特点正是科技文体所要求的。
充分认识这一点,对科技翻译大有稗益。
请看例句:(1)电视通过无线电波发射和接受活动物体的图象。
Television is the transmission and reception of images of moving objects by radio waves.(2)在物体上作用另一个力,可以改变物体的运动方向。
The direction of motion can be changed by the action of another force on a body.(3)气体通过被冷却物体的速度决定热传递的速度。
The velocity of gas passing over the object to be cooled determines the rate of heat transferred to the objects.2.被动语态的运用根据科技英语广泛使用被动语态的特点,汉译英时可相应地把一些汉语主动句变成英语被动句。
例如:(1)自动生产线工作正常。
The automatic production line is found in proper operation.(2)自从采用数控以来,生产率大大提高了。
Since numerical control was applied to machine tools, the productivity has been raised greatly.(3)它只是星际空间的一块岩体,受火星引力作用而被吸引住,并沿着轨道环绕火星运动。
It is a space rock captured and now held in orbit by the gravity force of Mars.此外,汉语无主句以及以“我们、人们、大家、一切”作主语的句子,也往往被译作英语被动语态。
例如:(1)大家都知道,人体能产生微弱的磁场。
Weak magnetic fields are known to come from the human body.(2)我们知道,卡路里是指食物供给身体的热量的单位。
Calorie is known to be a measure of the heat energy of food given to the human body.(3)我们将理论设想与模拟实验结果进行比较,发现该理论设想完全可以应用于电力系统。
The theoretical prediction was compared with the results from the simulated tests and was found to be applicable to power system.(4)在进行某些地下核试验以后的几周后,可以记录到大量微弱的余震。
After some underground nuclear tests, large numbers of tiny aftershocks can be recorded during the next few weeks.(5)为了取代那些燃料,应较多地利用太阳能与风能来提供电力、热能和运输的动力。
In place of these fuels, more sun and wind power should be used to provide electricity, heat, and transportation power.(6)利用发电机,能够将机械能再转变成电能。
The mechanical energy can be changed back into electrical energy by a generator.其次,汉语中常以主动形式表示被动意义。
此时,也应利用过去分词等手段将其转换成英语被动形式。
例如:(1)举起的物体具有势能。
Lifted bodies have potential energy.(2)试验结果表明多数人工制造的同位素都具有放射性。