英语翻译课件ppt
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Qualifications (prerequisites)of Translators1. A translator must be well acquainted with the source language and target language;(1)Millet made a portrait of Lady Chesterfield, which flattered her.米勒为了逢迎切斯特菲尔德夫人而替她画了一幅画。
flatter: to make better looking than the reality米勒给切斯特菲尔德夫人画了一幅画,该像之美简直超过了她本人。
• 2. A translator must have considerable knowledge of the two cultures.•(1) John can be relied on. He eats no fish and plays the game.•约翰是可靠的。
他不吃鱼,还玩游戏。
•英国历史上宗教斗争激烈,旧教规定在斋日教徒可以吃鱼。
新教推翻旧教后,新教教徒拒绝吃鱼表示忠于新教。
所以“eat no fish”就转译为“忠诚”。
当然就要遵守规则,“play the game”就转译为“守规矩”。
•约翰是忠实的,他斋日不吃荤,凡事都循规蹈矩。
•(2) Then he was off to Columbia Business School, where he found his Rosetta Stone of investing.•“Rosetta Stone”是埃及古碑,意为“指点迷津的东西”,喻指“帮助理解难题的事物”。
•后来他进了哥伦比亚商学院,在那里找到了自己的投资指南。
Ⅰ. Definitiontranslate:trans- : across; to or into a different direction or thingtransform, transplant, transport, transmit, transfer, transnational-late : to carry acrosstranslate转化,转移,解释,翻新,翻译translatology翻译学,译学translatorese (translationese)翻译腔, (表达不流畅、不地道的)翻译文体translatability可译性untranslatability不可译性Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source language message, first in terms of meaning, and second in terms of style.-- Eugene Nida所谓翻译,是指从语义到风格译语中用最切近而又最自然的对等语再现原语的信息。