常见英语翻译解析.doc

原文:I’m not the first man who has made mistakes.
译文:自来出错的人多了,我又不是头一个。(黄邦杰:《译艺谈》)
赏析:译成“我又不是第一个出错的人!”也很忠实、通顺,只是平淡了一点。译成如上的汉语句子,说话人“死不悔改”的态度就活灵活现了。翻译是不应仅仅满足于达意,还要追求传神。
:The clear heaven overhead was emptied of all its spread over it,abruptlydarkening the Seven Hills.
译文:天宇澄清,余晖尽散,夜幕降临,罗马七丘顿时昏暗。(翁显良译)
赏析:读这样的译文,是否让您想到了盛行于汉魏六朝时期的赋?一般说来,过多的美化译文很容易歪曲原文的意义和精神,而此处译文却同原文在意义和精神上丝丝相扣,这就是见译者功力的地方了。
:There are books and books.
译文:书有种种,好坏不一。
赏析:一个看似简单的英文句子,要正确理解确需一番想象力和推理。理解正确了,还有表达的好坏,比如译成“(世上)有各种各样的书”,就没有“书有种种,好坏不一”来的整齐上口。
:These alternations of mood were the despair and joy of Ethan Frome.(EdithWharton:Ethan Frome)
译文:她这样一会儿一种情绪,叫伊坦时而灰心,时而高兴。赏析:将"alternations of mood"掰开译为“一会儿一种情绪”后面跟上叫伊坦时而如何、时而如何,自然、流畅。对比原文和译文,在水平上体现了不同的层次.
原文:Paula didn’t need any lessons when es to officepolitics.
译文:说到办公室里明争暗斗那一套,保拉可算是无师自通。
赏析:坊间可见的翻译教程在论及词的翻译时,大多谈到了词义的引申,学****翻译的朋友对这一技巧也烂熟于心,但如何引申却是个大学问。"office politics"引申译为“办公室里明争暗斗”,不能不让人佩服:没有对"officepolitics"词义的深刻理解,是断然不敢这么大胆的;"didn’t need any lessons"译为“可算是无师自通”。也颇值得称道;再加上句子结构的适当调整,佳译便诞生了。
:...while his father and mother had written a rather sad letter,deploring his precipitancy inrushing into marriage,but making the best of the matter by saying that,though a dairywoman wasthe last daughter-in-law they could have expected,their son had arrived at an age at which hemight be supposed to be the best judge.(Thomas Hardy:Tess of the