-
八级翻译的八大技巧及实例讲解
1.
选词
（
1
）
Among
prominent
summer
deaths,
one
recalls
those
of
Marilyn
Monroe
and
James
Deans
…
(2000)
说起那些英年早逝的杰出人物，人们自然会想到玛丽莲·梦露和詹姆斯·迪恩斯
< br>……
（
2
）
In
his classic novel,
The
Pioneers
, James Fenimore Cooper has his
hero, a land developer,
with his cousin
on a tour of the city he is building. (2003)
在其经典小说《开拓者》中，詹姆士·菲尼摩尔·库珀让主人公，一个土地开发商，带着他
表妹参观他正在建设的一座城市。
（
3
）
Do
not dicate to your author: try to become him.
(2005)
不要对作者发号施令
/
指手画脚，要努力站在作者的立场上。
（
4
）这儿水草肥美，让它们长得肥滚滚的，像些胖娃娃。
(
2007)
By eating the
luxuriant/lush/exuberant water grass, they grow
fat and look like chubby babies.
（
5
）会议室门口贴着一条通告：请与会者关闭手机。
(2009)
Usually a notice is put on the
front door of a conference room which reminds the
participants to
switch off their mobile
phones.
2.
词类转换
（
1
）
The rules of the game are an arbitrary
imposition of difficulty. (2001)
游戏规则就是把困难武断地强加于人。
（
2
）
In his classic novel,
The Pioneers
, James Fenimore
Cooper has his hero, a land developer,
with his cousin on a tour of the city
he is building. (2003)
在其经典小说《开拓者》中，詹姆士
·菲尼摩尔·库珀让主人公，一个土地开发商，带着他
表妹参观他正在建设的一座城市。
（
3
）
War
with all our might and with all the strength God
has given us, and to wage war against a
monstrous
tyranny
…
(2006)
尽我
们的力，用上帝赋予我们的全部力量，同一个穷凶极恶的暴政进行战争
……
（
4
）
Our
world is bursting with
knowledge
—
but desperately in
need of wisdom. (2007)
当今世界知识爆炸，而我们仍然十分迫切地需要智慧。
（
5
）也许它们要抓紧时间，在即将回家的最
后一刻再次咀嚼。
(2007)
Perhaps they
are using every minute to chew again before going
home.
Perhaps they are using every
minute to enjoy their last chew before being
driven home.
（
6
）尤
其在乡间，上千年来人们一直以不变的方式生活着。
（
2002
）
This
is
particularly
true
of
the
people
living
in
rural
areas/the
countryside
where
their
way
of
life/living has remained unchanged for
thousands of years.
（
7
）古来一切有成就的人，都很严肃地对待自己的生命
……
(2005)
Throughout history,
outstanding people have always been very serious
about their lives
…
词类转换有一定的规律可循，在汉英翻译中，汉语的动词常常
转换成英语的名词、形容词、
介词；
汉语的形容词和副词有时也
转换成英语的名词；
在英汉翻译中，
词类转换主要是英语
的名词、介词、形容词、副词转换成汉语的动词。
3.
形合和意合的转换
（
1
）
Winners are not afraid to do their own
thinking and to use their own knowledge. (2002)
成功者勇于独立思考，敢于展示才华。经过形合向意合的转换，译文更符合汉语的习惯。
（
2
）
Then for a little
while the
house feels huge and empty,
and I
wonder where
my self is
hiding. (2004)
接着有那么一小会儿，我感觉
屋子又大又空，不知道自我藏在何处。
(3) They
can separate facts from opinions and
don
’
t pretend to have all
the answers. (2002)
他们能区分客观事实和主观臆断，不假装什么都懂。
（
4
）人的智力需要开发，人的内心世界是需要
开发。
（
2008
）
< br>
Human beings need to tap into their
inner world, as is the case with their own
intelligence.
(5)
这样，他们可以贴近先
进的科学技术，去探索科学技术的奥秘。
（
2000
）
In this way they can
get closer to advanced science and technology so
as to probe their mysteries.
(6)
…
饿了吃糠甜如蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。
（
2004
）
…
when you are hungry, even
chaff tastes sweeter than honey; whereas when you
are full, honey
does not taste sweet at
all.
(7)
人是很有趣的，往
往在接触一个人时首先看到的都是他或她的优点。
（
2004<
/p>
）
Human beings are
interesting in that when you meet a person for the
first time, you are likely to
notice
only his or her merits.
（
8
）现今
180
万温哥华居民中，有一半不是
在本地出生的，每
4
个居民中就有一个是亚洲
< br>人。
（
1999
）
At the present, among the 1.8
million Vancouver residents, half of them are not
native-born and
one out of every four
residents is from Asia.
（
9
）
…
不肯虚度年华，不让时间白白地浪费掉
。
（
2005
）
…
unwilling to spend time
unproductively nor to let a single minute of their
lives slip by.
（
10
）孩子需要家庭，家庭似乎也需要孩子。
（
1999
）
Children need the
family, but the family seems also to need
children.
并句译法
（
1
）
一个人的生命究竟有多大意义，这有什么标准可以衡量吗？（
200
5
）
How
significant is a person
’
s
life? Is there a standard to evaluate it?
Is there a standard to evaluate the
significance of a person
’
s
life?
（
2
）
更为常见的是，一个人走着走着突然停下来，眼睛盯着手机屏幕发短信。他不在乎
停在马路中央还是厕所旁边。
It is an
all too familiar scene that someone walking down
the street suddenly stops to send text
messages, their eyes fixed on the phone
screen, regardless of whether they are in the
middle of the
street or next to a
public toilet.
（
3
）
大自然对人们的恩赐，无论贫富，一律平等。
（
2002
）
Nature
bestows the same favors upon all human beings,
whether they are rich or poor.
（
4
）
它们几乎没有一个顾得上抬起头来，看一眼这美丽的黄昏。
（
2007
）
Hardly any of them take time to raise
their heads to glance at the beautiful twilight.
（
5
）
打开手机象征我们与这个世界的联系。手机反映出我们的“社交饥渴症”
。
（
2009
）
< br>
Keeping our cell phones on
symbolizes our connection with the world and shows
our hunger for
social intercourse.
（
6
）
第二代属于工业技术博物馆，它所展示的是工业文明带来的各种阶段性结果。
The
second
generation
museums
are
those
of
industrial
technology
which
present
the
fruits
achieved by
industrial civilization at different stages of
industrialization.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
上一篇：14个字母的英文名字大全
下一篇：14大主题1000个英语单词