新闻英语与翻译(handout)1

新闻英语与翻译

新闻英语的句法特点【例】

Fire in lagos destroys foreign ministry offices

LAGOS, Dec. 15(Reuter)

–

The

Nigerian

foreign

ministry's

offices

were

completely

destroyed

by

a

fire

in

the

center of Lagos Monday night.

Eyewitnesses

gave

conflicting

reports

about

the

number

of

people

injured

in

the

blaze, which firemen suspect was caused by an electrical fault.

One

fireman

said

four

people

had

been

rescued

from

the

ministry,

suffering

from

minor injuries.

About 100

firemen

were unable

to prevent the

blaze

spreading

to buildings

beside

the seven-storey ministry.

The foreign ministry, which lost many valuable records in the blaze, was due to be

moved to a new site shortly.

The building, completely gutted by the blaze, also housed offices of the information

ministry and the ministry of science and technology.

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新闻英语的篇章特点【例】

County heads resign for fatal mining flooding

标题

() Updated: 2006-06-03 21:30

The

two

top

heads

of

Zuoyun

County

in

Shanxi

Province,

where

a

coal

mine

flooding has left 56 miners trapped and feared dead after two weeks, have resigned,

the local legislature said Saturday.

导语

The Standing Committee of the Zuoyun County People's Congress approved the

resignations

filed

by

Zhang

Mingsheng,

former

county

magistrate of

Zuoyun

people's government, and his deputy head Shi Lu, who was in charge of the county's

coal production, on Friday night.

主要事件概述

（何人、何时、何地、何事、何故 ）

The local work safety authorities have attempted to cover up the fatal accident

by reporting that only five miners were trapped.

No reason was given for their resignations, but it is obvious that they resigned to

take blame for the mining accident.

对主要事件的解释或阐述（导语的深化）

In the more than two weeks since flooding trapped the 56 miners underground,

top safety authorities have depicted the Xinjing mine as plagued by mismanagement

and negligence and sought to punish officials in an example to the accident-plagued

mining industry.

次要事件概述：发生在主要事件之前：何时、何地、何事

The

accident

in

Zuoyun,

in

the

heart

of

coal

country

in

Shanxi

province,

was

shocking.

Mine

managers

first

tried

to

cover

up

the

accident,

and

in

its

wake

investigators found that the mine was over-mining and digging in seams outside its

licensed area.

Before Friday's resignations, at least 10 mine managers and two officers from a local

bank had been detained and three local government officials suspended from duty -

in a sign of apparent collusion between the mine and officials.

何事、如何（后果）

新闻文本的翻译的原则

新闻语言的本 质特性是如实呈现客观事实的语言，

新闻语言是新闻与受众的中介，

是促

使新闻传播过程的良性循环的关键。因此，新闻文本的翻译首先应遵循以下原则 ：

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准确翻译新闻词语；

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坚持严谨的翻译态度与作风；

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翻译新闻报道时，汉语译文不已太俗或太雅；

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一般来说，各类新闻体裁的作品都 以提供

“

事实

”

或

“

消息

”

为目的，避免使用激情的

语言。

SL

：

Each

time

he

speaks,

Bush

has

to

be

mindful

of

the

need

to

preach

hope

to

Israelis

and

Palestinians, cajole moderate Arabs, warn rogue states, reassure European allies and point a finger

at would-

be terrorists. It’s a huge piece of

multitasking

for a man who is best at doing one thing at

a time.

TL

；

SL:

The

death

of

the

Princess

of

Wales

unleashed

outpourings

of

newly-coined

honorifics,

for

instance “a present

-

day Cinderella whose clock stuck midnight all too soon”.

TL

：

SL:

In

Barcelona,

office

space

in

one

of

the

new

44-story

towers

(the

other

is

a

hotel)

at

the

Olympic Village has helped to ease the office

crunch

.

TL

：

SL:

…

job

candidates

with

the

right

skills

will

be

in

hot

demand.

As

Mitch

Potter

of

human-

resources consultant William M. Mercer says, “The dotcom bubble created a false talent

crunch

. The real one

is coming”.

TL

：

SL; Hasson Awadh grew up in a part of the world scarred by terrorism, but he never stared down

the barrel of a rifle until last week. At 2:25 a. m. last Wednesday, a man wearing a white rubber

mask and a black hooded coat walked into Awad

h’s Marathon gas station in Gary, Ind., and, with

no

evident

purpose

other

than

vengeance,

opened

fire

with

a

high-powered

assault

rifle.

The

43-year-old

native

of

Yemen

dived

for

cover

behind

his

cash

register,

as

a

fusillade

of

bullets

pierced the one- inch-thick supposedly bulletproof glass he stood behind. Awadh crawled to a back

room

and

prayed

to

Allah

to

spare

his

life.

“I

still

hear

the

sound

of

the

bullets,”

says

Awadh

whose assailant is still at large. “That scary mask. It is still in front of my eyes.”

（新闻特写的导

语翻译）?

TL

：

Translation practice

Text 1

（

Complete translation

）

Congo Volcano Eruption Will Hurt Wildlife

Story by Fiona O'Brien

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE

NAIROBI

-

Many

wild

animals

in

the

forests

around

Congo's

Nyiragongo

volcano

are

likely

to

be

harmed

by

the

torrent

of

lava,

ash

and

sulphurous

gas

pouring

from

the

crater, wildlife experts said on the weekend.

Nyiragongo

is

one

of

eight

volcanoes

on

the

borders

of

Rwanda,

the

Democratic

Republic

of

Congo

and

Uganda,

a

region

dense

with

tropical

forests

and

famously

home

to

rare

mountain

gorillas. However the gorillas inhabit only the slopes of the six dormant volcanoes, and experts

said they should be safe from direct impact from the destruction inflicted by Nyiragongo on the

town of Goma and nearby forest.

It is unlikely that the forest the gorillas inhabit will be affected greatly. However, chimpanzees

and other wildlife in the forest around Nyiragongo will probably be devastated.

When Nyiragongo

last erupted

in

1977, killing scores of people and

gutting the town,

there

were reports of elephants being found in the rubble alongside the human debris of cars and

houses.

The

recent

eruption

would

affect

every

level

of

the

mountain's

ecosystem,

from

worms

to

primates.

The problem is the physical destruction of habitat, and of course the sulphur gases over the

area.

Obviously some animals have some possibility of moving to other places, snakes for example,

but some will be trapped in the area...The impact is enormous. While the mountain gorillas are

too

far

from

Nyiragongo

to

fear

immediate

harm,

the

long- term

effects

from

the

volcano's

eruption could be more severe.

The ecological integration in the whole region is going to be affected one way or another; Also

the movement of the population, refugees, may lead to some instability in the region. This may

lead to some problems for gorillas.

There

are

also

fears

that

the

lava

pouring

into

Lake

Kivu

beside

Goma

will

severely

contaminate

the

water

and

may

even

cause

explosions,

due

to

the

lake's

unusual

accumulation

of

carbon

dioxide

in

the

lower

strata

of

its

basin.

Only

about

650

mountain

gorillas remain in the world, and more than half of those inhabit the slopes of the six dormant

Virunga

volcanoes.

They

are

ranked

as

critically

endangered

by

international

wildlife

conventions.

Text 2 (Complete translation)

Beijing Bonanza

——

Decision to Give China the 2008 Olympics

北京洪 福

---

举办

08

奥运会将会推动中国经济

Gives Businesses a Boost

(2001/07/18, Reuters)

The International Olympics Committee made Beijing

’

s dream of hosting the 2008

Games a reality and gave a boost to many business leaders around the world.

国际奥

组委让北京举办

2008