时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英语笔译


英语课

 分句法:有时英语长句中主语或主句与修饰词的关系并不十分密切, 翻译时可以按照汉语多用短句的习惯,把长句的从句或短语化成句子, 分开来叙述,为了使语意连贯, 有时需要适当增加词语。例如:


例1. The number of the young people in the United States who can't read is incredible 1 about one in four.
上句在英语中是一个相对简单的句子, 但是如果我们按照原文的句子结构死译, 就可能被翻译成:没有阅读能力的美国青年人的数目令人难以相信约为1/4。
这样, 就使得译文极为不通顺, 不符合汉语的表达习惯, 因此, 我们应该把它译为: 大约有1/4的美国青年人没有阅读能力, 这简直令人难以置信。
例2. Television, it is often said, keeps one informed about current events, allow one to follow the latest developments in science and politics, and offers an endless series of programmes which are both instructive and entertaining.
分析: 在此长句中, 有一个插入语“it is often said”, 三个并列的谓语结构, 还有一个定语从句, 这三个并列的谓语结构尽管在结构上同属于同一个句子,但都有独立的意义, 因此在翻译时, 可以采用分句法, 按照汉语的习惯把整个句子分解成几个独立的分句, 结果为:人们常说, 通过电视可以了解时事, 掌握科学和政治的最新动态。从电视里还可以看到层出不穷、既有教育意义又有娱乐性的新节目。
下面我们再举两个例子:
例3. All they have to do is press a button, and they can see plays, films, operas, and shows of every kind, not to mention political discussions and the latest exciting football match. 
他们所必须做的只是按一下开关。开关一开, 就可以看到电视剧、电影、歌剧, 以及其他各种各样的文艺节目。至于政治问题的辩论、最近的激动人心的足球赛更是不在话下。
例4. Although perhaps only 1 per cent of the life that has started somewhere will develop into highly complex and intelligent patterns, so vast is the number of planets that intelligent life is bound to be a natural part of the universe. 
虽然在某处已经开始的生命中可能仅有百分之一会发展 成高度复杂、有智慧的型式, 但是行星的数目如此之多,以致有智慧的生命一定是宇宙的一个天然组成部分。

adj.难以置信的,不可信的,极好的,大量的
  • Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
  • Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。
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a dead stop
acidic group
Alocasia hainanica
apochromatic lens
be zealous in
beat cob works
beta-relaxation temperature
bixin
Cape Vogel Airport
Cauchy boundary conditions
change one's mind
chlamyd-
colo(u)rity
comb-footed spider
convex globoid cam
crack bail ladle
data header
declarative statement
degenerantive blood shift
Dianthus chinensis heddewigii
dottles
down the track
eilleens
elevator differential angle
emerald-greens
emeryville-based
ersp
fables
fastnachtsbar (germany)
finite overflow
first generation tape
fusion torch
Futabatei Shimei
garthing
gas ring laser
gluttinous
grossed
gudbrandsdal
hare's-tail grass
high speed rolls
hillegersberg
home control network
hommoss
hydrochlorofluorocarbons
hydrothermal deposit of ocean floor
in gage of
indirect foreign tax credit
induced aerodynamics
input trip signal
into place
khushkhash
landed gentry
lateral cerbral sulcus
lurlene
make a face
material things
metaplasticity
Molodo
moric
multiple wire path
MUOD (mean unplanned outage duration)
note ... down
number of primary leaves
offsplitting
oligochromemia
oncidium papilios
open circuit voltage decay
palou
para-fluorophenylalanine
perforation of Shrapnell's membrane
performance index meter
petroleum times
public road
pulsed beams
reactor geometry
red-nose tetra
reply code
restricted stock option
semisoft clay
shafiks
shoot knot
slobodenkoes
solving inverse problem
sound-vision separator
sphenocephalia
Spirillum coheoii
sprisle
standidge
stone animal
suborder thyreophoras
sulfhydryl compound
sun bathing
switchboard cable
sword sucker
tamarite (chalcophyllite)
Tanaecium
terebra stearnsii
transliterations
ultrasonic emulsion breaking
unborn child
Weerman degradation
wind cones