时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英语口译


英语课

   “He is a bicycle doctor. ” 此句不能译作:"他是个骑单车的医生",因句中的doctor是委婉语(euphemism), 是某种职业的美称,故不作"医生"解,而是表示repair man的涵义, 因此应翻译为"他是个自行车修理工."委婉语起源于远古,维多利来女王时代中期为其鼎盛时期,在现代英语中, 其出现频率依然颇高,因为人们通过委婉语,可以用温顺悦耳的词语去谈论或叙述一些原来令人不快或逆耳之事物.为此,他们用domestic help, day help或live-in help代替mail或servant(佣人); 以custodian或superintendent替代doorkeeper, caretaker或janitor(看门人或管理人);用She has a tile loose或She has a cylinder 1 missing去代替She is crazy或She is not right in the head(神经失常).


  委婉语多如恒河沙数,不胜枚举,在此略举数例,以见一斑:
  原 称 委 婉 语无线电修理工 radio electrician radio doctor理发师 barber cosmotologist家庭妇女 housewife household executive收垃圾工人 garbage collector sanitary 2 engineer老人 old people senior citizens再看两个委婉语的例子:
  Nowadays many weight-watchers would like to go to the gym.
  如今有不少胖人喜欢到健身房去锻炼.
  They are the culturally deprived.
  他们是没有学识的人.
  值得注意的是,委婉语虽然是"古已有之,于今为烈",但决不能用得过多过滥. 使用时要考虑场合和对象,如用得不得体,反而会使你"欲礼而不达",甚至令人不知所云,一头雾水.
  You can find doctors and doctors in Hongkong!
  在香港,既有好医生,也有坏医生。
  这句话不能译作:“在香港,你能看到很多很多的医生”。
  英语和汉语一样,词的重复(repetition)是一种修辞手段。一般说来,它表达强调语势,突出语义,以收到音调和谐、生动有力的修辞效果。例如:
  Scrooge went to bed again,and thought and thought and thought it over and over.
  斯克罗奇又上床睡觉,左思右想,想个不休。
  但是,在某些场合下,将某些词重复,并不是要收到突出语义的效果,而是为了表示“不同类型”的涵义。例如:You will find doctors and doctors in Hong Kong.的语义就相当于You can find bad doctors as well as good doctors in Hong Kong. 该句的语义重点放在“也有坏医生”上。
  再比如:
  You should know that there are books and books。
  你们要知道,书有好坏之分,既有好书,也有坏书。

n.圆筒,柱(面),汽缸
  • What's the volume of this cylinder?这个圆筒的体积有多少?
  • The cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.汽缸里汽油太多而空气不足。
adj.卫生方面的,卫生的,清洁的,卫生的
  • It's not sanitary to let flies come near food.让苍蝇接近食物是不卫生的。
  • The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。
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abstract non-singular curve
Adelphocoris lineolatus
Ajuana, R.
amputate
armor-piercing bullet
asset scale
automatic pistols
automobile injure
be united
bogus common subexpression
boundings
bright diffuse nebula
brouin
Béhague, Pte.
centering spring
chitinophilus
clutchmates
coil insertion device
Combe
commensation
continuous shooting
Coulans
cristiane
cross traverse gear
dark-field amplitude mode
dead netting
descriptor block
dough roller
end-of-conversion pulse
etaloning
family Iridaceae
ft-lbs
fusarium oxysporum schl.f. nekingenae matsuo et ishigami
gasdynamic
genus Lentinus
gurgulation
half-through arch
haptoglobulin
herring flesh
heterogeneous alloy
hexadiyne
high hypermetropia
holder type transplanter
hotski
Jehosheba
karyometry
lechosos opal
Lehmann, Lotte
Leptospiraceae
lido di roma (lido di ostia)
limit line
lipopathy
lispe terastigma
Loranthaceae
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lux(o)meter
MCRR (maintenance control retry register)
milkings
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Netanya(Natanya)
oil paintings
Oktong
one-way lease
optical fiber crosstalk
over current detector
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parliamentarism
per cent of the fulfillment of a plan
percher
perimetry
pley-e
podocytopathies
Potomac River
presidential succession
price control of export commodities
price is right
protection of direct current supply lines
quasi-oceanic crust
radiotelephone alarm signal generator
Ranunculus gmelinii
ratchet jaw
salt swamp
santowax
Scandinavian architecture
screenshotting
Shelton loader
site permit reports
slip line method
spodic
St. Edward the Martyr
strata subserosum
takes the place of
tetrad of Fallot
tipperhopper
transaction key
unrepined
vale of glamorgan
washed butter
wesleyan methodist churches
widened planer
Yorkshire swine