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Translation to the Last
"万字"
The Character "Wan" (10,000)
从前有一个人,家里很有钱,只是一个字也不认识,于是请了个教师,教他儿子读书。
Once upon a time there was a man who was quite well-off, but illiterate. Thus, he got a tutor to teach his son how to read and write.
老师教他儿子写字,老师说:"一画就是'一'字,二画就是'二'字,三画就是'三'字。"
Teaching his son to write Chinese characters, the teacher said, "One stroke is the character one, two strokes are two and three strokes, three."
这孩子学了这几个字,就把笔一丢,连忙跑去跟他父亲说:"爸爸,我已经都学会了,用不着再请老师了。"他父亲很高兴,就把老师辞掉了。
After the boy knew how to write these three characters, he threw away his brush and ran to his father. He said, "Father, I now know how to write Chinese characters. The tutor is no longer useful to me." His father was very happy to hear that and asked the tutor to leave.
过了几天,他的父亲要请一个姓万的亲戚吃饭,叫他儿子写个请帖。
A few days later, his father wanted to invite a relative named Wan to dinner in his home, and asked his son to write an invitation card.
这孩子写呀写呀,一写写了老半天,还没有写完。他父亲去催他。
The boy had not finished even though he had been writing for quite a while, so his father went to hurry him up.
这孩子抱怨说:"天下姓名多得很,为什么偏偏姓万?从早上到现在,我横画竖画,才只画了五百画,离一万还差得远呢?"
The boy complained, "There are a lot of family names in the world under heaven. Why does he have to be named Wan? I have been writing since morning, and have finished 500 strokes. That is far from 10,000."
第四讲 汉英翻译中选词方法
Lecture Four
Ways of the Choices of Words in C-E Translation
1、根据思维习惯进行选词
东西方文化差异体现在思维方式方面主要表现为:综合思维与分析思维之别,具象思维与抽象思维之异,顺向思维与逆向思维之差。从本质上说,一个民族不可能只具有一种单一的单向思维模式。但由于历史、地域、文字和生存方式等因素的影响,不同的民族往往会侧重于某种思维方式,而另一种或几种思维方式则表现得不那么明显。思维方式的不同往往会在语言上反映出来。
译例说明
例1:前事不忘,后事之事。
Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
Lessons learned from the past can serve as a guide one in the future.
例2:前不见古人,后不见来者。
念天地之悠悠,独怆然而涕下。
Looking back, I do not see the ancients.
Looking ahead, I can’t see the wise ones to come.
Brooding on the endless universe,
Alone, in my sorrow, tears stream down.
2、根据语境选词
语境首先指的是文本语言环境,也包括副语言环境,副语言环境系指参与交际者的表情、神态、语气、语调、体势及交际者所处的场景等从属于话语的附加因素。还包括非语言环境,非语环境系指与原作内容相关并影响其内容而在文本中却无具体书面文字形式的文化历史和地理知识及相关背景。
译例说明:
1)“情况”:
circumstances,
situation,
conditions
(1)在这种情况下
under these / such circumstances
such being the case
in accordance with this specific condition
(3)现在的情况不同了。
Now things are quite different.
(4)他们的情况怎么样了?
How do matters stand with them?
What has happened to them?
What has become of them?
(5)前线有什么情况?
How is the condition at the front?
(6)前面有情况,做好战斗准备。
There's enemy activity ahead. Prepare for combat.
(7)可是在其他地方,情况却完全两样了。
But the picture outside this place is quite another story.
(8)我们可能去那儿,那得看情况而定。
We may go there,but that depends.
2)“抓”:
(1)狗把她的手抓了。
The dog scratched her hand.
(2)你这是在瞎抓。
You are finding yourself at a loss.
(3)抓养猪配种。
Pay close attention to pig-breeding.
(5)前线有什么情况?
How is the condition at the front?
(6)前面有情况,做好战斗准备。
There's enemy activity ahead. Prepare for combat.
(7)可是在其他地方,情况却完全两样了。
But the picture outside this place is quite another story.
(8)我们可能去那儿,那得看情况而定。
We may go there,but that depends.
3、根据词义的搭配进行选词
汉英两种语言在长期使用过程中形成了各自的固定词组和搭配用法,翻译时必须注意两者的差异,不能把汉语词语的搭配用法生搬硬套到英语译文中去。词语的搭配主要包括两个方面:一是语义搭配,主要是指逻辑意义上表达习惯;一是结构搭配,主要是指定语和中心词的搭配和动宾搭配等。
好教徒(= 虔诚的教徒)
a faithful Christian
好父母(= 慈爱的父母)
a loving parent
好儿女(= 孝顺的儿女)
an obedient child
好妻子(= 贤良的妻子)
a virtuous wife
好丈夫(= 尽职的丈夫)
a dutiful husband
1)上班
go to work / to be on duty
2)上报
to appear in the newspaper / to report to a higher authority
3)上场
to appear on the stage / court
4)上当
to be taken in
5)上灯
to light the lamp
6)上访
to apply for an audience with the higher authorities to appeal for help.
7)上告
to complain to the higher authority / appeal to a higher court
8)上照
to come out well in a photograph
4、根据词的广义和狭义、强弱之分正确选词
(1)农业是国民经济的基础。
Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy.
(2)农、林、木、副、渔互相结合的方针。
the principle of combining farming, forestry, animal husbandry, side-occupations and fishery
(3)“多少事,从来急;天地转,光阴迫。一万年太久只争朝夕。”
"So many deeds cry out to be done,
And always urgently.
The world rolls on,
Time passes.
Ten thousand years are too long,
Seize the day, seize the hour."
5、根据词义的褒贬和语体色彩以及政治含义进行选词
1)他们讲唯心论,我们讲唯物论。
They preach idealism whereas we advocate materialism.
2)别了,司徒雷登!
Farewell, Leighton Stuart!
3)禁止赌博。
Gambling is prohibited.
4)这小伙子干活真冲。
This young fellow does his work with vim and vigor.
5)peasant, farmer, etc.
Homework for Today
十三陵
十三陵位于北京西北郊。离城约五十公里,是中国明朝十三个封建皇帝的陵墓。
长陵是明朝第三代皇帝的陵墓,是十三陵中修建最早、规模最大的一座。这座陵墓的前边有一个大宫殿,是明朝统治 者举行祭祀的地方。这个大殿修建于一四二七年,面积共一千九百多平方米,是中国现在最大的木结构古建筑之一。殿里有几十根大木柱,其中四根最大的高14、3米,直径1、17米,两个人抱不过来。
定陵在长陵的西南面,它是明朝朱钧皇帝的陵墓。他统治中国四十八年(1573----1620)。在他当上皇帝的第十二年就开始修筑自己的陵墓。那时他才二十三岁。定陵的墓室-------地下宫殿,面积一千九百多平方米,由前、中、后和左右五个殿组成,全是石结构,没有柱子。前殿、中殿和后殿,有三座大石门,石门很大,每座重八吨。修建定陵前后用了六年时间,每天有三万多民工参加极端艰苦的劳动,不少民工在劳动中失去了生命。
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