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1、I. 英汉翻译原理第一讲： 什么是翻译？【例1】The history of a tree from the time it starts in the forest until the boards which it yields are used, would form an interesting and, in many instances, an exciting story.（“”号表示译文有问题，下同）树的历史开始于森林中，直到生产为木板后被使用为止，成为一个有趣且有许多事例的激动人心的故事。上面这句话的原文实际上主要说了两点内容：1、 树的历史的起迄时间2、 树的历史是怎样一回
2、事【译文】一棵树，从它在森林中生长起直到被制成木板使用为止，这段历史会构成一个饶有趣味的故事，在很多情况下这个故事十分激动人心。【例 2】There are two regulatory systems which interact. One timing system comes from the evidence of our senses and stomachs, and the periodicity we experience when living in a particular time zone. 有两个调节系统相互作用。一个定时系统来自于我们的感官和胃的证明，就是当我们生活
3、在一个特定的时区所经历的周期性。【译文】人体有两个相互作用的时间调节系统。一个时间调节系统依据感官和胃发出的信息，依据我们生活在某个时区所体验的周期性规律。寻找对等词语和结构然后将其串接成句的翻译方法，常表现如下：简单语句的译文虽然生硬，但基本可读。如：【例3】I can see three different types of composers in musical history, each of whom creates music in a somewhat different fashion. 【错误】我能看到音乐史上有三种不同的作曲家，他们中每一个人以某种不同的方式创作音乐。考博
4、网,【译文】我发现音乐史上有三类作曲家，他们各自的音乐创作方式有所不同。较复杂语句的译文似通非通，甚至不知所云。如：【例4】The traditionalist type of composer begins with a pattern rather than with a theme. The creative act with Palestrina is not the thematic conception so much as the personal treatment of a well-established pattern.7 【错误】传统主义型作曲家始于某种格调而非某种主题
5、。帕莱斯特里纳的创作行为不太像对固定格调进行个性化处理的主题概念。【译文】传统型作曲家是从形式出发而不是从主题出发进行创作的。帕莱斯特里纳的创作不是主题的构思，而是对固定形式的个性化处理。3、典型的英语表达形式在汉语无法找到对等形式，翻译无从着手。如：【例5】Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come - with the people who respect you for who you are.【译文】发现自我，如实地表现自我，你自然会为人们所喜欢为那些尊重你的真正个性的人们所喜欢。【例6】Where do you expect Sh
6、anghai to be in five years? 【译文】你预计今后五年上海的发展目标如何？ 翻译不是一种语言中的词语和语句结构到另一种语言的词语和语句结构的简单转换，也不是在另一种语言中寻找与一种语言中对等的词语和语句结构然后将其串接成句的过程。在英汉翻译中，如果把眼光盯着原文的词语和语句结构这些属于语言层次的东西，结果翻译出来的只是一种文字层次的转换，徒具其形，原文的内容和意义不可能得到很好的表达。4翻译究竟是什么呢？ 翻译的过程就好比交通工具的换乘过程，两者之间有诸多相似之处。交通工具换乘过程：内容 (人员)( t1 e$ O1 u& b5 y1 v载体（运输工具1） 内容（人员）
7、载体（运输工具2）译过程：内容 (信息)载体（源语） 内容（信息）载体（译语）比较两者，其共同点有： (1) 两者带有相似的目的：两种转换过程都是为了实现内容通过载体的变换从一端到另一端的传递。(2) 两者含有相似的基本要素：, n$ |, ?. X6 H9 U5 |5 , W第一要素内容，在交通工具换乘过程中是人员，而在翻译过程中则是信息。. A# A) H2 b6 i% l. 第二要素载体，在交通工具换乘过程中是车辆、船舶、飞机等，转换前是一种运输工具，转换后改为另一种运输工具；而在翻译过程中则是语言，转换前是源语（source language），转换后是译语（target langua
8、ge）。 (3) 两者具有相似的操作要求：第一，两者都要求内容不变。第二，两者都要求过程顺畅 德国译学教授Wolfram Wilss 在The Science of Translation：Problems & Methods一书中说：Translation is not simply a matter of seeking other words with similar meaning, but of finding appropriate ways of saying things in another language. Translating is always meaning-ba
9、sed, i.e. it is the transfer of meaning instead of form from the source language to the target language.（翻译不只是在另一种语言中寻找意义相似的其他词语，而是寻找表达事物的适当方式。翻译始终立足于语义，也就是说，是语义从源语到译语 的转换，而不是形式。）这说明了翻译是语义的翻译，不是语言形式的翻译，是运用另一种语言的适当方式来表达一种语言所表达的内容，而不是在另一种语言中寻找与一种语言中含义相似的某些词语或结构。翻译必须跳出原文语言层面的束缚，必须着眼于传达原文的内容和意义。换句话说，翻译的
10、基本单位应该是语篇，而不是词语结构。根据系统功能语言学家的观点，语言的实际使用单位是语篇这样的言语单位，而不是词语结构这样的语法 单位。实际使用的语篇有可能是一个句子、一个句段、一个句群，也有可能是一个词语。翻译作为语言交际的一种形式，其实质是用一种语言的语篇材料代替另一种 语言与其意义对等的语篇材料。翻译是运用一种语言把另一种语言所表达的内容和意义准确而完整地重新表达出来的语言活动。II. 课堂练习（分别用词语和形式对应译法和语义表达译法试译下列句子，并比较翻译中的感觉和译文的效果）：1.Its more a poem than a picture. 2.He drank himself o
11、ut of the best lines. 3.He pretends to be as modest as anything. 4. Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft.5.The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it. 6.Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus to Hattiesburg. 7.If you feel d
12、epressed at a social gathering, keep it a secret. 8. The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of age. III. 课堂练习参考译文：1.与其说那是一幅画，不如说那是一首诗。2.他借酒写得好诗句。M3.他装得极为谦虚。4.火是无孔不入的，可是它更爱窜入通风的地方。5.循声而去，便轻而易举地找到了那间屋子。6.我陪着小心，用温和的口吻询问开往哈蒂斯堡下一斑车的情况。7.在社交场合，你就是感到情绪压抑，也不要表露出来。8.患有流感的幼儿和老人可能并发细菌
13、性肺炎。IV. 课外练习（分别用词语和形式对应译法和语义表达译法试译下列句子，并比较翻译中的感觉和译文的效果）：1.He wants a lawyer who understands his case, who sympathizes with him and who has been there himself.。2. World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity.。3. While you are in the act o
14、f summoning your energies, focus on a plan. Dont exhaust yourself with fruitless excursions into any and all possibilities. 4. A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it is bad, it can not last too long; if good you can not get rid of it too early.5. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, A
15、merica has given the Negro people a bad check - a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. 6. A friend is someone who draws out your own best qualities, with whom you sparkle and become more of whatever the friendship draws upon.7. To petrol we owe the existence of the motor-car, which h
16、as replaced the private carriage drawn by the horse. To petrol we owe the possibility of flying. 8. Because of limited insurance coverage, many people will have to look to their own resources - both emotional and financial - to care for an infirm or recovering relative at home. 9. During the last si
17、x years, 44 of 60 scholarship winners have been the children of foreigners. the talent search, certainly in this decade, is a tribute as much to immigration as to education. 10. The new architectural styles have become powerful image makers overseas. Two stunning arrivals now gracing Hong Kongs crow
18、ded skyline - the privately-owned Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank building and Bank of Chinas headquarters - stand as monuments to the rival economic interests, cultures and ideologies that define the city.Unit 2 课外练习参考译文： 1他要找一位了解他的案情，同情他的处境，并有过亲身经历的人当他的律师。2他的著作举世闻名，而他个人却一直默默无闻，因为他一生始终避免抛头露面。考博,考博网,考博论坛,
19、考博3在集中精力的过程中，要集中于一种打算；不要同时涉足各种可能的情况而搞得精疲力竭一事无成。4书可以比作邻居：如果是好的，相处愈久愈好；如果是坏的，分手愈早愈好。5美国没有履行这种神圣的义务，相反，只是给黑人开了一张空头支票，上面盖了“资金不足”的戳子后被退了回来。6朋友是能使你表现出自己最佳品质的人，和他在一起你就会精神焕发，并且变得更具有友谊所要求的种种内涵。7有了汽油，我们才有了汽车，取代了私人马车；有了汽油，我们才有可能飞上天空。8由于保险金的支付范围有限，许多人无论在感情上或经济上都必须靠自己的力量在家中照料病弱或康复中的亲人。Z9过去六年里，每60名奖学金获得者中就有44名是外来
20、移民的子女。人才奖的评选，当然是指这十年，不仅为美国教育，也为美国移民增添了光彩。10这种种新的建筑风格已经非常有力地塑造了香港在海外的形象。在拥挤的空中出现了两幢令人叹为观止的新建筑点缀其间，一幢是私营的汇丰银行大楼，另一幢是中国银行总部，代表并象征了香港相互竞争的经济利益、文化和意识形态。考博论坛II. 英汉翻译原理第二讲： 什么是好的译文？【例7】Public opinion plays a vital and healthy role in the political realm.公共舆论在政治领域起着生命力的、健康的作用。?【译文】 舆论在政治领域起着极其重要的、有益的作用。【例8】
21、I am sure that it would change the situation if you are kind enough to lend support to me. 我相信如果你有足够的好心支持我的话，它将会改变形势。【译文】我相信如果你非常好心能撑我一把的话，情况就不一样了。【例9】Jobs and work do much more than most of us realize to provide happiness and contentment.% 职业和工作带来很大的幸福和满足，而我们大多数人并不意识到这一点。【译文】职业和工作对于获得幸福和满足起了很大的作用，我
22、们大多数人对此却认识不足。两类问题：一类是译文语义基本符合原文，但汉语表达有欠正确；另一类是汉语表达尚有可读性，但译文语义不符原文。目前翻译界普遍接受的，也是作为一般翻译学习者必须努力掌握的标准，简而言之是两条：忠实 (Faithfulness) 和流畅 (Smoothness)。【例10】For Nat Nakasa the pledge he was required to sign - to leave his country and never return proved too much; he committed suicide in New York. 纳特纳卡萨不得不发誓离开祖
23、国，不管情况如何永不返家，并自杀于纽约。考博论坛:最早最大的中文考博【译文】对纳特纳卡萨来说，要他签字保证离开祖国永不返回是难以接受的：他在纽约自杀了。【例 11】In the wake of his mothers death some thirty-six years later, Hemingway turned back to the adventure and tried to write a novel about it. t在他母亲去世36年之后，海明威又想起了那次历险奇遇，并试图写一部小说。7 U d% r$ l- Q5 c( x# k# a5【译文】大约36年过后，在他母亲去
24、世后的不久海明威又想起了那次遭遇的险情，并试图就此写一部小说。外语腔是初学翻译者不知不觉地会在汉语译文中表现出来的一种不当倾向。翻译时所要表达的内容来自外语原文，原文的词语和结构形式随着内容一起进入到我们的大脑，于是原文的语言形式被带入译文，造成了译文的外语腔。8 u) t- H y. D* p2 Z4 E【例12】The only concession he made to the climate was to wear a white dinner jacket. 7他对气候的唯一让步就是穿了一件白色的短餐衣。【译文】气候变化，他仅稍稍作了一点变通，赴宴时穿了件白色的短礼服。【例13】 I
25、f certain animal psychologists are right, a dog adopts his family in a most literal way - taking it for granted that the family is the band of dogs he belongs to. 假如某些动物心理学家的分析正确，狗在很大程度上代表着它的家人 理所当然这一家也就属于狗帮了。【译文】假如有些动物心理学家的分析正确，狗对于他所在家庭的认同是非常实际的它理所当然地认为这一家人就是它所归属的一群狗。5 现代西方著名翻译理论家Eugene A. Nida 在其理
26、论著述中经常谈到读者反应的问题。他认为，翻译的服务对象是读者，要评判译文质量的优劣，必须看读者对译文的反应如何，同时必须把这种反应与原作读者对原文可能产生的反应进行对比，看两种反应是否基本一致。P除了忠实和流畅这两项基本标准之外，好的译文还必须保持原文的风格，包括民族风格、时代风格、语体风格、作者个人的语言风格等。文艺作品的翻译尤其要求这样做。译者不能破坏或改变原文的风格，不能以译者的风格代替原作的风格。III. 课堂练习（努力按照忠实原文和译文流畅两项标准，把下列句子译成汉语）：1. She couldnt have come at a better time. 2. She has bee
27、n a widow only six months. 3. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn.,4. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too.5.The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality.6.From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colours as there are different wave lengths. 7.But
28、 the next century well be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. 8. As a human being, we should demonstrate our intellectual and moral superiority by respecting others for who they are - instead of rejecting them for who/what they are not.
29、 IV. 课堂练习参考译文：1.她来得正是时候。2.她的丈夫去世至今不过半年。3.我认为那篇讲话口气强硬，大可不必。4.马其顿之争同希腊也有关系。5.英国人同其他民族一样，也有丰富的感情。 6.从物理学的观点来看，不同的波长有多少种，颜色就有多少种。7.但下个世纪我们将能根本改变DNA，能在构建新的生命时把我们的种种想象、种种出于虚荣的要求，都编入遗传密码。y8.作为人，我们应该不问他人的身份如何都尊重他们，从而显示出自己高超的智慧和道德，而不要因为他们没有某种身份或地位而去卑视他们。V. 课外练习（努力按照忠实原文和译文流畅两项标准，把下列短文译成汉语）： I first took up w
30、alking as a means of escape. After a busy morning in my office, I found it refreshing to take a stroll at lunchtime, to breathe the fresh air and feel the sun. Another walk in the cold night air was, I discovered, an exhilarating way to unwind. Ill never forget the feeling I got one winter night as
31、I walked the deserted streets after many grueling hours at the hospital. I suddenly realized that I no longer felt tense or tired. All the worries about my patients illnesses, as well as my own personal cares, seemed to evaporate as quickly as the smoky vapor of my breath in the frosty night. As I i
32、ncorporated walking into my schedule, not only were my spirits lifted, but my weight and blood pressure were gradually reduced. I began reviewing the medical literature on walking. From this research, and my clinical observations as a family physician, I found that it is possible to walk your way to
33、 better health, a trimmer body and a longer life - no matter what your age. Walking - like swimming, bicycling and running - is an aerobic exercise which builds the capacity for energy output and physical endurance by increasing the supply of oxygen to skin and muscles. Such exercise may be a primar
34、y factor in the prevention of heart and circulatory disease. As probably the least strenuous, safest aerobic activity, walking is the most acceptable exercise for the greatest number of people. Walking at comfortable speed improves the efficiency of the cardio-respiratory system by stimulating the l
35、ungs and heart, but at a more gradual rate than most other forms of exercise. (279 words)Unit 3I. 课外练习参考译文：我最初开始散步是作为一种脱身之计。在办公室里忙了一个上午之后，我发现午饭时出去走一走，吸一口新鲜空气，享受一下阳光，十分令人神清气爽。我还发现，在夜间充满寒意的空气中散步也是一种使人心旷神怡的放松办法。k: _7一个冬夜，经过了医院里好几个小时精疲力竭的工作后我漫步在空旷无人的大街上，那种感觉永远都无法忘却。我一下子发现自己不再感到紧张疲劳。什么病人的病情、个人的烦恼，似乎就像寒夜中
36、呼出的热气，一下子都烟消云散了，我把散步纳入了每天的日程，不仅精神振作了，而且体重和血压也逐渐下降了。我开始查阅有关散步的医学文献。通过研究，还通过从事家庭保健医生工作中的临床观察，我发现，无论年龄大小，散步都能健身瘦身，延年益寿。散步同游泳、骑车、跑步等一样，是一种有氧运动，能够增加皮肤和肌肉的供氧，从而增进体能和耐力。这种运动可成为预防心血管疾病的主要因素。散步是一种最不激烈、最为安全的有氧运动，对绝大多数人都极其合适。以舒适的速度步行能促进心肺活动，从而提高心肺功能，虽然比起其他各种运动方式来散步的作用较为缓慢。英汉翻译原理第二讲：什么是好的译文？（续）i【例14】There is a
37、mix of confrontation and cooperation between them. 【译文】他们之间既有对抗，又有合作。【例15】He died, and was survived by wife and three children. w 【译文】他死了，撇下了妻子和三个孩子。G【例16】Law enforcement cannot responsibly stand aloof. X【译文】司法部门如果对此不闻不问，那就是失职。【例17】 Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to me
38、asure the pleasure by the catch. 【译文】他显然具备了垂钓者的首要品质，即以钓为乐，钓多钓少无所谓。i【例18】Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad. 身外之物无一是善，身内之物无一是恶。【译文】凡事不当无一是好，凡事得当无一是坏。; 【例19】 Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered and enjoyed every day. 幸福似甘露，日日可享用。i【译文】幸福犹如甘露，要天天采集才能日日享用。忠实原文是指译文与原文实
39、质内容上的一致，而不是形式上的一致。译者由于对原文理解不深，不能透过原文的形式掌握其实质内容，仅见其形，未见其神，这样译 出的文字形式上似乎与原文一致了，但与原文的意思却相去甚远。这便是犯了翻译上的形式主义。但是灵活出了格，过分强调译文的流畅，而不受原文意思的约束， 闹了独立性，在原文的思想内容之外随意添枝加叶，这种译法称之为自由主义。【例20】This was one of the secrets of his great popularity, but it was a popularity which was as unsettled as the waves. It swelled,
40、and bubbled, and foamed for a while, only to recede, and be lost to its former possessor. 这是他名噪一时的一个秘密，但这种名声如同波涛一样起伏不定：在短暂的时间内如日中天，盛极一时，炙手可热，但转瞬间又烟消云散，终于在原来有些声望的人身上消失了。9【译文】这是他名噪一时的一个秘密，但这种名声如同波涛一样起伏不定：一时间奔腾高涨，汹涌澎拜，转瞬间又一落千丈，终于在原来享有这种声望的人身上荡然无存。考博论坛佳译欣赏：【例21】A thief is a thief. 【译文】贼性难改。【例22】There wa
41、s no snow, the leaves were gone, the grass was dead. 【译文】天未下雪，但叶落草枯。【例23】Human affairs are all subject to changes and disasters. 【译文】人世间，事不由己，变迁灾祸，难以逆料。【例 24】It was a day as fresh as grass growing up and clouds going over and butterflies coming down can make it. It was a day compounded from silences
42、 of bee and flower and ocean and land, which were not silences at all, but motions, stirs, flutters, risings, fallings, each in its own time and matchless rhythm.译文】绿草萋萋，白云冉冉，彩蝶翩翩，这日子是如此清新；蜜蜂无言，春花不语，海波声歇，大地音寂，这日子是如此安静。然而并非安静，因为万物各以其独特的节奏，或动，或摇，或震，或起，或伏。,III. 课堂练习（努力按照忠实原文和译文流畅两项标准，把下列句子译成汉语，翻译时既要避免拘
43、泥于原文结构的形式主义译法，又要防止偏离原文内容的自由主义译法）： 1.He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death. 2.No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a tyrant. : 3.He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.4.The expectation of collision informed Brit
44、ish frontier policy in this period. 5.Every day now, the suppression of truth and the organizing of public ignorance shame journalism.6.I walked to the ticket counter. When the ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so. 7.Accident may put a decisive blunderer in t
45、he right, but eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man of the best parts, if cursed with indecision. 8. In their rush, these companies have neglected the hardest part of doing business in China: the people part. The result is that many have jeopardized their performance in the long run. IV
46、. 课堂练习参考译文：1.虚度年华者，虽生犹死。2.国之大难莫过于暴君当道。3.他有一种习惯让人受不了，意见反复不定，一会儿一个变化。4.英国预计到了将会发生冲突，并据此对这一时期的边境政策作了调整。5.现在，天天都在隐瞒真相，愚弄公众，这种做法是新闻界的耻辱。6.我走到售票台。女售票员一看见我，她那原本颇为动人的脸刷地一沉，变得怒气冲冲。7.出错者若处事果断，仍可意外取得成功；才干出众者若优柔寡断，必然屡屡失误。8.这些公司在一拥而入之中忽略了在中国经营最艰巨的问题，即人的问题，结果许多公司严重损害了他们的远期经营业绩。V. 课外练习（努力按照忠实原文和译文流畅两项标准，把下列短文译成汉语）
47、：Water problems in the future will become more intense and more complex. Our increasing population will tremendously increase urban wastes, primarily sewage. On the other hand, increasing demands for water will decrease substantially the amount of water available for diluting wastes. Rapidly expandi
48、ng industries which involve more and more complex chemical processes will produce larger volumes of liquid wastes, and many of these will contain chemicals which are noxious. To feed our rapidly expanding population, agriculture will have to be intensified. This will involve ever-increasing quantities of agricultural chemicals. From this, it is apparent that drastic steps must be taken immediately to develop corrective measures for the pollution problem.
