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考研英語長句翻譯基本功之長句翻譯順序法
英語習(xí)慣于用長的句子表達(dá)比較復(fù)雜的概念,而漢語則不同,常常使用若干短句,作層次分明的敘述。因此,在進(jìn)行英譯漢時(shí),要特別注意英語和漢語之間的差異,將英語的長句分解,翻譯成漢語的短句。在英語長句的翻譯過程中,我們一般采取下列的方法。
(1) 順序法。當(dāng)英語長句的內(nèi)容的敘述層次與漢語基本一致時(shí),可以按照英語原文的順序翻譯成漢語。例如:
例1. Even when we turn off the beside lamp and are fast asleep,electricity is working for us,driving our refrigerators,heating our water,or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. (84年考題)
分析: 該句子由一個(gè)主句,三個(gè)作伴隨狀語的現(xiàn)在分詞以及位于句首的時(shí)間狀語從句組成,共有五層意思: A. 既使在我們關(guān)掉了床頭燈深深地進(jìn)入夢(mèng)鄉(xiāng)時(shí); B.電仍在為我們工作; C. 幫我們開動(dòng)電冰箱; D. 加熱水; E. 或是室內(nèi)空調(diào)機(jī)繼續(xù)運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)。上述五層意思的邏輯關(guān)系以及表達(dá)的順序與漢語完全一致,因此,我們可以通過順序法,把該句翻譯成:
即使在我們關(guān)掉了床頭燈深深地進(jìn)入夢(mèng)鄉(xiāng)時(shí),電仍在為我們工作: 幫我們開動(dòng)電冰箱,把水加熱,或使室內(nèi)空調(diào)機(jī)繼續(xù)運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)。
例2. But now it is realized that supplies of some of them are limited,and it is even possible to give a reasonable estimate of their “expectation of life”,the time it will take to exhaust all known sources and reserves of these materials. (84年考題)
分析: 該句的骨干結(jié)構(gòu)為“It is realized that…”,it為形式主語,that引導(dǎo)著主語從句以及并列的it is even possible to …結(jié)構(gòu),其中,不定式作主語,the time …是“expectation of life”的同位語,進(jìn)一步解釋其含義,而time后面的句子是它的定語從句。五個(gè)謂語結(jié)構(gòu),表達(dá)了四個(gè)層次的意義: A. 可是現(xiàn)在人們意識(shí)到; B. 其中有些礦物質(zhì)的蘊(yùn)藏量是有限的; C. 人們甚至還可以比較合理的估計(jì)出這些礦物質(zhì)“可望存在多少年”; D. 將這些已知礦源和儲(chǔ)量將消耗殆盡的時(shí)間。根據(jù)同位語從句的翻譯方法,把第四層意義的表達(dá)作適當(dāng)?shù)恼{(diào)整,整個(gè)句子就翻譯為:
可是現(xiàn)在人們意識(shí)到,其中有些礦物質(zhì)的蘊(yùn)藏量是有限的,人們甚至還可以比較合理的估計(jì)出這些礦物質(zhì)“可望存在多少年”,也就是說,經(jīng)過若干年后,這些礦物的全部已知礦源和儲(chǔ)量將消耗殆盡。
下面我們?cè)倭信e幾個(gè)實(shí)例:
例3. Prior to the twentieth century,women in novels were stereotypes of lacking any features that made them unique individuals and were also subject to numerous restrictions imposed by the male-dominated culture.
在20世紀(jì)以前,小說中的婦女像都是一個(gè)模式。她們沒有任何特點(diǎn),因而無法成為具有個(gè)性的人; 他們還要屈從于由男性主宰的文化傳統(tǒng)強(qiáng)加給他們的種種束縛。
例4. This method of using “controls” can be applied to a variety of situations,and can be used to find the answer to questions as widely different as “Must moisture be present if iron is to rust?” and “Which variety of beans gives the greatest yield in one season?”
這種使用參照物的方法可以應(yīng)用于許多種情況,也能用來找到很不相同的各種問題的答案,從“鐵生銹,是否必須有一定的濕度才行?”到“哪種豆類一季的產(chǎn)量最高?”
例5. It begins as a childlike interest in the grand spectacle and exciting event; it grows as a mature interest in the variety and complexity of the drama,the splendid achievements and terrible failures; it ends as deep sense of the mystery of man`s life of all the dead,great and obscure,who once walked the earth,and of wonderful and awful possibilities of being a human being.
我們對(duì)歷史的愛好起源于我們最初僅對(duì)一些歷史上的宏偉場(chǎng)面和激動(dòng)人心的事件感到孩童般的興趣; 其后,這種愛好變得成熟起來,我們開始對(duì)歷史這出“戲劇”的多樣性和復(fù)雜性,對(duì)歷史上的輝煌成就和悲壯失敗也感興趣; 對(duì)歷史的愛好,最終以我們對(duì)人類生命的一種深沉的神秘感而告結(jié)束。 對(duì)死去的,無論是偉大與平凡,所有在這個(gè)地球上走過而已逝的人,都有能取得偉大奇跡或制造可怕事件的潛力。
例6. If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction,and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment ,they would not be so hurt,and therefore would not drive the child into opposition by resenting and resisting it.
如果做父母的對(duì)這種青少年的反應(yīng)有所準(zhǔn)備,而且認(rèn)為這是一個(gè)顯示出孩子正在成長,正在發(fā)展珍貴的觀察力和獨(dú)立的判斷力的標(biāo)志,他們就不會(huì)感到如此傷心,所以也就不會(huì)因?qū)Υ擞袘嵑藓头磳?duì)的情緒而把孩子推到對(duì)立面去。
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