第二节增补与省略.pptVIP

Amplification Amplification (or addition), means supplying necessary words in our translation on the basis of accurate comprehension of the original. 增补大致可以分为两种情形： 1、增补原文句法上的省略成分； 2、根据上下文意思、逻辑关系、以及目的语的行文习惯，在表达时增加原文字面上没有、意思上却包含的字词。 Amplification by Supplying Words Omitted in the Original增加原文中省略的成分 1.Matter can be changed into energy, and energy into matter. 2.The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germans in the deed, the French after the deed. 2. Amplification by Supplying Necessary Connectives Heated, water will change into vapor. 2. Since air has weight, it exerts force on any object immersed in it. 3. Amplification to meet the need of grammar 1. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before. 2. If I were there! 3. The lion is the king of animals. 4. Amplification for Purposes of Coherence or Rhetoric This typewriter is indeed cheap and fine. 2.Theory is something, but practice is everything. 3. A scientist constantly tried to defeat his hypotheses, his theories and his conclusion. After-class exercises: Put the following sentences into Chinese, using the technique of amplification. 1.Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 2.Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice. 3.We won’t retreat, we never have and never will. Omission Omission/pruning is a technique opposite to amplification. Original English: The time-keeping devices of electronic watches are much more accurate than those of mechanical ones. Don’t cough more than you can help. Omission of the Pronoun 1) He put his hands into his pockets and then shrugged his shoulders. 2）He who doesn’t reach the Great Wall is not a true man. Omission of the Preposition Smoking is prohibited in public places. Hydrogen is the lightest element with an atomic weight of 1.0008. Omission of the Conjunction 1. He looked gloomy and troubled. 2. As it is late, let us go to be