词语在语境中地翻译.pptVIP

Translation of words in the context 陈 小 仙 甲：这一点小意思， 请务必收下。 乙： 你这人真是有意思， 怎么也来这一套？ 甲： 哎， 只是意思意思。 乙： 啊， 真是不好意思。 （郭建中： “实用性文章的翻译 （上） ” 《上海科技翻译》 2001年3期） 甲：这一点小意思， 请务必收下。 乙： 你这人真是有意思， 怎么也来这一套？ 甲： 哎， 只是意思意思。 乙： 啊， 真是不好意思。 （郭建中： “实用性文章的翻译 （上） ” 《上海科技翻译》 2001年3期） This is a little gift as a token of my appreciation. Please do take it. Oh, aren’t you a bit too polite? You shouldn’t do that. Well, it just conveys my gratitude. Ah. Thank you then, though I really don’t deserve it Teaching objective: To learn to translate words with the help of context Linguistic context Cultural context Linguistic Context What? 语言语境就是上下文，是指词语，短语，语段或篇章的前后关系。 Why is it important? 1.helps to pin down exact meaning of words in ST; 2. helps to achieve the correspondence in TT, 3. helps to avoid ambiguity; 4. associative meaning is clarified in the context Famous quotes: Each word when used in a new context is a new word (Firth) You shall know a word by the company it keeps (Firth) 词汇一词多义性。有些时候，字典不一定收录词的某一意思，更不会给出符合语境的对等译文,要根据语境做出推测。 Exercise 1 订 1. 你要订哪种杂志？ 2. 这本书我们没有货，但是可以帮你订。 3. 你能帮我把这本讲义订起来吗？ Exercise 2 Compare the following two versions and decide which one is better 1. 这是民国六年的冬天，大风刮得正猛，我因为生机关系，不得不 一早在路上走。 A. it’s the winter of 1917. the wind was blowing hard, but I had to walk in the street to make a living. B. It happened during the winter of 1917. a bitter north wind was blowing but, to make a living, I had to be up and out early. Exercise 3请选择最合适的表达来翻译各句中的“心” 1. 心有余而力不足 one’s ability falls short of one’s ______. 2. 您的建议我会永远铭记在心。I will always bear your advice in _____. 3. 如果你忘了她的生日我会很伤心的。You’ll hurt her_____ if you forget her birthday. 4. 居心叵测 to nurse evil______ 5. 得人心着得天下 Those who gain_____ among the people will gain the power. 6. 劳心者治人，劳力者治于人 Those who work with _____ rule and those who work with their brawn are ruled. 7. 哀莫大于心死 The greatest despair comes from a devastated _________. Question for thought: Look up the character “心“on all the C-E dictionari