Chapter 4 翻译单位与语篇翻译专用课件.ppt

* World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity. “I do not see,” he once said, “that I have deserved any fame and I have no taste for it,” but since his death, his name has brought fame and glory to others. 【续】他的成就驰名世界，而他个人却始终默默无闻，因为他整个一生总是避免抛头露面。他曾经说：“我认为我不配成名，而且也不爱成名。”但是他死后，其名字却给他人带来了荣誉。 【解析】原文只有四个“but”，但译文用了十一个转折对比句体现了原文作者的写作意图，运用因果、 让步、转折等写作手法展示了事物间内部潜在的逻辑关系，全面赞美了“诺贝尔是一个在许多方面对比鲜明的人”。 * Lovers take heed: if you are going to whisper sweet nothings to your sweetheart, make sure it is through the left ear. So says Teow-Chong Sim of Sam Houston State University in the United States, who found in a study that emotional words got through to people better when spoken through the left ear, not the right. 【译文】情人们请听好：如果想对心上人情话悄悄，请务必对准左耳说。 美国山姆·休斯顿州立大学的辛陶冲如是说。他在研究中发现，对准左耳说情话比对右耳更容易使人接受。 The Linguistic Style of Discourse Sweet Nothings Are Better Heard in the Left Ear * 例8: “Why not? ‘Beauty lies in the lover’s eyes,’ as the saying goes,” Mr. Taft answered with a gentle smile. 【译文】塔夫脱先生温和地笑道：“有啥大惊小怪的？俗话说得好：‘情人眼里出佳丽’。” 例9：He turned to the columns in which were announced the births, deaths and marriages. 【译文】他转而去看报上登载的添丁得女，婚丧嫁娶的专栏。 * 例10: George Washington, as president and as private citizen, had urgently insisted upon the establishment of a national university in the federal city. He hoped that students from all parts of the country would acquire the habit of good citizenship, throwing off local prejudices and gaining first hand knowledge of the practice, as well as the theory of republican government. 【译文】作为总统和普通公民，乔治·华盛顿一再热切地盼望在联邦首府这座城市建立一所国立大学。他希望从全国各地来的学生去掉地方偏见，直接获得共和政府的理论和实践知识，逐步养成优良公民的习惯。 Cultural Connotation of Discourse * 例11：The ignorant old woman ruled the entire last half of the nineteenth century did more than any other single person to hold back China’s progress. Without her the progressive Emperor Kuanghsu would certainly have gone on with his reforms. 【译文】那个无知的老太婆统治了19世纪后50年