08-颜色词翻译.pptVIP

1 例3：There is too much red-tape in obtaining an identity card. 【译文】领身份证的手续实在太繁琐了。 补充例句 例4：They had to sell the firm because for years they had operated it in the red. 【译文】因为经营这家公司几年来一直亏损，所以他们只好把它卖掉。 补充例句 例5：Mother gave us the green light to go on the camping trip this summer. 【译文】妈妈同意我们今年夏天去野营一次。 补充例句 小节结束 8. 3. 3 改译 改译就是改译颜色词，不同语言间的颜色词有各自不同的颜色意义，因此在英汉翻译中有时就不一定有完全对应的等值词，这时就要根据汉语的习惯，用人们所熟悉的颜色词来改译原文的颜色词。 例如:black tea black and blue black cloth blue films brown sugar brown bread green-eyed grey market purple wine →红茶 →青一块紫一块 →青布 →黄色电影 →红糖 →黑面包 →眼红 →半黑市 →红葡萄酒 black in the face 脸色发紫 blue films 黄色电影 white coffee 牛奶咖啡 pink elephants 幻觉（狂饮或吸毒后呈现的） pink slip 解雇通知书 补充例句 brown bread 黑面包 brown stone districts 富人住宅区 be raised to the purple 升为红衣主教 black diamonds 煤 补充例句 小节结束 8. 3. 4 增译 增译就是增译颜色词，原文中无颜色词，译文可根据汉语的表达习惯，增加适当的颜色词。 例1：Her eyes became moist. 【译文】她眼圈红了。 例2：The colour came back to my face the moment my mother mentioned his name. 【译文】母亲一提到他的名字，我马上就脸红了。 例3： Clytemnestra glides swiftly into the room like an apparition—her arms are bare and white,—her tawny hair floats down her shoulders,—her face is deadly pale,—and her eyes are lighted up with a smile so ghastly, that people quake as they look at her. (Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway) 【译文】克里蒂姆耐丝德拉光着雪白的膀子，棕黄的头发从双肩披下。像幽灵一样又轻又快地溜到屋里。她脸色惨白，眼睛里带着点儿微笑，那险恶的表情看得大家哆嗦起来。 例1： You cannot expect Mary to do business with such people. She is only 18 and as green as grass. 【译文】你不能指望玛丽同这样的人做生意，她只有十八岁，还毫无经验。 补充例句 例2： Hugh was very slow, Lady Bruton thought. He was getting fat, she noticed. Richard always kept himself in the pink of condition. (Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway) 【译文】休吃得真慢，布鲁顿夫人心里想。她发现他发胖了。理查德总是保持着最佳状态。 补充例句 例3：But the passage of ages had blurred the clarity of that ancient May day; the bright-petalled flowers were hoar and silver frosted; and she no longer saw, when she implored him ‘look in my eyes with thy sweet eyes intently,