lecture 9 翻译技巧八 顺序与逆序法.ppt

翻译技巧（八）—— Sequencing and Inversion (顺序和逆序法） 倒置法 Conversion goes hand in hand with inversion, another important principal leading to expressing idiomatic language in transition. Inversion implies a necessary change of word order to conform the good usage in the target language. Besides differences in word order, sentences structures, logical and temporal sequences of thinking, saying and writing between the two languages may differ, which is especially true of long sentences. Let’s compare the different orders between Chinese and English. Inversion (倒置法/词序调整法） Subject and object in affirmative sentences 1). Birds fly and fish swim. 鱼儿游，鸟儿飞。 2). She couldn’t understand this English sentence. 她无法明白这个英语句子。 2. Subject and object in interrogative sentences 1). Shall I write him a letter? 我要给他写信吗？ 2). Pour me a cup of tea, will you? 给我倒杯茶好吗？ 3). I have sent you some useful books. 我给你寄了几本有用的书。 I. Comparative Study between Chinese and English order 3. Different orders of objects and complements 1). Mr. Li has taught you English for years. 李老师教你们英语好多年了。 （给、教、借等） 2). I shall write him a letter. 我要给他写封信。 3). We selected him monitor of our class. 　我们选他当班长。 4). We all call him Lao Wang. 我们都称呼他为老王。(我们都叫他老王。) 5). She is the most beautiful girl in our class. 　她是我班最漂亮的女孩。 4. Attributes First，English has pre-noun and post-noun attributes while Chinese has only pre-noun ones. E.g. a fat old lady 一个胖老太 a big round conference table 一张又大又圆的会议桌 A handsome young man in our school 我们学校的一位英俊的小伙子 The old man who is standing there with our teacher 和我们老师一起站在那边的老头 限定词＋数词＋评价性形容词＋新旧（年龄）形容词＋形状（尺寸、大小）形容词＋颜色形容词＋国籍（出处）形容词＋分词定语＋名词定语＋中心名词 Second，English has some general principals to place several attributive modifiers before a noun: This beautiful young lady Many interesting American detective stories An old big country house Some excellent young film stars those two good new big brown brick houses 英语修饰语顺序的掌握要点： 限定词 + 形容词 + 分词或动名词 + 名词 + 中心名词 + 短语或从句 限定 + 评价 +