实用英汉汉英笔译主讲：王作虹.PPT

实用英汉、汉英笔译 第五讲 谚语的翻译 Contents Proverb: Definition and Sources Proverb: Features and Categories Translation Theories and Skills Translation Practice Warm-Up Questions 1. What is proverb in your mind？ 2. How often do you use proverbs in your daily life both in English and Chinese? 3. List some English/Chinese proverbs in appropriate contexts, try to translate them into Chinese/English. Proverbs : English and Chinese Proverb: Definition and Sources Proverb: Features and Categories Translation Theories and Skills Translation Practice Proverb: Definition and Sources A proverb is a short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorizable form and which is handed down from generation to generation. ——Mieder 1985:119; also in Mieder 1993:24 Proverb: Definition and Sources Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. Experience Religion ; Cultural tradition; literature works… Proverbs : English and Chinese Proverb: Definition and Sources Proverb: Features and Categories Translation Theories and Skills Translation Practice Proverb: Features and Categories Features: concise; condensed; popular; easy to memorize; unchangeable Proverbial Expressions(as busy as a bee): permit alterations to fit the grammar of the context . Proverb: Features and Categories Typical stylistic features : Figures of Speech Alliteration (Forgive and forget.) Parallelism (Nothing ventured, nothing gained) Rhyme (When the cat is away, the mice will play) Figures of Speech Ellipsis (Once bitten, twice shy) Paradox (For there to be peace there must first be war) Personification (Hunger is the best cook) Metaphor(Experience is the mother of wisdom. ) Proverb: Features and Categories (1)以相同的文化词汇来表达相同或类似内涵意义的谚语；(瑞雪兆丰年 A snow year, a rich year.) (2)以不同的文化词汇来表达相同或类似内涵意义的谚语；(新官上任三把火 A new