王立伟 090380223 class2 2.doc

The translation of clauses or sentences in English of science and technology Abstract: Nowadays, the translation of English of science and technology has been an indispensable part of the translation field. And as far as the translation techniques are concerned, this article tries to describe the most important element---the translation of clauses and sentences. And owing to different culture and expressing habits, there are some big gap between Chinese sentences and English ones. For example, different location of clauses, different emphasis, orders of words, etc. So in order to achieve ideal result of translation, mass and comprehensive factors or techniques of the translation should be considered. This article tries to divide all kinds of sentences into two general parts---clauses and sentences, and it will introduce some practical skills of translation according to different styles of sentences. The translation of clauses English is a synthetic language, which is characterized by frequent and systematic use of inflected forms to express grammatical relationships. So clauses have been an indispensible part of a complete and long sentence. the translation of attribute clause The translation of attributive clause involves the translation of restrictive attributive clause and non-restrictive attributive clause. Theoretically, these two kinds of clauses have essential difference, thereby which should be utilized with different translation techniques. the translation of restrictive attributive clause embedding (内嵌法) Attributes in Chinese always are in the front of noun, while in English most attributes appear in the form of clause. So when doing translation, we can fuse the attributive clause into the main sentence with the omission of relative pronoun. Example1 Language is a tool by means of which people communicate ideas with each other. 语言是人们赖以交流思想的工具。 splitting （拆分法） Some attributive clauses have little limit to its antecedent, so they can be dispersed