翻译Unit 4.pptVIP

Unit Four Extract 1 1. Theater, one of the oldest and most popular forms of entertainment, in which actors perform live for an audience on a stage or in another space designated for the performance. The space set aside for performances, either permanently or temporarily, is also known as a theater. 戏剧是一种最为古老最受欢迎的娱乐形式。在戏剧中演员在舞台上或在另一指定的表演场所为观众现场表演。用于表演的永久场所或临时场所亦称为剧场。 要点：词义辨析。 2. The actors, the audience, and the space are three essentials of theater. 演员、观众和场所是戏剧的三要素。 要点：根据词性判断词义。 3. Anthropologists and theater historians trace the origins of theater to myth and ritual | (found in dances and mimed performances) (by masked dancers) [during fertility rites and other ceremonies that marked important passages in life. ] 人类学家和戏剧史家们认为戏剧起源于神话和典礼．这种神话和典礼体现于戴着面具的舞者在丰收庆典上以及其它标志人生重要阶段的仪式上所进行的舞蹈和哑剧表演中． 要点（1）语法分析；（2）断句。 4. Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; (Inverted sentence) Seeing = seeing other people act Being seen = being seen to act 戏剧经历中最根本的行为就是观看表演以及表演供别人观看. 要点：加词释义。 5. It is not the building that makes theater but rather the use of space for actors to imitate human experience before audiences. 剧场之为剧场，并非因为这栋建筑，而是因为这一场所被演员用于在观众面前模仿人类经历。 要点（1）强调句的翻译；（2）突出对比。 6. His concept of imitation begins with the playwrights deliberate selection and arrangement of events, words, and images into a dramatic pattern that makes up a meaningful course of human events. 他最初的模仿观指的是剧作家对事件、语言和意象进行刻意的选择，并且按照戏剧的模式进行编排，从而将人类事件表现为一个有意义的过程． 要点：词性转换。 7. In Aristotles famous definition, drama is an imitation of an action that is whole, complete, and of a certain magnitude or scope. 按照亚里士多德的著名定义，戏剧是一种行为的模仿．这种模仿是完整的、彻底的、具有一定规模或范围的。 要点：定语从句先行词的判断。 8. The audience for theater differs from the reader of a novel or the viewer of a painting in that it assembles as a group at a given time and place to share in the performance with the actors and all the surrounding elements of light, sound, music, costumes, and scenery. 戏剧的观众与小说的读者和画作的观摩者的差异在于：戏剧的观众作为一个群体在一个特定的时间聚集