英语翻译 Unit 5补.ppt

Unit 5 Translation of Long Sentences Common Ways to Translate Long Sentences Step 1: Find out the basic pattern: 查明基本句型 Step 2: Find out the subordination: modifier or the modified? 查明从属结构 Step 3: Find out the meanings of words: meaning in a given context? 查明词义 Step 4: Find out the grammatical relations: tense, voice, mood? 查明语法关系 Step 5: Find out the focus, temporal or logical sequences 查明重心，时间或逻辑顺序 Step 6: Arrange various parts according to Chinese ways of thinking and modes of expression 按照中国人的思维方式和表达习惯，安排或调整语序 Step 7: Revise, modify and polish the draft 修订、润饰初稿 1. Follow the Original Order ☆顺序法 2. Invert the Original Order ☆逆序法 3. Split a Long Sentence into Shorter Parts or Sentences ☆拆译法 Follow the Original Order顺序法 Some of long English sentences follow the same temporal or logical sequence as Chinese. If so, maintain the original order in translation. 2. Invert the Original Order逆序法 Example ①It is quite understandable ②that the United Nations, having no life except that which its members give to it, ③should show evidence of the maladies that is present in the world today. (from the United Nations documents) Suggested order: ② - ③ - ① 正因为联合国的生命完全是它的成员国赋予的，因此联合国也呈现出今天世界上所存在的各种病症，这是完全可以理解的。 3. Split a Long Sentence into Shorter Parts or Sentences拆译法 Inversion often goes hand in hand with Division. In a long sentence the main clause and the subordinate clauses or modifiers may not be closely related. These are often split into several parts or sentences in translation. Plastics is made from water which is natural resource inexhaustible and available everywhere, coal which can be mined through automatic and mechanical processes at less cost and lime which can be obtained from the calcination of limestone widely present in nature. 塑料是由水、煤和石灰制成的。水是取之不尽、到处可以获得的天然资源；煤是用自动化和机械化的方法开采的，成本较低；石灰是由煅烧自然界中广泛存在的石灰石得来的。 Exercises 1. Human beings have distinguished themselves from other animals, and in doing so ensured their survival, by the ability to observe and understand