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Lecture2 Electronic Tools for Translators 1.Collocation In English, as in other languages, there are many fixed, identifiable, non-idiomatic phrases, and constructions. Such groups of words are called recurrent combinations, fixed combinations or collocations. 2. Peter Newmark： “He (one who writes or speaks in a foreign language) will be ‘caught’ out every time, not by grammar, which is probably suspiciously ‘better’ than educated natives, not by his vocabulary, which may well be wider, but by his unacceptable or improbable collocations.” That is why you cannot translate properly if the TL is not your language of habitual usage. 3.Semotactic inappropriateness 语义结构不当 ◎?great famine Great depression? 4. Chinglish Chinglish, of course, is that misshapen, hybrid language that is neither English nor Chinese but that might be described as ‘English with Chinese characteristics. --Joan Pinkham ◎“经济发达国家”→ the economically developed countries” ◎“一小撮捣乱分子” “a tiny handful of troublemakers”。 ◎mutual cooperation ◎???? “疯狂侵略” frenzied aggression ◎???? 结束过去 end the past ◎hinder the cause Hinder the progress/advancement of the cause ◎成功的原因 the cause of success。 accident concern damage death trouble the cause of failure, the cause of trouble the cause of anxiety The translator who comes to the receptor language as a foreign language must also “soak up” the language by saturating himself in hearing and speaking the language. And to do this, he will need a number of years. Even with all the formal analysis of texts which he might be able to undertake, there is simply no substitute for the millions and billions of words a person should listen to and speak, if he is to build up a “feeling” for the semotactic appropriateness of certain combinations. The average person can quite master the syntactic structure of a language in four or five years, but it is the rare individual who master the semotactic structure of a foreign language in less than twenty