9翻译评析Vanity Fair 节选revised.pptVIP

2） 这个昏了头的小伙子曾经由他妈妈介绍给平克顿小姐，偶然也到她学校里去喝茶。他托那个独眼的买苹果女人给他传递情书，被人发现，信里的话简直等于向夏泼小姐求婚。 比较：这个昏了头的小伙子曾经由他妈妈介绍给平克顿小姐，偶然也到她学校里去喝茶。他甚至写了一封情书向夏泼小姐求婚，他托那个独眼的卖苹果妇人传书时，被截获了。 … and actually proposed something like marriage in an intercepted note, which the one-eyed apple-woman was charged to deliver. 结论： 汉语句子的重心习惯放在了句子的结尾处，有节奏感和重心感。 Why? Thinking pattern, paratactic 1）英语中，重心大都放在了开门见山的句首位置，再通过各种形式手段铺垫背景信息和修饰成分等(formal ties to supplement background)。否则，就容易形成头重脚轻。而汉语作为一种意合的语言，缺乏整体形式框架，一般避免了头重脚轻。 2）此外，英语句子形式结构完整紧密(compact)，汉语句子形式松散(diffusive)，常常以意义重心收尾(weight down) 。 3．词的翻译 词性灵活转换(changing word class) Take the last sentence as example: but the idea, even, of such an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a great flutter in the breast of Miss Pinkerton, who would have sent away Miss Sharp but that she was bound to her under a forfeit, and who never could thoroughly believe the young lady’s protestations that she had never exchanged a single word with Mr. Crisp, except under her own eyes on the two occasions when she had met him at tea. 表示动意 汉: 动词 英: 动词和非动词 but the idea, even, of such an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a great flutter in the breast of Miss Pinkerton, who would have sent away Miss Sharp but that she was bound to her under a forfeit, and who never could thoroughly believe the young lady’s protestations that she had never exchanged a single word with Mr. Crisp, except under her own eyes on the two occasions when she had met him at tea. ? but the idea, even of … n-v一想到， an eagle in the dovecot prep –v 藏着 caused a great flutter n-v 不由得心慌意乱 never believe the young lady’s protestations that 竭力辩白 n-v 措辞(diction) a glance of her eyes 眼风 in an intercepted note 被人发现 caused a great flutter 不由得心慌意乱 never could thoroughly believe …将信将疑 4．适当增译amplification(explicitation) ?1) when they looked up they were very large, odd, and attractive; 抬起眼来看人时，眼睛显得很特别，不但大，而且动人（自然） 2）Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, and abruptly carried off her darling bo