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翻译的定义 翻译是把一种语言表达的意义用另一种语言传达出来，以达到沟通思想情感、传播文化知识、促进社会文明，特别是推动译语文化兴旺昌盛的目的。 Definition of Translation Translating consists in reproducing in the receptor language the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style. 翻译的标准 忠实 通顺 忠实---译例 The commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit… 上班族的人死去时有跨越千山万水的辉煌纪录… 上班族一生中有着惊人的行程 忠实---译例 Size don’t matter, chopping wood… 说到劈柴，个头并不重要… 个头没啥关系，劈柴嘛… 忠实---译例 There are few human straight walls and fewer human monumental shafts.such men and women are personalities of great beauty and are so rare that history records their being and holds them up as examples for the future. 人类的直墙很少，人类的纪念柱就更少。这样的男人和女人是绝美的化身，是那样的罕见，历史记录下他们的存在，并把他们奉为后世的楷模。 人类中堪称墙一般笔直挺立的人少有，像纪念柱一样矗立的人更是凤毛麟角。这样的人是绝美的化身，世所罕见，历史记录他们的存在，奉之为后世的楷模。 通顺---译例 Young women are heading for an early grave through smoking and lack of exercise. 青年妇女由于抽烟加上缺少锻炼，正在走向早期的坟墓。 青年妇女由于抽烟加上缺少锻炼，正在缩短自己的寿命。 通顺---译例 Often at the end of a hard day’s work one realizes with dismay that the meager stack of finished work one has accomplished has an immeasurably impact on the work as a whole. 往往一天辛苦工作结束时，一个人会灰心地意识到他所完成的少量的一堆工作对整个工作产生无限小的影响。 往往一天辛苦工作下来，发觉所完成的薄薄几页草稿只是全部工作的九牛一毛，好不令人沮丧。 通顺---译例 From there I could see the whole valley below, the fields, the river, and the village. It was all very beautiful, and the sight of it filled me with longing. 从那里，我可以看见下面的整个山谷，那田野、河流和村庄。这一切非常美丽，见到后使我心里充满了渴望。 从这里望下去，整个山谷一览无遗，只见那田野、河流和村庄，全都美不胜收，真叫我心驰神往。 通顺---译例 Edward Ferras was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself… 爱德华弗纳斯在外表或言谈方面都没有什么特殊的风度足以博得她们的良好印象。他相貌平平，礼貌要求他表现亲切，以使他们愉快。他过于羞怯，不能恰当地处理自己… 爱德华弗纳斯之所以能博得他们的好感，倒不是因为他人品出众，风度翩翩。他并不漂亮，那副仪表嘛，只有和他熟悉了才觉得逗人喜爱。他过于腼腆，这就使他越发不能显现本色了。 提高翻译水平，我们应该？ 打下扎实英语基础，尤其是阅读理解和鉴赏能力 打下扎实的汉语基础 广阔的知识面 掌握合理的翻译策略 翻译过程之理解 译例 Then he…asked: “Now, children, tell me