常见的2.英语多长句,汉语多短句1.ppt

第二章 第二节 英语多长句，汉语多短句; 正是由于这个原因，英译汉要化整为零，译成多个短小的句子；而汉译英要化零为整。当然有些英语句子尽管也较长，但结构比较简单，内容以句序排列，即所谓的“流水句”，比较容易译，一般可以按顺序翻译。有些长句比较复杂，就要根据具体情况实行逆序翻译或分句翻译。;　1. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that a tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.;例2. But now it is realized that supplies of some of minerals are limited, and it is even possible to give a reasonable estimate of their “expectation of life”, the time it will take to exhaust all known sources and reserves of these materials. ;1. I merely desired to point out the principal reason which I believe exists for the greater exaggeration which is occasionally to be observed in the estimate of the importance of the contradiction between current Religion and current Science put forward by thinkers of reputation. ;　 这样的译文真是诘屈聱牙，令人不忍卒读。见到这样的句子就要弄清句意后，要努力摆脱英语句法结构的束缚，用通达的汉语表达出来。思果提供的通达的译文如下：;2. We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right.;3. It is a curious fact, of which I can think of no satisfactory explanation, that enthusiasm for country life and love of natural scenery are strongest and most widely diffused precisely in those European countries which have the worst climate and where the search for the picturesque involves the greatest discomfort.;3. 分句法 ;2. Television, it is often said, keeps one informed about current events, allow one to follow the latest developments in science and politics, and offers an endless series of programs which are both instructive and entertaining. ;4. 综合译法 ;例1. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the