13-长句调序.ppt

长句翻译－调整句序 Adjustment of Sentence Order Maintaining the original order It was remarkable that much of rapid development of electrical devices and resulting industry took place in the nineteenth century, when nature of electricity was not clearly understood. 值得一提的是，电器以及相关产业的迅速发展发生在19世纪，当时人们对于电的性质还不十分了解。 It is necessary for young people to understand how our society depends upon scientific and technological advancement and to realize that science is the basic part of modern living. While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past. Sequencing In the translation of long sentences, sometimes the sentence order needs to be adjusted according to the logical order: adverbials → front position short attributes → premodifier time sequence (chronological order) general → specific (Chinese) front focus (English)→ end focus(Chinese) 英：头重脚轻→汉：头轻脚重 Major Types of Adjustments There are three major types of adjustments available, namely, Maintaining the original order(保持原序) Reversing（倒置） Reshuffling（重组） Time Sequence The widow of Hugh Gaitskell yesterday described “as an absolute awful lie” Lord Avebury’s claims at the conference that the former leader of the opposition drank 19 tumblers of vodka and had to be carried to his car on a trip to Russia. General → Specific Smaller class sizes in early grades translated into students scoring higher on math tests in later grades in Tennessees experiment to see if smaller classes improved education, a study said of Friday. Front focus → End focus Then most Americans had little interest in 1,500,000 square km of icebergs and polar bears—— beyond Canada’s western borders, far from the settled areas of the United States. (Alaska) 阿拉斯加毗连加拿大西部边境，远离美国已开发地区，150万平方公里的地域内只有冰山和北极熊，当时大多数美国人对这片土地根本不敢兴趣。 We believe it is right and necessary that people of different political