09年4月英语翻译期末考试复习资料实用.pdfVIP

习语的译法 一. 直译法 1. 当下刘姥姥听见这般音乐，且又有了酒，越发喜的手舞足蹈起来。 Now the music, on top of the wine, set Granny Liu waving her arms and beating time with her feet for sheer delight. 2. 再说别的，咱们白刀子进去，红刀子出来 ! Say one word ,and I ’ll bury a white blade to you and pull it red! 3. 王光辉也不懊悔，听其自然，每日在牛公庵看书。 Wangwas not unduly disappointed, however, but let it go at that, and spent each day in the temple reading. ? 矫枉过正 ? exceed the proper limits in righting a wrong ? 削足适履 ? cut the feet to fit the shoes ? 口蜜腹剑 ? with honey on one ’s lips and murder in one ’s heart ? 半途而废 ? give up halfway ? 治病救人 ? cure the sickness to save the patient ? 对牛弹琴 ? play the lute to a cow ? 走马看花 ? look at the flowers while on horseback 二. 英语同义词语的借用 1. 但我想，这一份遗产，还是都让给叭儿狗文艺家去承受罢，我们的作者倘不竭力的抛 弃了它，是会和他们成为 “一丘之貉”的。 But to my mind this past if our heritage should be madeover to the lapdog writers, for unless our authors strive might and main to do away with it ,they may become birds if a feather. 2. 只有大胆的破釜沉舟地跟他们拼，还许有翻身的那一天。 All you can do is to burn your boats and fight them in the hope that one day you ’ ll come out top. 3. 打狗看主面。他反正不想和朱延年往来了，但是，还有徐义哩，他可是台面上的人物 啊。 Nevertheless, “love melove mydog”: although he had no desire to have anything more to do with Chu Yannian it would not do to forget the existence of Xu yi-de, who really was a force to be reckoned with. ? 随大流 ? swim with the tide ? 以牙还牙 ? a tooth for a tooth ? 沧海一粟 ? a drop in the ocean ? 针锋相对 ? give tit for tat ? 时时刻刻 ? every now and then ? 突飞猛进 ? by leaps and bounds ? 千钧一发 ? hung by a thread ? 针锋相对 ? give tit for tat ? 原形毕露 ? show one ’s true colors ? 无风不起浪 ? no smoke without fire 三. 意译法 1. 但真所谓 “塞翁失马安知非福”罢，阿 Q不幸而赢了一回，他倒几乎失败了。 However, the truth if the proverb “Misfortune m