Unit6文献阅读与翻译第6章分解.pptVIP

Translation Skills:Restructuring Definition Restructuring means the necessary or inevitable change of word-order in the translation in accordance with usage of the target language. Definition In the practice of E-C translation, we often have to adjust or rearrange the word order. For instance, in English attributive phrases and clauses usually follow the words being modified (the antecedents), whereas in Chinese such phrases and clauses always precede the words being modified. Most of the information we have got is through that channel. 我们得到的大部分消息是通过那个渠道获得的。 His address is 3612 Market Street，Philadelphia, PA. 19109，USA. 他的地址是美国宾夕法尼亚州费城市场街3612号，邮政编码19104。 Definition Both Englishmen and Americans prefer to put the adverbials of time and place at the end of a sentence while we Chinese people often have them at the beginning. If these two kinds of adverbials coexist in a single sentence, the adverbials of time usually follow those of place in English, but they are just in the reverse order in Chinese. My uncle passed away in hospital at 2.30 a.m. on September 12, 1999. 我的伯父于1999年，月12日凌晨2点30分在医院逝世。 Definition In English sentences, a pronoun may appears before the noun it stands for, which is impossible in Chinese. Young as he is，the little boy has learned a lot. 尽管这小男孩尚年幼，可已学了不少知识。 The fear that their port would lose its importance also worried the people of Baltimore. 巴尔的摩人也担心这样一来他们的港口就会失去重要性。 Nine types of inversion The above illustrations show clearly that the natural word order in English is not identical with that in Chinese. The characteristics of these illustrations and others not mentioned here necessitate the rearrangement of word order in the translation. According to some linguists, the English language possesses nine types of inversion so far as grammatical relations are concerned. When translated into other languages, their original orders do always remain unchanged. These inversions include: Nine types of inv