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中英习语解释性翻译或形象具体互译 一、以《浮生六记》为例 1.一灯如豆 …The light of a rapeseed oil lamp was then burning as small as a pea. 2. 但李诗宛如姑射仙子，有一种落花流水之趣，令人可爱。 …but Li Po’s poems have the wayward charm of a nymph. His lines come naturally like dropping petals and flowing waters, and are so much lovelier for their spontaneity. 3. 兼之玉碎香埋，不堪回首矣。 … and the woman I loved is dead, like broken jade and buried incense. How sad indeed to look back upon these things. 4. 芸初缄默，喜听余议论。余调其言，如蟋蟀之用纤草，渐能发议。 Yun was at first very quiet and loved to hear me talk, but I gradually taught her the art of conversation as one leads a cricket with a blade of grass. She then learned the art of conversation. 5.……有女名憨园 。。。亭亭玉立，真一泓秋水照人寒。 She had a girl by the name of Hanyuan, who was a very sweet young maiden, still in her teens. Her eyes looked“like an autumn lake that cooled one by its cold splendor”. 【2】 二、Double-way: literal translation; borrowing; paraphrase 过街老鼠 （直译）like a rat crossing the street (意译) the object of universal condemnation; a bad man hated by everybody 门庭若市 (直译) the courtyard is like a market. （意译）a much visited house; a busy town; bustling; crowded 望梅止渴 （直译）to gaze at plums to quench one’s thirst （意译）to console oneself with false hopes; to feed on fancies (illusion); imagined satisfaction; a Barmecide （《一千零一夜》中一个口惠而实不至的人物）feast. 危如累卵 （直译）as dangerous as a pile of eggs （意译）hazardous in the extreme; great insecurity; in a precarious condition; at stake, at risk; at hazard; in peril; in danger; perilous; risky; critical... 山雨欲来风满楼 （直译）The wind sweeping through the tower heralds a rising storm in the mountains. （意译）A turbulent situation foretells a big event; Coming events cast their shadows before. 树倒猢狲散 （直译）When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. （意译）Members run away when the family (constitution) falls; when an influential person falls from power, his hangers-on disperse; Rats leave a sinking ship. 7. 三个臭皮匠顶得上诸葛亮 （直译）Three cobbers with their wits combined equal ZhuGeliang the master mi