翻译理论课后习题陈烜1151.pptVIP

“ ” “ ” 翻译理论课后习题unit12  陈烜 1.There are swift flowing rivers; slow,sluggish rivers; mighty rivers with several mouths; rivers that carry vast loads of alluvium to the sea;clear,limpid rivers; rivers that at some seasons ofthe year have very much more water than at others，rivers that are made to generate vast quantities of electricity by their power, and rivers that carry great volumes of traffic. 有的河水流湍急,有的河流速缓慢,有的河出海口有好几处,有的河带着大量冲击土 入海,有的河清澈见底,有的河水量在一年中的某些季节少,而在某些季节却多得很 有的河被用来大量发电,有的河成了水运交通大道. 这个句子的基本结构是“there are + com-pound subjects”,有六个有自己定语 的主语。为了使翻译流利,像中文那样表达,可以把它们翻译成 6 个平行从句。 2.Is the claim of the GC Merriam Company, probably the world’s greatestdictionary maker, that the preparation of the work cost $ 3.5 million, that it required the efforts of three hundred scholars over a period of twenty-sevenyears, working on the largest collection of citations ever assembled in any language—is all this a fraud, a hoax? (cutting/ recasting) （GC）麦里姆公司大概是世界上最大的字典编纂者。它声称这项编纂工作耗费三百 五十万美元。二十七世纪年时光以及三百名学者的辛勤努力。他们对所有的语言中搜 集到的最大量的引语进行了加工。难道它声称这些是为了欺骗和愚弄人们吗？ 3.The secret of the moon remained veiled until the latter half of the twentieth century due to the lack of a lunar space carrier, for a series of questions concerning fuel, material, safe landing, propelling mechanism and particularly electronic computation etc. were too intricate to solveunder the technical conditions early in this century, which have since been undergoing profound change and greatly improving.(reversing/inserting) 月亮的秘密保持隐藏直到第二十世纪，由于一个月球空间载体不足半年，一系列的问题，燃料，材料， 安全着陆，推进机构，特别是电子计算等太复杂的解决技术条件下，在本世纪早期，这已被接受深刻 的变化，大大提高了 4.All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter. 各会员国应一秉善意履行其依本宪章所担负之义务以保证全体会员国由加入本组织而发生之权益。 5.Americans who would be patriots must try to learn what it is that they have in common,what it is in the