6.增词法 amplification.pptVIP

Translation Skills ---Amplification West China’s economy is still backward. 中国西部的经济现在还处于落后状态。 Day after day he came to his work—sweeping, scrubbing, cleaning. 他每天来干活——扫地、擦地板、收拾房间。 The high-altitude plane was and still is a remarkable plane. 这种高空飞机过去是现在仍然是一种了不起的飞机。 Having a lot of advantages, this machine will eventually be improved upon. 尽管这台机器有很多优点，它总有一天会被别的机器超过的。 Mary washes for a living after her husband died of cancer. 玛丽在丈夫得癌症去世之后，靠给人洗衣服维持生活。 Definition of Amplification Amplification, also called addition, means supplying necessary words in our translation on the basis of accurate comprehension of the original, making the version grammatically correct, semantically clear, rhetorically sound, logically acceptable, and culturally appropriate. As a matter of principle, a translator is not supposed to add any meaning to or to subtract any meaning from the original work. However, this does not mean that a translator should refrain from supplying necessary words to make his or her version both accurate in meaning and in keeping with the idiomatic use of the language to be translated into. Reasons for applying this translation skill: In fact it is precisely for the purpose of “faithful representation” of the thought of the author that we often resort to “amplification”. This is because English and Chinese are two entirely different languages and each has its own historical and cultural background. Therefore, many ideas, idiomatic expressions and phrases, etc. that are well understood in the country of their origin can hardly make sense to the original patterns without alteration and consequently amplification is adopted in dealing with such occasions. Ⅰ. Classification of Amplification in English-Chinese Translation 1. Lexical Amplification（从词汇上考虑的增词） This kind of amplification includes: amplification by supplying such kinds of words as verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, numerals, measure words, generalization words, and the plural forms of nouns.