第五章词义的理Techniques of Translating Words and.ppt

例5： He had seen hundreds of similar farces. The husband was always fatuous, the wife unfaithful, the lover cunning…Who mocked whom here? The same rabble existed everywhere. They danced at weddings and wailed at funerals. Swore faithfulness at the altar and corrupted the institution of marriage, wept over a forlorn, fictitious, little orphan and butchered each other in wars, pogroms and revolutions. 【译文】同样的闹剧他已经见过上千次。丈夫总是愚不可及，妻子总是淫荡不贞，奸夫总是奸诈诡谲。……到底是谁在嘲笑谁？这些乌七八糟的男女到处都有。他们在婚宴时尽情欢舞，在丧葬时哀哀痛苦，在祭坛前信誓旦旦，却又恣意践踏神圣的婚约。他们一面为想象中可怜的孤儿抛洒同情的泪水，又在战争、内战、种族屠戮中互相残杀。 例3：You pays your money and you doesn’t take your choice. (E.E.Cummings) 【译文】花了钱又买不到自己满意称心的东西，真是没法说！ 例4：Otherwise they can kiss my ─ you know ─ what. (Issac Bashevis Singer: Gimpel The Fool) 【译文】没钱！没钱就来舔我屁股。 例5：It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. (Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities) 【译文】最美好的时期——最恶劣的时期； 智慧的年代——愚蠢的年代； 有信仰的时代——抱怀疑的时代； 光明的季节——黑暗的季节； 富有希望的春天——充满绝望的寒冬； 拥有一切——一无所有； 走向天堂——下至地狱。 小节结束 1．How do we account for this split between the critics and the readers, the head and the heart? 【译文】评论家和读者之间，也就是理智和感情之间的这种分歧如何解释呢？ 课堂互动6： 翻译下列句子, 注意原文的语言风格（参考译文） 2．He has a very satirical eye. And if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him. (Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice) 【译文】他挖苦人的本领特别高明,要是我不先给他点厉害,我就会马上怕他呢。 课堂互动6： 翻译下列句子, 注意原文的语言风格（参考译文） 3．It is easy to think to oneself that one’s emotions used to be more vivid than they are, and one’s mind more keen. 【译文】人们往往对自己说，我过去感情多么丰富，思想