大学英语四级翻译基础练习
在我的生活里,我也尝试过很多次试着放手。虽然,学会放手不会减轻生活里的伤痛或是改变什么,也不会让你的情绪得以发泄,也许你仍然会被生活所困。然而,富有同情心是一种释放。会让你和感受到你同情心的人得到精神上的洗礼。当你对一切都富有同情心时,你会发挥自己最大潜力。你也会在生活中觉得自己有无限的正能量。
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在我的生活里,我也尝试过很多次试着放手。
I'm learning to do that a lot in this life, to let go.
大家是不是觉得很奇怪,明明汉语里倾向于过去式“尝试过”,但英文翻译过来就是I'm learning to do。可以留意下这种翻译方式,不过如果大家在考试时遇到这种情况,还是翻译成过去式比较好(如果你的翻译水平没有达到炉火纯青的地步的话,呵呵),因为阅卷老师也不是那种翻译大牛哦~
放手:to let go
虽然,学会放手不会减轻生活里的伤痛或是改变什么,也不会让你的情绪得以发泄,也许你仍然会被生活所困。
It doesn't help to hang on to the hurt or judgment. It doesn't work to blame or criticize. Those approaches only serve to keep you stuck.
这里两个英文句子都用了形式主语it来代替前面提到过的“放手”,不繁琐,而且适合散文的风格。汉语只要语义衔接,可一直逗号下去,但英文,只要是结构完整,只能用句号或相应的标点哦。
减轻伤痛:to help to hang on to the hurt
被生活所困:keep sb stuck
然而,富有同情心是一种释放。会让你和感受到你同情心的人得到精神上的洗礼。
But compassion is freeing. It uplifts both you and the person you are sharing it with.
释放直接用了freeing,很简单,但很舒服。第二句话汉语读起来很绕,但英语翻译出来是不是让你一下子就茅塞顿开?这就是英语的魅力~
当你对一切都富有同情心时,你会发挥自己最大潜力。
When you act with compassion, you are living from your highest potential and connecting with your greatest self.
看上句翻译,“富有同情心”直接是compassion,这句里的“富有同情心”就变换了一下方式,act with compassion,翻译一直重复是没有美感的,有时候需要我们留意一下细节。
你也会在生活中觉得自己有无限的正能量。
The more you can do that, the better you'll feel in this life.
这句翻译很简单,就是用了the more...the better句型。
英语四级翻译基础练习二:
我是个翻译实践者,不是纯理论家,在此无意提出似乎放之四海而皆准的抽象理论,而意在对自己多年的翻译(尤其是诗译)经验做一些总结,从中归纳出“几要几不要”,作为也许只适用于我自己的个人理论或主张。
我所谓“准确”大略相当于严复的“信”。严夫子说:“求其信而大难矣”。我说:“信则万事毕矣”。准确有很多方面的含义。首先是意义的准确,这似乎无庸赘言。但是,诗与散文不同,它的内容与形式是有机地统一的,换句话说,即诗的意义至少部分是体现在形式之中的。所以,翻译散文可以“得意而忘言”,译诗则不可以。
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答案:
I am a translation practicer,not a pure theorist.Therefore,what I am intending to put forward here is not any abstract theory that seems to be universally true,but a summary of my years of translation experience,especially that of poetry transaltion,in the from of Dos and Don'ts,as personal theory or principle applied perhaps only to me myself.
“Accuracy”I have mentioned roughly equals to “faithfulness”advocated by Yan Fu.Master Yan once said,“Faithfulness is hard enough to attain”,while,to me,“faithfulness is everything”.Accuracy has more than one.implications.First of all,it's needless to say that it implies the exactness of meaning.Yet,poetry is different from prose in that the content and form of poetry are organically integrated.In other words,the meaning of poetry is partly conveyed through its original form at least.Therefore,we may focus on the meaning ignoring the exact words used when translating prose,but it is not the case when translating poems.
分析:
1.我是个翻译实践者,不是纯理论家
“翻译实践者” translation practicer和translation practitioner均可。
“纯理论家” pure theorist和doctrinaire均可。
2.严夫子说:“求其信而大难矣”。我说:“信则万事毕矣”。
“严夫子”Master Yan
“信则万事毕” faithfulness is everything(忠实于原文就万事大吉了)。