( 一 ) 同义反译法
1. Only three customers remained in the bar. 酒吧间只有三个顾客还没有走。 ( 不译: “ 还留着 ” 或 “ 还呆在那里 ”)
2. I''''ll be here for good this time. 这一次我再也不走了。 ( 不译: “ 永远在此呆下去 ”)
3. Please keep the fire burning when I''''m out. 我不在家的时候,别让炉子灭了。 ( 不译: “ 我外出时,请让炉子继续烧着 ”)
4. "Wait, he is serious." 等等,他不是说着玩儿的。 ( 不译: ” 等等,他是认真的。 “)
5. "Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!" 听我说,克拉拉,对这孩子可不能心软。 ( 不译: ”...... 对这孩子要坚定 “)
( 二 ) 删减解释词
The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quotation and mulatto women. 到南方去的人看见那些黑白混血的女郎,一定会注意到她们十之八九都有那种独特的优雅风度、那种温柔的声音和文静的举止。
( 三 ) 短句拆译
" ...on one sunshiny morning in June , ..." 在六月里的一天早上,天气晴朗 ......
( 四 ) 译词推陈出新
When he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with doubts, scruples and equivocations, in addition to the ordinary fears of a lower. 原译:当他可以大胆行动的时候,他发现自己除了一个情人所具有的那种普通的害怕之外,心里还充满怀疑、顾虑和踌躇。 改译:等到他不妨放胆去追求的时候,他却迟疑不定,顾虑重重。至于一般堕入情网的人那种常有的提心吊胆的心理,那就更是难免的了。
( 五 ) 解释性添词
"George, I''''m ashamed of you! George, I couldn''''t have believed you would have done it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet and the children to lie upon," said Mrs. Bagnet. ” 乔治,我真替你害臊﹗乔治,想不到你会干出这种事情来﹗俗话说得好:滚着的碌碡不长苔,流浪的汉子不攒财。我早知道你就是这么一个流浪汉﹗可真没有想到你连贝格纳特和孩子们靠它过活的那一点点财也骗走 “ ,贝格纳特太太说道。 |