分译:介词短语作定语时,往往是定语从句的一种简略形式。介词短语作状语时,有时是状语从句的简略形式。有些介词短语还是并列句的简略形式。因此汉译时,有的可以拆句分译。
①译成并列分句。
The porous wall acts as a kind of seine for separating molecules.多孔壁的作用就象一把筛子,它把不同质量的分子分开。
②译成让步分句。
With all its disadvantages this design is cidered to be one of the best.这个设计尽管有种种缺点,仍被认为1佳设计之一。
④译成原因分句。
We cannot see it clearly for the fog.由于有雾,我们看不清它。
The machine is working none the worse for its long service.
这部机器并不因使用的时间长而性能变差了。
⑤译成目的分句。
This body of knowledge is customarily divided for convenience of study into the classificati: mechanics, heat, light, electricity and sound.。为了便于研究起见,通常将这门学科分为力学、热学、光学、电学和声学。语言的发音能引起不同的听觉效果,在心理上激发不同的反应,或柔和、或清脆、或苍劲、或凝重。
表语从句
It seems that it is going to snow.
看起来要下雪了。
That is why Jack got scolded.
这就是杰克受到训斥的原因。
The question remains whether we can win the majority of the people.
问题是我们能否赢得大多数人民群众的支持。
His view of the press was that the reporters were either for him or against him.
他对新闻界的看法是,记者们不是支持他,就是反对他。
长句直译的误区
在较长的英语句子中存在着比较复杂的关系,很难按原则顺序用一句汉语表达出来,这就要根据英文句子的特点和内在联系进行意译,不能直译的长句主要有三种处理方法。
1. 根据句子内在的逻辑关系和汉语的表达习惯进行翻译。例如:
There are advantages to underground life, too, and something to be said for imaging whole cities, even mankind generally, moving downward, of h***ing the outermost mile of the Earth's crust honeycombed with passage and strue-ture, like a gigantic ant hill.
这是一个倒装句,表示设想条件与结果关系,按这一关系来译比直译好,家似的建筑物,一座座城市都迁入地下,甚至全人类都迁入地下生活,这也会给人类带来很多好处。
The chances are that the dwellers of the new c***es would see more greenery, under ecologically healthier conditi, than dwellers of surface cities do today.
这个句子并不复杂,但不好译。这个句子有三层关系,比较、条件和结果,按这种逻辑关系翻译就十分省
事。
'同今天地面城市里的居民相比,新洞穴里的居民如果在比较健康的生态环境中生活,会有更多的机会见到青枝绿叶。'
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