pp.9.2 连贯与翻译-Coherence and Translation.pptVIP

Ex1: Improve the following translation: One can’t think of Africa without thinking of Egypt, the cradle of an ancient civilization, nor of Egypt without the Nile.想起非洲，人们不可能不想到作为文明发祥地之一的埃及；而没有一个尼罗河的埃及，那也是不可想象的。 He listened to the striking of Big Ben, marking every quarter of an hour, and reckoned out how long it fell till the City woke again.他谛听着议院塔上的大钟的当当声，每过一刻钟便做个记号，心里盘算着还得呆多久城市才能苏醒过来。 Ciano, drumming the tips of his fingers together, looked up at the mention of the name.齐亚诺一听到这个名字就抬起头来，用几个手指头敲着桌子。 On the breast of her gown, in red cloth, appeared the letter of A, and it was that scarlet letter which drew all eyes toward her .在她那红布做成的衣服的胸部，有一个A字，正是这个红字把众人的目光都吸引了过来。 Public officials may be removed from office for failing to perform their duties properly, as well as for serious violations of law. 公职人员如果渎职就会被撤换，并被视为严重违法。 Petroleum was formed at a later time than coal from plant and animals that lived in shallow seas.石油由植物和生长在浅海的动物形成，其形成时间比煤晚。 The old man informed us that his wife had had 13 children, one in every month of the year, and one over besides.老人告诉我们说她妻子生了十三个孩子，每月生一个，还多了一个。 Coherence and Translation Cohesion and coherence My car is black. Black English was a controversial subject in the seventies. At seventy most people have retired. To retire means “to put new tires on a vehicle”. Some vehicles such as a hovercraft, have no wheels. Wheels go round. A：Can you tell me the time? B：Well, the milkman has come. Act II Microwave Popcorn Cinema Sweet It’s lonely at the top. Just ask IBM. While a crowd of Lilliputian competitors is nibbling away at profits by selling ‘clones’ of IBM’s personal computers, larger rivals are teaming up in an attempt to beat the computer colossus in the profitable software and office-network business. 原译：高处不胜寒。只要请问国际商业机器公司。一群小小的竞争对手通过销售IBM个人电脑的衍生品蚕食IBM的利润，较大规模的竞争对手正在联合起来，试图在利润丰硕的软件及办公室网络业务上击败这家电脑大公司。 Ericsson is one of a growing number of European companies that use English as their official corporate language. 译文1：越来越