翻译实践3课件.ppt

Translation Practice In every Chinese city, we got into the streets, shop, parks, theaters, and restaurants. 在中国，我们每到一个城市，就逛大街，逛商店，逛公园，上剧场，下饭馆。 A study of the letter leaves us in no doubt as to the motives behind it. 研究过那封信，我们毫不怀疑此信是别有用心。 她既不当面恭维人家，也不背后说人坏话。从这两点来说她是值得称赞的。 She doesn’t flatter anyone in his presence nor speak ill of anyone behind his back. Considering these two points, she is praiseworthy. 他长期以来习惯于在最后一分钟作出决定。 He has long been used to last-minute decisions. 学而时习之，不亦悦乎？有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？ To learn and at due times to repeat what one has learnt, is that not after all a pleasure? That friends should come to one from afar, is this not after all delightful? 汉译英 来美国求学的中国学生与其他亚裔学生一样，大多非常刻苦勤奋，周末也往往会抽出一天甚至两天的时间去实验室加班，因而比起美国学生来，成果出得较多。 我的导师是亚裔人，嗜烟好酒，脾气暴躁。但他十分欣赏亚裔学生勤奋与扎实的基础知识，也特别了解亚裔学生的心理。因此，在他实验室所招的学生中，除有一名来自德国外，其余5位均是亚裔学生。 他干脆在实验室的门上贴一醒目招牌：“本室助研必须每周工作7天，早10时至晚12时，工作时间必须全力以赴。” 这位导师的严格及苛刻是全校有名的，在我所呆的3年半中，共有14位学生被招进他的实验室，最后博士毕业的只剩下5人。1990年夏天，我不顾别人劝阻，硬着头皮接受了导师的资助，从此开始了艰难的求学旅程。 英译汉 Opera is expensive: that much is inevitable. But expensive things are not inevitably the province of the rich unless we abdicate society’s power of choice. We can choose to make opera, and other expensive forms of culture, accessible to those who cannot individually pay for it. The question is: why should we? Nobody denies the imperatives of food, shelter, defense, health and education. But even in a prehistoric cave, mankind stretched out a hand not just to eat, drink or fight, but also to draw. The impulse towards culture, the desire to express and explore the world through imagination and representation is fundamental. In Europe, this desire has found fulfillment in the masterpieces of our music, art, literature and theatre. These masterpieces are the touchstones for all our efforts; they are the touchstones for the possibilities to which human thought and imagination may aspire; they carry the most profound messages that can be sent from one human to another. * * Practice what o