《Lecture 3 Word Translation》.ppt

Logic Pragmatic Rhetoric 3.5.1 Extension(1) Logic (Conceptual) The avalanche unleashed by the film provided the best opportunity in a long time for the racial healing to begin. 由于这部影片造成了排山倒海的影响， 它提供了最好的契机来开始化解种族矛盾。 Note: To replace metaphor with understandable words in target language The EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy is a dinosaur which is adding 13.50 pounds a week to the food bill of the average British family. 欧共体的统一农业政策早已不合时宜了。它使每个普通英国家庭的食品开支增加13.50英镑。 He has known praise and hatred, and has gone from cheers to jeers. 他尝过荣辱的滋味，过去受人欢呼，现在却被人讥讽。 练习 1. The National security gave him a green. 2. He is the last one to do that. 3. From 2003 to 2006, China has experienced a consecutive explosion in economy. 4. President is very American and I am very Chinese. 练习（答案） 1. 国家安全委员会给他开了个绿灯。 2. 他绝不会做这个事情。 3. 2003年至2006年，中国经济连续几年急速增长。 4. 克林顿总统是全力为美国服务的，而我是全力为中国争取利益的。 练习 1. Target priorities were decided there. 2. What makes the industries revolution especially English? 3. Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. But in an old man it is somewhat abject and ignoble. 练习（答案） 1. 目标的轻重缓急是在那儿决定的。 2. 是什么使工业革命特别具有英国色彩呢? 3. 有些老年人因为怕死而惶惶不安。年轻人有这种情绪情有可原，但对老年人来说怕死就未免有些可鄙，有些不光彩了。 3.5.2 Extension(2) Pragmatic The new father wore a proud smile. 那个刚做了父亲的人面带着得意的微笑。 She had a heart so large that everybody’s grief and joys found welcome in it. 她的心胸开阔，无论谁的悲伤与欢乐都容纳得下。 If a customer relationship sours, its almost always because the customers expectation differed from what you delivered. So always try to under sell, over deliver. 如果与客户的关系变糟的话，那几乎总是因为客户的期望与你能提供的东西存在差距。所以，要始终努力做到 “少说点，多给点”。 练习 1. In the capitalist society, money becomes the king. 2. Water had become the engineers’ element in the industrial revolution. 3. Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into Sudan. 练习（答案） 1. 在资本主义社会，金钱成了主宰。 2. 在工业革命中，水成了工程师们大显身手的对象。 3. 沿着尼罗河往苏丹行去，一路上可以看见许多古埃及的陵墓和庙宇。 3.5.3 Extension(3) Rhetoric He wouldn’t tell t