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修辞翻译 辞格的翻译 明喻(simile)： Fat reserves are like bank accounts to be drawn on in the winter when food suppliers are limited and some times difficult to reach because of deep snow. [参考译文] 脂肪储备如同银行账户里的存款，供冬天食物来源有限以及有时由于大雪深得难以获得时支取使用。 Every tree and every branch was encrusted with bright and delicate hoarfrost, white and pure as snow, delicate and defined as carved ivory. [参考译文] 每棵树，每一根树枝都包上一层明亮、精美的白霜，像雪花般洁白和纯净，如象牙雕一般精致优美。 Light as a breeze, soft as a cloud. as hard as nails (铁石心肠的)，as thin as a lath (骨瘦如柴的)，as poor as a church mouse（一贫如洗），as timid as a rabbit(胆小如鼠)，雨后春笋（like mushrooms） 暗喻（metaphor） Time is money All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players. (William Shakespeare) [参考译文] 整个世界是一座舞台，所有的男人和女人只不过是演员而已。 While we cannot close the gulf between us, we can try to bridge it so that we may be able to talk across it. [参考译文] 尽管我们不能填平我们之间的鸿沟，我们却可以设法架一座桥，以便跨过这座桥来进行交谈。 Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience and truth may be drowned. (Kozlay) [参考译文] 金钱是无底的海洋，荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中。 Passion was to go to sleep in the presence of Mrs. General and blood was to change to milk and water.（Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit） [参考译文] 在詹勒洛夫人面前，一个人的激情会变得麻木不仁，热血也会变成掺水的牛奶。 drink like a fish. as cunning as a dead pig 借代（metonymy） Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon) [参考译文] 书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则需咀嚼消化。 Every life has its roses and thorns. [参考译文] 人生自有甘苦。 But you have not seen my Corots. They are in the music room. (Oscar Wilde) [参考译文]可是你还没有看见我收藏的科罗特的风景画，它们挂在我的音乐室里。 Young men are suggested to read Shakespeare. [参考译文] 年轻人应该去读一读莎士比亚。 And since Washington’s budget alchemy permits the current generation to spend whatever it wants on retiree income and health programs and pass the tab on to their children, who wants to pay more? ———Newsweek , April 13 , 1992 [参考译文] 既然美国政府所耍的预算法术容许这一代在退休金和医疗计划方面随意花钱，而把账单推给他们的孩子来付，那谁还愿意多缴税? 夸张（hyperbole）