英译汉教程6_省略的翻译技巧讲述.ppt

Omission helps to achieve conciseness in the target text Brevity is the soul of wit. ----Shakespeare The maximum of thought in the minimum of words ----Huxley Omission of words peculiar to English Omission of the expletives it and there （省略语助词 it, there） Omission of impersonal it Omission of anticipatory it Omission of idiomatic it Omission of there in existential sentences Omission of there in idiomatic expressions Examples 1. It is 80 miles from the next station. (impersonal it ) 离下一站还有80英里。 2. It was the more mannerly way to let him have his way. (anticipatory it ) 顺从他的意思还礼貌一些。 3. Shall we walk it or bus it? (idiomatic it) 我们是走路还是坐公汽？ Omission of English articles 1. My father is a vigorous 86. 我父亲今年86岁，仍然健旺。 2. A parrot can talk like a man. 鹦鹉会像人一样说话。 3. The prime minister spoke to an astonished Commons. 首相向惊愕不已的下议院致辞。 Omission of words superfluous in Chinese Omission of pronouns（省略代词） Omission of connectives（省略连接词） Omission of prepositions and prepositional phrases（省略介词和介词短语） Omission of verbs or particles（省略动词或分词） Omission of pronouns Omission of pronouns used as subjects in sentences expressing universal laws （表达客观真理的句子中，省略主语代词） Omission of pronouns used as objects（省略宾语代词） Omission of possessive pronouns （省略物主代词） Omission of possessive pronouns 1. Wash your hands before you have your meals. 饭前要洗手。 2. She put her hands up to her cheeks, but her eyes seemed to look right into him. 她双手捂住脸颊，但眼睛却好像直直地瞧着他。 Omission of connectives English: hypotactic; plenty of connectives Chinese: paratactic; very few connectives 1. Wise men love truth, but fools shun it. 智者热爱真理，愚者回避真理。 2. Whatever you like to eat, just tell me. 想吃什么只管告诉我。 3. If you fail to enter the tiger’s den, how can you get the tiger cub? 不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 Omission of prepositions and prepositional phrases 1. When a substance changes only in state or in form, it is a physical change. 当一种物质只是改变状态或形式时，就是物理变化。 2. Change