lecture11university英语专业英译汉.ppt

Lecture 11: E-C Comparison I Comments on assignment 9 Semantic differences Translation skills Aesthetic and translation Semantic differences notional ﹠functional words Collocational meaning: (conventional) Colorful meaning: commendatory\derogatory Vogue words Polysemy notional words objects or physical actions qualities, concepts or mental activities thoughts, feelings, imaginations and morality. functional words 1) the relation between different parts of the sentence 2)logical relations in meanings. collocation My father works in a factory. 我父亲在一家工厂上班。 He works a duck farm. 他经营一家养鸭场。 he worked his way through college. 他靠打工挣学费上完了大学。 I am working on a new book on translation. 我正在写一本关于翻译的新书。 Do you know how to work an abacus? 你会打算盘吗？ Vogue words “雷人”：astonishing, shocking; cool; awkward “蜗居”：humble abode? Dwelling Narrowness? Snail House? “族”：啃老族(parents suckers)，月光族(thorough spenders)， 蚁族(ant tribe)，鼠族(refers to those who live in small rooms in underground air defense shelters.) “裸”：裸婚，裸考，裸官 “代”：富二代，官二代，星二代，穷二代 “被”时代(times of passiveness)：被自杀，被增长，被和谐(officially presumed to have committed suicide\to have increased\to be harmonious) “奴”：房奴(mortgage slave)，孩奴(slave of the child)，车奴(car slave) ? Go to Translation Skills. Addition Addition means supplying necessary words in translation, making the version: grammatically correct, semantically clear, rhetorically sound, logically acceptable, culturally appropriate. I Semantic addition i supplying Verbs ii supplying Adj iii supplying Adverb iv supplying Nouns v supplying plural expression i supplying Verbs In the evening, after the banquets, the concerts and the table tennis exhibitions, he would work on the drafting of the final communiqué. 晚上，在参加宴会、出席音乐会、观看乒乓球表演之后，他还得起草最后公报。 2. There were no speeches, no foreign diplomats, no “ordinary Chinese” with paper flags and bouquets of flowers. 没有发表讲话，没有各国外交官到场，也没有“普