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第四单元 句子翻译 4.1 长句处理 先请试译一下全球最畅销图书排行榜第六名的书 A Message to Garcia (把信送给加西亚)中的几个句子。 And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia - and then come back and tell you there is no such man. (Have I put the matter too strongly?) Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone a-slumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds, the man who, against great odds, has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds there’s nothing in it: nothing but bare board and clothes. Of course I know that one so morally deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying let us drop a tear, too, for the men who are striving to carry on a great enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is fast turning white through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indifference, slipshod imbecility, and the heartless ingratitude which but for their enterprise, would be both hungry and homeless. 这些句子都比较长。在日常生活中这样长句随处可见，在文章中长句更是比比皆是。长句有难有易，结构错综复杂，短的不少于20字，最长时可达100多字，而且很容易被译得拖沓冗长，令人读起来不知所云。因此，对于结构复杂，层次众多长句，必须得小心。 现在我们就上面的句子以及其他的典型句子为例，介绍一下英语长句汉译时常用的方法。 4.1.1 顺译法 顺译法就是英语长句所叙述的内容逻辑和顺序与汉语的表达相一致时，可以直接按照原文顺序翻译。如下句： Sometimes an innocent person who is involved in an accident is crippled for life and the person who caused the accident might not have the money to pay him for years – but the insurance company does. 这个句子含有两个并列的定语从句。句子共有三层意思（一）事故中的无辜受害者终身残废，（二）肇事者就是拖上几年也拿不出钱来赔偿，（三）可是保险公司赔得起。这三层的内容逻辑和汉语表达是一致的，因此我们可以把它顺译出来。一般来说，当句子按时间来描述动作发生的先后顺序，或者每个分句之间是并列关系时，多采用顺译法。 [参考译文] 有时事故中的无辜受害者终身残废，而肇事者就是拖上几年也拿不出钱来赔偿，可是保险公司却赔得起。 再看看A Message to Garcia (《给加西亚的信》)的第一个例句： And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off a