翻译常用之八大技omission.ppt

翻译常用之八大技巧 三 减译法 Omission * * Shakespeare: Brevity is the soul of wit. 莎士比亚: 言贵简约。 * Structural Omission: Differences in sentence structures of the two languages. Eg. articles (esp. possessive pronoun物主代词), pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, copula verbs 系动词 (be, seem, appear, etc.), antecedent先行词, particle引导词 (that, when, who, etc.) This is the book which I am looking for.中的book是先行词,which是引导词. He is Mr. Robertson who comes from England. 中的Mr. Robertson.是先行词,who是引导词. Attention: English is more likely to have complete structures, while Chinese is more likely to stress on certain parts, thus some indispensable English components become dispensable or even redundant in Chinese. Omission of pronouns: They had ground him beneath their heel, they had taken the best of him, they had murdered his father, they had broken and wrecked his wife, they had crushed his whole family. 他们把他踩在脚下，压得粉碎，他们榨干了他的精髓，害死了他的父亲，摧残了他的妻子，毁灭了他的全家。 They (salmons) dig out shallow nests in the riverbed and lay their eggs; then, exhausted by their journey, the parent salmons die. 它们（桂鱼）在河床上挖掘一个个浅巢，在巢中产卵；这时种鱼由于长途跋涉，被弄得精疲力尽，就此死去。 That dishonest boy is not at all ill. He is alive and kicking in the swimming pool. We all saw him. 那个不诚实的男孩根本没病,他在游泳池里还活蹦乱跳的,我们都看见了。 Omission of articles: On a cold, frosty day an Ant was dragging out some of the corn which he had laid up in the summer-time, to dry it. A Grasshopper, half perished with hunger, besought the Ant to give him a morsel of it to preserve his life. “What were you doing,” said the Ant, “this last summer?” “Oh,” said the Grasshopper, “I was not idle. I kept singing all the summer long.” Said the Ant, laughing and shutting up his granary. “Since you could sing all summer, you may dance all winter.” 一个霜冻的冷天，一只蚂蚁拖出夏天贮存的一些谷子来晒。一只饿得半死的蚱蜢恳求蚂蚁给它一口谷子来维持它的生命。蚂蚁说：“你今年夏天干什么来着？”蚱蜢说：“哦！我并没闲着，我唱了一夏天的歌。”蚂蚁关起谷仓笑着说：“你既然能唱一夏天的歌，那么你也可以跳一冬天的舞喽。” Attention: if the indefinite article means “one” or “every”, it needs to be translated; if it is just for ge