chapter10翻译教程.ppt

Chapter 10 - the translation of metaphors,073010234 Ana,Types of metaphor,Dead Metaphors(亡隐喻） Clich metaphors Stock or Standard Metaphors Adapted Metaphors Recent Metaphors Original Metaphors,Dead Metaphors(亡隐喻）,It is a metaphor which has lost the original imagery of its meaning owing to extensive, repetitive popular usage. It frequently relates to universal terms of space and time, the main part of the body, general ecological features and the main human activities.,Example:,the rise and fall of human empire-time 人类帝国的兴衰。 我们国家这么大,情况千差万别,困难和矛盾不少，相当好这个家不容易。-space catch her name -记住她的名字 branches of government-政府的分支,Clich metaphors,They are metaphors that have perhaps temporarily outlived their usefulness, that are used as a substitute for clear thought, often emotively, but without corresponding to the facts of the matter.,Example：,The County School will become not a backwater but a break through in educational development. 这所县学校不会成为一潭死水，它在教育发展中有所突破。 让我们在接下来的五年里开始新的长征，沿着不同路线达到同一目标。 carry coal to newcastle-多此一举，做无用功,A stock or standard metaphors,It is an established metaphor, an efficient and concise method of covering a physical or metal situation both referentially and pragmatically in an informal context.,Example:,Those who made large profits out illegally selling rationed goods during World War II were fishing in troubled waters. 那些在二次世界大战期间非法倒卖配售物资而发了大材的人是浑水摸鱼。 flood一词的用法 She was in a flood of tears. (她泪流如注。) The corridors were flooded with girls. (走廊里挤满了女孩子.),Adapted metaphors,In translation, an adapted stock metaphor should, where possible, be translated by an equivalent adapted metaphor.,Recent metaphors,By recent metaphor, Newmark means a metaphorical neologism, often anonymously coined, which has spread rapidly in the SL.,Example:,I focused on a small blob in the mud amid the columns of legs and trunks. I suddenly came upon a wall of feeding elephants.-from Rescue of A Newborn 一边顺风共驶,一边修建桥梁, 是对未来中欧新型伙伴关系的最生动描述。,Original metaphors,They are the ones created or quoted by the SL writer. a) contain a core of important writers message, his personality and his comment on life. b) such metaphors are a source of enrichment for the target language.,Example:,My mind, the precision instrument slipped into high gear. 我的大脑这一精密的仪器进入了高速运转的状态。 Jeff Rennicke在A Promise of Spring 中开卷段是：Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark, that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver of bird song