第2讲-翻译学习 把翻译当作信仰来追求

第二讲 翻译学习 把翻译当做信仰来追求 把翻译当作把翻译当作把翻译当作把翻译当作信仰信仰信仰信仰来来来来追求追求追求追求 贫困不妨碍织梦 We firmly believe that time flows in a continuous stream twenty four hours a day But so far no scientist or philosopher has been able to prove without a doubt that time goes in one direction from left to right from the past into the future Sure time can be measured but it can be plotted only in relation to a number of other phenomena like the position of the sun or the ticking of the energy inside atoms In and of itself time doesn t seem to exist No wonder we feel foolish when we are made to wait We are trapped in an invisible cobweb of our own making Waiting is not a prelude to the future If anything it is a prelude to the past The precious minutes hours or days we invest anticipating an event the return of a friend the birth of a child the purchase or a house or the last chapter of a book make everything more memorable Take the time to wait In doing so you are manufacturing the stuff of your souvenirs Dawdle in the present tense Give your future a past to remember The Art of Waiting from The Art of Doing Nothing By V ronique Vienne 我们坚信时间是 24 小时不断地在流动 晴雨无阻的 但 是到目前为止 没有任何科学家或哲人可以毫无疑问地证 明时间是朝某一个方向前进的 从左至右 或从过去到 未来 当然 时间确实可以被测量 不过只有在跟其他现象对比 的时候 例如太阳的位置或原子内部的能量运转 时 间才能被标举出来 时间本身似乎并不存在 难怪当我们被迫等待时会觉得很愚蠢 我们被困在自己所 结成的隐形蜘蛛网里了 等候并不是迈向未来 按理说 它应该是过去的序曲 我 们可以把宝贵的时间投在 期待 尚未发生的事 友人 的归来 孩子的诞生 买新房子 书看到最后一页 这 使得每一件事都更值得纪念 花点时间静静地守候 这么做 等于在制造属于你的纪念 品 游手好闲于现在式中 给你的未来一个值得回忆的过往 等待的艺术 摘自 无所事事的艺术 胡茵梦 译 在印度 生命永远是现在进行式 从小小的收获中找到喜悦 在平凡中演绎精彩 在困境中找到成长的契机 不不不不揠苗助长揠苗助长揠苗助长揠苗助长 不不不不被物化被物化被物化被物化 专业翻译应该把持的价值 小王子 当你对大人们讲起你的一个新朋友时 他们从来不向你提 出实质性的问题 他们从来不讲 他说话声音如何啊 他喜爱什么样的游戏啊 他是否收集蝴蝶标本呀 他们 却问你 他多大年纪呀 弟兄几个呀 体重多少呀 他 父亲挣多少钱呀 他们以为这样才算了解朋友 如果你 对大人们说 我看到一幢用玫瑰色的砖盖成的漂亮的房 子 它的窗户上有天竺葵 屋顶上还有鸽子 他们怎么也 想象不出这种房子有多么好 必须对他们说 我看见了 一幢价值十万法郎的房子 那么他们就惊叫道 多么 漂亮的房子啊 拥有物质 和 被物质拥有 考高翻是为什么 ACTION PAINTING Harold Rosenberg ARTnews December 1952 issue 任何结果任何结果任何结果任何结果 只不过是长长过程中的一个节点只不过是长长过程中的一个节点只不过是长长过程中的一个节点只不过是长长过程中的一个节点 只有只有只有只有 过过过过 程程程程 能赋予结果意义和美丽能赋予结果意义和美丽能赋予结果意义和美丽能赋予结果意义和美丽 Jackson Pollock THE PROCESS Video Clip http www nga gov feature pollock process3qt shtm I enjoy working on a large canvas I feel more at home more at ease in a big area Having the canvas on the floor I feel nearer more a part of the painting This way I can walk around it work from all four sides and be in the painting similar to the Indian sand painters of the West Sometimes I use a brush but often prefer using a stick Sometimes I pour the paint straight out of the can I like to use a dripping fluid paint I also use sand broken glass pebbles string nails or other foreign matter A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about I can control the flow of the paint There is no accident just as there is no beginning and no end Sometimes I lose a painting but I have no fear of changes of destroying the image Because a painting has a life of its own I try to let it live Pollock Guardians of the Secret Detail 1943 Oil on canvas 48 3 8 in x 6 ft 3 3 8 in 122 9 x 191 5 cm San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Pollock Guardians of the Secret Detail Process Beyond the Toothpaste Tube CREST TOOTHPASTE For best results squeeze the tube from the bottom and flatten it as you go up King James Bible In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth Crest s purpose help you brush your teeth better Bible s purpose uplift your hearts Beyond the toothpaste tube to amuse to persuade to arouse to delight to describe Eventually more than writing clearly to write gracefully or literately or wittily or perceptively Difference between making chicken coops and cabinets But FUNDAMENTALS must come first Pablo Picasso The Beginning Childhood and Youth 1881 1901 La Vie 1903 The Blue and Rose periods 1901 1906 Blue Nude 1903 Cubism 1907 1917 African Period Les Demoiselles d Avignon MoMA Analytical Cubism Synthetic or Collage Cubism Musical Instruments 1912 Picasso Pablo Between Wars Classicism and Surrealism 1918 1936 By the Sea 1920 Three Women at the Spring 1921 right Wartime Experience 1937 1945 Guernica 1937 After WWII The Late Works 1946 1973 Self Portrait 1972 Chicago Monument 1966 风格需要长时间提炼 享受过程 Faith Hope and Clarity 记者 编辑 企业经理 研究员 批评家 部长 律师 译员 WRITERS Theory about writing The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along The Writers Art by James Kilpatrick Author forest guide Does reader trip over unfamiliar words Does he bump his head on an overhanging clause Does he stub his toe on an ambiguous antecedent Reader gives up Wilson Follet No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together Art Definition A skilled acquired by experience study or observation Definition B an occupation requiring knowledge or skill Definition C the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects 共同元素 SKILL 翻译 语言 语感 知识 调查研究的能力 批判性思 维 揣摩作者心意的能力 化己为他 写作能力 态度 Read Write Roscoe Ellard People who lead dull lives write dull copy Saint Paul And now abideth faith hope and love even these three but the chiefest of these is love charity 1 Corinthians 13 13 Saints Faith Hope and Charity with their mother Sophia the Martyr Faith the translator must have faith in his own ideas Hope the translator must hope that his words will be read Clarity the translator must be clear be clear and be clear TAKE YOUR TIME Not writingwritingwritingwriting but tieping inconceivable that a registered nurse would be ashamed to take her child to a doctor with recurring pinworms Abigail Van Buren hoodlums beat both he and his wife Miami Herald the falsely padded expense accounts of a playwright who was a lifelong native of New York The Times She leaves no living survivors Old Washington Star KEEP IT SIMPLE y Clarity short simple words E g The number of political action committees tends to increase remarkably vs Political action committees tend to multiply mitotically Short sentences Active voice E g Dan Rather reported that vs It was reported by Dan Rather that Not about style now We are trying to communicate clearly Style comes later The Things We Ought Not to Do We have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done old confession said at Morning Prayer Book of Common Prayer 1 We ought not to use clich s Clicher French to cast from a mould Hackeyed phrases proverbs from Middle English worn out like a tired horse by indiscriminate or vulgar use Selling like hotcakes Breath of fresh air Last but not least Shun like the plague Leave no stone unturned Clich s are the language of thoughtlessness Dr Lois DeBakey prescriptive linguist Even professional writers fall into sin Seymour Krim reviewer of Last Rites The Death of William Saroyan It concludes a month later when the great spirited singer of the American Depression bites the dust at the age of seventy two Lois DeBakey Instead of expunging all clich s from our speech and writing we should learn to use them consciously and aptly to clarify or invigorate rather than to obscure and embellish Avoiding them entirely may lead to unidiomatic expressions and an awkward unnatural obtrusive style When applied with restraint and judgement clich s can add force and meaning but indulged in mindlessly they cloy 2 We ought never to fall into gobbledegook Inventor Maury Maverick Texas congressman Did your sister get a divorce No she got a marriage dissolution Why motivation instead of motive medication instead of medicine methodology instead of methods stimulation instead of stimulus Original Time shown on timetables or elsewhere and times quoted are not guaranteed and form no part of this contract Time schedules and equipment are subject to change without notice Amtrak expressly reserves the right to without notice substitute alternate they meant alternative means of transportation and to alter or omit stopping places shown on ticket or timetable Amtrak assumes no responsibility for inconvenience expense or other loss damage or injury resulting from error in schedules delayed trains failure to make connections shortage of equipment or other operating deficiencies Translation into English Amtrak schedules change and are sometimes wrong Amtrak is not responsible for any problems resulting from changes in the schedule Not be pompous Not to inflate a simple thought with gassy prose When we let our prose go gobble gobble gobble we turn out sentences that are turkeys 3 We ought not to mangle our sentences Our reaction to gobbledegook What did he say Our reaction to the mangle How s that again 1 Dangling participial clause Mangled dangles Miami Herald After injuring his leg on the farm Daniel Neuharth sold it and opened a creamery in Eureka An ad in The New York Times Book Review Weighing nearly four pounds with almost three times the content of his earlier work the author enables you to manage your money 2 Misplaced element Reuters A powerful earth tremor shook Peking early today sending thousands of people rushing onto the streets smashing windows and cracking walls Seattle Times Before that arrest the Kinky Korner had been viewed mainly as a shop dealing in novelties to police Chicago Sun Times Illinois current rape law says rape takes place when a male above the age of fourteen has sexual intercourse with a female who is not his wife by force and against her will 3 Other clunkers A top Washington reporter Like most economic forecasting in recent years these predictions may or may not prove out Prediction is a very difficult art especially when it involves the future Florida police report The glass pane of the kitchen window was broken on both sides TV anchorman in the past ten years the divorce rate has increased 50 percent among married couples 4 As a general rule we ought not to use euphemisms Euphemisms are mild agreeable or roundabout words used in place of coarse painful or offensive ones They are outward and visible signs of our inward anxieties conflicts fears and shames Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk by Hugh Rawson E g Garbageman sanitary engineer Janitor custodian Gambler speculator School bus Dallas motorised attendance modules driven by instructional facilitators Committee task force Undertaker funeral director Increase taxes revenue enhancement 5 We ought not to pile up nouns as adjectives Addictive use of nouns as modifiers may be cured by using a prepositional phrase For a while the country heard much talk of the five cents per gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax increase bill the bill to increase the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel by five cents a gallon The Consumer Product Safety Commission once reported on its expansion and utilization plans for its product and hazard specific injury data system plans to expand the commission s system of obtaining data on specific products and hazards X NOT Deer crossings crossings for deer Toothpick holder holder for toothpicks Street musicians musicians who play on the streets BUT A seminar on management controls expansion A seminar on expansion of management controls Admission of past sexual behaviour evidence evidence of past sexual behaviour Increased labour market participation rate shortcomings in the management of economic policy 6 We ought not to coin words wantonly Webster III 450 000 words More than enough E g The B 1 bomber will obsolete the B 52 Professor Hargrove has authored six other volumes Senator Schmitt said he was tired of ad hocking on education William Powell and Myrna Loy have eternized Nick and Nora Charles Hellman has laid proprietary claims to the biographizing of poor Hammett There was the usual strategizing over issues yet to be confronted They were parenting three children Some women went cowboying or homesteading 7 We ought not to be redundant verbal deadwood Lois DeBakey When someone says appears to be suggestive of the possibility that he means only suggests but has used seven unnecessary words to say it In close proximity to means near has the capability of means can produce an inhibitory effect on means inhibit in short supply means scarce it is the opinion of the author means I believe present a picture similar to means to resemble in the majority of cases means usually give consideration to means consider and serves the function of being means is nothing more In language as in mathematics the shortest distance between two points is a straight line remembering that principle will make our speech and writing not only more direct but more forceful as well Redundancies abound Free gift free complimentary gift Sworn affidavit Component parts Single most The murder victim died of fatal wounds to the chest Higher spending in government will cancel out higher revenues from new taxes We revert back to prior examples will free up resources for a strong rapidly growing private sector 8 We ought not to use words that have double meanings Since Nine times out of ten times because is a better choice than since Since he entered priesthood he has been very lonely he could not marry Reader has stumbled What happened after that New York Times Since the Mozart Quintet comes close to being a horn concerto Mr Tuckwell s performance was the most conspicuous BECAUSE Time magazine Since prosecutors and litigious Californians flood the court with more than 220 000 cases annually and since criminal matters have priority it takes more than four years for the average civil jury suit to reach trial BECAUSE Old Washington Star In a second term Carter might have moved the course of the government toward the left but since Reagan won the election the nation s political movement has been toward the right instead BECAUSE WHILE Two meanings Time While I was asleep the mail arrived as although While he was a married man he was a notorious woman chaser ALTHOUGH WHEREAS LAST First meaning final terminal ultimate Second meaning most recent the last most recent few months the past few months His last most recent book his latest book 9 We ought not to use portmanteau sentences Trying to pack everything into a single travelling bag and leaves ties and socks and shirttails sticking out Reporter for United Press International The 16 1 vote followed a grenade explosion in a crowd of Peace Now protestors outside the Cabinet meeting that killed a paratrooper who friends said fought in the Lebanon invasion and injured nine others who demanded Sharon be fired Los Angeles Times About a professor at UC Santa Barbara who had opened a restaurant Banished after eight years by UCSB s English Department by an anonymous committee and I was too proud to find out who or why Brandts turned his attention to the English Department the dusty dusky bar he founded dead opposite the Goleta Transit Station just minutes from the sandy sunny campus of UC Santa Barbara Greenville S C News I am furious and shocked Community Council s executive director said Wednesday in reaction to Appalachian Health Policy and Planning Council president s statement Tuesday that he is not attempting to obstruct Community Council s efforts to start implementing plans to constitute the Communit