翻译思考与试笔

1、翻译中的特效处理,吕晓菲,“摊主猛地站了起来，把大蒲扇一掼，愤愤地说：娘，他们哪是叫我剥香蕉皮，是要剥我们中国人的脸皮啊，你知道吗？ 骄阳下，柳树上，回答他的是一片知了，知了的蝉声。”（毛炳南：剥皮香蕉） “ The owner stood up abruptly. Throwing away the cattail leaf fan, he said with great indignation, Mother, what they asked me to do was not to peel bananas, but to lose face for all Chinese! Dont y

2、ou see? Under the scorching sun, from the willow tree, came the confirming reply of the cicadas chirrup: (I) see,(I) see,”(夏乙琥译）,“ You promised to tell me your history, you know,” said Alice,) “ Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. “It is a long tail, certai

3、nly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouses tail, “but why do you call it sad?”. 译文1：那老鼠对着艾丽斯叹了口气道：“唉，我的历史说来可真是又长又苦又委屈呀！” 艾丽斯听了，瞧着那光滑的尾巴说：“你这尾巴是长呀！可是为什么又说它苦呢？”(赵元任译）,译文2：老鼠对着艾丽斯叹了口气道：“唉，说来话长！真叫我委屈！” “尾曲？！”艾丽斯听了，惊讶地瞧着老鼠那光滑的尾巴问：“ 你这尾巴明明又长又直，为什么要说它曲呢？”（马红军译） A : What flower does everybody

4、have? B: Tulips. (Tulips= two lips) 译文1: A：人人都有的花是什么花？ B：郁金香。（郁金香的英文与双唇的英文发音相似） 译文2：A：人人都有的花儿是什么花儿？ B：泪花儿。（马红军译）,I love my love with an E, because shes enticing; I hate her with an E, because shes engaged; I took her to the sign of the exquisite, and treated her with an elopement; her names Emily, a

5、nd she lives in the east. 译文1：我爱我的所爱，因为她长得实在招人爱。我恨我的所爱，因为她不回报我的爱。我带着她到挂着一幅美妙之处招牌 的一家，和她谈情说爱。我请她跟我一起潜逃私奔，为的是我和她能长久你亲我爱。她的名字叫爱弥丽，她家住在爱仁里。（张谷若译） 译文2：我爱我的那个“丽”，可爱迷人有魅力；我恨我的那个 “丽”，要和他人结伉俪；她文雅大方又美丽，和我出逃 去游历；她芳名就叫爱弥丽，家住东方人俏丽。 (马红军译),译文3：我爱我的爱人，因为她很迷人；我恨我的爱人，因已许配 他人；她在我心中是美人，我带她私奔，以避开外人；她名叫虞美人，是东方丽人。 译文4：我爱

6、我的心上人，因为她那样地叫人入迷（enticing)；我 恨我的心上人，因为她已订婚将作他人妻( engaged )；她 花容月貌无可比拟（exquisite)，我劝她私奔跟我在一起 ( elopement )；她的名字叫埃米莉( Emily)，她的家就在 东城里( east)，我爱我的心上人呀，一切都是因为这个 E！(陆乃胜译),她的眼睛并不顶大，可是灵活温柔，反衬得许多女人的大眼睛只像政治家讲的大话，大而无当。 Not especially large,her eyes were lively and gentle, making the big eyes of many women se

7、em like the big talk of politicians big and useless. 方鸿渐看唐小姐不笑的时候，脸上还依恋着笑意，像音乐停止后袅袅空中的余音。 Fang Hung-chien noticed that the trace of a smile lingered on Miss Tangs face when she was not smiling, like the last few notes that float in the air after the music has ceased.,狗为着追求水里肉骨头的影子，丧失了到嘴的肉骨头！跟爱人如愿以偿结

8、了婚，恐怕那时候肉骨头下肚，倒要对水怅惜这不可再见的影子了。 Remember the old saying that a dog loses the juicy bone in its mouth when it goes after the reflection of the bone in the water? When your dream comes true and you marry your sweetheart, its as though the bone has entered your stomach and you then pine for the never-to

9、-be-seen-again reflection in the water.,亏得做官的人栽跟头，宛如猫从高处掉下来，总能四脚着地，不至太狼狈。 Fortunately, when officials take a tumble, like cats which always land on all fours, they never end up in any great distress. 这雨浓染着夜，水里带了昏黑下来，天色也陪着一刻暗似一刻。一行人众像在一个机械画所用的墨水瓶里赶路。夜黑得太周密了，真是伸手不见五指！ The rain thickly dyed the night.

10、As the water brought blackness down with it, the sky also became darker by the minute. The procession hurried along in what seemed like a bottle of black ink. The night had turned such a dense black that a person literally could not see the fingers on his outstretched hand!,女明星的妖声尖锐里含着浑浊，一大半像鼻子里哼出来的

11、，又腻又粘，又软懒无力，跟鼻子的主产品鼻涕具有同样品性。 There was a turgidity in the sharpness of the stars sweet voice, which seemed for the most part like something blown out from the nose-greasy, sticky, and soft, the characteristics of mucus, the main product of the nose. 那寡妇有事叫“阿福”，声音里滴得下蜜糖。李梅亭叹了半夜的气。 Whenver the widow c

12、alled “Ah Fu,” her voice dripped with honey. Li sighed half the night.,She seemed as jealous of Romeo going from her as he was unwilling to part from his Juliet; for the sweetest music to lovers is the sound of each other s tongue at night. 她似乎舍不得让罗密欧离开她，正像罗密 欧不愿意离开他的朱丽叶一样；对于情人来说，最甜蜜的音乐就是他们在夜间互吐衷肠的声

13、音。 They live in a match-box of a room. 他们住在一间火柴盒般狭小的房子里。,His death was the last straw to her hardships。 他的去世使他无法忍受艰难困苦的生活。 The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. 自由之树必须一次又一次地用爱国者和暴虐者的血液来浇灌方能生机勃勃郁郁葱葱。双方的血是它的天然肥料。,“母亲又说：只是我

14、希望你若看中了什么入，能领来让大姐见一面，帮你参谋参谋。大姐毕竟比你多吃了几年咸盐 ，什么样的男人，打眼一看，就能看出入品好坏来。”(梁晓声：)。 Mother spoke again: I only hope that if youve got your eye on someone, youll bring him here and let me have a look at him, so I can tell you what I think. after all, I ve eaten more salt than you over the years. Ill be able to

15、 tell at a glance whether hes a man of character.,三月里刘熏宇来信，说互生病了，而且是没有希望的病，医生说只好等口子了。四月底在时事新报上见到立达学校的通告，想不到这么快互生就殁了!（朱自清哀互生） In March I heard from Mr.Liu Xunyu that Husheng was sick and hopelessly sick. The doctor said there was nothing he could do but to wait for the days to arrive. Toward the end

16、of April, I came across an obituary issued by Lida School in newspaper Current Affairs. How quickly the day had arrived!,“他一开说，把我吓了一跳，原来开宗明义是讲男女的事儿，我说这是四旧。” （阿城：棋王） “ once he started explaining I had quite a shock. It started off with an opening statement that it was all about sex. I said that it wa

17、s one of the four olds.” * * “Old ideas, old cultures, old customs and old habits” all targets of the “cultural revolotion” 我们绍生学习可用功啦，还是两道杠呢，年年考试得奖状。” （梁晓声：黑钮扣） “ Our Shaosheng studies very hard, Mother put in, “ and he wears two dashes.* He gets a certificate of merit every year.” * Two dashes is

18、one of the three signs indicating a leader in the Yong Pioneer, an organization for superior students at primary and junior high school.,艾团结悄悄没声息地走进了老王的家，他压低了声音，对老王说：“老王，不要理他，宰相肚里撑大船，不跟他一般见识。” Ai Tuanjie* stole into lao Wangs home quietly and whispered surreptitiously to him, “Lao Wang, just ignore him. As the saying goes, a Prime Ministers heart is big enough for a boat to sail. So you neednt bother to reason with him. “ * Ai Tuanjie means the love