英汉翻译英语长句的翻译.ppt

Lecture Ten,Translation of Long Sentences （英语长句的翻译）,1. Translation of English Compound Sentences,1) It is as if the wounded mans hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a birds wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. 仿佛伤者的手正放在拉上的幕布里面，一揭开就可以把一切造化的奥秘呈现在人们的眼前；诸如蚂蚁，当权者、战争、城市、阳光、白雪、以及从鸟翅上掉落的羽毛等等各自内在的含义。这种威力使他血污的躯体发光生辉，使旁人有时意识到自己的渺小。,2) It was dark on the Old Wharf, very dark; the whole sheds, the cattle trucks, the cranes standing up so high, the little squat railway engine, all seemed carved out of solid darkness, here and there on a rounded wood-pile, that was like the stalk of a huge black mushroom, there hung a lantern, but it seemed afraid to unfurl its timid, quivering light in all that blackness; it burned softly, as if for itself. 旧码头上黑咕隆咚的。羊毛货棚、载牛货车，高高竖立的吊车，矮墩墩的火车头，全都是黑糊糊的一片，难辩轮廓。码头上，每个圆木桩（象很大的黑色蘑菇的柄）上，挂着一盏灯，好象怕羞似的，只把那颤悠悠的微光撒向黑暗。它柔和地照着，好象只照着自己。,3) He refilled their glasses with Chablish and said, “of course, but Mother.“ I missed some of the conversation then, because the eldest Japanese gentleman leant across the table, with a smile and a little bow, and uttered a whole paragraph like the mutter from an aviary, while everyone bent towards him and smiled and listened, and I couldnt help attending to him myself. 他给他们的杯子又斟上夏布利酒，说，“没错儿，不过我妈”下面一段对话没有听清，因为最年长的那位日本绅士笑容满面地向前探了探身子，微微鞠了一躬，然后象鸟舍里发出的叽叽喳喳声一般说了一大段话，而其他人都满脸堆笑点头哈腰地听着，于是我也情不自禁低注意起他来了。,2. Translation of English Complex Sentences,（A）顺序法： 4) A day or two before I sailed a man who owned a number of pearlers came to me and asked whether on my way I would stop at the island of Trebucket and leave a sack of flour, another of rice, and some magazines for the hermit who lived there. 开航前一两天，有个拥有几条采珠船的船主来找我，问我能否顺路在特里巴克特岛停一下，给那里的隐士捎一袋面粉，一袋大米和几份杂志。,（B）调序法：,5) Realizing she was about to die in the jail where she had been tortured almost to death, the woman leader of Hong Hu Red-guards Army asked her comrades to bury her on the headland by the side of highway with a hope to let her watch the victorious march of the conquering Peoples Liberation Army in the near future. 洪湖赤卫队的女队长，在狱中被折磨的要死，知道自己已活不成了，就叫同志们把她葬在公路边的山头上，希望在不久的将来，望着那战无不胜的人民解放军胜利进军。,（C）逆序法：,6) He had flown in just the day before from Georgia where he had spent his vacation basking in he Caucasian sun after the completion of the construction job he had been engaged in in the South. 他本来在南方从事一项建筑工程；任务完成后，他就上格鲁吉亚去度假，享受高加索的阳光，昨天才坐飞机回来。,（D）抽句法：,7) The chance that a boy who is content with the way things are done now will develop into a leader is pretty slim. 凡满足于“事情现在已经做完了”这种方式的少年，会发展成为领导者的机会是颇为稀少的。 8) Her hidden wealth, as coal and iron, two important factors of modern civilization, to say nothing of other resources, is believed to be almost inexhaustible. 就近代文明的两大因素煤和铁而言，据信该国蕴藏的财富几乎是取之不尽的，更不用说其他资源了。,（E）总分法：,9) The telephone system can be divided into three networks: the local network, which ties customers to their respective local switching officers; the trunk network, which interconnects the switching offices; and the long-distance network between cities. 电话通讯网可分三类：市内电话网、中继局电话网和长途电话网。市内电话网把用户分别和其当地的中继电话局连接起来；中继局电话网把各中继电话局相互连接起来；长途电话网则把各城市连接起来。,Homework,*1) There is the final disadvantage that in hard winter conditions icing of the conductors, which hinders the picking up of the current, may cause serious delays to trains, as has often been the case on winter mornings on suburban lines round London; but such trouble is confined mainly to the railways on which the current is picked up from a third rail rather than from overhead conductors. *2) If a listening-comprehension passage, for example, were taped, many students would welcome the opportunity of listening to it repeatedly, either in small groups or individually, while the rest of the class was occupied with another task. *3) The history of a tree from the time it starts in the forest until the boards which it yields are used, would form an interesting and in many instances, an exciting story. *4) The purpose of this book is to place at the disposal of the design engineer who is facing these challenges a survey of the experience gained from the many and diverse applications of aerostatic bearing which have already been successfully accomplished. *5) Knowledge, in any art or science, as it is always the fruit of observation, study, or practice, gives, in proportion to its extent and usefulness, the possessor a just claim to respect. *6) Such students will have acquired a set of engineering tools consisting essentially of mathematics and one or