内容正文:
虚词的比较与翻译
英语中所独有
汉语中所独有
虚词
副词
连词
介词
助词
拟声词
冠词
连词
副词
介词
拟声词
连词的比较与翻译
We wouldn’t have known each other if we hadn’t had a fight.
But this had its good side too, because we learned from the experience.
咱们不打不相识。
这也是好事情,我们取得了经验。
英语: 7%,重形合
汉语: 2%,重意合
Exercise:
1.He does not need to know the fundamentals of the company because if the price is going up,the fundamentals must be improving.
他不需要了解公司的基本情况,对他来说,随着股价上升,情况定会好转。
2.There were times when there was nothing to be done, when he sat in the White House silent and motionless, a grim monument of resolve.
有时候无事可干,他便一声不吭、一动不动地坐在白宫里,俨然一座肃然矗立的纪念碑。
2. when: be+right/wrong/correct+when
通常不译出来
The New York Times was right when it said that Chen’s gamble was in fact suicidal.
《纽约时报》说的不错,陈水扁铤而走险,真是玩火自焚。
He was wrong when he heralded a “Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals”.
他鼓吹一个“从大西洋到乌拉尔山的统一欧洲”,可是他错了。
连词的英译汉
3. Before 才...
Eg. We add our share of marveling to the total before we prepare for the real adventure.
我们和所有的人一样惊叹不已,之后才开始了真正的探险。
Chess buffs are wondering how long it will be before a computer becomes a world champion chess player.
棋迷们想知道还要多长时间计算机才能成为国际象棋世界冠军。
4. that
引导含有may, might, should等情态动词的状语从句,表示目的
Average Americans are willing to die that others might live.
美国的普通百姓愿意为拯救他人的生命而牺牲自己。
引导表示理由或原因的状语从句
He appeared confident and proud that he had found a solution to a condition that the doctors could not solve.
他表现得自信、自豪,因为医疗专家解决不了的问题让他给解决了。
一来......,二来.......
for one thing.....for another.
一方面....另一方面
while...../on the one hand.....on the other hand
宁可.......也不
rather than
......,再说.....
what's more
再...., 也....
even if
以免....
for fear that...
连词的汉译英
Exercise:
1.再说,只有四百多块,怎么就要一万银子的存折做抵押。
In any case, it's only a matter of four hundred dollars or so. You can't expect a passbook for ten thousand dollars as a pledge for that amount.
2.这些小项目上得再多,也顶不了事。
For no matter how many of these minor projects we complete, they don't amount too mu