英语语言对比练习
分析句子内部结构和关系,翻译时注意母语的迁移现象:
1. 人到齐就开会。
2. 不要人云亦云。
3. 帐单撕碎了。
4. 问题解决了。
5. 你再说一个字,我马上走
6. 你死了,我去当和尚。
7. 人在阵地在。
8. 人无远虑,必有近忧。
9. 病来如山倒,病去如抽丝。
10. 我来他已去。
11. 他人老心不老。
12. He wore dark glasses, and thick jersey, and stopped up his ears with cotton wool.
13. Some Americans pop across the border simply to fuel up on flavorful Mexican food and beer.
14. But his attack was always repulsed击退 by a kick or blow from a stick.
15. Kino hurrying towards to his house, felt a surge of exhilaration.
分析观察汉语的句式并翻译:
1. 他决定去拉车,/就拉车去了。/赁了辆破车,/他先练练腿。/第一天没拉着什么钱。/第二天的生意
不错,/可是躺了两天,/他的脚脖子肿得像两条瓠子似的,/再也抬不起来。
2. 原来这婆娘自从药死武大,/哪那里肯带孝,/每日只是浓妆艳抹,/和西门庆作一处取乐。/听得武
松叫声“武二归来了”,/慌忙去面盆里洗落了脂粉,/剥去了首饰钗环,/蓬松挽了个髻,/脱去了红裙
绣袄,/旋穿上孝群孝衫,/便从楼上哽哽咽咽假哭下来。//
3. 武松沉吟了半晌,/便出门去,/径投县里来;/开了锁,/去房里换了一身素净衣服,/便叫士兵打了
一条麻绦,/系在腰里;/身边藏了一把尖长柄短背厚刃薄的解腕刀,/取了些银两带在身边。
翻译时注意英汉两种语言之间修饰语的差异:
? 姑娘
? 北京姑娘
? 漂亮的北京姑娘
? 年轻漂亮的北京姑娘
? 身材苗条年轻漂亮的北京姑娘
? 两个身材苗条年轻漂亮的北京姑娘
? 正看着我们的两个身材苗条年轻漂亮的北京姑娘
正面带笑容看着我们的两个身材苗条年轻漂亮的北京姑娘
翻译下面句子,注意英汉两种语言形合与意合的差异:
5.All was cleared up some time later when news came from a distant place that an earthquake was felt the very day the little copper ball fell.
6.When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect,
it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other.
7. It has been a fine, golden autumn, a lovely farewell to those who would close their youth, and some of them their lives, before the leaves turned again in a peacetime fall.
8. The many colors of a rainbow range from red on the outside to violet on the inside.
9. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.
10. Power can be transmitted over a great distance with practically negligible loss if it is carried by an electric current.
11. The present onslaught猛攻/猛击 of vehicles poses a serious threat to urban life and pedestrian peace of mind.
12.He boasts that a slave is free the moment his feet touch British soil and he sells the children of the poor at six years of age to work under the lash in the factories for sixteen hours a day.
13.They would have had to live the rest of their lives under the stigma耻辱/瑕疵 that they had recklessly precipitated an action which wrecked the Summit Conference and conceivably could have launched a nuclear war.
14. Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly可怕 whimsical荒谬 than that of gunners using science to shatter men’s bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use it to restore them?
15. There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone to a lot of trouble or expense than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavor of the coffee, the lightness of the cake, or the attractiveness of the house, which may be her chief interest and pride.
1.说是说了,没有结果。
2.打肿脸充胖子,吃亏是自己。
3.人不犯我,我不犯人。
4. 人到事中迷,就怕没人提。
5.抓住了主要矛盾,一切问题就可以迎刃而解。
6.不知苦中苦,哪知甜中甜?
7. 聪明一世,糊涂一时。
8. 吃苦在前,享乐在后.
9. 不怕慢,只怕站。
10. .种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆.
11. 东边闪电出日头,西边闪电必有雨,南边闪电天气热,北边闪电有雷雨。
12. 上梁不正下梁歪。
13. .有饭大家吃。(=如果有饭的话,那就让大家吃吧)
14. 狼披羊皮还是狼。
15. 狐狸再狡猾也斗不过好猎手。
16.问遍千家成行家。
17. 不到黄河心不死。
18. 不进则退
19. 酒醉智昏
20. 玩火自焚
21. 欲盖弥彰
22. 远交近攻
23. 物极必反
24. A body in motion remains in motion at a constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an external forces.
25. There is no more difference, but there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental operations of a man of science and those of an ordinary person as there is between the operations and methods of a baker or of a butcher who weighs out his goods in common scales and the operations of a chemist who performs a difficult and complex analysis by means of this balance and finely graduated weights.
26. The growth of class consciousness among the workers was inhibited by continued high levels of employment and rising earnings for almost 15 years, combined with the propaganda of views in the labor movement reflecting the influence of Keynesian theories about the ability of capitalism to solve permanently