译海碎浪(长句拆译的应用Division)
由于英语和汉语两种语言存在有不少差异。英语中的长句常常要译成汉语的几个短的句子。不仅仅限于句子的译法。甚至连英语中的简单句、短语词组,甚至一个单词都根据语境都可以用汉语的句子来表达。这是由于两种语言的思维方式不同,两种语言的句子结构有时也大不相同,下面举一些翻译的例子来加以说明。
1、 Illogically, she should have expected some kind of miracle solution.
2、 Not having been discovered, many laws of nature actually exist in nature.
3、 His residence in a small town limited his knowledge of the outside world.
4、 A movie of my leaving that frightening place would like a shell leaving a rifle.
5、 His failure to observe the safety regulations resulted in an accident to the machinery.
6、 The secret letter had been all of time just out of reach.
7、 That question is too hard for me to answer.
8、 Eventually, more as a last hope than with any confidence in a result, a subcommittee was formed to try to reconcile difference between them..
9、 He shook his head and his eyes were wide, then narrowed in indignation.
10、 The stories with their unexpected endings are built around interesting situations, rather than around analysis of character.