2018/6/23 17:22:00
周口专业英语翻译:翻译技巧问题分析(一)
乐文周口翻译公司,专业的人工翻译平台,为您提供在线翻译服务。有时候,在翻译时,经验不足的译员会容易造成望文生义的现象,这不利于翻译工作,今天,我们就和翻译经验丰富的高质量的乐文周口翻译公司的专业英语翻译一起来看看这些问题。
英语翻译在线翻译:语法结构理解不当
译者对语法结构理解不当,如分不清词性、指代关系以及句型等,就会直接造成误译。
1.Magnetic fields of the former kind are geerally about a million times weaker than the Earth’s field ,whereas those originating from the traveling signals of nerve cells are even weaker, some hundred million times less than the earth’s field at their strongest.
[原译]前一类磁场通常只有地球磁场的一百万分之一左右,而由神经细胞传播的信号产生的磁场则更弱,最强的时候也只有地球磁场的几亿分之一。
[分析]此处some 不是形容词(或称determiner限定词),而是副词,经常用在数词之前,相当于about“大约”,如“There were some 40 or50 peop0le there.故some hundred million”应译成“约一亿”。
[正译]……只有地球磁场的约一亿分之一。
2. Now Jeffreys points out that, if a number of observations have been found to conform to a law, it is highly probable that next one will do so whether the law is true or not.
[误译]现在杰佛利指出,如果已获得大量的观察资料与一条法则一致,非常可能下一条法则也将如此,不管该法则正确与否。
[分析]此句的代词one,它指代observation而不是law,否则变成“法则与法则相一致”,这在逻辑上也自相矛盾。
英语翻译在线翻译:词义理解不当
英语词汇中一词多义的情况是相当多的,如“只知其一,不知其二”,就会造成错误理解。
勤查和细查词典(包括用英语解释英语的英英词典)才能避免;所谓勤查是多查几本词典,所谓细查是从头到尾地查阅,不厌其烦,才能扩大视野,并找到合适的词义。
1. For the balance of the section, let’s speak in straightforward and elementary terms to describe the function and form of the electronic computer.
[误译]为使这一节平衡起见,我们将用简单明了的术语来描述这种电子计算机的功能和形式。
[分析]在《朗曼当代英语词典》balance词条下可查到money or something else which remains or is left over,又见例句:May I take the balance of my holidays before the end of September ?
[正译]在本节的其余部分,我们将用简单明了的术语来描述这种电子计算机的功能和形式。
2. We have a sales force at present of twenty-four salesmen of the road, each with his own territory.
[误译]目前我们有一支由20名外勤推销员组成的推销队正在途中,每人有他自己的推销领域。
[分析]在商业英语中on the road =away from home use,in regular travel on business esp. as a traveling salesman (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language) ,故salesmen on the road 作“外勤推销员”解。
[正译]目前我们有一支由24名外勤推销员组成的推销队伍,每人有自己的推销地盘。
英语翻译在线翻译:缺乏专业知识
科技翻译往往涉及众多领域,各种专业,为了提高翻译质量,译者不仅要熟练掌握英汉两门语言,而且也应具有一定的专业知识的素养。隔行如隔山,每个专业都有各自一套术语。
1. By the age of 19 Gauss had discovered for himself and proved a remarkable theorem in number theory known as the law of quadratic reciprocity.
[误译]高斯十九岁已经独立地发现并证明了数理定理——二次互反律。
[分析]将number theory 误为“数理”,系不了解专业所致,其实它在数学上是指“数论”,与“数理”是两个不同的概念。
[正译]……并证明了数论中的一个卓越定理,名谓二次互反律。
2. Designed to predict the motions of hesavenly bodies ,it does its job with unbelievable accuracy——better than one in a hndred million for the motion of the earth around the sun——and it remains in daily use to predict the orbits of moons and planets ,comets and spacecraft.
[误译]这个旨在预测天体运行的理论,其准确性令人难以置信——以地球绕太阳运转为例,其误差仅略大于一亿分之一,并且时至今日仍然每日要用它来预测卫星和行星、慧星和航天器的运行轨道。
[分析]原文并无“仅略”的含义,应删去。Better than 修饰accuracy,意为“准确度胜于”或“比……更为准确”,即“误差小于”。
[正译]……其误差小于一亿分之一……(来源:华南翻译市场)
乐文周口翻译公司,专业人工翻译平台,如果您需要英语翻译,可以随时联系我们。
英语翻译在线翻译:语法结构理解不当
译者对语法结构理解不当,如分不清词性、指代关系以及句型等,就会直接造成误译。
1.Magnetic fields of the former kind are geerally about a million times weaker than the Earth’s field ,whereas those originating from the traveling signals of nerve cells are even weaker, some hundred million times less than the earth’s field at their strongest.
[原译]前一类磁场通常只有地球磁场的一百万分之一左右,而由神经细胞传播的信号产生的磁场则更弱,最强的时候也只有地球磁场的几亿分之一。
[分析]此处some 不是形容词(或称determiner限定词),而是副词,经常用在数词之前,相当于about“大约”,如“There were some 40 or50 peop0le there.故some hundred million”应译成“约一亿”。
[正译]……只有地球磁场的约一亿分之一。
2. Now Jeffreys points out that, if a number of observations have been found to conform to a law, it is highly probable that next one will do so whether the law is true or not.
[误译]现在杰佛利指出,如果已获得大量的观察资料与一条法则一致,非常可能下一条法则也将如此,不管该法则正确与否。
[分析]此句的代词one,它指代observation而不是law,否则变成“法则与法则相一致”,这在逻辑上也自相矛盾。
[正译]……非常可以下一次观察也与该法则相一致,不管它正确与否。
英语翻译在线翻译:词义理解不当
英语词汇中一词多义的情况是相当多的,如“只知其一,不知其二”,就会造成错误理解。
勤查和细查词典(包括用英语解释英语的英英词典)才能避免;所谓勤查是多查几本词典,所谓细查是从头到尾地查阅,不厌其烦,才能扩大视野,并找到合适的词义。
1. For the balance of the section, let’s speak in straightforward and elementary terms to describe the function and form of the electronic computer.
[误译]为使这一节平衡起见,我们将用简单明了的术语来描述这种电子计算机的功能和形式。
[分析]在《朗曼当代英语词典》balance词条下可查到money or something else which remains or is left over,又见例句:May I take the balance of my holidays before the end of September ?
[正译]在本节的其余部分,我们将用简单明了的术语来描述这种电子计算机的功能和形式。
2. We have a sales force at present of twenty-four salesmen of the road, each with his own territory.
[误译]目前我们有一支由20名外勤推销员组成的推销队正在途中,每人有他自己的推销领域。
[分析]在商业英语中on the road =away from home use,in regular travel on business esp. as a traveling salesman (Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language) ,故salesmen on the road 作“外勤推销员”解。
[正译]目前我们有一支由24名外勤推销员组成的推销队伍,每人有自己的推销地盘。
英语翻译在线翻译:缺乏专业知识
科技翻译往往涉及众多领域,各种专业,为了提高翻译质量,译者不仅要熟练掌握英汉两门语言,而且也应具有一定的专业知识的素养。隔行如隔山,每个专业都有各自一套术语。
1. By the age of 19 Gauss had discovered for himself and proved a remarkable theorem in number theory known as the law of quadratic reciprocity.
[误译]高斯十九岁已经独立地发现并证明了数理定理——二次互反律。
[分析]将number theory 误为“数理”,系不了解专业所致,其实它在数学上是指“数论”,与“数理”是两个不同的概念。
[正译]……并证明了数论中的一个卓越定理,名谓二次互反律。
2. Designed to predict the motions of hesavenly bodies ,it does its job with unbelievable accuracy——better than one in a hndred million for the motion of the earth around the sun——and it remains in daily use to predict the orbits of moons and planets ,comets and spacecraft.
[误译]这个旨在预测天体运行的理论,其准确性令人难以置信——以地球绕太阳运转为例,其误差仅略大于一亿分之一,并且时至今日仍然每日要用它来预测卫星和行星、慧星和航天器的运行轨道。
[分析]原文并无“仅略”的含义,应删去。Better than 修饰accuracy,意为“准确度胜于”或“比……更为准确”,即“误差小于”。
[正译]……其误差小于一亿分之一……(来源:华南翻译市场)
乐文周口翻译公司,专业人工翻译平台,如果您需要英语翻译,可以随时联系我们。