名师全面解析最近三年考研英语翻译题

2005
    
    (47) In Europe, as elsewhere multi-media groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television, radio newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.
    
    评析:这句话最难的地方在于几个小词的处理,我们翻译的标准不用做到信达雅,但是起码要像人话,如果翻完自己都觉得很不通顺,坚决不可将就,句子有不熟悉的词不可以把英语抄在译文中,那样老师会理直气壮地扣分.我们要尽量结合上下文,把句子做到通顺.
    
    难点: television, radio newspapers, magazines and publishing houses是并列关系,要翻成"电视台,电台,报社,杂志社和出版社",因为最后一个词是出版社,其他的几个虽然是媒体,但是和后面的出版社成并列关系,所以必须翻译成机构.
    
    重点:并列关系.并列各项
    
    1.词类相同
    
    2.作者态度相同
    
    3.语法结构相同
    
    4.意思接近。
    
    全句翻译:在欧洲,就像其它地方一样,各传媒集团越来越成功,整合了电视台,电台,报社,杂志社和出版社,并使之相互合作.
    
    (48) This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive，
    
    拆 添 减
    
    in a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks ， no less than 50% took a loss in 1989.
    
    评析:这句话难点在于in a fact underlined by statistics that show that ,写得非常不通顺和罗嗦,如果直译,会非常难以流畅,必须减去一些废话,适应汉语表达的习惯.
    
    难点:翻译的三字诀长句要"拆" ,省略上文避免重复的内容要"添",前后用词重复意思累赘要"减"
    
    重点:本句用"减"字诀.
    
    翻译:仅仅这一切就足以证实,电视行业绝非容易生存的地方,统计数据表明,欧洲80个电视网络中,在1989年有不少于50%遭受了亏损.
    
    (49) Creating a “European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice - that of producing programs in Europe for Europe.
    
    评析:这句话最烦人就是两个词: that和which,从句怎么办?
    
    难点:长从句必拆,短从句直接放在所修饰的名词前面.长短的尺度自己把握,关键标准是通顺.
    
    重点:1. the different cultures and traditions在两个从句中都作句子成份,但是其作用不同,在that从句是宾语,在which从句式主语,所以必须拆分到全句的开头,而促使creating这个主语和后面的is紧密结合成为主句.
    
    2.定语从句很长怎么断句呢?从which开始之后,句子肯定有谓语动词,那么请记住,从句在第二个谓语之后结束,比如,这句话which的谓语是go,此后第二个谓语是is,则is是主句动词,is之前就是整句的从句了.
    
    翻译:不同的文化和传统将要建立起连接旧大陆的架构，创造尊重这些文化和传统的欧洲身份绝非易事，也需要战略上的决策，也就是在欧洲为了欧洲区制作节目.
    
    (50) In dealing with a challenge on such a scale, it is no exaggeration to say “United we stand, divided we fall” -and if I had to choose a slogan it would be “Unity in our diversity.”
    
    评析：此句结构不难，难在成语的翻译.
    
    难点：成语翻译要照顾中文习惯，一般以四字为多
    
    重点：形式主语直接忽略，翻译真实主语。
    
    翻译：在这一层面上去应付挑战，说“团结则生，分裂则死”是毫不夸张地，而如果我必须选择一句标语，那将是“求同存异”。