翻译资格笔译中级：十秒钟翻译训练_第2页

　　本句节选自《Attitude》

　　总结：

　　1.个人认为本句中的"真我"和"假我"中译英时应避免直译

　　更为恰当的说法是

　　真我：be myself 或是 who I am

　　假我：not myself 或是 who I am not.

　　2.宁愿怎样除了用 rather 还可以用 prefer

　　Perfectionists can waste just as much time as procrastinators . Thomas R. Williams，former chairman of Wachovia Corporation，discovered that many young people in banking don't know when to stop researching a project and start wrapping it up. Those trainees could have learned something from engineers，who are taught to produce the best possible solution by a certain date. 即使方案不那么完美，但他们已经在规定的期限内做了最大的努力。

　　单词提示：

　　perfectionist n.十全十美主义者;procrastinator n.爱拖延的人;

　　答案： Even if a design is not perfect，they've done the best they could under deadline.

　　文中的一句名言摘录如下：

　　Benjamin Franklin once said. "Then do not squander time，for that's the stuff life is made of. "

　　译：本杰明·富兰克林曾经说过："你热爱生命吗?那么就不要浪费时间，因为时间是组成生命的材料。"

　　本杰明·富兰克林(Dr. Benjamin Franklin，1706年1月17日-1790年4月17日)美国著名的政治家与科学家。他同时亦是出版商、印刷商、记者、作家、慈善家;更是杰出的外交家及发明家。他是美国革命时重要的领导人之一，参与了多项重要文件的草拟，并曾出任美国驻法国大使，成功取得法国支持美国独立。富兰克林曾经进行多项关於电的实验，并且发明了避雷针。其他由他发明的事物包括有双焦点眼镜，蛙鞋等等。富兰克林是共济会的成员，被选为英国皇家学会院士。他亦是美国首任邮政总长(Postmaster General)。

　　富兰克林的样子为世界各地不少人所熟悉：因为他是美元钞票中面额最高的一百美元纸币上的人像。在美国，俚语中一百美元纸币亦称为「富兰克林」。富兰克林的画像曾经还在半美元硬币、旧五十美元上出现。从1914年起，他便是部分百元美钞上的人像，1928年以后每张百元美钞上都印有他的样子。

　　本句节选自《take Charge of Your Day》

　　总结：

　　1. 单词 perfect表达“完美的”，前面不需要加 so 或 very 之类修饰。

　　2. under deadline 的说法还可以换成 within expected time 或是 certain time

　　有的人用了 limited time，这种说法听起来不是很地道。

　　For beginner exercisers, mirrors can be daunting," she said.

　　Martin Ginis suggested gyms provide areas without mirrors to encourage novice exercisers."Women don't need to exercise in a gym," she said. There are other ways to get your exercise. 散步30分钟或徒步旅行也不错

　　单词提示：

　　daunting adj. 令人畏惧的; novice n. 初学者

　　答案：Thirty minutes of walking, or hiking is good too.

　　本句节选自《Mirrors tarnish women's image ?》

　　总结：

　　1. 单词 hiking 就是徒步旅行的意思，当然 travelling on foot 的说法也是正确的。

　　2. “也不错”的表达，可以说成：

　　It's good (or fine)

　　a good idea ( or choice)

　　题目很简单，关键是表达的时候要选择比较地道的说法。

　　Keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean reconciliation with the person who upset you or condoning of his or her action.Take the control away from your offender. Mentally replaying your hurt gives power to the person who caused you pain. 与其关注自己受到的伤害，不如学着去寻找你身边的真善美。

　　单词提示：

　　reconciliation n. 和解; condone v. 宽恕; offender n.冒犯者

　　答案：Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.

　　本句节选自《The art of forgiveness》

　　总结：

　　1.本期关于真善美在CRI的网站上有这样的解释

　　真善美 the true, the good and the beautiful; truth, good and beauty

　　在这里要特别感谢 雾花仙娜 对原答案的纠错。

　　原文作者的说法有点引申意义了，大家认为呢?

　　2.“关注”怎么表达呢?

　　除了focus on，还可以用concern(or care) about ,pay attention

　　I don't know how many days I have been given to spend, but I do feel my hands are getting empty. Taking stock silently, I find that more than eight thousand days have already slid away from me. Like a drop of water from the point of a needle disappearing into the ocean, 我的日子滴在时间的流里，没有声音也没有影子。

　　单词提示：

　　needle n. 针;

　　答案：my days are dripping into the stream of time, soundless, traceless.

　　本句节选自朱自清《匆匆》

　　总结：

　　1.滴落很多人用了drop into, 还有的用了flow 或是disappear

　　都不如drip into 描述的更准确.

　　2.如果没有影子 shadowless 应该也可以吧,

　　回复中大多数人比较习惯用 no shadow, 希望我的总结可以拓宽你翻译的思路.

　　This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment that you have. And remember that time waits for no one. So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school; until you get married, until you get divorced; until you have kids, until your kids leave home; until you start work, until you retire; until you get a new car or home; until spring; until you are born again， To decide, 没有什么时候比现在更应快乐……

　　单词提示：

　　perspective n. 观点;

　　答案：there is no better time than right now to be happy....

　　本句节选自《Dance Like No One‘s Watching》

　　学习点滴：

　　文中有一句remember that time waits for no one.你会怎样翻译呢?

　　文中作者是这样说的：记住时不待我。

　　总结：

　　挑选几位朋友的答案刊登如下

　　1. No time is happier than this moment.

　　2. No any moment can be happier than now.

　　3. Nothing will be happier than now.

　　4. Right now is better than ever (to be happy).

　　5. Now is happier than any time.

　　However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life,poor as it is...... 视贫穷如园中之花，像圣人一样耕植它吧!卖掉你的衣服，但要保留你的思想。

　　单词提示：

　　mean adj. 低劣的;paradise n. 天堂

　　答案：Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

　　总结：

　　第二句话的翻译大家的观点基本上都是一致的，下面是关于第一句话的总结内容。

　　1.像...一样， 这里大家可以使用 as....as 句型

　　2.原答案中没有直面翻译" 视", 我们翻译可以用 regard...as

　　也可以不翻这个字, 用 动词 +as 来表达 把...看作...的说

　　· In art and literature and religion, some men have shown a sublimity of feeling which makes the species worth preserving. Is all this to end in trivial horror because so few are able to think of Man rather than of this or that group of men? Is our race so destitute of wisdom, so incapable of impartial love, so blind even to the simplest dictates of self-preservation, 要用灭绝地球上的所有生命来最后证明它愚蠢的小聪明.

　　单词提示：

　　sublimity n. 崇高;species n.种类 ; trivial adj.毫无价值的 ;impartial adj.公平的

　　答案：The last proof of its silly cleverness is to be the extermination of all life on our planet.

　　本句节选自《Shall we choose death ?》

　　总结：大家的答案真是五花八门，挑了几个用词有代表性的供大家互相学习

　　1. Deracinating all lives on the earth to prove its stupid petty trick

　　2. Kill out all lives in the earth to prove its foolish wisdom.

　　3. To prove its sily smartness by terminating all lives on the earth.

　　The girl watched delightedly at the bird's enjoyment. Her heart was no longer concerned with her loss. She wanted the bird to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest melody that she had ever heard. 失去爱的方法，最快莫过于将其牢牢地抓在手心;令爱长驻的方法，最好莫过于赋予它一双翅膀

　　单词提示：

　　melody n. 悦耳的音乐

　　答案：The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tight, the best way to keep love is to give it wings!

　　本句节选自《Best Way to Keep Love》

　　总结：

　　从大家的答案里我发现大家在表达“抓住”这个意思时，用了不同的词

　　下面就来分析一下“抓住”，不同单词的不同程度。

　　1. grasp 抓紧，这个动作比较笼统。

　　2. grip 紧握，比grasp更强。

　　3. seize 抓紧，含有“夺过去强占”的含义。

　　4. snatch 较突然、迅速地“抢夺”

　　5. grab 匆忙，粗鲁，自认为比较有把握的动作抓某物。

　　6. hold on sth 握住某物

　　Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is too luxurious for them to say. 更不用说在情人节互相送花这样的事了。

　　单词提示：

　　luxurious adj. 奢侈的

　　答案：Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of the question.

　　本句节选自《Love Is Just a Thread》

　　总结：看了大家的回复，觉得有些翻译的相当不错。

　　翻的好的就不一一表扬了，把不同说法列举出来供大家相互学习。

　　1. To say nothing of giving flowers to each other in Valentine's Day.

　　2. Let alone to give flowers to each other on Valentine's Day.

　　3. 情人节也可以说 The Lovers' day

　　4. 虽然是“送”花，翻译的时候用“give"更恰当，因为send 意为“寄送”。

　　How shall we enjoy life, and who can best enjoy life? No perfectionism, no straining after the unattainable, no postulating of he unknowable; but taking poor, modal human nature as it is, how shall we organize our life so that we can work peacefully, endure nobly and live happily? 我们都承认在我们曰常活动中那么忙碌的自我并不完全是真正的自我

　　单词提示：

　　strain after 拼命争取; postulate v. 要求;

　　答案：we all agree with the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self.

　　本句节选自《Find Thyself》

　　总结：

　　1. 忙碌的 除了用busy，还可以用 engaged

　　2. 大部分人翻译“承认”一词时都用了 admit，实际上，在本句中所要表达的是对某种观点的赞同，所以更恰当的词应该是 agree, accept, acknowledge, believe

　　Friendship is unconditional and uncritical, based only on mutual respect and the ability to enjoy each other’ s company. These authority figures never saw the way one of us could do something outrageous, and the rest of us would joke about it for days. We could have fun doing absolutely nothing at all—because the company we provided each other with was enough. 我相信将来会事业有成，因为我乐意和各种人一起工作。

　　单词提示：

　　unconditional adj. 无条件的; mutual adj. 相互的;

　　答案：I will be a successul adult in the future because I am willing to work with everyone.

　　本句节选自《Friendship》

　　总结：登出一些较好翻译供大家互相学习

　　1. Rachel_y I believe i will be successful in the future,because i am willing to work with all sorts of people.

　　2. 拧发条鸟 I believe that my career will be successful, because i enjoy working with various people.

　　3. 雾花仙娜 I'm sure that I can succeed in my career because I'm pleased to work with sorts of people.

　　4. summerrtea I believe I will achieve success in my carrer because I am glad to work with all kinds of people.

　　Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside a mask. People who have this joy don’t need to talk about it, they radiate it. They just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight into other lives as nature as a bird sings. 生活的乐趣是我们对生活的投入，而非索取。

　　单词提示：

　　mask n. 面具; radiate v. 辐射;

　　答案：The joy of living comes from what we put into our living, not from what we seek to get from it.

　　本句节选自《The Joy of Living》

　　总结：

　　本期题目比较简单，给出一些翻译供大家互相学习。

　　1. The joy of life is what we give to it but not what we take from it.

　　2. The joy of life is our devotion to it, instead of getting something from it.

　　3. The joy of life depends on our devotion, not on acquirement.