第一周作业及其答案

It is a good horse that never stumbles.

好马不失蹄

It is a skillful technician that never blunders.

智者千虑

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

山中无老虎，猴子称霸王

Good fortune lieth within bad, bad fortune lurkth with good.

福兮祸之所以，祸兮福之所倚

Do not unto others what you would not be done by.

己所不欲，勿施于人

I could not recollect his name to save my life.

我怎么都想不起他的名字

These books have long been out of print, you can not get them for love or money. 无价之宝

He is lying on his side.

固执己见

She is standing on her head.

他到立着

as timid as a rabbit

胆小如鼠

as strong as a horse

健壮如牛

as stubborn as a mule

倔如驴

a bunch of rascals

狐朋狗友

let the cat out of the bag

露马脚

before one can say Jack Robinson

说时迟，那时快

An old hand is a good guide.

老马识途

It should have been easy. They were battle-tested veterans with long ties to Reagan and even longer ties to the Republican Party，men who understood presidential politics as well as any in the country. The backdrop of the campaign was hospitable，with lots of good news to work with: America was at peace，and the nation’s economy，a key

factor in any election，was rebounding vigorously after recession. Furthermore，the campaign itself was lavishly financed，with plenty of money for a top-flight staff，travel，and television commercials. And，most important，their candidate was Ronald Reagan，a president of tremendous personal popularity and dazzling communication skills. Reagan has succeeded more than any president since John F.Kennedy in projecting a broad vision of America a nation of renewed military strength，individual initiative，and smaller federal government.

这一切本该很容易，他们都是身经百战的老兵，并与里根有着长久联系，甚至与那些对总统政策了如指掌的共和党有着深厚的渊源。伴随着这一系列的正面消息，对当时的竞选背景是十分有利的：美国正处于和平时期，美国经济为任何选举中关键因素。在经历过萧条之后迅速复苏。此外，竞选本身得到了大量的资金的支柱，这些钱用于顶层工作人员巡回演说、商业媒体宣传。并且，最重要的是他们的候选人里根，一位具有巨大人格魅力和精湛的社交技巧的总统，也是继肯尼迪之后，规划出了美国蓝图。美国政府将成为拥有全新军备力量以及倡导建立主权独立的联邦政府。

你同意些列陈述吗？请给出你自己的思考。

1.If we don’t know the readership for a text，we can not

translate it.

同意。翻译就是为了让人看懂，既要注意愿意要表达的意思又要注意问题的表达，但是如果我们不知道读者的类型，就没办法确定文体，就做不到所谓的忠实，只能满足通顺这个要求。

2 If it is obvious that a text is a translation，then it is a bad translation.

不同意。翻译就是要做到通顺和忠实，翻译过来的文章一看就知道是译文，说明它符合了翻译的要求。尽管鉴赏价值有所减弱。

3. Translating a scientific or technical text is more difficult than translating general or everyday text，because scientific or technical texts contain many more unfamiliar words.

同意。因为科普文涉及到的专有名词很多，而且都是我们平常不常见觉的所以翻译的时候很难找到确切的言语在心原作的意思；其次，有些科技方面的知识和背景我们通常斗殴不懂，所以影响翻译。

4.It is always riskier to do a free than a literal translation because translating freely can easily lead you away from the proper meaning of the word.

同意，一般情况下，直译不能准确忠实的再现原文的意思因为很多词涉及到很多种含义，甚至会有一些特殊的指代含

义，一定要结合语境，不能单靠直译。

5.Translators need a bilingual dictionary because it tells them which word to use in the text and where to use it.

同意。双语词典可以帮助我们更好的了解词汇和短语的意思，便于翻译，而且增加译文的准确性，当然不能我完全依赖词典。

6.It cannot be the task of the translator to make a translated text easier to understand for the readers than the original text is for the readers.

不同意。是把一种语言表达出来的用另一种语言表达出来，以达到沟通思想情感，传播知识文化、促进社会文明的目的，如果翻译后的文章比原文更难让人理解。感觉就失去了翻译最近基本的目的。没有做到为有需要的人翻译。

7.Ideally，a back translation will reproduce the original text.

同意。了解到原作的写作背景就能更的把握作者的情感和思想内容从而就能更好的忠实的原文，而不会望文生义。

8.In every language there are some words which are untranslatable.

同意。翻译不可能仅仅是照原文逐字逐句的翻译，总有一些词在不影响原文意义下，为为保通顺，不用都翻译。

9.Even if two experienced translators translate the one and

same text，their translations will be different. This shows that subjectivity and individual taste play such an important role in translating that it is probably not possible to explain the phenomenon on the basis of an objective model.

同意。翻译确实和翻译者的性格，审美标准，文化水平平等密切相关的，同一篇文章，翻译的手法和结果肯定大有差异，风格也不尽相同。

10.The source text is the yardstick by which the quality of a translation is measured.

同意。翻译总的来说有两点要求：一是忠实，即忠实原作的思想内容，保持原作风格。二是顺通，合乎规范。译文是再现原作的信息所以它还是以原作为衡量标准的。

11.The various translating methods and techniques are very important to the translator.

同意。翻译材料问题有五大类，翻译对象也不确定，分哪一的方法也多种多样，掌握多种翻译方法和技巧就能够让译文通俗易懂的层面上能够更生动，所具备的鉴赏价值大为提高。

12.The more proficient one’s language is，the better translator he will become.

同意。一个翻译者如果他对语言很精通，那么在翻译在，子符合原作意义的基础上他的措词肯定会更精练、更贴切、更

生动，子表达原作思想上也会更切近具有语言美的特点。

S1：翻译目的是用做自然、最贴近原作意义的语言准确再现原作信息，让读者看懂原文。

S2：本文的读者对象是想了解美国时政的人，关心美国时政的政客和学生。

S3：翻译中欲遇到的问题与解决发放。看到这篇新闻材料的时候，首先是吧影响翻译的生词给查了一遍，然后适当的对文中涉及到的人物进行一些了解。先是浏览了一遍文章，然后逐字逐句的翻译，对一些专有名词也没有办法把握和翻译，于是就近和组友讨论一下。翻译这篇文章我们主要采用的是直译和増译法。

组员：吴丹，吴浩，许倩，谢国友。