英汉翻译之四Inversion知识分享

Inversion and Division
•为了表达的顺畅； •为了突出主要(primary)信息； •为了照顾译语习惯。
Function of word order
1a. He foolishly answered the question. 1b. He answered the question foolishly. 2a. I, too, have been to Paris. 2b. I’ve been to Paris, too. 3a. They failed to trust the matter to a
凡是有头脑的人都不会指望申请工作的人说出自己的 缺点和比较严重的过失。同样，他也不会指望广告里 的话全都是真的。
17. Nobody can build a high-quality economy with lowquality components. Yet this is precisely what we Americans are trying to do when it comes to the most important component in any economy----the quality of the work force.
11. We recognize ― and share ― China’s resolve to resist the attempts of any nation which seeks to establish global or regional hegemony.
12. At 6:30 p.m., December 6, 1973, Gerald Rudolph Ford, raised his right hand in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he had spent 25 years working toward but never getting the top office of Speaker, and became Vice President of the U.S.
目前在许多国家有线电视可提供几十个频道的节目,不 久人们还可以通过它将盗警与火警报警器分别与警察 局和消防站相连,以此看家护院.
14. When the ideas of a scientist are expressed in a simple mathematical form, new relationships and new channels of investigation often suggest themselves which would be lost in words if mathematics were not used. 一个科学家在用简单的数学形式表达他的概念时，研究 工作往往会出现新的关系和新的途径；这种新关系和新 途径如果不用数学表达，用文字是表达不出来的。
responsible person. 3b. The man responsible was at last punished. •
1. It was very funny the way in which the penguins used to waddle.
2. The theory is of great importance that the hotter the body is, the more energy it radiates.
15. One day in the autumn of 1930 I was gazing at the notice board in the post office of the main men’s residence at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph in Canada, where I was then a senior. 1930年秋天，我正在加拿大古尔夫的安大略农学院上四 年级。有一天，我在男生宿舍主区的邮局里看布告牌。
低水平的劳动大军是无法进行高水平的经济建设的。 劳动大军的素质问题是任何经济中最为重要的组成部 分。而正是在这个问题上，我们美国人的所作所为是 很成问题的。
Some examples
1.She was an intelligent, attractive and somewhat temperamental daughter of a well-to-do doctor in Haddington.
……只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察恐怖暴行的 牺牲品，我们就决不会满意。只要奔波劳顿的身 躯被公路旁的汽车旅馆和城市旅馆拒之门外，我 们就决不会满意。只要黑人的基本活动范围只限 于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区，我 们就决不会满意。只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人 ”的牌子剥夺个性，损毁尊严，我们就决不会满 意。只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举，纽约 州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干，我们就决不
5. The property the air has of taking up a great amount of water when heated and giving it out when cooled, is the cause of our clouds and rain.
6. Let me once more thank you for the constructive way you helped to settle all the problems that were in the way of signing the contract.
7. He didn’t blame me for not having heard a word of a story which had lasted while we walked three miles.
8. He had returned the previous evening from a tour of the countryside, and wanted to go through the papers that had accumulated in his absence before visiting hours started.
16. Nobody with any sense expects to find the whole truth in advertisement any more than he expects a man applying a job to describe his shortcomings and more serious faults.
3. It is not surprising that, when humidity is low, the water evaporates rapidly from the fruit.
4. In the engine the heat required to change the water into steam, is produced by the combination of the oxygen gas in the air with the fuel.
他表露见解和感情，全是陈腐的老套，而且总是从拉丁文 里引经据典。
3. There was an air about her which showed plainer than any words that she was both weary and disappointed.
她流露一种神情，比说话还表示得清楚，她是又疲倦又失 望。
1973年12月6日下午6点30分，杰拉德`伦道夫`福特在美 国众议院中举起了右手，成为美国的副总统。他在众 议院中曾度过25个年头，并一直在争取充当议长，但 始终未能如愿。
13. Cable television which in many countries now give a choice of dozens of channels will soon be used to protect our homes by operating burglar and fire alarms linked to police and fire stations.
9. I couldn’t beat a boy who hadn’t got a relation in the wod left him to me because he thought I’d be kind to him.
10. Smaller countries have always been torn between their desire for protection and their fear of becoming pawns in the games of their protectors.
• And as we walk we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who ask the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, can not gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We cannot be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by sighs stating "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. (by Martin Luther King)