汉译英赏析方法（英汉传神翻译欣赏与训练）

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汉译英赏析方法（英汉传神翻译欣赏与训练）关于invincible，Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary给出了如下的释义：这两句话里有三个难点：一是invincible的理解和翻译，二是bulletproof的翻译，三是carried a new respect的意境展现。作者在驾机进行低飞投弹训练时，为了显摆自己的驾驶技术和逞能，撞到了作为目标的木桩头部，差一点造成机毁人亡，对此他进行了反思。I had come within six inches of jamming that post down the throat of my engine which would have resulted in a catastrophic explosion. This was the sort of thing that happened to other pilots never to me. It did

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什么是传神翻译？

文学翻译贵在“传神”。所谓“传神”，就是把原文的意思表达得非常准确，意境展现得非常逼真、鲜活，让人读后产生一种拍案叫绝的冲动。要实现这一目标，除了具备深厚的语言功底，学习和掌握一定的翻译技巧也是非常有益的。

01 英汉传神翻译欣赏

怎样翻译下面的英语句子？怎样翻译才比较传神？

In the past months I had convinced myself that I was invincible invisible and bulletproof. I was still a gung-ho flier but from that day on I carried a new respect for my dangerous profession.

相关段落和背景信息：

作者在驾机进行低飞投弹训练时，为了显摆自己的驾驶技术和逞能，撞到了作为目标的木桩头部，差一点造成机毁人亡，对此他进行了反思。

I had come within six inches of jamming that post down the throat of my engine which would have resulted in a catastrophic explosion. This was the sort of thing that happened to other pilots never to me. It didn't take long for me to realize that I had done something really dumb and should be lying dead in the desert entombed in a pile of flaming wreckage. It is okay to make a mistake but unacceptable to be stupid. In the past months I had convinced myself that I was invincible invisible and bulletproof. I was still a gung-ho flier but from that day on I carried a new respect for my dangerous profession.

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难点分析和翻译技巧：

这两句话里有三个难点：一是invincible的理解和翻译，二是bulletproof的翻译，三是carried a new respect的意境展现。

关于invincible，Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary给出了如下的释义：

Invincible: incapable of being conquered or overcome（不可征服或战胜的）。

Bulletproof是个常用词，我们都知道它的意思是“防弹的，子弹打不透的”，这里的关键是把它的意境充分展现出来。

就I carried a new respect for my dangerous profession来说，这个句子并不复杂，理解上也没有什么困难。这里考验的是读者的汉语功底——能不能把原文的意境传神地展现出来，其难点在于carried a new respect的翻译。我们都知道respect在这里是“尊重，敬意”的意思，把这句话翻译成“我对自己危险的职业有了新的尊重”或者“我对自己危险的职业产生了新的敬意”也比较贴切，但总感觉味道不够浓郁，因为它没有展现“害怕”的意思（他以前不害怕，现在害怕了）。

试译：

在过去几个月里，我确信自己是坚不可摧、难以发现和刀枪不入的。我现在仍然是一个勇猛的飞行员，但从那天开始，我对自己这个危险的职业一下子有了敬畏之心。

这里的“坚不可摧”“难以发现”和“刀枪不入”既传神，又有节奏感。而“一下子有了敬畏之心”，既表达了“敬意”的意思，又展现了“畏惧”的意思，还把new的意境展现得淋漓尽致。

02 英汉传神翻译训练

怎样翻译下面的英语句子？怎样翻译才比较传神？

I wasn't some nugget on a summer cruise!

相关段落和背景信息：

作者刚进入太空后有点儿晕船，但他不想说出来，免得影响以后的上天机会（他之前当海军时曾经乘航母做过海上巡航）。

Upon entering zero gravity Gemini 9 seemed to go over one hell of a bump but my stomach didn't come back down. Because of weightlessness it continued to lurk just behind my tonsils and I felt the woozy onset of motion sickness. Of course I refused to say anything. I wasn't some nugget on a summer cruise! Many years would pass before astronauts would admit even to each other that most of us felt the same way during those first moments in space.

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