(2)转换成名词
1)动词转换成名词
经典例题: The university aims at the first rate of the world.
参考译文学校的目标是世界一流。
经典例题: The net and electronic commerce will foster a large number of free_fancers,and this will affect social structure
in a big way.
参考译文: 网络和电子商业将会造就一大批自由职业者,从而将对社会结构产生深远的影响。
经典例题: Numerous abstentions marked the French elections.
参考译文: 这次法国选举的特点是弃权的人多。
2)形容词转换成名词
经典例题: They did their best to help the sick and the wounded.
参考译文: 他们尽了最大努力帮助病号和伤号。
经典例题: The different production cost is closely associated with the sources of power.
参考译文: 生产成本的差异与能源密切相关。
3)代词转换成名词
经典例题: According to a growing body of evidence,the chemicals that make up many plastics may migrate out of the material
and into foods and fluids,ending up in your body.
分析: your body直译是“你的身体”,而细读原文,我们发现其实your body是泛指人体。作者为了引起与读者的共鸣,用了与读者更
息息相关的your。在翻译时,应将此代词转换成名词,体现其真实含义。
参考译文 越来越多的证据表明,许多塑料制品的化学成分会移动到食物或流体上去,最终进入人体内。
经典例题: Though we can’t see it,there is air all around us.参考译文虽然我们看不见空气,可我们周围到处都有空气。
4)副词转换成名词
经典例题: The new type of machine is shown schematically in Figure1.
参考译文 图一所示是这种新型机器的简图。
经典例题: Internally the earth consists of two parts,a core and a mantle.参考译文地球的内部由两部分组成:地核和地幔。 |