Unit 16 Translating Passages

1. Unit 16 Translating Passages 教学目的：了解如何使用各种技巧进行篇章的翻译。 教学重点：把握在语篇翻译中使用各种翻译技巧，了解语篇翻译的难点及其处理。 教学难点：长句的翻译。

2. I suppose there are studies that connect the ubiquitousness of takeout in Manhattan with the increase in two-job families or the supposed hatred of cooking by yuppies, some of whom are said to live in expensive apartments that have no kitchens.

3. yuppy是一个缩略字，它是由 young urban professional这三个字的第一个字母组成的，也就是yup。后面再加上p和y这两个字母来形成第二个音节。 所谓yuppies就是那些很有抱负，受过高等教育，住在大城市有专业性的工作,生活很富裕的年轻人。很多baby boomers后来变成了yuppy。

4. Quotes from Yuppies: “I guess you can call me a yuppy. I'm 37 and I make enough money to afford the right things in life. See this gold Rolex watch? I eat in the best restaurants and drink a good wine instead of whiskey. Yes, of course, I drive a BMW.”

5. The trouble with most yuppies is that they don't have independent minds of their own. They follow the latest fashions in food, wine, clothes, cars and amusement like a herd of sheep."

6. Analysis of Complicated Sentences I suppose there are studies that connect the ubiquitousness of takeout in Manhattan with the increase in two-job families or the supposed hatred of cooking by yuppies

7. I suppose there are studies that connect the ubiquitousness of takeout in Manhattan with the increase in two-job families or the supposed hatred of cooking by yuppies, some of whom are said to live in expensive apartments that have no kitchens.

8. I have never actually run across an independently confirmed case of yuppies living in an expensive apartment with no kitchen, although a friend from that generation told me that he once sought to use the oven belonging to someone with whom he’d become romantically involved and found that she was using it to store fashion magazines.

9. I have never actually run across an independently confirmed case although a friend from that generation told me he once sought to use the oven and found that ……

10. I have never actually run across an independently confirmed case of yuppies living in an expensive apartment with no kitchen, although a friend from that generation told me that he once sought to use the oven belonging to someone with whom he’d become romantically involved and found that she was using it to store fashion magazines.

11. 我猜想有人做过研究，认为曼哈顿无处不在的餐馆外卖是同双薪家庭的增加或者雅皮士据说不喜欢做饭的习惯有关。（据说）这些雅皮士有的居住在昂贵而不带厨房的公寓里。我本人从来没有见过生活在不带厨房的公寓里的雅皮士，但我的一位与雅皮士同时代的朋友告诉我，有一次他想用一下他女友的烤箱，居然发现她把烤箱用来存放时尚杂志了。(也可倒译)我猜想有人做过研究，认为曼哈顿无处不在的餐馆外卖是同双薪家庭的增加或者雅皮士据说不喜欢做饭的习惯有关。（据说）这些雅皮士有的居住在昂贵而不带厨房的公寓里。我本人从来没有见过生活在不带厨房的公寓里的雅皮士，但我的一位与雅皮士同时代的朋友告诉我，有一次他想用一下他女友的烤箱，居然发现她把烤箱用来存放时尚杂志了。(也可倒译)

12. [长句的翻译] 可以采用顺译、倒置、分译和重组的办法 1）The statement declared that the international economic order must be changed or the gap between developed and developing countries would continue to widen. 声明宣称，国际经济秩序必须改变，否则发达国家与发展中国家之间的差距继续扩大。

13. 2） The foreign visitors watched in a fascinated manner the tournament held in Beijing, which exhibited a superb performance in smash service, twist service, steady service, high drop and killing and ended in a draw.

14. 外宾们观看了在北京举行的锦标赛。这场比赛在发扣球、转球、保险球、吊球和扣杀方面技术都十分精湛，最后打成平局。他们看得简直入迷了。外宾们观看了在北京举行的锦标赛。这场比赛在发扣球、转球、保险球、吊球和扣杀方面技术都十分精湛，最后打成平局。他们看得简直入迷了。 外宾们观看了在北京举行的引人入胜的锦标赛，比赛中发扣球、转球、保险球、吊球和扣杀都十分精湛，叹为观止，最终打成平局。

15. It is also possible that the Manhattan restaurant industry simply came to realize that a city so compact that even prosperous families often do not own an automobile is an ideal place for developing a delivery business; literally thousands of customers live within a quick walk or a basketless bicycle ride from any restaurant. However it came about, it came gradually.

16. 外卖盛行也可能仅仅是曼哈顿餐饮业认识到了像纽约这样人口如此稠密的大城市，那里连富有的家庭都不想买汽车，正是发展外卖业务的理想场所，(准确的说) 因为成千上万的顾客就住在离餐馆步行或骑跑车几不之遥的地方。然而不管外卖是因为什么原因发展起来的，它是一步一个脚印地慢慢发展起来的。

17. （When Abigail was born, in the late sixties, and her parents were thus sentenced for a while to a wearing but oddly pleasurable form of house arrest, the closest we got to takeout was for me to go to an accommodating Italian restaurant across the street and have them pack food in plastic containers that looked as if they were designed for some other purposes.）

18. （阿波齐尔60年代末降生，她的父母也因此而陷入一种令人厌烦、却又奇怪地让人感到愉快的短期软禁状态之中，当时，我得亲自到马路对面那家乐于助人的意大利餐厅，麻烦店里把饭菜装在一种看起来不是用来装饭菜塑料袋里。）（阿波齐尔60年代末降生，她的父母也因此而陷入一种令人厌烦、却又奇怪地让人感到愉快的短期软禁状态之中，当时，我得亲自到马路对面那家乐于助人的意大利餐厅，麻烦店里把饭菜装在一种看起来不是用来装饭菜塑料袋里。）

19. Sooner or later, though, the distribution of takeout menus became so relentless that a lot of New Yorkers began to see it as a form of commercially viable littering. I would guess, from my own experience, that most residential buildings in Manhattan receive menus from at least one restaurant every day. 不久，派送外卖菜单变得如痴如狂，许多纽约人开始把外卖菜单视为有助商业成功却造成环境污染的垃圾。（尽管大家有怨言），根据我的经验，曼哈顿居民住宅每天还是会收到至少一家餐厅送来的外卖菜单。

20. For a while, in fact, it was common in my neighborhood, Greenwich Village, to see signs on doors saying “No Menus”---Sometimes in both English and Chinese. I never thought posting such a sign myself. Yes, I occasionally get irritated when the steps in front of my house are littered with paper menus from two or three Chinese restaurants of the sort that seem to acquire their food from one gigantic kitchen, presided over in a dictatorial but not terribly inventive way by General Tso.

21. 事实上，有一段时间，我居住的格林尼治村里，经常可以看到居民门上贴着“不要菜单”的条子，有时还是用英文、中文两中文字书写的。我从来没有想过贴这样的条子。不错，有时看到房子台阶上散落着两三家中国餐馆散发的菜单也会感到恼火，这种餐馆好象是一家大厨房上的货，管理方式像左（宗堂）将军餐馆一样霸道却毫无创意。事实上，有一段时间，我居住的格林尼治村里，经常可以看到居民门上贴着“不要菜单”的条子，有时还是用英文、中文两中文字书写的。我从来没有想过贴这样的条子。不错，有时看到房子台阶上散落着两三家中国餐馆散发的菜单也会感到恼火，这种餐馆好象是一家大厨房上的货，管理方式像左（宗堂）将军餐馆一样霸道却毫无创意。

22. But my attitude toward takeout menus is reflected in that brilliant slogan the New York State Lottery uses in its advertising: “Hey, you never know.” It was a takeout menu, slipped through the mail slot of my door, that alerted me to a splendid little sushi restaurant on West Fourth Street called Aki, whose chef’s experience working for the Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica had inspired him to put on the menu a roll that includes both jerk chicken and hearts of palm

23. 我对于外卖菜单的态度，充分体现在纽约州彩票宣传广告词里“嘿，结果往往出人意料。” 这种外卖菜单，是从门口的邮箱口塞进来的。它告诉我在西四条街上有一个叫阿奇的小餐馆，富丽堂皇，专卖生鱼片冷饭团（寿司），餐馆的大厨曾经给日本驻牙买加大使做过饭，因此在菜单上画了一只饭团，里面包着腌鸡肉和棕榈仁。

24. Delivery by a restaurant of Aki’s quality reflects a second stage of development in the New York takeout scene. When delivery of Chinese food consisted strictly of Takeout Chinese, for instance, I did not think of it as an acceptable alternative even to scratching around in the refrigerator for some leftovers.

25. 阿奇餐馆外卖食品的质量反映出纽约外卖业务发展的第二阶段。那时，送上门的中国快餐只有专供外卖的那种中国食品，我宁可在冰箱里找点儿剩饭剩菜，也没想到吃中国外卖食品。阿奇餐馆外卖食品的质量反映出纽约外卖业务发展的第二阶段。那时，送上门的中国快餐只有专供外卖的那种中国食品，我宁可在冰箱里找点儿剩饭剩菜，也没想到吃中国外卖食品。

26. When we had some reason to eat our Chinese food at home rather than at a restaurant, I drove to Chinatown with my daughters and two or three of the dinner guests, everyone having been assigned to pick up a certain dish at a certain restaurant according to a split-second schedule---a food-gathering exercise we referred to as an Entebbe Raid.

27. 有时我们心血来潮，想在家里品尝中国菜，而有不愿意去餐馆，我会带着几个女儿和几个来访的客人一起开车到中国城，根据事先制定的计划每个人到指定的菜馆挑一道菜回来。这中觅食的方式我们管它叫恩得培突袭。（以色列的突击队1976年7月营救法国客机105位人质的行动。）有时我们心血来潮，想在家里品尝中国菜，而有不愿意去餐馆，我会带着几个女儿和几个来访的客人一起开车到中国城，根据事先制定的计划每个人到指定的菜馆挑一道菜回来。这中觅食的方式我们管它叫恩得培突袭。（以色列的突击队1976年7月营救法国客机105位人质的行动。）

28. 课后学习网站指点： • 篇章翻译 • 英语翻译课程学习方法(篇章翻译的几个问题） • 略谈语篇翻译中译者的语境补全对策