❖ (讨论译文)那些从他初次尝试遭到失败便断 定他的最后结局的人，高兴地失望了。
❖ 改译：他初次尝试失败了。但是那些人却据 此判断，他最终会取得胜利。因此他们虽然 失望，却也有几分高兴。
❖ The study found that non-smoking wives of men who smoke cigarettes face a much greater than normal danger of developing lung cancer. The more cigarettes smoked by the husband, the greater threat faced by his non-smoking wife.
❖ (讨论译文)他们的演说被那么小心翼翼地装扮得像 是适合于每日报刊专栏新闻上刊登的议会高谈阔论 似的。
❖ 改译：他们的演说被小心翼翼地装扮，就像是议会 里的高谈阔论，适合于刊登在每日报刊专栏新闻上 似的。
❖ Those who judged of his ultimate success by the failure of his first attempt were agreeably disappointed.
❖ (讨论译文)这项研究发现抽烟男子的不抽烟妻子患肺癌的危 险比一般人大的多，丈夫项研究表明，妻子不抽烟丈夫抽烟，妻子得肺癌的 危险性比一般人大的多。丈夫抽的烟越多，妻子受到的威胁 也就越大。
❖ The report noted proposals that eating less fat and more food with whole grains and other fibers can protect against cancer.
❖ 火可以到它想去的地方/随意乱窜/到处燃烧 ❖ 火灾猛于虎，随处可见
❖ 一定的方向/轨迹/气流 ❖ 2.火是无孔不入的，可是它更爱窜入通风的地方。
❖ 3.The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it.
❖ Noise 噪音 it/它 ❖ 3.循声而去，便轻而易举地找到了那间屋子。
❖ 7.While you are in the act of summoning your energies, focus on a plan. Don't exhaust yourself with fruitless excursions into any and all possibilities.
❖ (讨论译文)当我拒绝喝从一个密封草套精致地装饰 的大肚子瓶子里倒出来的深红色饮料时，大家吃了 一惊。
❖ 改译：这大肚子瓶子是用密封草套精致地装饰着的。 当深红色饮料从里面倒出来时，我拒绝喝它，这让 大家着实吃了一惊。
❖ Their speeches were dressed up with as much care as though they were parliamentary harangues fashioned to the columns of the daily press.
英汉互译第七讲解析
❖ 2.Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft.
❖ N-COUNTA draft is a current of air that comes into a place in an undesirable way. (钻进某处的) 风
❖ 5.The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of age.
❖ 肺炎导致流感 复杂化
❖ 没用流感修饰当人很老或很小时/不管年龄多 大多小/年龄极端人群/各年龄阶段
❖ 患有流感的幼儿和老人可能并发细菌性肺炎。
❖ 4.Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus to Hattiesburg.
❖ 小心地控制声音让声音听起来很礼貌
❖ 询问开往哈蒂斯堡的下一班车。
❖ 我陪着小心，用温和的口吻询问开往哈蒂斯堡下一 班车的情况。 （我小心翼翼，用礼貌的语调询问下一班开往哈蒂 斯堡的班车何时出发。）
❖ 造成的原因：1、没有理解原文；2、死译， 对号入座；3、表述不符合译入语的习惯。
❖ 下面我们来具体分析。
1、句子过长（特别是定语过长）
❖ I surprised the company by refusing to drink the dark red beverage poured out of a fat bellied bottle neatly dressed in a tight-fitting straw jacket.
❖ 译文：这份报告特别提到了少食脂肪，多吃含全面 粉和其他纤维素的食物能预防癌症的那些建议。
❖ World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for throughout his life he avoided publicity.
❖ 中文四字词语
❖ 他的著作举世闻名，而他个人却一直少为人 知，因为他一生始终避免抛头露面。
❖ 集中精力关注一个计划/十足干劲/振作精神/ 在集中精力的过程中，要贯注于一个计划； 不要同时涉足各种可能的情况，把自己搞得 精疲力竭、一事无成。
❖ 翻译症的表现是译笔拙劣(clumsy)，译者过 分受原文的语言形式束缚，结果是，轻则译 文不自然、不流畅、生硬(stiff; inflexible; gritty)，读者要花费较多的时间才能理解； 重则译文晦涩难懂、读者不知所云 (inscrutable)。