试论商务英语翻译以直译为主的翻译原则

以直译为主的商务英语翻译原则,强调译文必须忠实于原文,全面准确阐明原作的含义,保持原作原有的风格。商务英语翻译要求译者选词要准确,概念表达要确切,物与名所指要正确。商务英语翻译原则与直译的翻译原则相吻合,准确性与其忠实于原文的内容相吻合,专业性与其保持原文的结构形式、行文规范相吻合,实用性与其语言流畅易懂相吻合。     

Language translation for file paths

Forensic examiners are frequently confronted with content in languages that they do not understand, and they could benefit from machine translation into their native language. But automated translation of file paths is a difficult problem because of the minimal context for translation and the frequent mixing of multiple languages within a path. This work developed a prototype implementation of a file-path translator that first identifies the language for each directory segment of a path, and then translates to English those that are not already English nor artificial words. Brown's LA-Strings utility for language identification was tried, but its performance was found inadequate on short strings and it was supplemented with clues from dictionary lookup, Unicode character distributions for languages, country of origin, and language-related keywords. To provide better data for language inference, words used in each directory over a large corpus were aggregated for analysis. The resulting directory-language probabilities were combined with those for each path segment from dictionary lookup and character-type distributions to infer the segment's most likely language. Tests were done on a corpus of 50.1 million file paths looking for 35 different languages. Tests showed 90.4% accuracy on identifying languages of directories and 93.7% accuracy on identifying languages of directory/file segments of file paths, even after excluding 44.4% of the paths as obviously English or untranslatable. Two of seven proposed language clues were shown to impair directory-language identification. Experiments also compared three translation methods: the Systran translation tool, Google Translate, and word-for-word substitution using dictionaries. Google Translate usually performed the best, but all still made errors with European languages and a significant number of errors with Arabic and Chinese.     

唐诗英译发轫期主要文本辨析

中国唐诗的英文译介是19世纪中期以后才开始出现于欧美各国的文化传播现象.在此传播的过程中,旅华传教士和驻华外交官群体中的汉学家贡献尤多.其中戴维斯的<汉文诗解>有特殊的价值,弗莱彻的<英译唐诗选>则是截至目前为止发现的最早的英译唐诗专著.我国学术界对早期英译唐诗的文本和译者研究尚处于起步阶段,其间的某些误读尚有待辨析和厘清.     

英译词条再推敲

《汉英双语现代汉语词典》(2002年增补本)的面世,无论是对以中文学英文,还是以英文学中文的人而言,或日对中国与英语国家之间文化交流,无疑是件大好事。但通读《新记号新义》部分后,本文作者认为,由于种种原因,其中一些词条的英译出现了不同程度的瑕疵,因而有碍其预期效果的实现。现成文一述己见,同时旨在引起有关方面对此予以关注。     

浅议翻译的理想境界

翻译的理想境界应该是“从心所欲不逾矩”,即主客观的平衡状态。译者要在遵循翻译规范的同时,提高完善自身素质,充分发挥主观能动性,实现翻译的愿望。     

法律国俗语义差异及翻译

法律国俗语义是法律词汇语义民族性的一种表现,具有鲜明的民族法律文化特色。通过对英汉法律国俗语义差异的几种主要形式的研究,说明法律国俗语义研究与英汉法律翻译有着重要关系,希望引起广大法律翻译工作者对法律国俗语义的重视。     

Performative Translation Options Under The Soviet Regime

Translations must be read in their immediate social context in order to understand their performative meaning. The Soviet period in Estonia featured censored and self-censored public writing, whereas cultural discourse that doubted the hegemonic ideology could be conducted primarily through translation. This reality renders significant the selective differences between translators on both the metatextual and textual levels. The topic of this article is the translations of Enn Soosaar (1937–2010), a writer keenly aware of the value of his translations as weapons of communication trained on their environment.     

认真对待法学翻译——以对当代中国部分法学翻译的考察为基础

在翻译艺术特征的总体关照下,法学翻译本身并无什么独特之处,与其他翻译在翻译艺术性上是同质的。中国当今的法学译者大部分对翻译本身,包括翻译理论与翻译技能,了解不够;在进行翻译前,很多人似乎没有进行过专门的翻译技能训练,也缺乏翻译理论的阅读;而与翻译直接关涉的语言文化涵养与对原著的研究,很多译者似乎还难以达到法学翻译的要求。鉴于中国当下的学术环境,应使法学学术出版非商业化,提升法学论著翻译的地位,真正落实翻译校读,建立法学翻译论著出版的专家匿名审查制与法学翻译批评机制等等制度,法学译者也应自觉地进行翻译上的学习与训练,获取基本的翻译技能与翻译素养,才有可能翻译出优秀的法学译著。     

清朝来华耶稣会士卫方济及其儒学译述研究

“四书”域外传播史是“中学西传”跨文化研究中的重要课题。结合“礼仪之争”这一时代背景，可对比利时来华耶稣会士卫方济的儒学译介成果进行梳理，重点关注他于1711年在布拉格出版的儒学典籍译著《中华帝国六经》（Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex ）。进而以该书《中庸》译文为例，比较卫氏译文与其他拉丁文译本之间的异同。一方面勾勒出16-18世纪来华耶稣会士对儒学典籍翻译与阐释的基本路径；另一方面着重探讨卫氏译文的独特之处及个中缘由。     

高职院校校名英译研究

本文对我国100所国家示范性高职院校英文校名进行分析,并试图从“翻译单位”和“零翻译”的视角,用实证对比的方法,借鉴英美等国类似的校名,对我国高职院校英文校名的规范化问题进行探讨。