英文散文的逆向翻译
2023-05-14 来源:文库网
逆向翻译包括两个方面：一是将正面表述译成反面表述，或是将反面表述译成正面表述；二是将对比的两个方面的顺序颠倒，如将甲比乙强译成乙比甲弱，把宾语转换为主语。在以下情况下，最好、有时甚至必须进行逆向翻译。现以吴景荣先生主编的《当代英文散文选读》上的几篇课文为例，说明如下。
一、当正面翻译难以表达原义时：
1. At the close of 1933，Keynes addressed a letter to Franklin D.Roosevelt，which，not seeking reticence，he published in the New York Times.…The following year he visited FDR but the letter had been a better means of communication.Each man was puzzled by the face-to-face encounter.
