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1. Parody(仿拟)如果译者功底不凡,能知作者之所“仿”,那么,理解与翻译也就“水到渠成”。如:Clearly,when it comes to marriage,practicing beforehand doesn’t make perfect. 可以译成:显然,在婚姻问题上,婚前同居并不能令婚姻生活趋于完美。对待“仿拟”修辞格的方法之一是还原。所谓还原,即故意撇开成语的引申义,而“硬”用其字面义。如:若流感影响到了肠胃,那就只能饮用点茶水,要吃下其他东西就非常困难了。再如:Little John was born with a silver spoon in a mouth,which was rather curly and large. 英语成语to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth的含义是“出生在富贵之家”。这里,作者不用此引申义,而用字面意思。试译:小约翰嘴形弯曲,且大得出奇,好像生下来的时候嘴中含了一把银勺子似的。2. Syllepsis(异叙)此修辞格的特点是用一个词(动词、形容词或介词)同时与两个词或者更多相搭配,巧用一词多义的特点。如:He first put a club in my hand when I was about ten. I threw a lot of tantrums in the upland hills of North Carolina,and clubs too. I was in such a rush to be good that he would urge me to “relax and enjoy the round. The game ends far too soon.” I didn’t have a clue what he meant. 试译:他第一次把高尔夫球棒放在我手里的时候,我大概十岁。在北卡罗来纳州的山中,我一次次发脾气,一次次把球棒扔掉。我急于求成,老爸总是劝我“放松点,慢慢打,比赛结束得太快了。”我一点儿也不明白他的意思3. metonymy(借代)借代一般可以保留原文的修辞方式,不会引起误会,同时让译文多了一份词趣。如:So,during any five-week shape-up,focus more on the tape measure than on the bathroom scale. 译文A:因此,在此五周的减肥期内,要更多地注重自己的腰围,而不是自己的体重。译文B:因此,在此五周的减肥期内,把注意力放在量腰围的卷尺上,而不是放在浴室的磅秤上。4. pun(双关)有许多看似无法在译文中挽留的原文形式的神韵和风采在译文中却得以挽留。如:First gentleman: Thou art always figuring disease in me,but thou art full of error,I am sound. Lucio: Nay,not as one would say,healthy; but so sound as things that are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee. (整个对话之谐趣尽系双关词汇sound。)试译:绅士甲:你总以为我有那种病,其实你大错特错,我的身体响当当的。路奇奥:响当当的,可并不结实,就像空心的东西那样响当当的,你的骨头都空了,好色的毛病把你掏空了。5. alliteration(头韵)英语辞格押头韵的手法历来被认为是不可译的,但是,面对alliteration,并不意味译者就无所作为。如下的两段译文就做了成功的尝试。如:Change is part of life and the making of character,hon. When the things happen that you do not like,you have two choices: You get bitter or better. 试译:变化是生活的一部分,而且也塑造了人的意志品德,亲爱的。当你不喜欢的事情发生了,你有两种选择:要么痛苦不堪;要么痛快达观。6. metaphor(比喻)这个metaphor并非狭隘意义上的把A比作B的不使用比喻词(如as,like,as if等)的暗喻,而是广义上的英语词汇的比喻义。换言之,也就是英语词汇denotation(本义)之外的connotation(转义)。Peter Newmark在A Textbook of Translation中把英语中的比喻分成四类,令人耳目一新 have suggested elsewhere that there are four types of metaphor: fossilized,stock,recently created and original. 第一类:有学生在作文中写出如下句子:In the middle of the picnic,it started to rain cats and dogs,and everybody got soaked. 该句子被改为:While we were busy eating a picnic,a storm cloud suddenly appeared and everybody got soaked. 在A Dictionary of American Idioms中,写道:rain cats and dogs: To rain very hard; come down in torrents------A cliché.美国朋友说: If you use this metaphor,I will doubt if you are my grandfather’s uncle! 第二类:stock(常用的)这是指已被收入词典,但并不属于cliché范畴的比喻。 第三类的标准应该是:至少目前尚未被收入词典,同时又让人接受,并感到新意扑面. 第四类:original这种比喻并非随处可见,唾手可得。它是灵感思维的产物。这种比喻在词典上无踪影可觅,而且连参照物可能也没有。7.明喻(Simile) 明喻是一种最简单、最常见的修辞方法,是以两种具有共同特征的事物或现象进行对比,表明本体和喻体的关系,两者都在对比中出现,其基本格式是“A像B”,常用的比喻词有as,like,as if,as though等。例如:He jumped back as if he had been stung,and the blood rushedsintoshis wrinkled face.(他往后一跳,好像被什么东西叮了一下似的,他那张布满皱纹的脸顿时涨得通红。)在《品尝家》一文中老人对“我”的慷慨施舍的反应如同被蜜蜂叮过一样,生动地刻画出一个处境凄凉内心却极度敏感的可怜老人的形象。8.转喻(Metonymy) 转喻(即借代)是通过相近的联想,借喻体代替本体。例如:My 15 students read Emerson,Thoreau,and Huxley.(我的十五位学生读了爱默生、梭罗和赫胥黎的作品。)这是典型的转喻,以人名借代作品。又如 :Against the Oval Earth man,the first card I can play is the analogy of the sun and moon. (面对“地球卵形说”者,我能打的第一张牌是,太阳和月亮的相似性。)文中作者用具体第一张牌来借代抽象的“第一个论据”,更加生动形象,浅显易懂,也使语言新鲜活泼,富有表现力。9.拟人(Personification) 拟人是把人类的特点、特性加于外界事物上,使之人格化的修辞格。例如:… four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner,swheresthey struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.(……四丛常绿灌木分别位于每个角落,它们忍受着从繁忙的大街上吹来的尘烟,挣扎着活下去。)“挣扎”是有生命的物体的动作,作者给自然的花草赋予了生命,使它人格化。10. 夸张(Hyperbole)夸张是一种故意言过其实,或夸大或缩小事物的形象,借以突出事物的某种特征或品格,鲜明地表达思想情感的修辞方式。例如:Vingo sat stunned,looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs—20 of them,30 of them,maybe hundreds.(文戈坐在那儿望着橡树惊呆了。树上挂满了黄手绢——二十条,三十条,或许几百条。)此句中20 of them,30 of them,maybe hundreds就是运用了夸张的手法,主观地渲染了气氛。11.反语(Irony) 英语修辞格irony就是说反话,用反面的话来表达正面的意思。这种修辞格可用来进行讽刺,但多数是用来表达一种善意的幽默或俏皮,故意说出与本意相反的话,例如:Slowly the old lady stooped to pick it (the cheque ) up. Her present,her lovely present. With trembling fingers she tore itsintoslittle bits. (老太太慢慢地弯下腰,把支票从地上捡起来,她的礼物,她的可爱的礼物!用颤抖的手指把它撕得粉碎。)老太太八十岁寿辰那天,急切地盼望女儿回家看望她,稍稍安慰她那颗孤寂的心,然而盼来的却是女儿的一张冷冰冰的支票,这当然不是老人心爱的礼物。故此处her lovely present是典型的irony,是句反话。12.类比(Analogy)It is also a form of comparison, but unlike simile or metaphor which usually uses comparison on one point of resemblance, analogy draws a parallel between two unlike things that have several common qualities or points of resemblance.13.Metaphor(暗喻)It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated. 隐喻(metaphor)这种比喻不通过比喻词进行,而是直接将用事物当作乙事物来描写,甲乙两事物之间的联系和相似之处是暗含的。 For example, the world is a stage./ The diamond department was the heart and center of the store。14.chiasmus(交叉)交叉(chiasmus)是英语中一种常用的修辞方式。例如:Knowing something of everything and everything of something.著名学者周海中教授曾在《论英语交叉结构》一文中对这一常用的修辞方式作了全面而深入的研究。他认为,这一修辞格具有很高的美学价值和积极的修辞作用。
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有:1.比喻类:Simile明喻 metaphor 暗喻 personification 拟人2.替换类:metonymy 借代 synecdoche 提喻 euphemism 委婉语 hyperbole 夸张 understatement 低调陈述3.并列类:parallelism 平行结构 antithesis 对照 climax 层递 anti-climax 突降4矛盾类:oxymoron 矛盾修辞 transferred epithet 移就 paradox 似是而非的反论 zeugma5双关类:pun 双关 syllepsis 一语双叙法 irony 反语6反复类:alliteration 头韵 repetition 反复
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1. Simile 明喻明喻是将具有共性的不同事物作对比,这种共性存在于人们的心里,而不是事物的自然属性。标志词常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等。例如:1. I wandered lonely as a stay dog. 我像一只流浪狗一样孤独地四处漂泊。2. Einstein likes to put a cloak on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale. 爱因斯坦喜欢披着斗篷,就好像刚刚从童话故事中走出来。2. Metaphor 隐喻,暗喻隐喻是简缩了的明喻,是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物,通过比较形成。例如:1. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.希望是顿美好的早餐,但却是一顿糟糕的晚餐。2. Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 一些书需要被“浅尝辄止”地阅读,另一些需要被“狼吞虎咽”般地阅读;很少一部分需要被“细嚼慢咽”地阅读。3. Metonymy 借喻,转喻借喻不直接说出所要说的事物,而使用另一个与之相关的事物名称.I. 以容器代替内容,例如:1. The kettle boils. 水开了。2. The room sat silent. 全屋人安静地坐着。II. 以资料、工具代替事物的名称,例如:Lend me your ears, please. 请听我说。III. 以作者代替作品,例如:a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亚全集VI. 以具体事物代替抽象概念,例如:I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力气,他们就用我的力气赚钱。4. Synecdoche 提喻提喻用部分代替全体,或用全体代替部分,或特殊代替一般。例如:1. There are about 100 hands working in his factory. 他的厂里约有100名工人。2. He is the Newton of this century. 他是本世纪的牛顿。3. The fox goes very well with your cap. 这狐皮围脖与你的帽子很相配。5. Synesthesia 通感、联觉、移觉这种修辞法是以视、听、触、嗅、味等感觉直接描写事物.例如:1. The birds sat upon a tree and poured forth their lily like voice. 鸟儿落在树上,倾泻出百合花似的声音。2. Taste the music of Mozart. 品尝Mozart的音乐。6. Personification 拟人拟人是把生命赋予无生命的事物。例如:1. The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads.夜晚温柔地平复着我们狂热的头脑2. I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods. 我很开心,似乎听到了林中唱歌的鸟儿。7. Hyperbole 夸张夸张是以言过其实的说法表达强调的目的。它可以加强语势,增加表达效果。例如:1. I beg a thousand pardons. 我千百次地祈求宽恕2. Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars.我爱你。你对我而言如同全世界,如同夜空中的星月一般圣洁。3. When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out. 当她听到这个噩耗,眼泪像绝了堤的洪水,滚落下来。8. rhetorical repetition 叠言这种修辞法是指在特定的语境中,将相同的结构,相同意义词组成句子重叠使用,以增强语气和力量。例如:1. It must be created by the blood and the work of all of us who believe in the future, who believe in man and his glorious man—made destiny. 它必须用我们这些对于未来,对于人类以及人类自己创造的伟大命运具有信心的人的鲜血和汗水去创造。2.Because good technique in medicine and surgery means more quickly—cured patients, less pain, less discomfort, less death, less disease and less deformity.因为优良的医疗技术和外科手术意味着更快地治疗病人,更少痛苦,更少不安,更少死亡,更少疾病,和更少残废。9. Euphemism 委婉,婉辞法婉辞法指用委婉、文雅的方法表达粗恶、避讳的话。例如:1. He is out visiting the necessary. 他出去方便一下。2. His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. 他与妻子关系不融洽.10. Allegory 讽喻、比方这是一种源于希腊文的修辞法,意为"换个方式的说法"。它是一种形象的描述,具有双重性,表层含义与真正意味的是两回事。例如:1. Make the hay while the sun shines. 良机勿失。2. It's time to turn plough into sword. 到了该努力的时候了。(转化过程自行脑补)11. Irony 反语反语指用相反意义的词来表达意思的作文方式。如在指责过失、错误时、用赞同过失的说法;而在表扬时,则近乎责难的说法。例如:1. It would be a fine thing indeed not knowing what time it was in the morning. 早上不知道几点钟确实是一种好习惯!(反语)2."Of course, you only carry large notes, no small change on you. " The waiter said to the beggar. 作者对乞丐说,当然,你只收大钞,所以没零钱啦。12. Pun 双关双关就是用一个词在句子中的双重含义、借题发挥、作出多种解释、旁敲侧击从而达到意想不到的幽默、滑稽效果。它主要以相似的词形、词意和谐音的方式出现。例如:1. An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country. 大使是一个诚实的人,他只骗外国人说自己国家多么多么好。2. If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately.如果我们不团结,就上吊去吧。(注意两个hang意思不一样)13. Parody 仿拟这是一种模仿名言、警句、谚语,改动其中部分词语从而使其产生新意的修辞.例如:1. Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. 罗马不是一天建成的,但也不是一年内建成的。(暗指需要更长时间的努力)2. A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. (虽然说“患难见真情”,但是一个真的处于患难中的朋友,是为众人避而远之的。)14. Rhetorical question 修辞疑问它与疑问句的不同在于它并不以得到答复为目的,而是以疑问为手段,取得修辞上的效果,其特点是:肯定问句表示强烈否定,而否定问句表示强烈的肯定。它的答案往往是不言而喻的。例如:1. How was it possible to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worth of note?我们在树林里走了1个小时连根毛都没看见!2. Shall we allow those untruths to go unanswered? 难道我们应该让谣言继续传播下去吗?15.Antithesis 对照、对比、对偶这种修辞指将意义完全相反的语句排在一起对比的一种修辞方法。例如:1. Not that I love Caesar less, but I love Rome more. 不是我不喜欢凯撒,而是我更喜欢罗马。(莎士比亚《凯撒大帝》中普鲁斯特的名言)2. You are staying; I am going.你留,我走。3. Give me liberty, or give me death. 要么给我自由,要么让我死。16. Paradox 隽语这是一种貌似矛盾,但包含一定哲理的意味深长的说法,是一种矛盾修辞法。例如:1. More haste, less speed. 欲速则不达。2. The child is the father of a man. 儿童是成人致富。(来自于英国诗人Wordsworth的诗《My heart leaps up我心雀跃》)17. Oxymoron 反意法、逆喻这也是一种矛盾修辞法,用两种不相调和的特征形容一个事物,以不协调的搭配使读者领悟句中微妙的含义。例如:1. No light, but rather darkness visible. 没有光,但有看得见的黑暗。(这种句子真的很震撼,有木有?)2. The state of this house is cheerless welcome. 这座房子无精打采地迎接着客人。(逆喻,绝了!)18. Climax 渐进法,层进法这种修辞是将一系列词语按照意念的大小、轻重、深浅、高低等逐层渐进,最后达到顶点。可以增强语势,逐渐加深读者印象。例如:1. I am sorry, I am so sorry, I am so extremely sorry. 真的真的真的很抱歉2. Eye had not seen nor ear heard, and nothing had touched his heart of stone. 看不到、听不到,没有什么可以触碰到他那颗石头般的心。19. Anticlimax 渐降法与climax相反的一种修辞法,将一系列词语由大到小、由强到弱地排列。例如:1. On his breast he wears his decorations, at his side a sword, on his feet a pair of boots. 他胸口别着勋章,腰里插着抱歉,脚上套着一双靴子。2. The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes. 士兵的职责就是保卫国家和削土豆皮。(形容战士)20. alliteration 押头韵头韵是英语语音修辞手段之一,它蕴含了语言的音乐美和整齐美,使得语言声情交融、音义一体,具有很强的表现力和感染力。例如:1. Nobody can go from rags to riches without efforts. 没有人能够不通过努力就发家致富的。2. e government needs to create a social environment of fairness and forgiveness. 政府需要营造一个公平和宽容的社会环境。