习语 俗语翻译 practice on idioms(2009)

Assignments:

I. 试译下列各句：

1. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. 2. There is only one me in this world. 3. I’m on the top of the world.

4. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it. 5. Doubt is the key of knowledge.

6. To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.

7. I’m not talking about castles in the air —— the donkey’s carrot. No, I mean something we’ve all shared.

8. Men may meet but mountains never.

II.试译下列各句，运用汉语习语翻译斜体部分：

1. In a dangerous and uncertain world, the strengthening of national defence is the best guarantee of a nation’s vital interests.

2. His body was perfect, alive with easy suppleness and health and strength.

3. But far from recovering, that county remained overwhelmed by corruption, a tottering bureaucracy, surging prices and natural disasters.

III. Put the following sentences into Chinese：

一、试译下列各句，把作独立成分用的英语拟声词译成作独立成分用的汉语拟声词： 1. Crack! The stick broke in two.

2. Plop, plop… there was water dripping from the ceiling onto the earth floor.

3. Crash! The door was broken.

4. Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! This was the first humiliation of his life. 5. Splish! Splish! The water bubbled round his legs.

二、试译下列各句，将英语拟声动词、名词或动词派生词转变为汉语动词拟声附加语或名词拟声附加语：

1. He let the beer gurgle down his throat.

2. All the time there were clucks of admiration from the crowd. 3. A crystal tear-drop plopped down on to the letter.

4. The young man slapped three silver dollars on the counter.

5. The low whirr of the spinning wheel spoke to him of the warmth of home and his mother’s love.

6. She wore a pair of black leather shoes that clicked against the asphalt as she walked along.

三、试译下列各句，将英语拟声动词或动词派生词译成汉语拟声动词： 1. All you could do is keep on clack-clack-clacking.

2. Those standing behind whispered and chattered all the time.

1

四、试译下列各句，将英语拟声词译成汉语非拟声词： 1. The old man banged the boy’s head against the wall. 2. She thumps her chest as if she feels pain there. 3. They splashed through the mire to the village.

4. Already some horse-drawn carts were creaking along the street.

五、试译下列各短语，将英语拟声词译成汉语非拟声词： 1. the rataplan of the drum 鼓的咚咚声 2. the clangour of the gong 锣的锵锵声

3. the clanging of the tram 电车叮叮当当的声音 4. the bumping of the van

5. the rumbling of the truck 卡车的隆隆声 6. the jangling of the bicycle 单车的叮铃叮铃声 7. the tick-tack of the watch 钟的滴答滴答声

六、试译下列各短语，将英语拟声词译成汉语非拟声词： 1. the neighing of the horse 马嘶

2. the quacking of the duck 鸭的嘎嘎声 3. the crowing of the cock 公鸡的啼叫 4. the bleating of the sheep 羊的咩咩叫 5. the heehawing of the donkey 驴叫 6. the baaing of the calf 小羊的咩咩叫

七、试译下列各句，在译文中加用汉语拟声词： 1. The tears she could not hold back fell on his face. 2. Noisily, the crowd swarmed out of the door. 3. He sat there gnawing the biscuit.

4. The logs were burning briskly in the fire.

5. There were no sounds but that of the tread of the men and the footsteps of the two shaggy ponies which drew the van.

2