英语四级翻译辅导：英语长句的译法技巧

　　例1. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the　police had been ordered to stand by in case of emergency, they were　just as confused and helpless as anybody else.

　　分析: 该句共有三层含义: A: 人们不敢出门; B: 尽管警察已接到命令, 要作好准备以应付紧急情况; C:警察也和其他人一样不知所措和无能为力。在这三层含义中, B表示让步, C表示原因, 而A则表示结果, 按照汉语习惯顺序,我们作如下的安排:尽管警察已接到命令, 要作好准备以应付紧急情况, 但人们不敢出门, 因为警察也和其他人一样不知所措和无能为力。

　　下面我们再举几个例子:

　　例2. Modern scientific and technical books, especially textbooks,　requires revision at short intervals if their authors wish to keep　pace with new ideas, observations and discoveries.

　　对于现代书籍, 特别是教科书来说, 要是作者希望自己书中的内容能与新概念、新观察到的事实和新发现同步发展的话,　那么就应该每隔较短的时间, 将书中的内容重新修改。

　　例3. Taking his cue from Ibsen's A Doll's House, in which the　heroine, Nora, leaves home because she resents her husband's　treating her like a child, the writer Lu Xun warned that Nora would　need money to support herself; she must have economic rights to　survive.

　　易卜生的剧作《玩偶之家》中的女主人公娜拉离家出走, 因为她憎恶她的丈夫像对待孩子一样来对待她。作家鲁迅从中得到启示,从而告诫人们娜拉得需要钱来养活自己, 她要生存就必须有经济上的权利。

　　例4. Up to the present time, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth　centuries, this new tendency placed the home in the immediate　suburbs, but concentrated manufacturing activity, business　relations, government, and pleasure in the centers of the cities.

　　到目前为止, 经历了18和19两个世纪, 这种新的倾向是把住宅安排在城市的近郊,而把生产活动、商业往来、政府部门以及娱乐场所都集中在城市的中心地区。

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