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翻译漫谈(十二) 汉译英:基本功

    二.动词

        11The influence of the related policies made by the government, including the policies which is considered afterwards to have played an active role in the development of the refrigerator industry, is secondary and supplementary.

        12The disparity between the poor and the rich in food consumption are not manifested in quantity, but in quality.

        13The first Constitution of the People’s Republic of China which adopted on 1954 clearly indicates in its article 45:“...”

        14Secondly, as mentioned above, the comparison make us to think over the reasons of different choices of welfare policies.

        15The rural people who made of the majority of the Chinese population did not enjoy these welfare.

        16After the World War, the developed economies have been recovering and developing rapidly.

        17Who knows whether the SOE gains or losses?

        18Although all the states are facing the possibilities of either win or lost, the developed countries enjoy the more favorable position than the under-developed countries.

        19The government of Zhucheng Town requested that the net asset in all Joint-Stock enterprises should be divided into two parts after fulfill their property assessment.

        20As a result, the more rapidly the country develops, the more tightly it is bounded to the international monetary and financial system.

    正确使用英语动词,需要注意三件事:一是时态对不对,与句中的时间状语是否吻合(如果有时间状语的话);二是数是否与主语一致,是单数还是复数;三是语态对不对,是主动还是被动。

    11 which引导的从句中有afterwards,此时间状语的意思是“以后”,但其所指是过去发生的事,因此动词的时态应是过去时。从句主语which的是前面的复数名词policies,因此动词应为复数。这样从句就应改为which were considered...。 例12主语disparity单数,动词应该是is...,而不应是are...。例13 which导的从句指的是constitution,动词应该用被动语态,因此应改为which was adopted...

    英语动词是一个复杂的词类。除了注意以上三件事,还要看它跟什么词连用和怎样连用,一不小心,就会出错。

    14主语comparison是单数,动词make需改为makes才能与主语的数一致。另外,make后面出动词不定式是不用to的,因此这个to删去。例15 make后面of以表示用什么制作,但此处要表示to formto constitute,就要用make up。词典举例:Women make up 56 of the student numbers。因此例15中的made of应改为made up。例9raising the...issue into the agenda不合乎英语说法,可改为putting the...issue on the agenda

    16 先解决一个冠词问题。谈到“二次大战”之类的名称,英语若数字后出,则不用冠词,说Word War II就行了。若数字先出,则要定冠词,要说the Second World War。这一句主要是需要解决时间状语和动词时态一致的问题。After Word War II指的是二次大战结束后的一段时间,一般说来指的时间不太长,稍长一点也可以,但不能指到现在,动词只能是过去时。若想指到现在,就要说Since Word War II, 这样动词就可以用现在完成时或现在完成进行时。从例16内容看,因提到recover,还是用过去时较好。这句话可改为After World War II, the developed economies recovered and developed rapidly.

    英语动词的形式变化多端。有时动词和名词的形式是一样的。如gain既可是动词,也可是名词。lose就比较复杂。动词是lose,其过去时和过去分词是lost,名词是loss, 形容词是loose。用哪种形式,全看它在句中起什么作用。例17,和前面的动词gains并列,就应该用动词loses, 而不该用名词losses。例18,在the possibilities of面该用动名winning or losing。例19,在after后面也该用动名词fulfilling。例20,后半句用了被动语态,但过去分词bounded不对的。此处动词原形bind,其过去分词应是bound,因此这里用is bound to...对了。

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