4,the+形容词最高级,有时会包含让步的意义,可译为“哪怕是”“即使”如: The shortest cut would take us 30 minutes to get there. 去那里即使是走捷径也要花30分钟。 The greatest influential will die. 即使是最有影响力的人物也终有一天会死亡。 5,the more…the more…译为“越…越…”,这个句式的难点不在英译汉而是在汉译英上,请看如下例句(选自《张培基英译现代散文选》) ①一个人年龄越大,走过的地方当过的职务越多,相识的人理该越增加了。 The older one gets, the more widely traveled one is and the more work experience one has, the more acquaintances one is supposed to have. ②愈是颜色艳丽的花愈缺少芬芳。 The showier the flowers are, the less sweetness they have. ③因为越是有年纪的人,他的学识经验也就越丰富,大事业正需要这种人撑持。 Because the older one is, the more knowledgeable and experienced he is and therefore the more indispensable he is to a great cause. 以上三例都是比较复杂的the more 结构,这个句式用起来有些绕,需要我们多加练习。下面来看the more, the more的在英译汉中的几种变体: ④I do the worse, the more I practice. 此处是将主句和从句的的位置互换,意同The more I practice, the worse I do. |