漢英繙譯技巧:減詞

Key words: omission, grammar, rhetoric, C-E translation

　　Abstract: It discusses the technique of omission from the perspectives of grammar and rhetoric.

　　C-E．

　　1. 我們說，長征是歷史記錄上的第一次，長征是宣言書，長征是宣傳隊，長征是播種機。

　　We answer that the Long March is the first of its kind in the annals of history, that it is a manifesto, a publicity team, a seeding-machine. （省名詞）

　　2. 他連續講了兩小時的法語，沒有出現任何的錯誤。

　　He has been speaking in French for two hours without any mistakes. （省動詞）

　　3. 學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。

　　Learning without thought is vain. Thought without learning is idle. （省連詞）

　　4. 人群漸漸靜了下來。

　　Silence came over the crowds. （省副詞）

　　5. 問今是何世，迺不知有漢，無論魏晉。

　　They enquired about the politics of the day, ignorant of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, and of course of the later dynasties that had succeeded it（省助詞）

　　6. 你將來一定得更努力工作。

　　Do work harder in the future. （省代名詞）

　　7. 生活在四川的十幾個民族，各有不同的文化和風俗，成爲巴蜀歌舞取之不盡，用之不竭的創作源泉。

　　The nationalities in Sichuan maintain different cultures and customs, which provide the inexhaustible source of folk songs and dances. （省意義重複的詞語）

　　8. 她的朋友們聽到她家中的睏難情況後，都主伸出援助之手。

　　After her friends heard about her family difficulties, they offered her a helping hand. （省範疇的詞語）

　　9. 在園裡麪是人間的樂園，有的是喫不了的大米白麪，穿不完的綾羅綢緞，花不完的金銀財寶。

　　The garden was a paradise on earth, with more food and clothes than could be consumed and more money than could be spent. （省有脩飾傚果的詞）

　　10. 客觀現實世界的變化運動永遠沒有完結，我們在實踐中對於真理的認識也就永遠沒有完結。

　　The changing movement of the objective world will never end, neither will our knowledge of truth in our practices. （詞語替換）