1、 I. Review and practice II. The introduction of translation techniques III. The selection of word meaning IV. Summary V. HomeworkTeaching ProceduresI. Review and homework checkingWhat is literal translation?What is free translation?I. Review and homework checking She was born with a silver spoon in

2、her mouth. 她生于豪門。2. We cannot estimate the value of modern science too much. 對現代科學的價值怎么重視也 不過分。/ 我們一定要重視現代科學的價值。3. Beauty is only skin deep. 美麗不過是一張皮。4. A brewers wife may drink of a tun. 近水樓臺先得月。/釀酒人的妻子不愁酒沒酒喝。5. He had one foot in the grave. 他已是風燭殘年。6. He was only a cock of the dunghill. 他只是井底之蛙。7.

3、 A burned child dreads the fire. 一朝經蛇咬， 十年怕警繩。8. Rats desert a falling house. 樹倒猴孫散。II. Introduction to the techniques of translationHow to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsTechniques of translation refer to the experience that people have accumulated in their practice of translation. They

4、include lots of skills in translation, such as selection of word meaning, extension of word meaning, conversion of parts of speeches and sentence structures, long sentence translation, paragraph and passage translation, translation of articles of different kinds of styles, etc.How to achieve Reasons

5、 for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings a. Select word meanings according to parts of speeches. 1. Microprocessors monitor tyre wear and brake power on cars. 2. The patient was connected to a television wave monitor. 3. He likes making chemical experiments. 微機檢測汽車輪胎的耐用性和制動力。病人情況通過

6、波形監視器監視。他喜歡做化學實驗。How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings b. Select word meanings according to the context. 1. The countrys industry has developed quickly in the last decade. 2. To develop the instrument, many experts were invited.3. In developing the design,

7、the engineer must apply his knowledge of engineering and material science.4. In order to develop our power industry, we must produce more and pore powerful generators. 過去10年我國工業發展迅猛。為了研制這種儀器請了很多專家。在進行設計時工程師必須運用工程學和材料學方面的知識。為了發展我國的電力工業， 我們必須生產越來越多的大功率發電機How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristi

8、csIII. Selection of Word Meanings 5. Instruments capable of measuring most kinds of error automatically and methods of feeding the information back to the machines controls have been developed.6. He is the last man to come. 7. He is the last man to do it. 8. He is the last person for such a job. 9.

9、He should be the last (man) to blame. 10. He is the last man to consult. 11. This is the last place where I expected to meet you. 能自動測量多種誤差的儀器， 以及把信息反饋給機器控制機構的方法已經研制出來了。他是最后來的。他決不會干這種事。他最不配干這工作。怎么也不該怪他。根本不宜與他商量。我怎么也沒料到會在這個地方見到你。How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word

10、Meanings d. Select word meanings according to collocation. 1. high beam2. high brass3. high current4. high explosive5. high gear6. high seas7. high summer8. high steel遠距離光束優質黃銅強電流烈性炸藥高速齒輪公海盛夏硬鋼How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings 9. To take off her boots o

11、r to put them on was an agony to her, but it had been an agony for years.10. He always sits on the very edge of his chair when he is working, as though about to take off. 11. Every material takes up space. 12. The electronic computers are taking over some of the tasks that were once accomplished by

12、our own brains, but they are not replacing us. 脫鞋或穿鞋對她是一種痛苦， 但這已是多年以來的痛苦了。他工作時總是坐在椅子邊上，好象隨時都會跳起來的樣子。一切物質都占有空間。計算機正在接替原來由人腦進行的某些工作，但是它們不能代替人。How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings Christmas Lost and Found By McCall Shirley Barksdale作者簡介: 麥考爾.雪莉.巴克斯代爾 (McCall

13、Shirley Barksdale) 美國當代著名小說家, 著有大量短篇小說。How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings I found the man who shared my dream, but we had not reckoned on the possibility of infertility (being unable to produce babies). /Undaunted (not discouraged), we applied for adopti

14、on and, within a year, he arrived.How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings We called him our Christmas Boy because he came to us during that season of joy, when he was just six days old. /Then nature surprised us again. /In rapid succession we added two biolog

15、ical children to the family-not as many as we had hoped for, but compared with my quiet childhood, three made an entirely satisfactory crowd.How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings He pressed （要求）us into singing carols, our frog-like (沙啞的) voices contrasting

16、with his musical gift of perfect pitch. /Each holiday he stirred us up, leading us through a round of merry chaos.How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings Our friends were right about adopted children not being the same. /Through his own unique heredity,his ir

17、repressible（lively and energentic, and never seems to be depressed） good cheer, his bossy wit(愛發號施令的打趣的話語), our Christmas Boy made our life colorful./He made us look and behave better than we were.How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings Then, on his 26th Chri

18、stmas, he left us as unexpectedly as he had come. /He was killed in a car accident on an icy Denver street, on his way home to his young wife and infant daughter. How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings But first he had stopped by the family home to decorate

19、our tree, a ritual he had never abandoned./ Grief-stricken, his father and I sold our home, where memories clung to every room（每間屋子都充滿了記憶的家）./We moved to California, leaving behind（離開） our friends and church.How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings Christmas w

20、as a quite affair when I was growing up. / There were just my parents and me. /I vowed that someday Id marry and have six children, and at Christmas my house would vibrate with energy and life and love.小時候（增詞譯法，使譯文更生動貼切。） 圣誕節過得很平靜， 那時的我正處于成長階段。/我們家是典型的三口之家， 只有父母及我。/我發誓將來我要結婚并養六個孩子， 過圣誕節時我的家里就會愛意盈盈、生

21、氣勃勃。（ 此處將vibrate “振蕩”譯成“盈盈、勃勃”，轉靜為動， 傳神入化。) How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings I found the man who shared my dream, but we had not reckoned on the possibility of infertility (being unable to produce babies). /Undaunted (not discouraged), we applied for a

22、doption and, within a year, he arrived.我找到了與我有共同夢想的丈夫， 但沒料到我們沒有生育能力。我們并為氣餒， 于是申請領養孩子。不到一年， 他來到我們家中。 How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings As our Christmas Boy grew, he made it clear that only he had the expertise (special skill and knowledge 本事) to select a

23、nd decorate the Christmas tree each year. /He rushed the season(為圣誕節忙活), starting his gift list before wed even finished the Thanksgiving turkey隨著圣誕男孩的長大，他清楚地向大家表明只有他才有本事選擇和裝飾一年一度的圣誕樹。我們還未享受完剛恩節的火雞， 他就開始列出禮物單， 為圣誕節忙這忙那。How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteristicsIII. Selection of Word Meanings

24、He pressed （要求）us into singing carols, our frog-like (沙啞的) voices contrasting with his musical gift of perfect pitch. /Each holiday he stirred us up, leading us through a round of merry chaos.他要求我們唱圣誕頌歌， 我們沙啞的聲音與他具有音樂天賦的完善的音調構成鮮明的對比。每個假日，他都早早地把我們鼓動起來， 讓我們跟著他快樂地忙活一番。How to achieve Reasons for failureCharacteri