
Lee Kuan Yew is the very symbol of Singaporean success story, who transformed a back ward trading port into a thriving nation with global reach far exceeding its size. His inspiring and pragmatic ideas have provide nations of the world with invaluable reference for their development. Lee speaks out his mind with clear, candid and forceful words that will surely have strong and lasting impact on the readers.
——Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going
读名著,学翻译。以上这段文字节选自《Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going》。
本文的重点词汇如下,供大家参考:
1、 success story...译作...ေအာင္ျမင္မွုဇာတ္လမ္း။
2、a back ward trading port 译作 သမားရိုးက်ဆိပ္ကမ္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေလးတစ္ခု။ 此处不是直译成ေနာက္က်ေသာ ဆိပ္ကမ္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္,是译者基于对历史背景的了解、译文读者的习惯而做出的选择。
3、a thriving nation with global reach 译作 ကမၻာ့တမ္းဝင္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ႀကီး။ 此处为了与上文呼应和对比,没有将nation译作နိုင္ငံ,是译者基于译文写作习惯、政治地理背景而做的改动。
4、invaluable 译作 တန္ဖိုးျဖတ္မရေသာ။
5、可以注意到,译者在括号里使用了意译的方法,更忠于译文的创作手法;括号外属于直译,更忠于原文。我们可以学习到这种翻译方法,在需要对原文进行直译时,直译后的译文读来并不符合母语的表达时使用。

