英语翻译技巧 长难句如何翻译(57)
日期:2013-05-24 09:11

(单词翻译:单击)

长难句翻译

难免类型:复杂修饰

Such variations in size, shape,chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold,and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any  possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.

译文:类似于这些已经被在神经细胞中证明的在大小、形状、化学过程、产生的速度、兴奋阈值及其类似的方面上所发生变化,当他们被用来与大脑的体验以可能的方式联系起来的时候,他们在重要性上仍然是微不足道的。

解释:即使是初练难免的人其实也很熟悉such thing as something这样的语言方式,可是当中间的小东西thing居然变成了一个长达十二个单词的大东西的时候,实在令人搞不清后面的as及其后的something 到底为哪方神圣。再加上以such as 为中心的长主语距离系动词remain太远,更增加了本句的难度。请读者反复阅读,直到读出这样的感觉:顺序阅读原文时,原文似乎就是几大块,就好像是such things as a remain negligible in a certain sense.

长难句训练

训练:His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States,but his definition of racial prejudice as "racially-based negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,"can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.

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重点单词
  • discriminationn. 歧视,辨别力,识别
  • competitionn. 比赛,竞争,竞赛
  • definitionn. 定义,阐释,清晰度
  • certainadj. 确定的,必然的,特定的 pron. 某几个,某
  • mentaladj. 精神的,脑力的,精神错乱的 n. 精神病患者
  • correlationn. 相互关系,相关
  • prejudicen. 偏见,伤害 vt. 使 ... 存偏见,伤害
  • negligibleadj. 可以忽略的,微不足道的
  • hostilityn. 敌意,敌对状态,公开战争
  • negativeadj. 否定的,负的,消极的 n. 底片,负数,否定