翻译加油站 第396期:让谁听见?
日期:2014-05-12 07:50

(单词翻译:单击)

句子:

Make yourself heard.

误译:

倾听自己。


正译:

设法让自己(的声音)被听到。


翻译加油站:

“倾听自己”应该是Listen to oneself。从字面也能看出make yourself heard的意思是“设法让自己(的声音)被听到”。
有一个故事这样描写:Grandma asked Tom, "Why are you praying so loudly?""I want to make myself heard so that God will send me the gifts I’m praying for."Tom想要上帝听到他的祈祷而给他他想要的礼物。发挥一下,make oneself heard也可译为“让别人能听到内己的意见”,如:More and more developing countries are trying to make themselves heard in international conferences like this.越来越多的发展中国家试图让世界/人们在这样的国际会议上听到他们的声音/意见。

Various voices are now making themselves heard through the internet.
各种各样的意见都在互联网上表达,希望能被人们听到。


make oneself后面接过去分词的常用说法还可举出下列三条:
make oneself known (to somebody):(对某人)作自我介绍(字面意思是让别人知道自己)make oneself understood :使别人明白自己的意思,如作出解释等,如:He tried to speak German to them,but couldn’t make himself understood.(他试着同他们讲德语,可是他们听不懂。)make oneself felt (也作 make one’s presence felt)(以自己人格的力量、超凡的能力,或放肆的行为等)使别人强烈地感到自己的存在;使别人感到自己的重要,如:

The new team made itself felt right in the first round of the match.
这支新队伍在比赛的第一个回合就显得咄咄逼人了。

另外,以-self (-selves)为后缀构成的反身代词只能在主语为自身代词的句子中担任宾语,如:He/The boy was looking at himself. We must ask ourselves.原句是祈使句,省略了主语you。

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