例如:While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.
五、英语多被动,汉语多主动
英语比较喜欢用被动语态,科技英语尤其如此。汉语虽然也有被、由之类的词表示动作是被动的,但这种表达远没有英语的被动语态那么常见,因此,英语中的被动在汉译中往往成了主动。下面我们先看一组常用被动句型的汉译:
It must be pointed out that...必须指出
It must be admitted that...必须承认
It is imagined that...人们认为
It can not be denied that...不可否认
It will be seen from this that...由此可知原文中有三个被动语态is imagined, be compared和be required,译成汉语都变成了主动表达:认为、相比和掌握。
有些英语被动需要把主语译成汉语的宾语,这样才能更加符合中文的表达习惯。
例如:New sources of energy must be found, and this will take time, but it is not likely to result in any situation that will ever restore that sense of cheap and plentiful energy we have had in the past time.
译文:必须找到新的能源,这需要时间;而过去我们感觉到的那种能源价廉而充足的情况将不大可能再出现了。
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