精译求精01 | CATTI实务真题学习

写在前面下半年CATTI考试就要来了，推出CATTI备考系列栏目“精译求精”，帮助大家利用碎片时间学习更多知识！本栏目每次将选取一小段往年CATTI真题/政府工作报告文本，通过拆解原文和译文，学习参考答案的翻译技巧和思路，达到有效复盘、提升译文质量的目标。

原文

节选自2017年三笔实务

It was just one word in one email, but it triggered huge financial losses for a multinational company.The message, written in English, was sent by a native speaker to a colleague for whom English was a second language. Unsure of the word, the recipient found two contradictory meanings in his dictionary meanings in his dictionary. He acted on the wrong one.

翻译技巧

应对替换重复：① The message, written in English, was sent by a native speaker to a colleague…在①句中，The message指代的是上句所说的email；② Unsure of the word, the recipient found two contradictory meanings in his dictionary.②句，the recipient指代的是上文的colleague。汉译时采取还原代词的方法，将其分别翻译为“这封邮件”和“这位同事”。攻破长难句：③ The message, written in English, was sent by a native speaker to a colleague for whom English was a second language.③句，主干成分是The message was sent by a native speaker to a colleague。其中written in English为插入语，补充说明Themessage，结合前文，可译为“英文邮件”；a colleague后接for whom引导的定语从句，修饰先行词a colleague，因为这个定语从句比较短小，可放在被修饰词前翻译，译为“以英语为第二语言的同事”。③句还涉及被动语态的翻译，原句给出了施动者a native speaker，因此可选择将这个被动语态译为汉语的主动语态，整句话译为“公司里一名以英语为母语的员工发了一封英文邮件，收件人是一位以英语为第二语言的同事。”将“发给……”转换为“收件人是……”，则句子的层次和逻辑更为清晰。

译文

邮件里一个小小的单词，却导致一家跨国公司蒙受了巨额经济损失。公司里一名以英语为母语的员工发了一封英文邮件，收件人是一位以英语为第二语言的同事。由于不确定一个词的意思，这位同事查了词典，发现这个词有两种相互矛盾的解释，结果他偏偏按照那个错误的意思理解了。以上是今日的真题学习，知识量不大请勿拖延哦！学完的同学可以在评论区打卡督促自己~