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中国日报网-英语点津 译题一:白领为提升软实力下血本
花数百上千元学几首歌和几个小魔术,在社交聚会中秀出来,给自己的职场形象加分。时下,一些白领花重金提升“软实力”,增加职场竞争的砝码。
据专家分析,现在职场竞争压力大,一些有意思的“软技能”不仅能助人缓解压力,还能增加其社交能力、提升自信,对其工作生活有一定帮助。虽然应聘时还是很看重学历、经验等硬指标,但在实际工作中,软实力往往能起到出其不意的作用,唱歌、演讲、魔术等特长确实有助于增强职场人的个人魅力。
参考译文:
White Collars jostle to increase soft power at any cost
Vying at social gatherings for a show to add luster to their professional image, white collars now jostle to learn songs and juggles that might cost up to RMB1,000. It costs some an arm and a leg to increase their "soft power" and sharpen their competitive edge at work。
Faced with fierce competition, employees rely on interesting "soft skills" to help relieve pressure, to be more communicative and confident, and to live a better life, analysts say. Though priority is given to such hard power as higher learning certificates and working experiences at an interview, employees with soft power stands out unexpectedly later at work among others, by virtue of their personal charm embodied in singing, lecturing and conjuring。
译题一中包含不少汉语的习惯用语,包括“下血本”、“硬指标”等,特别是标题中的“下血本”一词如何翻译,网友的译文殊难统一,一个重要的问题就是要不要保留原文的形象。对于“下血本”一词,词典中并没有提供现成的翻译,但根据网络上找到的翻译,比较形象的是cost sb. an arm and a leg,Jasmine-I在标题翻译中就用了这个成语。笔者在参考译文中也用了这个成语,但在标题中没有用,主要是觉得这个英语成语太“血腥”了一点。
至于“软实力”这样的说法,大体上中英语是统一的,因为这些新鲜的词汇大多是舶来品,20 世纪 90 年代初,哈佛大学教授约瑟夫•奈首创“软实力”(Soft Power)概念,于此相对的就是“硬实力”(约等于下文的“硬指标”)。根据词汇应用的原则,词汇的用法经常是可以类推的,所以下文的“软技能”就是 soft skills,当然类推也要遵循目的语语言习惯,最好是多查资料,以免造成不必要的错误。关于soft skills的解释,网上可以查到:Soft skills is a sociological term relating to a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationships with other people。
英语名词的复数本身具有揭示数量意义的功能,所以像“几首歌几个小魔术”中的“几个”可以略去不译,直接翻译成songs and juggles。
在和网友的email交流中,有网友希望能对其译文给与个别的点评,限于个人的时间和精力,未能做到,敬请谅解。就本译题而言,guanyu,emily, clumsy,karen等网友的翻译都很不错,行文比较顺畅,能够贴近英语的风格进行翻译表达。 |
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