(二) 复合句的翻译
我们在对英语复合词进行翻译是首先要把握好语法和逻辑关系，清晰判断句子的某些功能，表达时可适当进行语序做出整改，以下面的句子为例：
(1) Whether an object will sink or float depends on its density.物体在水中的沉浮取决于物体的比重。(名词分句——转换为汉语单句,名词分句成主语)
(2) I owe it to you that I didn't die.我没死，全靠你。(名词分句——宾语从句转换为汉语并列句)
(3) It worried her much that her daughter should stay up so late.她很着急，因为她女儿很晚都不睡觉。(名词分句——主语从句转换为状语从句)
定语分句汉译应多注意其位置;状语化的定语分句汉译时则应注意其意义的传达：
(1) John liked my sister, who was warm and pleasant.他喜欢我那热情欢快的妹妹。(定语分句——前置定语)
(2) It seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other.我认为原因有二，而两者之间又有明显的深浅之分。(定语分句——并列分句)
(3) We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in many more rays of light than our eyes, can see clearly in the night. 我们知道，由于猫的眼睛比我们人的眼睛能吸收更多的光线，所以猫在黑夜也能看得很清楚。(定语分句——原因)
(4) There are many people who want to see the film. 许多人要看这部电影。(定语分句——独立句子)
请同学们注意，英语中含有状语从句的复合句，译成汉语时，有些成了偏正复句，有些成了联合复句，还有一些成了单句。此外，有些句序调整是强制性的(required)，有些是选择性的(selective / optional)，给大家做个参考。
(三) 长句翻译
长句的翻译首先要先判断出句子的结构怎样，再要对其中的重要组成部分加以揣摩，这是我们可以用分译法进行进一步翻译，如：
(1) …This is nonsense but with it organs of the popular Press played upon the emotions of their readers so successfully that many candidates for Parliament were afraid to support abolition for fear of losing votes and the result was the muddle-headed Homicide Act of 1957 which made murder with robbery a capital crime and allowed the prisoner to escape the gallows. ……这是胡说八道，但一些在大众中颇有影响的报刊却利用它大肆煽动读者的情绪，许多竟选国会议员的人由于害怕失去选票而不敢支持废除死刑，其结果就是1957年通过的糊里糊涂的《凶杀法案》。根据这个法案，抢劫杀人犯要判死刑，而投毒杀人犯却可不判死刑。(顺译法)
(2) From radio-active water and soil around a nuclear-weapons plant in Colorado to man-made deserts in Soviet Central Asia, the world is peppered with examples of what poor education or unneighborly attitudes can do to the planet that must feed and clothe us all.如果人们受教育不够或不能善待环境，他们会对人类赖以生存的这个星球做出些什么事来呢?全世界到处都有这样的例子：从科罗拉多州核武器工厂周围幅射活跃的水土到原苏联中亚地区的人为沙漠。(逆译法)
(3) Many man-made substances are replacing certain natural materials because either the quantity of the natural products can not meet our ever-increasing requirement, or more often, because the physical property of the synthetic substance, which is the common name for man-made materials, have been chosen, and even emphasized, so that it would be of the greatest use in the fields in which it is to be applied.合成材料通常称为人造材料。许多人造材料正逐步取代某些天然材料，这或许是因为天然制品的数量不能满足人们日益增长的需求，但更多的则是因为人们看中了合成材料的某种物理性能，并充分发挥这些性能，以便使合成材料在其应用领域中最大限度地发挥作用。(综合法)
长句翻译不能一味地照顾译入语的表达习惯而不重视原文作者句式安排的特殊目的或意图，而要想看出原文作者的用意，就不能将目光局限在一个句子中各部分间的逻辑关系上，而应扩展到句群乃至语篇中。
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