2021考研英語長難句分析(20)

對於很多考研的同學來說，大家都覺得考研英語很難，不僅僅是考查的單詞難，句子更難，有時候即使知道整句話中所有的單詞，也還是不能理解整句話的意思。同時，考研英語的整個句子很長，拿到句子很多同學不知道如何下手，尤其是考英語二的同學，英語基礎普遍不好，拿到翻譯題不知道如何處理。今天我們就來淺談翻譯中長難句的處理，以2016年英語二的篇章翻譯為例：

The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store， the more stuff you'll' see， and the more stuff you see， the more you'll' buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket， according to the Food Marketing Institute， carries some 44，000 different items， and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information over-load. According to brain-scan experiments， the demands of so much decision-making- quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping， most people stop struggling to be rationally selective， and instead begin shopping emotionally—which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.

接下來，挑選原文中的長句子來處理：

1. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store， the more stuff you'll' see， and the more stuff you see， the more you'll' buy.

2. After about 40 minutes of shopping， most people stop struggling to be rationally selective， and instead begin shopping emotionally—which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.

對於長句子來說，我們通常先把句子進行斷句，斷為幾個能處理的斷句。斷句的標誌有標點，連詞和短語，然後順譯該句子，最後在進行語序調整。先來看第一個句子：

1. The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store， the more stuff you'll' see， and the more stuff you see， the more you'll' buy.

第一步：斷句。先找標誌。 根據長度適中原則及語法結構完整原則，斷句為：

The reason for this is simple:// The longer you stay in the store， the more stuff you'll' see， //and the more stuff you see， the more you'll' buy.

第二步：順譯每個句子

1>The reason for this is simple://

這個的原因是簡單的：

2> The longer you stay in the store， the more stuff you'll' see，

越長你待在店裡， 越多的商品 你將看到

3> //and the more stuff you see， the more you'll' buy.

並且，越多的商品 你看到 ， 越多 你將買

第三步：調整語序

1>The reason for this is simple://

這個的原因很簡單：

2> The longer you stay in the store， the more stuff you'll' see，

你在店裡待的越久，你看到的商品就會越多

3> //and the more stuff you see， the more you'll' buy.

你看到的商品越多，你買的就會越多。

第四步：組整句

原因很簡單：你在店裡待的越久，看到的商品就越多;看到的商品越多，你買的就會越多。