在翻译中，我们可以在不增减、不歪曲内容的条件下适当增词或减词。如：

1.It was in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, and I had come out of a drawing-room, warm, scented and full of "portable property". The hall door was closed behind me, the east wind caught me in the face, and I walked into a child. (Galsworthy)

[译文] 这事发生在离贝克莱广场不远的地方。我从客厅里走出来，那儿温暖如春，散发着香水的气味，还有许多贵重的家俱和装饰品。大门在我身后紧闭起来。一阵凛冽的东风迎面扑来，我险些踩到一个孩子身上。

在英国，冬天刮东风，而且这种东风还凛冽刺骨，和中国情况不同。因此，在这里有必要在“东风”前面增添“凛冽的”一

类字样。原作者也是有意要把温暖如春、富丽堂皇的客厅和寒冷的街道加以对比。

2. Phoebe Anna was thin and black, a very umbrella of a woman. (Driesel)

[译文] 安娜是一个又瘦又黑的女人，上身粗大，下身细长，简直象一把雨伞。

3. ...as I knew she was anxious to get home, and, between fire, food and pickpockets, could never be considered at her ease for half an hour in London, .….(Dickens)

[译文] ……因为我知道她急于要回家，同时，既怕房子着火，又要弄点吃的东西，又怕遇见扒手，可以说，她在伦敦连半点钟工夫都无法把一颗心放下…（张谷若同志译文，略有改动）

4. He had been faithful to the fourteen-year-old Vicar's daughter whom he had worshipped on his knees but had never led to the altar.

[译文] 他一直忠于十四岁的牧师女儿，他曾拜倒在她的石榴裙下，但却没有同她结婚。

lead someone to the altar（引到圣坛前面）的形象性移到内容中去了。

5. And his partner caught his fire.

[译文] 他的舞伴也感染了他的热情。

fire的形象性移到内容中去了。

6. In marrying this girl he married a bit more than he could chew.

[译文] 他和这姑娘结婚，未免不自量力。（以推论代理由）

总之，内容和形式相互推移的原理是翻译艺术中一项重要原理，足可以破除我们一部分翻译工作者头脑中的形式主义翻译思

想。这种形式主义翻译实质上就是一种形而上学的思想。它把内容看做永远是内容，把形式看做永远是形式，不懂得内容和形式可以互相渗透，互相转化，我们只有破除这种形而上学的思想，才能把文学翻译提高到艺术创造的水平上来。

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