(七) 精炼译词

例子：

A new dignity crept into his walk.

原译：走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。

改译：走起路来，不觉平添了几分尊严。

(八) 删削"When"字

　　例子

1. When he saw me, he was startled.

他看见我，吓了一大跳，(不译：当他看见我的时候，......)

2. "When your gals take on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the head, and knocking on them round?"

「你那些女黑奴哭得那么伤心，你还拿鞭子没头没脑的抽，把她们打得死去活来，那有甚么用呢？」(不译：当你那些女黑奴哭得那么伤心的时候，你还拿鞭子......)

(九) 感叹词的不同译法

例子：

1. "O, don't mother! I should like the flowers; do give them to me; I want them!" "Why, Eva, your room is full now."

　　「嗐，妈妈，别这样﹗我喜欢这些花，把花给我吧，我要﹗」

　　「得了吧，伊娃，你屋里的花都满了。」

2. "Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?"

　　「哟，真是怪事﹗」玛利说，「你干嘛非要这个不可？」

3. ("...Haley, if you had any conscience.")

"Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep - just a little, you know, to swear by, as were," said the trader, jocularly; ..."Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?" said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy interval of silence.

　　(「......哈利，你要是有良心的话。」)

　　「得，干这行当儿的人能有多少良心，我也有多少良心--瞧，我的良心就这么一丁点儿，够拿出来起誓就得，」奴隶贩子开着玩笑说；......

　　「那好，哈利，这桩买卖你打算怎么个做法？」谢尔比先生在一阵令人发窘的沉默之后问道。

(十) 顺拆法

　　例子：

　　His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue working/ for a better understanding of the interrelationship between economic, social and demographic factors.

　　原译：他的代表团同意执行主任关于该基金会应继续为更好地了解经济、社会和人口的相互关系而努力的意见。

　　改译：他的代表团同意执行主任的意见，/认为该基金会应继续努力，/ 以求更好地了解经济、社会和人口这三方面的相互关系。

(十一) 倒拆法

　　例子：

　　To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his supposed condition.

要是一个英国女人看到他真像他自己所假定的那么烂醉，/ 她就会对他又恼怒，又厌恶，/ 而挪拉对他却又同情又宽容，/ 他在这中间看出了一点神圣的质量。

(十二) 抽词拆句法

　　例子：

　　All the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the eye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.

　　从边境到北京，一路上沿铁路线极目纵观，但见农村到处是茁壮的庄稼，彷佛铺上一块绿地毯，这说明丰收在望了。

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