谈-ly副词的关联意义及汉译

Subordinate Messages of“—ly”Adverbs and Their Conveyance in Translation

-ly 副词是英语词汇的一大类,属开放型。长期以来,人们将它与其他副词混为一谈,只用单纯的修饰功能来定义它。但实际上,在副词与其修饰对象的表面语法关系下,却蕴含着繁复多变的关联意义,仅仅认识它的修饰功能是不够的。尤其在文学翻译中,若忽略这些关联意义,往往会失却了原文的精妙,甚至歪曲原义。本文从限制、议论、因果、对比、转折等八个方面分析了-ly 副词与其修饰对象间的关联意义,并探讨了其汉译方法,以求引起人们对它更深的研究,并给英语教学、语法订立、文学翻译等工作提供一点参考。

English adverbs ending in“-ly”are more than what they are.In additon to theirlexical meanings,they often acquire,in practical use,some kind of associate meanings(subordinate messages as they are called in this essay),which will otherwise haveto be produced by other much more complicated grammatical structures.In the processof translation,therefore,serious errors can be committed if proper attention has notbeen paid to them.This essay lists eight situations in which“-ly”adverbs are oftenused and where,too,different degrees of subordinate messages may be applied tothem.The essay also attempts to analyze these messages and explore the possibilitiesof how they can be conveyed in Chinese.The purpose of this tentative study is just toprovide reference for the teaching of English,the translation of English literatu-res,and the establishment of a more practical grammatical theory than the presentones.