浅谈交替传译笔记

On Alternate Interpretation Notes

毋庸置疑,口译是一项紧张而又艰苦的脑力劳动。它要求译员在很短的时间内,通过口头方式,将源语表达的内容准确地用目标语说出来。在这一过程中,译者需要兼顾记忆,储存,和提取信息三方面的工作。由于人大脑的短期记忆力有限,在高强度高压力的环境下,很难单凭个人短期记忆完成口译工作,因此,在很大程度上来说,译员必须依靠口译笔记来弥补短期记忆的不足。可以说,口译成败与否,很大程度上取决于口译笔记的质量。本文拟从记忆与口译的关系为切入点,来探讨口译笔记的特点,原则以及其在整个口译过程中的作用。

Undoubtedly, interpreting is a painstaking mental labor requiring interpreters, in a short period of time, to express speakers' source language speech in target language accurately. During the process, interpreters need to take memory, storing and retrieving information into consideration. It is well known that under high pressure, individual's short-term memory alone can not finish interpreting work due to its limitation therefore, to some large degree, interpreters have to rely on note-taking to compensate the deficiency of short term memory. Success or not, interpreting to some large degree, depends upon the qual-ity of note-taking,. This paper intends to discuss the characteristics, principles of note-taking as well as its role in interpreting, with the relation between memory and interpreting as a starting point.