翻译中的逆向思维与表达

Backward Thinking and Expression in Translation

逆向思维是再现原文,实现原文与译文最大限度等值的手段之一。本文从肯定与否定的转换,主动与被动的转换,着笔角度的转换,句式的转换和视点转换等五个方面探讨了在英汉互译中,通过逆向思维可以找到既符合译语习惯又与原语反向对应的表达方式。

Backward Thinking is a method of reproduction of the source text and realization of the maximal equivalence between the source text and target text. From the transitions between affirmative and negation,active and passive,the transition of the angle of writing,the interrogative sentence and the declarative statement,the transitionperspectives,the article explores that in E-C and C-E of translation we can find the expression which correspond to both the target text and the source text by means of backward thinking.