習(xí)語、引語的口譯：1. 直譯法

1. 直譯法

對(duì)結(jié)構(gòu)和意義上完全對(duì)應(yīng)的習(xí)語應(yīng)采用對(duì)等直譯法。把原語的習(xí)俗、比喻移植到譯入語中，這樣既能確切地表達(dá)原意，又能保留原語生動(dòng)、形象、鮮明的民族色彩。直譯是習(xí)語口譯中最容易、最便捷，也是效果最佳的譯法。英漢兩種語言中很多習(xí)語，包括很多漢語歇后語都可以采用直譯法。這是英漢兩種文化互相交流和兩種語言相互溶入的結(jié)果。以下英漢習(xí)語的互譯就屬這一類。

英語習(xí)語的漢譯

stony heart / have a heart of stone 鐵石心腸

plain sailing 一帆風(fēng)順

in black and white 白紙黑字

flesh and blood 親骨肉；親人

as firm as a rock 堅(jiān)如磐石

to be led by the nose 被牽著鼻子走

to show one's cards 攤牌

to be armed to the teeth 武裝到牙齒

to turn a deaf ear to… 充耳不聞

to pick bones from an egg 雞蛋里面挑骨頭

Facts speak louder than words. 事實(shí)勝于雄辯

Failure is the mother of success. 失敗乃成功之母

Honesty is the best policy. 誠(chéng)實(shí)是上策

Children and fools tell the truth. 童愚吐真言

Evil is rewarded with evil. 惡有惡報(bào)

Content is happiness. 知足者常樂

Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

欲責(zé)他人，應(yīng)先知己過；欲正人，先正己。

One swallow does not make a summer. 一燕難成夏。

漢語習(xí)語的英譯

一心一意 with one heart and one mind

滄海一滴 a drop in the ocean

輕如鴻毛 as light as a feather

實(shí)事求是 to seek truth from facts

一見如故　 to feel like old friends at the first meeting

同甘共苦 to share each other's joys and hardships

掩耳盜鈴 to plug one's ears while stealing a bell

知識(shí)就是力量。 Knowledge is power.

一寸光陰一寸金, 寸金難買寸光陰。 An inch of time is worth an inch of gold，but an inch of gold cannot purchase an inch of time.

一回生，兩回熟。 First meeting, strangers; second meeting, old friends.

一年之計(jì)在于春。 The whole year's work depends on a good start in spring.

一鳥在手遠(yuǎn)勝兩鳥在林。 A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

兔子尾巴——長(zhǎng)不了。 Like a rabbit tail-----it cannot grow any longer-----it won't last long.

搬起石頭砸自己的腳——自作自受 to lift a rock only to drop it on one's own feet-----to suffer from what one has done

鱷魚掉眼淚——假慈悲 crocodile shedding tears------pretending to be benevolent