第二章美国总统就职演说汉译58.ppt

第二章 美国总统就职演说汉译 第一节 第二节 Original 21: Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years – a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruption in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. （George Washington, The Experiment of the American People） 1) Analysis of the original: A) Grammatical analysis B) Stylistic analysis C) Background knowledge A) Grammatical analysis: (1) Sentence structure (2) Additional complication (3) Notes (4) Paraphrase (1) Sentence structure： The selection consists of two sentences, of which the first is a complex sentence, composed of a main clause and a subordinate clause serving as the object of the preposition of; and the second is also a complex sentence, composed of a main clause and an attributive clause, with a parenthetic clause embedded in the predicate and another attributive clause embedded in the appositive nominal phrase at the end of the sentence. (2) Additional complication The first sentence begins with a prepositional phrase. The second sentence also begins with a prepositional phrase, and as mentioned before, it has a parenthetic attributive clause embedded in the predicate and an appositive phrase placed at the end of the sentence with another attributive clause embedded. In the first line of the first sentence, incident to life is an adjective phrase modifying vicissitudes, and vicissitude and event are synonyms. In the second line of the first sentence, that of which…means th