《在马克思墓前的讲话》一文中的一处误译

• 作 者: 张绥之
• 出 处: 中学语文
• 发表日期: 1987年07期
• 关键词: 马克思墓 hardly 文中 过去时态 否定式

《在马克思墓前的讲话》“他可能有过许多敌人,但未必有一个私敌”一句中的“未必有”一词,不能准确地表达出原作的意思。现摘抄英译本相关语段如下:he may have had many oppouents, he had hardly one personal ene my.may hare had是“可能有过”的意思,但had hardly却不是“不一定有”或“未必有”的意义,而是“简直没有”的意思。译者不仅误将原文的否定句译为肯定句,而且还忽略了had这个作为have的

The phrase “in the speech before Marx’s grave” “he may have had many enemies but may not have a private enemy” does not necessarily include the word “not necessarily”, which cannot accurately express the meaning of the original work. Excerpts from the English translation of the relevant phrases are as follows: he may have had many oppouents, he had hardly one personal ene my.may hare had meant “may have had”, but had hardly not “not necessarily” or “not necessarily The meaning of “” but “is simply not”. The translator not only mistakenly translated the original negative sentence into a positive sentence, but also ignored had as this