英语:英语论文：商务英语函电的特点及其翻译[1]

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的专业词语。在汉译时,要根据英、汉两种语言的文字特点加以妥善处理,不必要对等地对重复词进行重复翻译,而应该采取动态对等,遵循习惯译法,用行话译行话,术语译术语等对等方法。

如:信函中Dear sirs不译“亲爱的先生们”而译“(执事)先生”或“径启者”,而商号中“&”符号一般不译。如Nippon Telegraph& Telephone译为“日本电报电话”;please don''''''''t hesitate to…译为“尽可以…、务请…”等。

另外,在商务函电中词的重复和省略现象较为常见。当出现一些关键性的词时经常会采用同义词连用的现象。如:The packing and wrapping expenses should be borne by the buyer.包装费应由买方负担。句中packing 和wrapping同义,意为“包装”,在原文中重复使用,为确保所用词不被曲解。然而翻译时根据动态等值理论只译成“包装”一词即可。

再次,用词要准、注意多义。如The product will find a good market in New York.“此产品在纽约将有很好的销路”。Chinese toy products are very popular in Europe. We would like to work with you to market them in Canada. “中国的玩具产品在欧洲很受欢迎,我们愿同你方合作在加拿大销售”。从以上二例中,market既有市场、销路,又有营销、出售之意。翻译时要根据上下文忠实准确译出原文,仔细推敲避免误解。

论文论文参考网 (二)句子方面

1.句子表达固定。为表达明确,商务英语函电在实践中已形成了固定套语:商务函电首段首句,常见套语有:Thank you for your letter of; we are in receipt of your letter of等。如We thank you for your letter of 18th February and confirm our cable of today''''s date, which reads as follows.(兹复贵方2月18日来信并确认我方今日发出的电报,电文如下)。翻译时使用等值翻译,译成“X月X日来函收悉,不胜感谢,兹复函如下”。

商务函电结尾句:英语表达有固定方式如In accordance as your request, we send you herewith a statement of your account which we hope you will find correct.(兹按贵方要求奉上结算报告书一份,请查收)。译成符合汉语习惯的“随函附上…请查收”。

请求对方做某事的汉语句式为“请…将不胜感激”,函电英语常用:We would appreciate; It would be appreciated等。如It would be appreciated of you could quote your prices of CIF Shanghai for computer.(请报电脑的上海到岸价,将不胜感谢)。We are looking forward with interest to your reply. Your early reply will be highly appreciated等。函电结尾译成“盼复”等常用套语。

2.语句凝练精干,力求表达有效。语句凝练精干和表达有效是指选词简明、语法正确、使用得体。而同一词语在不同的语域里有不同的文体效果。如We are ina position to offer you 50 long tons of Tins Foil Sheets.(我们能向贵方报50英吨锡箔纸),“offer”译“开盘”、“报盘”,有商务英语的语言特点和精僻文风而不同于其文学意义。Our order is subject to your acceptance of our terms of payments by D/P.(我们的定单以贵方接受我付款交单条件为准)中“subject to”是“以…为条件”之意。

3.语句结构以复合长句为主,很少使用简单句。从句套从句的“枝状结构”屡见不鲜,经常一连数行才出现一个句号。然而对于这种复杂冗长的句子,只要对原文进行仔细分析并采用动态等值理论进行翻译,就能恰当地翻译原文,使译文受众对作者的立意有明确的认识,从而获得对原文较准确的感受。例如

外贸英语函电

１.Make the L/C in this week.

2.Please confirm the duplicate of the purchasing contract which was signed by us.

3.We will deliver as soon as we received your L/C.

4.We have decided to accepte the order NO.DF402 of your quotation.

5.The terms of the L/C must be accorded with our sales contract.

1. Please draw on us for the amount of your invoice and attache the documents listed below to your draft.

2. We propose to pay by D/A at 30 d/s.

3. We agree to accept the goods in 3 shipments and you may draw on us at 60 d/s from the date of despatch of each shipment.

4. Payment is to be made agains sight draft drawn under a /confirm/ied, irrevocable L/C for the full invoice amount.

5. As the goods undre S / C No. 3456 have been ready for quite some time, please open your L /C without delay.

6. It would be advisable for you to establish the covering L ? C as early as possible so as to enable us to effect shipment in due time.

7. It is our custom to accept orders against confirmed irrevocable letters of credit, valid for at least 21 days beyond the prescribed date fo shipment.

8. It is invariably our policy to execute orders against a confirmed irrevocable letter of credit. For the sake of helping you in promoting sales, we are now giveing you a special accommodation by granting the terms of D / P. You are resquested to effec immediate payment on the presentation of our draft.

9. We have opened an L /C in your favour through the Bank of China for an amount of $ 17,000 to cover the full CIF value of our order No. 743.

10. For the short amount of your L / C No. 90683 opened through the Standard Charactered Bank, we shall not ask you to increase the amount but will draw a clean draft on you for that amount.

11. Considering the small amount involved, we are prepared, as an exception, to accept payment by D / P at sight for the value of your first trial order.

12. For this sample shipment, we will draw on you at 30 days sight but this cannot be taken as a precedent for future shipment.

13. We regret being unable to consider your request for payment on D / A basis, the reason being that we generally accept payment by L /C at sight. Taking into consideration the good relations between us, we are prepared to accept payment for this order by D / P at sight.

14. If the amount of each transaction is below US $ 500 or its equivalent at the conversion rate then prevailing, we agree to D / A 30 days term.

15. Regarding terms of payment, we should like to advis you that payment by collection is acceptable. However, 80% are to be paid against teh presentation of the shipping documents while the remaining 20% are to be paid on presentation of the Acceptance Report signed by the Sellers' engineer and the endusers' representative at the installation site.

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