在翻译时如何使用标点符号?

　　刚学翻译时，常常会因为标点符号的问题不知所措，标点符号运用不当会导致一句话成了另一种意思，那么，今天翻译公司为大家介绍在翻译时如何使用标点符号?

　　When you first learn to translate, you are often at a loss because of punctuation. Improper use of punctuation can lead to a sentence becoming another meaning. Today, the translation company introduces how to use punctuation in translation?

　　一般人遇上标点符号，总有一种肃然起敬的感觉，把它当成一种特殊的对象来看待，殊不知标点符号，根据字典的解释，不过是“字旁或字下面的点形、线形等各种符号，用以标明人名、地名或点、逗、句读”而已。换言之，标点符号是语文的附属部分，翻译时，既然连词性句形都可以改变，那么，译者何以要死守阵地，揪住原文中的几个符号而不肯放手?

　　When people encounter punctuation, they always have a sense of awe. They regard it as a special object, but they don't know that punctuation. According to the dictionary, it's just "punctuation, line and other symbols beside or under the words, used to indicate the names of people, places or points, teasing and sentences". In other words, punctuation is a subsidiary part of Chinese. Since the conjunctions can be changed in translation, why should translators cling to the position and grasp several symbols in the original text instead of letting go?

　　英文中常用的一些符号，如长句中的括号、破折号，同位语前后的逗号，以及副词单独出现后的逗号等，在中文里是很少使用的。假如译者在学习写作或尝试诗句翻译，则又另当别论。

　　Some symbols commonly used in English, such as brackets, dashes in long sentences, commas before and after appositions, and commas after adverbs appear alone, are rarely used in Chinese. If the translator is learning to write or trying to translate the poem, it is another matter.

　　当然，例外的情况也有。例如超现实主义小说《黑娃的故事》中某些片段，往往长达十行，其中关系子句环环相扣，步步连营，而主句之外层层叠叠的内容，必须靠括号或破折号来交代。为了再现原著浓厚的超现实主义色彩，在翻译时就不得不酌量保持一些原文中特有的表现方式，而平时不常使用的破折号，也在译文中频频出场了。

　　Of course, there are exceptions. For example, some fragments in the Surrealist novel "the story of Heiwa" are often as long as ten lines, in which the relative clauses are closely linked, and the contents outside the main sentences are overlapped, which must be explained by brackets or dashes. In order to reproduce the strong surrealist color of the original work, we have to maintain some unique ways of expression in the original text, while the dashes, which are not often used in translation, also appear frequently in the translation.

中译国际翻译（北京）有限公司
China International Translation service Co., Ltd.