NAME | TRANSLATION | TYPE OF TRANSLATION |
Paris Review | Transcription | |
Esquire | Transcription | |
Herald Tribunes | Transcription | |
New York Times | Transcription | |
Guardian | Transcription | |
On the Road | Semantic Translation | |
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest | Semantic Translation | |
Touch of Evil | Semantic Translation | |
West Ninety-seventh Street | 97- | Semantic Translation |
Shakespeare and Company | Transcription+Semantic translation | |
Nobel Prize | Semantic Translation | |
Coleytown Productions | Transcription | |
Chateau Marmont Hotel | Transcription+Semantic translation |
Idioms and phrasal verbs can be used by authors to add more expressiveness to the text. The examples of them are represented in Table 10 and Table 11 respectively.
Table 10
IDIOMS
IDIOM | EXAMPLE | TRANSLATION |
Play a part | Drugs played a part, including the then legal LSD and other substances in experimental use at the VA hospital in Menlo Park, where Ken had worked. | , , -, . |
block party halfway house heavyweight novelists long balls | The night before the houses on the lane were to be demolished, the residents threw a demented block party at which they trashed one anothers houses with sledgehammers and axes in weird psychedelic light. It was a halfway house on the edge of possibility, or so it appeared at the time. Kens endorsement, at the age of twenty-six, by Malcolm Cowley, who oversaw his publication at Viking Press, seemed to connect him to a line of heavyweight novelists, the hitters, as Norman Mailer put it, of long balls, the wearers of mantles that by then seemed ready to be passed along to the next heroic generation. | - , . ( , , , ) , . 26 , , , , , , , , . |
pitfalls | As for the pitfalls of Hollywood, of movies, I knew what everyone thought they knew about the picture business. | , , , . |
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Table 11
Phrasal verbs
Phrasal verb | Example | Translation |
Pass through Sleep off Hope for | The house in the redwoods increasingly became a kind of auxiliary residence and clubhouse cookouta semipermanent encampment of people passing through, sleeping off the previous nights party, hoping for more of whatever there had been or might be. | - , , , , . |
Pound out | There were stoned poetry readings, also lion hunts on the midnight dark golf course where chanting lion hunters danced to bogus veldt rhythms pounded out on their kitchenware. | , , , , , . |
Put down | I put this down to the influence of television and hackery, but most of all to the fact that the older generation of American filmmakers were confused by social change and the expectations of their young audience | , , , . |
Cut down | It was far too long, as is usual with first script attempts, but I planned to cut it down. | , , , . |
While translating the original text I came across several phraseological combinations. Some examples of them are summarized in Table 12.
Table 12