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1、英语人名地名的翻译(TranslationofEnglishnamesandgeographicalnames)Englishnamesandplaceshavereferencebookstobefound,andthewholecountryisunifiedandconvenientforreaders.Chinapublishedthe"newEnglishChineseDictionary""ChineseDictionary"inthetextarelistedwiththeAngloAmericannames."NewEnglishChineseDictionary"inAng
2、loAmericancommonnameappendixtable;recentlypublishedthe"word"followedby"foreignersnametranslationtable".Inaddition,aseriesofXinHua(Englishnametranslationhandbook"and"theChinaNamesCommitteeforeignnamestranslationhandbook"(publishedbytheCommercialPress)"Frenchnametranslationhandbook"andSpanish,Portugu
3、ese,German,RomaniaandJapanesenametranslationhandbook.Ifyoustillcannotfindit,youcanborrowtheChinesewordspellinggroupinthebookcontainingthesamesyllable.Suchas"SpoitedTail"thispersonname,"Englishnametranslationmanual"isnotincluded,butthereisthesamesyllable(orphoneme)words.Theword"SpottedTail"canrefert
4、oSpotts(Spotts)andOlmste(Olmsted),takingthefirstsyllableoftheformerandthetailsyllableofthelattertoform"Spottedde"".Theword"Tail"canbereferredtoTailor(Taylor)as"Theil"andthefullnamecanbetranslatedas"SportedTell"".Ifyouhavetotranslateityourself,thereareseveralpointstonote:(1)touseourpublicationsuseno
5、uns,hasbeenalongtimenottoreinventthewheel,namessuchas"Roosevelt","Elizabeth"andothernames,suchas"RiverThamessoil","Losangeles".(2)bytransliteration,freetranslationandcautiontoharmonicsound,suchasthenamesWall,sleep,translatedintothe"wall"and"sleep"cannotbetranslatedinto"thewall(thewall)"and"sleep(sl
6、eep)".PlacenameLongbridge,PleasantHill,translatedas"BridgeLang","PleasantHill",istranslatedinto"Longbridge","pleasanthill".(3)thenamesofthefirstandlastname(andname)betweenthedotsinterval,suchasJohnThomasSmithJohnThomasSmith"".Jristranslatedinto"small"beforethesurname,inordertodistinguishitfromhisgr
7、andfather.Iftherearetwowordsintheplacename,thereisnointerval,suchas"LasAnimas",LarsArnieMaas".(4)hastheobviouscharacteristicsoftheforeignnationalname,accordingtotheoriginalnationallanguagetransliteration,su