2024考研英语：翻译方法之增译法详解
1)抽象名词后加词使其具体化。
如: serious unemployment严重的失业问题
He was still reluctant to talk substance.他仍然不愿意谈实质性的东西。
2)增加一个适当的名词。
如:The temperature needed for this progressing is lower than that needed to melt the metal.这种加工方法所需要的温度要低于熔化该金属的温度。 Fundamentally, electronics is based upon an understanding of the physical world, that is, upon physics.电子学基本上是以人们对物质世界的认识，也就是以物理学为基础的。(补充被动语态省去的部分)
3)增加数量词。
如: first oil well第一口油井It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all.这种说法从一开始就将讨论引向两个极端，它使人们认为应该这样对待动物：要么像对人类自身一样关切体谅，要么完全冷漠无情。(示范)
4)增加形容词。
如:Speed and reliability are the chief advantages of the electronic computers.速度快，可靠性高是电子计算机的主要优点。
5)不及物动词后增加宾语。
如:John’s mother washed for a living after his father died.约翰的父亲去世后，他母亲以洗衣为生。
I haven’t enough time to read.我没有足够的时间读书。
6)增加连词。
如:If you are an energetic man with which you are concerned, you find yourself invariably under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical.如果你是个精力充沛的人，对于如何恰当地完成你的工作有着独到的见解，那么你会发现自己总是听命于上面的某个大人物。而他又是一个上了年纪，精力不支，还爱吹毛求疵的人。
7)增加表示时态的词。
如:You were, you are, and you remain to be my beloved mentor.你过去是，现在是，将来仍然是我敬爱的导师。
We were hoping to have a holiday next week, but we may not be able to get away now.我们原来盼着下星期放假，但现在我们可能走不了了。
8)增加一个适当的动词。
如:The world needn’t be afraid of a possible shortage of coal, oil, natural gas or other resources of fuel for the future.世界无需担心将来可能出现的煤、石油、天然气或者其他燃料来源短缺的问题。
9)增加英语中省略的词。
如:We won’t retreat, we never have and never will.我们不会后退，我们从来没有后退过，将来也决不后退。
When the owner noticed me, I said I was working until he hired me. He did.当店主注意到我时，我说我会一直干到他雇我，他雇了我。
10)增加一些适当修饰词语。
如:The students rant all the way up to the station only to find that the train had left 10 minutes before.学生们一路跑到火车站，可惜火车10分钟前就开走了。
