“对**负责”的翻译
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中国社会科学院语言研究所词典编辑室编写的《现代汉语词典》对作动词用的“负责”二字所做的注释是:
一、“担负责任”;
二、“对工作尽到应尽的责任;认真踏实”。
这部词典还分别给了两个例句,它们是:
1.这边的事由你负责。
2.他对工作很负责。
通过对比例句和体察注释,人们不难悟出上述例句中“负责”二字的不同含义:
例
1)中的“负责”指的是“为管理而承担责任”,强调的是“责任性”;
例2)中的“负责”表明的却是“工作态度”,强调 “实干精神”,即所谓的“责任心”。
本文就是在剖析这一细微差别的基础之上,对动词“负责”的多种英译法进行归类的。
(一)译为带名词charge的惯用短语:
1.be in charge of...
2.be left in charge of...
3.take charge of...
4.have charge of...
5.put...under one’s charge
在深层含义上上述惯用表达法只能与表示责任性的“负责”等值对应,即指的全是
“have the management
of...”。遣用时,请注意体会细微差异:be in charge
of...侧重于强调“状态”;take charge of...强调的是“动态”,即“承担起责任”;have charge of...表示的是“现状”,即“负有现实责任”;put...under one’s charge表示的是“把……事交给某某人负责”;be left in charge
of...有被动含义,即表示的是“被指定对……事负责”
例句:
1.你负责(承担起管理责任)这个班怎么样?
How would it be for you
to take charge of this class?
2.父亲去世后,家务事全由她负责了。
She took charge of the
family business when her father
died.
3.他负责整个办公室的工作已有十年之久。
He has been in charge of
the whole office for 10years.
4.谁负责这项工作?
Who is in charge of this
work?或Who
is having charge of this work?
5.保卫工作由他负全责。
He is in full charge of
security affairs.
6.老板生病期间,王先生被指定全权负责公司业务。
Mr.Wang was left in full charge of the company’s business
while his boss was ill.
7.总经理让我全权负责处理一切。
The general manager put
everything under my full charge.
Sth. is under the charge
of me.
(二)译为带名词responsibility的短语:
名词responsibility是一个极为活跃的词,与某些动词搭配可构成一系列与“对……负责”有关的短语。试看:
1.bear responsibility for...对……负有责任
2.take(up)responsibility负起责任
3.take the responsibility for(of doing)sth.负起对(做)某事的责任
4.lack responsibility不负责任
5.admit responsibility for...对……承担责任
6.shoulder the responsibility
for...对……担负责任
7.assume responsibility承担责任
8.accept(或undertake)the responsibility for...对……负责任
例句:
1.成功的领导无论在感情上还是在理智上都着眼未来而不眷恋过去。他们渴望负责、改革、开拓。
Successful leaders are
emotionally and intellectually oriented to the future—not wedded to
the past.They have a hunger to take
responsibility,to innovate,and to initiate.
2.他对自己的工作不负责任。
He is lacking
responsibility in his work.
3.我们必须对自己的行为勇于承担责任(敢于负责)。
We must bravely shoulder
the responsibility for our own
acts.
4.我们大家都同意一起承担责任(一起负责)。
All of us want to share
the responsibility with you.
5.对此事我不负责。
视语境不同,可译为:
1.I
cannot accept(或undertake)the responsibility for
this.
2