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17. února 2014

Malování slovy

Dobrý popis dokáže představit scénu a jednající postavy tak věrně, jako bychom je viděli před sebou.
Vizualizace je také dobrým pomocníkem překladatele!

Agatha Christie

Murder in Mesopotamia

Chapter 5

Tell Yarimjah

I don’t mind admitting that my first impression on seeing Mrs Leidner was one of downright surprise. One gets into the way of imagining a person when one hears them talked about. I’d got it firmly into my head that Mrs Leidner was a dark, discontented kind of woman. The nervy kind, all on edge. And then, too, I’d expected her to be - well, to put it frankly - a bit vulgar.

She wasn’t a bit like what I’d imagined her! To begin with, she was very fair. She wasn’t a Swede, like her husband, but she might have been as far as looks went. She had that blonde Scandinavian fairness that you don’t very often see. She wasn’t a young woman. Midway between thirty and forty, I should say. Her face was rather haggard, and there was some grey hair mingled with the fairness. Her eyes, though, were lovely. They were the only eyes I’ve ever come across that you might truly describe as violet. They were very large, and there were faint shadows underneath them. She was very thin and fragile-looking, and if I say that she had an air of intense weariness and was at the same time very much alive, it sounds like nonsense - but that’s the feeling I got. I felt, too, that she was a lady through and through. And that means something - even nowadays.

She put out her hand and smiled. Her voice was low and soft with an American drawl in it.

‘I’m so glad you’ve come, nurse. Will you have some tea? Or would you like to go to your room first?’

I said I’d have tea, and she introduced me to the people sitting round the table.

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10. února 2014

Inferno

Dan Brown

Inferno

‘Seek and ye shall find.’

With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of Florence. Only Langdon’s knowledge of hidden passageways and ancient secrets that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.

With only a few lines from Dante’s dark and epic masterpiece, The Inferno, to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the most celebrated artefacts of the Renaissance – sculptures, paintings, buildings – to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a terrifying threat…

Set against an extraordinary landscape inspired by one of history’s most ominous literary classics, Inferno is Dan Brown’s most compelling and thought-provoking novel yet, a breathless race-against time thriller that will grab you from page one and not let you go until you close the book.

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1. Nikomu nevěř, ani sobě. Vše ověřuj a vyhledávej.

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3. Bezchybná gramatika je základ, nikoli nadstavba.

4. Automatické překladače přidělávají práci.

5. Odpočívej. Mozek často najde řešení sám, třeba ve spánku.

6. Vrať se ke svému textu s odstupem několika dní a edituj ho bez velké opory originálu.

Problematické oblasti při překladu z angličtiny do češtiny:

- determinanty

- slovosled

- přechodníky

- idiomy

- reálie

2. prosince 2013

Sci-fi: věda a fikce

Tři králové science-fiction: Clarke, Asimov, Brabury

1. Zjistěte si něco více o A. C. Clarkovi a jeho díle.

viz např.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/arthur_c_clarke.html
http://www.clarkefoundation.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdr6zXXrTbg

2. Přeložte následující text (úryvek z knihy Měsíční prach). Pečlivě ověřujte technické termíny.

A.C.Clarke - Fall of Moondust

When a man falls on the Moon, he usually has time to do something about it, for his nerves and muscles are designed to deal with a sixfold greater gravity. Yet when Chief Engineer Lawrence toppled off the ski, the distance was so short that he had no time to react. Almost at once, he hit the dust--and was engulfed in darkness.

He could see absolutely nothing, except for a very faint fluorescence from the illuminated instrument panel inside his suit. With extreme caution, he began to feel around in the softly resisting, half-fluid substance in which he was floundering, seeking some solid object for support. There was nothing; he could not even guess which direction was up.

A mind-sapping despair, which seemed to drain his body of all its strength, almost overwhelmed him. His heart was thumping with that erratic beat that heralds the approach of panic, and the final overthrow of reason. He had seen other men be- come screaming, struggling animals, and knew that he was moving swiftly to join them.

There was just enough left of his rational mind to remember that only a few minutes ago he had saved Lawson from this same fate, but he was not in a position to appreciate the irony. He had to concentrate all his remaining strength of will on regaining control of himself, and checking the thumping in his chest that seemed about to tear him to pieces.

And then, loud and clear in his helmet speaker, came a sound so utterly unexpected that the waves of panic ceased to batter against the island of his soul. It was Tom Lawson--laughing.

The laughter was brief, and it was followed by an apology.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lawrence--I couldn't help it. You look so funny there, waving your legs in the sky."

The Chief Engineer froze in his suit. His fear vanished instantly, to be replaced by anger. He was furious with Lawson, but much more furious with himself.

Of course he had been in no danger; in his inflated suit, he was like a balloon floating upon water, and equally incapable of sinking. Now that he knew what had happened, he could sort matters out by himself. He kicked purposefully with his legs, paddled with his hands, and rolled round his center of gravity--and vision returned as the dust streamed off his helmet. He had sunk, at the most, ten centimeters, and the ski had been within reach all the time. It was a remarkable achievement to have missed it completely while he was flailing around like a stranded octopus.

With as much dignity as he could muster, he grabbed the ski and pulled himself aboard. He did not trust himself to speak, for he was still breathless from his unnecessary exertions, and his voice might betray his recent panic. And he was still angry; he would not have made such a fool of himself in the days when he was working constantly out on the lunar surface. Now he was out of touch. Why, the last time he had worn a suit had been for his annual proficiency check, and then he had never even stepped outside the air lock.

25. listopadu 2013

Nesmrtelný Shakespeare

Najděte na prekladani.capsa.cz soubor Shakespeare_sonet66_13prekladu.
1. V pohodě a klidu si všechny přečtěte a přemýšlejte, který z překladů je vám nejsympatičtější a proč. Vložte svůj názor do komentáře k tomuto blogu.

Audio anglicky
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2. Proč vlastně existuje tolik českých podob jednoho anglického textu?

18. listopadu 2013

Malujeme obraz

Každý popis je jen chudým odrazem krásy, kterou vnímáme zrakem. Jen ti nejlepší spisovatelé dokážou i slovy kouzlit tak, že nám krajina ožívá před očima.

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http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/landrush.htm

John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

TO THE RED COUNTRY and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover. In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try any more. The weeds grew darker green to protect themselves, and they did not spread any more. The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country.

In the water-cut gullies the earth dusted down in dry little streams. Gophers and ant lions started small avalanches. And as the sharp sun struck day after day, the leaves of the young corn became less stiff and erect; they bent in a curve at first, and then, as the central ribs of strength grew weak, each leaf tilted downward. Then it was June, and the sun shone more fiercely. The brown lines on the corn leaves widened and moved in on the central ribs. The weeds frayed and edged back toward their roots. The air was thin and the sky more pale; and every day the earth paled.

In the roads where the teams moved, where the wheels milled the ground and the hooves of the horses beat the ground, the dirt crust broke and the dust formed. Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air: a walking man lifted a thin layer as high as his waist, and a wagon lifted the dust as high as the fence tops, and an automobile boiled a cloud behind it. The dust was long in settling back again.

When June was half gone, the big clouds moved up out of Texas and the Gulf, high heavy clouds, rainheads. The men in the fields looked up at the clouds and sniffed at them and held wet fingers up to sense the wind. And the horses were nervous while the clouds were up. The rainheads dropped a little spattering and hurried on to some other country. Behind them the sky was pale again and the sun flared. In the dust there were drop craters where the rain had fallen, and there were clean splashes on the corn, and that was all.

A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn. A day went by and the wind increased, steady, unbroken by gusts. The dust from the roads fluffed up and spread out and fell on the weeds beside the fields, and fell into the fields a little way. Now the wind grew strong and hard and it worked at the rain crust in the corn fields. Little by little the sky was darkened by the mixing dust, and the wind felt over the earth, loosened the dust, and carried it away. The wind grew stronger. The rain crust broke and the dust lifted up out of the fields and drove gray plumes into the air like sluggish smoke. The corn threshed the wind and made a dry, rushing sound. The finest dust did not settle back to earth now, but disappeared into the darkening sky.

11. listopadu 2013

Cesta je prach, a štěrk, a udusaná hlína...

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Houston
Seasons in the sun
Peatbog soldiers

Rezervní možnost: Waltzing Mathilda

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Lee Hazelwood: HOUSTON

Pavel Bobek, český text Jiří Grossmann

Well it's lonesome in this big town everybody puts me down

I'm a face without a name just a walkin' in the rain