Lokalisering, översättning och terminologi,
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Praktisk översättning och terminologi
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Romanutdrag (amerikansk 90-tal)
Romanutdrag (irländsk 90-tal)
Sonett från elisabetansk tid (15-1600-tal)
Svensk barnbokstext översatt till engelska
Ett utdrag ur en användarmanual från Microsoft.
Ett utdrag ur en GPS-manual
För Microsoft-texten gäller att du först ska identifiera vad du anser vara
termer i texten och sedan skapa en termlista med översättningar för
dessa termer. Termlistan bifogas sedan till den inlämnade översättningen.
Översättningarna ska göras på så naturlig svenska som möjligt, dvs. vara
målspråksorienterade. Till varje översättning vill jag att du skriver en
kommentar med dina reflektioner kring uppgiften (t.ex. vad som var svårt,
vilka val och överväganden du gjort osv.) Text 3 kommer att kräva
speciella överväganden mellan form och innehåll.
Tips när det gäller Microsoftöversättningen: skriv direkt i Worddokumentet så kan du få samma format som originalet. Ett bra
hjälpmedel på nätet för Microsoft-terminologi finns på
http://www.microsoft.com/language/en-us/Search.aspx?sString=&langID=sv-se.
Text 4 behöver inte översättas, men det ger pluspoäng om ni gör det.
Lycka till!
Magnus
PS. Översättningarna, termlistan och kommentarerna lämnas in till mig
senast onsdagen den 5 oktober. DS.
Text 1: Amerikansk roman 90-tal
I’m crazy about this City.
Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and
it’s not easy to tell which are people, which the work of stonemasons. Below is shadow where
any blasé thing takes place: clarinets and lovemaking, fists and the voices of sorrowful
women. A city like this one makes me dream tall and feel in on things. Hep. It’s the bright
steel rocking above the shade below that does it. When I look over strips of green grass lining
the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m
strong. Alone, yes, but top-notch and indestructible—.—like the City in I926 when all the
wars are over and there will never be another one. The people down there in the shadow are
happy about that. At last, at last, everything’s ahead. The smart ones say so and people
listening to them and reading what they write down agree: Here comes the new. Look out.
There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff. The way
everybody was then and there. Forget that. History is over, you all, and everything’s ahead at
last. In halls and offices people are sitting around thinking future thoughts about projects and
bridges and fast-clicking trams underneath. The A&P hires a colored clerk. Big-legged
women with pink kitty tongues roll money into green tubes for later on; then they laugh and
put their arms around each other. Regular people corner thieves in alleys for quick retribution
and, if he is stupid and has robbed wrong, thieves corner him too. Hoodlums hand out goodies,
do their best to stay interesting, and since they are being watched for excitement, they pay
attention to their clothes and the carving out of insults. Nobody wants to be an emergency at
Harlem Hospital but if the Negro surgeon is visiting, pride cuts down the pain.
Text 2: Irländsk roman 90-tal
--Mind your house!
That wanker over there had been roaring that since the start of the match. He probably
didn’t even know what it meant, the stupid oul’ bollix. The ball was down at the Barrytown
goal, about the first time it had gone in that direction in the second half.
It was Saturday afternoon. Jimmy Sr was in the St Anne’s Park, watching the Barrytown
Utd Under 18s; watching Darren.
Five-nil for Barrytown was the score. The opposition were useless. Jimmy Sr couldn’t even
remember what they were called. Darren didn’t bother dashing back to help defend, and he
was dead right. The last time this shower had seen the net shake was when their keeper farted.
The ball was coming back up. Darren went to meet it. No one came with him.
--Good man, Daren! Away yeh go!
Darren stopped the ball. Normally he’d have had two or three men up his arse by now or,
with the ground this soggy, someone sliding towards his ankle. Now though, two of their
defense ran around him on their way back as if they didn’t want to get in his way because it
was rude, so Darren held onto the ball for a while, turned and crossed where the centre line
should have been.
--Give us a display of your silky skills, Darren!
That was the Barrytown keeper, Nappies Harrison.
The sweeper was waiting for Darren. That was what he’d called himself; the sweeper. –
We’re playin’ three central defenders, he’d told Darren in the first half. –Like Arsenal. He
was waiting for Darren on the other side of a puddle, hunched as if he was going to dive into
it. Kenny Smith was to Darren’s left, shouting for the ball. Darren lobbed the ball over the
sweeper, ran around him (--Yeow, Darren!) and dug the ball out of the muck with his toe and
sent it over to Kenny, hard so it wouldn’t get stuck again.
--Good play, said their sweeper; Jimmy Sr heard him.
Darren knew he’d be praised after the match for his unselfish play (--That’s the Liverpool
way, lads) but he’d given the ball to Kenny because he couldn’t be bothered bringing it any
further himself. He heard the ironic cheer. They’d scored again; an Anto Brennan diving
header that he hadn’t really needed to dive for.
Darren strolled back across the line. He hated these sort of games, when they won without
sweating. They’d be beaten next week; it always happened.
--Come on now, lads, the oul’ guy at the side shouted. –Make the score respectable, come on.
--Will yeh listen to him, said Kenny.
--Yeah, said Darren. –Fuckin’ pitiful.
Most of them wouldn’t turn up for training on Tuesday night because of this win; their
emphatic victory.
The ball was in the centre circle. The ref picked it up and blew his whistle; game over ten
minutes early.
--Thank fuck, said Pat Conlon. –It’s fuckin’ freezin’.
--I was goin’ for me hat-trick, Kenny complained.
--Ah, fuck off complainin’, said Pat. –Anyway, yeh’d never have got another two.
Text 3: Sonett
En sonett av en berömd författare med formatet abab-cdcd-efef-gg. Blankvers, tio stavelser
per rad med rim! Gör ett eget försök!
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please:
My reason the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve,
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest,
My thoughts and my discourse as mad men's are,
At random from the truth vainly expressed.
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Text 4: Barnbok
En svensk berömd barnbokstext som ni nu får i amerikansk översättning. Gör den svensk igen.
Are you the girl who’s moved into Villekulla Cottage? asked one of the policemen.
‘Not me!’ said Pippi. I’m her very small aunt who lives on the third floor at the other end of
the town.’
She only said this because she wanted to have a bit of fun with the policemen. But they didn’t
think it was the least bit funny. They told her not to try to be so clever. And then they
explained that kind people in the town had arranged for her to be placed in a Children’s Home.
‘I’m already in a Children’s Home,’ said Pippi.
‘What’s that? Is it already arranged?’ asked the policeman. ‘Which Children’s Home is that?’
‘This one,’ said Pippi proudly. ‘I’m a child, and this is my home. There aren’t any grown-ups
living here, so I think that makes it a Children’s Home.’
‘Dear child,’ said the policeman, laughing, ‘you don’t understand. You must come to a
regular Institution where someone can look after you.’
‘Are horses allowed in the stintitution?’ wondered Pippi.
‘No, of course not,’ said the policeman.
‘That’s that, I suppose. I thought as much,’ said Pippi gloomily. ‘Well, how about monkeys,
then?’
‘Certainly not! I should think you’d know that.’
‘I see,’ said Pippi. ‘Then you’ll just have to find yourself kids for that stinitution of yours
somewhere else. ‘Cause I don’t mean to move there.
Text 5 Teknisk översättning
Finding Workbooks
You can locate a workbook or other file using almost any information about it. For example,
Microsoft Excel can find a workbook based on its filename or disk, or directory or folder
location. If you included summary information when you saved a workbook, you can also
search for that workbook based on its author, title, or keywords. For example, you can search
for all workbooks that contain the word “sales” in their titles. For more information about
summary information, see “Saving and Closing Workbooks” earlier in this chapter.
The information you use to search for workbooks is called search criteria, which you can
save and reuse.
Searching for Workbooks
To look for a workbook, choose the Find File command from the File menu. You can also
choose the Open command from the File menu and then choose the Find File button.
Once you complete a search, Microsoft Excel displays a list of files that meet the search
criteria in the Find File dialog box.
Note Microsoft Excel periodically updates the information in the Find File dialog box so that a current list
is displayed.
Specifying Search Criteria
Search criteria can include such items as filenames and directory or folder locations, the
contents and modification dates of workbooks, and summary information. The first time you
choose Find File, the Search dialog box appears so that you can specify the search criteria you
want to use. Thereafter, Microsoft Excel uses the last search criteria you specified. Microsoft
Excel always lists only those files that meet the current search criteria.
To specify search criteria, choose the Search button in the Find File dialog box, and then
select the search options you want in the Search dialog box.
To
Do this
Search for a full or partial filename
In the File Name box, type the filename
you want to search for, or select a file type.
You can use an asterisk (*) wildcard
character if you don’t know the full
filename.
Search another disk
Select the drive in the Location box.
Save your search criteria to use again later
Choose the Save Search As button, then
name the search.
Specify more advanced search criteria
Choose the Advanced Search button.
Once you have defined a set of criteria, you can save it with a name and reuse it. For more
information, see “Saving and Reusing Search Criteria” later in this section.
Searching with Advanced Search Criteria
If you want to specify additional criteria such as multiple directories or folders, modification
dates, or summary information, choose the Advanced Search button in the Search dialog box,
and then select the criteria you want in the Advanced Search dialog box.
To
Select this tab, and then
enter the search options you want
Search by location, including filename,
directory or folder, or disk
Location tab
Search by summary information entered
with the Summary Info command on the
File menu
Summary Info tab
Search for the date a file was last saved, or
by the author’s name
Timestamp tab
Note The only criteria you can use to search for a password-protected Microsoft Excel workbook are the
filename, location, and modification dates. You cannot search summary information.
Text 6. Instruktion till GPS-programvara för mobiltelefon
SuperFinder Navigator – Quick Start Guide
This is a quick start guide. More information on how to use the Superfinder Navigator can be
found at mysuperfinder.com and superfinder.com/manuals. Before you can begin navigating
you need to install the software, activate the service and connect a GPS receiver. Note that
you will need a GPRS Internet or 3G connection (only a WAP subscription is not sufficient –
a full internet connection is needed) to activate and use the service. If you do not have a
GPRS Internet subscription, please contact your network service provider.
Installation and activation
1. To start downloading the Wayfinder application to your phone, select - and follow
the instructions given.
2. When installation is complete, the Superfinder application will automatically start up
and you will be asked to activate the service (if Superfinder does not start
automatically, click on the Superfinder icon in the Activity menu).
3. When Superfinder starts, read and accept the User terms. Allow connection with the
Internet by pressing Yes. If your mobile phone does not automatically detect an
Internet Access Point, please contact your network service provider.
4. A view with three alternatives is shown. Highlight Activate and enter your activation
code found on this manual. Thereafter, enter your phone number (add the country
code, omit the zero of the area code, e.g. +44222111333). Select Send. Please note
that this manual and the activation code printed on it is valuable information that
should be kept for future reference!
5. Select your choice of map coverage from the list. Press OK.
6. Confirm your choice of map coverage by pressing OK once more.
7. The main menu of Superfinder will be displayed.