Laboratorio de Traduccin # 1-25 de julio, 2013

Instituto Especializado de Nivel Superior Centro Cultural Salvadoreo Americano

25 de julio de 2013 Silvio Avendao, Ph.D.

Laboratorio de Traduccin Propsitos: Discutir estrategias de traduccin estudiadas en la clase # 1 Aplicar la estrategia de sight translation para la traduccin de 3 textos cortos Elaborar un borrador de versin de traduccin para cada uno de los textos presentados Instrucciones: Trabaje en parejas, con una de las computadoras del laboratorio. Por cada texto que se presenta al final de este documento, haga lo siguiente: a. Lea cada texto una vez y escriba la versin On sight translation del texto. Recuerde, lea el texto solamente una vez. b. Leal el mismo texto con cuidado y redacte un borrador de versin de traduccin final de cada texto. Comparta, de forma oral, su versin on sight de cada texto. Presente su versin de borrador final de la traduccin de cada texto a la clase. Justifique su versin. Discuta lo aprendido con la clase. Textos tomados de: Hayes, C. & McAlexander, P. (1995). The Townsend Thematic Reader. United States of America:Townsead Press, Inc.

Texto # 1
A Love affair with Books
Bernadete Piassa

Although Bernadete Piassa loved to read as a child, she was discouraged from doing so. In this prize-winning essay in a national writing contest, Piassa tells how she managed to remain a devoted reader and how books have repaid her well for that devotion. For her, books are not just a bookshelf decoration, an

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occasionallight pastime, or a homework assignment. Throughout her lije they have been her "friends," "guides, " and "most faithfullovers." When I was young, I thought that reading was like a drug which I was allowed to take only a teaspoon at a time, hut which, nevertheless, had the effect of carrying me away to an enchanted world where I experienced strange and forhidden emotions. As time went by and I took that drug again and again, I became addicted to it. I could no longer live without reading. Books became an intrinsic part of my life. They became my friends, my guides, my lovers. My most faithfullovers. I didn't know I would fall in love with books when I was young and started to read. I don't even recall when I started to read and how. I just remember that my mother didn 't like me to read. In spite of this, every time I had an opportunity l would sneak somewhere with a book and read one page, two pages, three, if I were lucky enough, always feeling my heart beating fast, always hoping that my mother wouldn't find me, wouldn't shout as always "Bernadete, don't you have anything to do?" For her, books were nothing. For me, they were everything.

Texto # 2
How to Mark a Book Mortimer Adler

Words to Watch mutilation: destruction prelude: introductory event deluded: deceived dog-eared: having comers of the pages tumed down dilapidated: deteriorated intact: uninjured score: written form of a musical piece integral: necessary for completeness receptacle: container You know you have to read "between the lines": to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to "write between the lines." Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading. I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.

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You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours. Librarians [or your friends] who lend you books expect you to keep them clean, and you should. If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking books, you will have to buy them. Most of the worId's great books are available today, in reprint editions, at less than a dollar . There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's ice-box to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your bloodstream to do you any good.

Texto # 3
What Is lntelligence, Anyway?
Isaac Asimov

Haven't we all known people in school who had the reputation of being "brains"-but couldn't change a light bulb? And others who could barely make passing grades, yet seemed to understand instinctively how an engine worked? In this essay, noted science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov places himself in the first category and questions the conventional definition of intelligence. Words to Watch KP: work with the "kitchen police," soldiers who assist the army cooks complacent: se1f-satisfied bents: talents vitals: internal organs pronouncements: statements by an authority oracles: messages from the gods academician: scholar absolute: unchanging foist: force arbiter: judge indulgently: done to go along with someone's wishes

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raucously:loudly What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the Arrny, I received a kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP as my highest duty.) All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so, too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by the people who make up the intelligence tests-people with intellectual bents similar to mine? For instance, I had an auto repairman once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car, I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles-and he always fixed my car.