作者简介
Joan Pinkham，美国职业翻译，毕业于哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院 （Barnard College 0f Columbla university），并在美 国著名文理学院明德学院（Midaebury College）获硕士学位。攻读硕士期间获富布赖特（Fulbriqht）奖学金赴巴黎大学（University of Parls）学习。毕业后在世界卫生组织联合国总部联络处纽约工作十年，担任双语秘书。之后为自由职业翻译，翻译的很多重要著作和文章受到高度评价。曾在中国的外文出版社和中央编译局从事译文修改工作，参与审校周思来、邓小平、陈云等中国领导人的
著作译文。
姜桂华，中央编译局中央文献翻译室英文处处长、译审，全国人民代表大会法制工作委员会英文版法律汇编译审委员。1962年毕业于原北京外国语学院英语系翻译班，1983年赴美国马萨诸塞大学进修学习英语。长期从事英语翻译工作，并于2006年获“全国资深翻译家”称号，曾翻译《毛泽东选集》1～5卷，《周恩来选集》上、下卷，《聂荣臻革命回忆录》、1964年－1994年全国人民代表大会文件等，审核《中华人民共和国法律汇编》（1995-2009）以及《香港特别行政区基本法导论》等英译文。
I read Ms.Pinkham’s lessons to the Chinese polishers with great enjoy- ment and admiration。The clarity of her explanations is equaled only by the deftness with which she states the point of the English usages and the simplicity of the revisions made in the faulty sentences。I know of no book as well adapted as hers to the needs of clumsy writers。
——美国著名学者、哥伦比亚大学前教务长 Jacques Barzun
目录
To the Reader
Part One: Unnecessary Words
I. Unnecessary Nouns and Verbs
II. Unnecessary Modifiers
III.Redundant Twins
IV.Saying the Same Thing Twice
V. Repeated References to the Same Thing
VI.Summing it All Up
Part Two: Sentence Structure
VII. The Noun Plague
VIII. Pronouns and Antecedents
IX.The Placement of Phrases and Clauses
X. Dangling Modifiers
XI.Parallel Structure
XlI. Logical Connectives
XIII. Summing it All Up
……
Part Three: Supplementary Examples
Key to Exercises
Selected Bibliography
精彩书摘
The polisher first deleted "broad," since the notion of"broad" was implicitly contained in the word "mases. " That done, she addressed the main problem, "activelysupport it instead of taking a passive attitude toward it. "She recognized this as an example of the mirror-imageconstruction in which the same thing is stated twice, firstin the positive then in the negative. Her first impulse was to delete the negative statement,since it added nothing to the meaning. But this sentenceappeared in a speech by Premier Zhou Enlai, and she wasreluctant to take liberties with it.As an alternative, she looked for a way to change thewording of the negative statement .so that it would notseem so empty. Since "instead of taking a passive attitudetoward it" was vague at best, she tried spelling the phraseout to give it more content: "instead of just passively ac-cepting it. "Now the second clause read "we intellectuals should ac-tively support it, instead of just passively accepting it."That was an improvement not just because the doublestatement now made a discernible point, but al becausethe two elements were cast in parallel form.
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