“生活就是棒球”与“生活就是棒球”的对比：从英语到欧洲和巴西葡萄牙语的翻译

IF 0.2 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Sendebar-Revista de Traduccion e Interpretacion Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI:10.30827/sendebar.v34.26868

Maria Labarta Postigo

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摘要

足球在巴西和葡萄牙是最受欢迎的运动，而在美国则是棒球。在进行这些运动的语言中产生了数量惊人的隐喻和习语。由于其文化特殊性，这些表达特别难以翻译，因此对机器和人工翻译都构成了重大挑战。本文探讨了棒球隐喻从英语到葡萄牙语翻译的不同可能性。该研究是基于电视语料库，加上一个语料库先前由作者编制。由三个免费在线机器翻译系统(Google, DeepL和systeman)制作的翻译将与电视连续剧字幕中使用的机器翻译进行比较，包括巴西和欧洲葡萄牙语字幕。分析结果表明，体育相关的隐喻和习语表达仍然是英葡翻译系统的盲点。

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‘Life Is Baseball’ vs. ‘A Vida É Futebol’: the Translation of Sport-Specific Metaphors from English to European and Brazilian Portuguese

Soccer is the most popular sport in Brazil and Portugal, while in the United States (US) it is baseball. An incredible number of metaphors and idioms are generated in the languages where these sports are played. Due to their cultural specificity, such expressions are particularly difficult to translate, and thus constitute a significant challenge for both machine and human translators (HTs). This paper explores the different possibilities available for the translation of metaphorical baseball expressions from English to Portuguese. The study is based on the TV Corpus, plus a corpus previously compiled by the author. The translations produced by three freely available online MT systems (Google, DeepL and Systran) will be compared with HTs used in the subtitles of TV-series, including both Brazilian and European Portuguese subtitles. The results of the analysis show that sports-related metaphorical and idiomatic expressions remain a blind spot for English-Portuguese MT systems.

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Sendebar-Revista de Traduccion e Interpretacion LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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30 weeks

期刊介绍： Sendebar is an annual international research journal which publishes works in the fields of translation and interpreting. It was founded in 1990 by Luis Márquez Villegas and is based at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Granada (C/ Puentezuelas, 55 - E 18071 Granada). Its main goal is to present original scientific works on Translation and Interpreting in all their aspects (theory, practice, methodology, didactics, history and so on). Its readers are scholars and researchers in the fields of Translation and Interpreting, as well as related disciplines.