翻译是一份工作，也是一门学问，所以在翻译中有许多技巧可循，让我们来看看翻译的十大“利器”吧！
(一) 同义反译法
1. Only three customers remained in the bar.
2. I’ll be here for good this time.
3. Please keep the fire burning when I’m out.
4. “Wait, he is serious.”
5. “Now, Clara, be firm with the boy!”
(二) 删减解释词
The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculair of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quotation and mulatto women.
(三) 短句拆译
” …on one sunshiny morning in June , …”
(四) 译词推陈出新
When he might well have acted with boldness, he found himself filled with doubts,scrulples and equivocality , in addition to the ordinary fears of a lower.
原译：当他可以大胆行动的时候，他发现自己除了一个情人所具有的那种普通的害怕之外，心里还充满怀疑、顾虑和踌躇。
改译：等到他不妨放胆去追求的时候，他却迟疑不定，顾虑重重。至于一般堕入情网的人那种常有的提心吊胆的心理，那就更是难免的了。
(五) 解释性添词
“George, I’m ashamed of you! George, I couldn’t have believed you would have done it! I always knew you to be a rolling stone that gathered no moss; but I never thought you would have taken away what little moss there was for Bagnet and the children to lie upon,” said Mrs. Bagnet.
”乔治，我真替你害臊﹗乔治，想不到你会干出这种事情来﹗俗话说得好：滚着的碌碡不长苔，流浪的汉子不攒财。我早知道你就是这么一个流浪汉﹗可真没有想到你连贝格纳特和孩子们靠它过活的那一点点财也骗走“，贝格纳特太太说道。
(六) 词无定译
It is quite useless to ask whether Vanderbilt was criminally prosecuted or civilly sued by the Government. Not only was he unmolested, but two years later, he carried on another huge swindle upon the Government under peculiary heinous conditi.
(七) 精炼译词
A new dignity crept into his walk.
原译：走路的姿态不知甚么时候开始给人一种庄重的印象。
改译：走起路来，不觉平添了几分尊严。
(八) 删削”When”字
1. When he saw me, he was startled.
2. “When your gals takes on and cry, what’s the use of cracking on them over the head, and knocking on them round?”
(九) 感叹词的不同译法
“Why, Eva, your room is full now.”
“得了吧，伊娃，你屋里的花都满了。”
2. “Well, that’s odd!” said Marie. “What in the world do you want that for?”
(十) 顺拆法
His delegation agreed with the Executive Director/ that the fund should continue working/ for a better understanding of the interrelatihip between economic, social and demographic factors.
原译：他的代表团同意执行主任关于该基金会应继续为更好地了解经济、社会和人口的相互关系而努力的意见。
改译：他的代表团同意执行主任的意见，认为该基金会应继续努力， 以求更好地了解经济、社会和人口这三方面的相互关系。
