(六) 詞無定譯

　　例子：

　　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 conditions.

　　我們根本不必追問政府是否根據刑法或民法對范德比爾特提出起訴。范德比爾特不僅逍遙法外，而且在兩年后又以極其兇狠的手段對政府進行弓一次巨大的詐騙。

(七) 精煉譯詞

　　例子：

　　A new dignity crept into his walk.

　　原譯：走路的姿態不知甚么時候開始給人一種莊重的印象。

　　改譯：走起路來，不覺平添了幾分尊嚴。

(八) 刪削"When"字

　　例子

　　1、 When he saw me, he was startled.

　　他看見我，嚇了一大跳，(不譯：當他看見我的時候，……)

　　2、"When your gals takes on and cry, what's the use of cracking on them over the head, and knocking on them round?"

　　你那些女黑奴哭得那么傷心，你還拿鞭子沒頭沒腦的抽，把她們打得死去活來，那有甚么用呢？(不譯：當你那些女黑奴哭得那么傷心的時候，你還拿鞭子……

(九) 感嘆詞的不同譯法

　　例子：

　　To him there is something divine/ in the sympathetic indulgence she substitute / for the angry disgust/ with which one of his own country women resent his supposed conditon.

　　要是一個英國女人看到他真像他自己所假定的那么爛醉，/ 她就會對他又惱怒，又厭惡，/ 而挪拉對他卻又同情又寬容，/ 他在這中間看出了一點神圣的品質

(十) 抽詞拆句法

　　例子：

　　All the way along the line, from the border right up to Peking, as far as the eye could see, the countryside was literally covered up with a green carpet of growing crops, holding a promise of bumper harvests.

　　從邊境到北京，一路上沿鐵路線極目縱觀，但見農村到處是茁壯的莊稼，彷佛鋪上一塊綠地毯，這說明豐收在望了。