Translating contrasts with English expressions that not their naturally equivalents in Japanese


When translating how does one deal with contrasts best satisfied with English
expressions that not the naturally translations from Japanese. In the
following example:

> 現在の株式市場は、 **日本企業の経営者の正しい戦略や従業員の真摯な勤労に対して* _**、不当に低い評価しか与えていません。_
> *[したがって、株価は異常に低いと判断しています。]
>
> The current stock market is assigning an unjustifiably low value on the
> dedication of workers and the (correct) strategies adopted by the management
> of Japanese companies and therefore we consider stock prices to be
> anomalously low.

I wanted to structure the sentence with "Given that A, B is..." because it
allowed me to connect the full phrases before 「に対して」to the after it. However
this is not true equivalent of 「に対して」. Instead I have cheated by putting
"correct" in parentheses but I am not sure what best practice would be.




The best practice is to give the listener the best understanding of the
concept and not worrying about the actual word for word translations.
Understand both languages well enough to know the different nuances in each
and when you go to translate, present that thought as if it was your own in
the words you would have said it.

I was watching a movie where a guy was shooting at another guy and missed all
his shots. He hands the gun to his assistant and says "dame da kono teppou!"
and the English translation was "It's useless!" Yes, that was technically
correct, "dame" means useless, and used with the motion of handing the gun to
his assistant it might have been understood that "it" was referring to the
gun, but the way it came across was "it is useless to peruse this man any
further." Knowing the character and how a similar character in an American
movie would have talked, I would have translated it is "This gun sucks!" I
know the Japanese word for "Sucks" was not said, but that was how it should
have been translated.




The best practice is to give the listener the best understanding of the
concept and not worrying about the actual word for word translations.
Understand both languages well enough to know the different nuances in each
and when you go to translate, present that thought as if it was your own in
the words you would have said it.

I was watching a movie where a guy was shooting at another guy and missed all
his shots. He hands the gun to his assistant and says "dame da kono teppou!"
and the English translation was "It's useless!" Yes, that was technically
correct, "dame" means useless, and used with the motion of handing the gun to
his assistant it might have been understood that "it" was referring to the
gun, but the way it came across was "it is useless to peruse this man any
further." Knowing the character and how a similar character in an American
movie would have talked, I would have translated it is "This gun sucks!" I
know the Japanese word for "Sucks" was not said, but that was how it should
have been translated.

