翻译技巧：误译

语法结构理解不当

　　译者对语法结构理解不当，如分不清词性、指代关系以及句型等，就会直接造成误译。

　　1. Magnetic fields of the former kind are geerally about a million times weaker than the Earth's field ,whereas those originating from the traveling signals of nerve cells are even weaker, some hundred million times less than the earth's field at their strongest.

　　[原译]前一类磁场通常只有地球磁场的一百万分之一左右，而由神经细胞传播的信号产生的磁场则更弱，的时候也只有地球磁场的几亿分之一。

　　[分析]此处some 不是形容词（或称determiner限定词），而是副词，经常用在数词之前，相当于about“大约”，如There were some 40 or50 peop0le there.故some hundred million 应译成“约一亿”。

　　[正译]……只有地球磁场的约一亿分之一。

　　2. Now Jeffreys points out that, if a number of observations have been found to conform to a law, it is highly probable that next one will do so whether the law is true or not.

　　[误译]现在杰佛利指出，如果已获得大量的观察资料与一条法则一致，非常可能下一条法则也将如此，不管该法则正确与否。

　　[分析]此句的代词one，它指代observation而不是law，否则变成“法则与法则相一致”，这在逻辑上也自相矛盾。

　　[正译]……非常可以下一次观察也与该法则相一致，不管它正确与否。