TUGAS AKHIR PROGRAM (BING4500)

Inisiasi 3 : Praktik Menerjemahkan Teks (Inggris-Indonesia)

Pada Inisiasi ke-2, Anda telah melakukan identifikasi terhadap masalah-masalah penerjemahan
yang mungkin timbul dan juga menentukan strategi/teknik penerjemahan yang akan digunakan
guna mengatasi kesulitan-kesulitan tersebut.

Task:
Sekarang terjemahkan teks naratif berjudul Ashes of Vengeance di bawah ini ke bahasa
Indonesia dengan tepat (accurate), jelas (clear), dan wajar (natural). Pastikan bahwa tingkat
kohesi terjemahan Anda (teks sasaran) sama dengan tingkat kohesi teks sumber. Perhatikan
beberapa tip penerjemahan berikut.

Meanings in the source language must be conveyed accurately in the target language,
without loss of meanings.
Pay attention to the readership of your translation (i.e. clarity)
Be aware of the notion of register (i.e. terminology/vocabulary, style, grammatical features)
and collocation both in the source language and the target language.
Make sure that your translation is NOT read like a translation (i.e. naturalness)
There are no such things as “free translation”.

Cobalah diskusikan melalui Forum Diskusi tentang sejauh mana kriteria keakuratan, kejelasan,
dan kewajaran sudah terpenuhi dalam terjemahan Anda atau terjemahan teman-teman Anda.

Ashes of Vengeance
By Henry Van Dyke

Dun was a hard little city, proud and harsh; but impregnable because it was built upon a
high rock. The host of the Visigoths had besieged it for months in vain. Then came a fugitive
from the city, at midnight, to the tent of Alaric, the Chief of the besiegers.
The man was haggard and torn. His eyes were wild, his hands trembling. The Chief held
and steadied him with a look.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"Your name, the purpose that brings you here?" "My name," said the man, "is the
Avenger. For thirty years I have lived in Dun, and the people have been unjust and cruel to me.
They persecuted my family, because they hated me. My wife died of a broken heart, my children
of starvation. I have just escaped from the prison of Dun, and come to tell you how the city may
be taken. There is a secret pathway, a hidden entrance. I know it and can reveal it to you."
"Good," said the Chief, measuring the man with tranquil eyes, "but what is your price?"
"Vengeance," said the man, "I ask only the right to revenge my sufferings upon those
who have inflicted them, when you have taken the city.
" Alaric bent his head and was silent for a moment. "It is a fair price," he said, "and I will
pay it. Tell me the way to take the city, and I will leave at your command a troop of soldiers
sufficient to work your will on it afterward." The trumpet sounded the capture of the city in the
morning. The Avenger, waking late from his troubled sleep, led his soldiers through the open
gate.
It was like a city of the dead, and the bodies of those who had been killed in the last
defense, lay where they had fallen. Empty and silent were the streets where lie had so often
walked in humili-ation. Gone were the familiar faces that had frowned on him and mocked him.
The houses at whose doors he had often knocked were vacant. His wrath sank within him, and
the arrow of solitude pierced him to the heart.
Then he came to the belfry, and there was the bell-ringer, one of the worst of his ancient
persecutors, standing at the entrance of the tower.
"Why are you here?" said the Avenger.
"By the orders of King Alaric," answered the bell-ringer, "to ring the bells when peace
comes to the city." "Ring now," said the Avenger,
"Ring now!"
Then, at the sound of the bells, the people who had concealed themselves at Alaric's
command came trooping forth from the cel-lars and caves where they had been hiding,--old men
and women and children, a motley throng of sufferers.
The Avenger looked at them and the tears ran down his cheeks, because he remembered.
"Listen," he said, "don't be afraid. These soldiers are going on to join their army. You
have done me great wrong. But the fire of hatred is burnt out, and in the ashes of vengeance we
are going to plant the seeds of peace."

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