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本帖最后由 fangdanny 于 2022-1-28 22:24 编辑 # \, @% l7 u: e- U' V7 g% ]
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张培基英译夏丏尊《白马湖之冬》。
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【原文】# @1 H# L" u* x+ _( ?% ]- {
十年以来,白马湖已成了一个小村落,当我移居的时候,还是一片荒野。$ S& w. n2 Q8 ]$ i( L5 }
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Since then, however, it has grown into quite a village, but it was an expanse of wilderness at the time when I moved in.
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【评】
- |* H# q+ E; Z2 x) k* h中文和英文的另一个不同是:中文是意合为主,句子在逻辑上要求比较宽松,起承转合通常在字里行间。+ D/ U7 Y3 m" k
6 @0 e# y! X- s英文是形合为主,对内容的逻辑要求比较高,语句重点要在句子形式上予以体现。
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从本句译文看,张培基亦步亦趋,未能突出原文的重点。通读原文,可知重点在“荒野”。而前一句“成了一个小村落”只是一笔附带。
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" c( X! }0 s7 h. k4 l张培基译文紧跟原文顺序,这是多数汉译英人的通病。译出来的英文只是单词组合,语法或许正确,但没有英文味道。
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When my family moved there, we found ourselves in the middle of nowhere, though a small village has sprung up since then.
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: i" e! \, {& O【原文】
, f# f8 O! f5 U1 w春晖中学的新建筑巍然矗立于湖的那一面,湖的这一面的山脚下是小小的几间新平屋,住着我和刘君心如两家。此外两三里内没有人烟。
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The new buildings of Chun Hui Middle School then stood tall on the other side of the Lake while on this side were several newly-built small one-storey houses tucked away at the foot of a mountain where lived two families separately, the family of mine and that of Liu Xinru. The neighborhood was totally unpopulated far and wide except for the two households.
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; Y: B4 V+ Z: X& }# O5 Z+ T+ X这句问题更多。) ~5 \2 r- t: z1 M
* S1 b) j& A, s ?9 o, A9 v首先,英文不够简洁——这似乎是张培基那一代英语人的“特征”(如钱钟书),写出来的英文句子七缠八绕,拖泥带水。
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如 where lived two families 就够了,何须再加 separately?: N+ {( U4 Q! ~ O5 D
7 v5 r* i: L; _& M3 ?+ ^) k' U张培基用了 two families,后面再用 two households,显得更加啰嗦。5 B5 G6 q1 S' c }
- n* O# A7 O3 P: A6 \# b" O“此外两三里内没有人烟”的译文是 The neighborhood was totally unpopulated far and wide,该句英文完全不通。neighborhood 在英文中意为"an area of a town or city"。既然是 neighborhood,就不应该是 unpopulated,这是矛盾一。0 N4 ?3 R* i- {3 T9 }# M5 M1 f! q
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矛盾二,far and wide 在英文中,要用来指非常大的一片地区,而 neighborhood 则范围有限,所以这是用词失当。况且原文明说了“两三里内”,则更不应用 far and wide。2 p! E) B8 i8 f/ \
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就这两句译文来看,张氏英文绝对不能当散文英译学习,只能误人子弟。2 n% y4 ]7 `3 L k U& g: I8 C: P
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本句改译如下:
2 n% y; V9 j3 h8 m5 }On the other side of the lake there was a new classroom building on the campus of Chunhui Middle School. On our side at the foot of a hill stood a couple of single-level cottage. We were neighbors only with another family - the Lius, and There were no other families within a radius of two miles. |
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