《Passage translation Ex 07 E-C essay》.docVIP

Exercise 7 E-C Translation: an essay 分句翻译： Women and men Scott Russell Sanders 女人与男人 [美] 斯科特.拉塞尔.桑德斯 孙致礼 译注 I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Be slow to understand. 理解得很慢，明白得很晚，迟迟未能理解 deep grievances 深切的痛苦 as a boy （我）小时候。不要译成“作为一个男孩”。 envy 从“妒忌”和“羡慕”中选一个符合语境的。“羡慕”更好。 我迟迟未能理解女人的深切痛苦，因为我小时侯曾羡慕过她们。 Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a senses of ease and grace were the mothers and daughters. only 要译出的语气，不一定按字面译。可译为“那些…，那些…，那些…，统统都是…” seemed to enjoy a senses of ease and grace 看上去优雅自在、安闲自得 the mothers and daughters 做母亲和做女儿的。不要译成“母亲们和女儿们”。 上大学之前，我所认识的那些对艺术、音乐或文学感兴趣的人，那些爱读书的人，那些看上去优雅自在、安闲自得的人，统统都是做母亲和做女儿的。 Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. fret: to be vexed or troubled; worry. Scrimp: to economize severely Make do: 设法应付，将就对付 像男人一样，女人也为钱发愁，也省吃俭用，凑合度日。 But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones who had failed. Failed 不要译成“失败”。这句要意译。 但是，如果家里断了收入，问题并非出在她们身上。 Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. a blessed fact 一桩幸事。不要译成“一个幸运的事实” 她们也用不着去打仗，这在我看来是一桩幸事。 By comparison with the narrow, ironclad days of fathers, there was an expansiveness, I thought, in the days of mothers. ironclad: exacting 跟做父亲的那种狭窄、紧张的生活相比，我觉得做母亲的日子过得比较宽松自在。 They went to see neighbors, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. errand: a short trip taken to perform a specified task, usually for another 她们上邻居家串门，去城里买东西，到学校、图书馆、教堂跑跑腿儿。 No doubt, had I looked harder at their lives, I would have envied them less. 当然，我若是对她们的生活观察得敏锐一些，就不会那么羡慕她们了。 It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. 我命中注定不是女人，因而更容易发现女人悠闲的一面。 Few of them held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. thankless: not likely to be apprec