翻译练习01.ppt

* Lesson 30 * 他除了本分做人之外没有什么别的奢望。 He hadn’t the slightest desire to be anything other than he was. 他丝毫没有改变自己现状的欲望。 * Lesson 30 * He gave himself body and soul to his task, knowing that it was a thankless one, knowing that he was being used and abused by a heartless, soulless organization. 不感谢的；忘恩的；不领情的；吃力不讨好not likely to be rewarded (thankless task) 他把他的全部身心都投入到他的工作之中，尽管他知道，这是一份没人感激的差事；尽管他知道他只是被一个毫无感情的机构利用。 尽管他知道他干的是吃力不讨好的活儿，知道这个没心没肺的公司在利用他，但他仍全心全意地投入到自己的工作中去。 * Lesson 30 * 但，正如他自己不只一次提到过的，不管公司态度如何，这都与他无关； But, as he himself had more than once remarked, whatever the attitude of the company might be it was none of his concern. 但是，如他自己不止一次所说，无论公司对他什么态度，他都不在乎。 * Lesson 30 * 而等他退休的时候，他们会忘掉他辛辛苦苦干了一辈子的功绩。这他都不在乎。 Nor did it matter to him that, in the event of retirement, they should undo everything he had labored to build up. 即使他退休后，公司推翻了他苦心经营建立起来的东西，他也不在乎。 * Lesson 30 * 他也从来不会不为有求于他的人尽力。(郭海云、刘万勇、孙梧凤译《性爱之旅》) Having no illusions, he nevertheless gave his utmost to all who made demands upon him. (Henry Miller, Sexus: 263-265) 他虽然不抱任何幻想，但对那些有求于他的人，他还是尽自己所能去帮助他们。(亨利.米勒《殉色之旅》) 文化语料的翻译 * Lesson 30 * 在和奥洛克的谈话中，我了解到许多内幕，而有些我怀疑克郎西自己都未必清楚。 I had learned a great deal from these nocturnal inspections, things which I doubted that Clancy(克兰西) himself knew. 这种夜间巡查让我了解到很多事，这些事依我看连克兰西都未必知道。 * Lesson 30 * 我发现不只是少数人有过贪污受贿的事。 More than a few of the clerks, I discovered through the course of these rounds with O’Rourke, had been guilty of embezzlement at one time or another in their seedy, cosmococcic career. 贪污，盗窃，盗用，擅用，挪用(公款)；侵吞(公物等)；监守自盗： 1.多子的，多核的；2）结子的；3） (玻璃等)有气泡的；4. 无精打采的，不愉快的；5. 破旧的；(衣衫)褴褛的(shabby and untidy)；6. 低级的，下流的(morally degraded) 在与奥罗克一起巡查的过程中，我发现，公司的不少职员在他们龌龊的电讯生涯中，都多多少少盗用过公款。 * Lesson 30 * 奥洛克有他自己处理这类事件的方法， O’Rourke had his own way of dealing with these cases. 对这种情况，奥罗克有自己的处理方式。 * Lesson 30 * 凭着多年来积累的丰富经验，他经常随心所欲地对付这些不幸的人。 Relying upon the good judgment which his long experience had given him, he often took amazing liberties in dealing with these unfortunate individual