口译实践：昂山素季补领诺贝尔和平奖致辞.doc

口译实践：昂上素季补领诺贝尔和平奖致辞 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Dear Friends, 尊敬的国王和王后陛下，尊敬的皇室家族和各位阁下，杰出的挪威诺贝尔委员会委员们，各位亲爱的朋友们： Long years ago, sometimes it seems many lives ago, I was at Oxford listening to the radio programme Desert Island Discs with my young son Alexander. It was a well-known programme (for all I know it still continues) on which famous people from all walks of life were invited to talk about the eight discs, the one book beside the bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, and the one luxury item they would wish to have with them were they to be marooned on a desert island. At the end of the programme, which we had both enjoyed, Alexander asked me if I thought I might ever be invited to speak on Desert Island Discs. “Why not?” I responded lightly. Since he knew that in general only celebrities took part in the programme he proceeded to ask, with genuine interest, for what reason I thought I might be invited. I considered this for a moment and then answered: “Perhaps because I’d have won the Nobel Prize for literature,” and we both laughed. The prospect seemed pleasant but hardly?probable. 回忆起多年前，恍若隔世，我和我的小儿子亚历山大正在牛津收听广播节目“荒岛唱片”。那是一档知名的广播节目（据我所知它依旧存在），邀请各行各业的名人来谈谈，当他们被放逐到荒岛上后，希望能携带的哪八张唱片？除了《圣经》和莎士比亚著作以外的想带哪本书和哪件奢侈品？节目快结束时，我们都听得非常开心，亚历山大问我想不想被邀请参加“荒岛唱片”。我随口答道：“为什么不？” 因为他知道，上节目的通常都是名人，他就继续真心实意地问我觉得自己能被邀请的理由。我想了想，说：“也许是因为我得了诺贝尔文学奖吧。” 然后我们都哈哈大笑了起来。因为这份憧憬看似美好，却几乎渺无希望。 (I cannot now remember why I gave that answer, perhaps because I had recently read a book by a Nobel Laureate or perhaps because the Desert Island celebrity of that day had been a famous writer.) （现在，我不记得当时为何要那样回答，也许因为刚好读了一本诺贝尔获奖者的作品，又或许因为那天 “荒岛唱片” 邀请的名人是位有名的作家。） In 1989, when my late husband Michael Aris came to see me during my first term of house arrest, he told me that a friend, John Finnis, had nominated me for the Nobel Peace Prize. This time also I laughed. For an instant Michael looked amazed, then he realized why I