Lecture 4. prose translation概要1.pptVIP

Translation of Prose Writings Best of times It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. (Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities) 这是一个最好的时代，也是一个最坏的时代；这是明智的年代，这是愚昧的年代；这是信任的纪元，这是怀疑的纪元；这是光明的季节，这是黑暗的季节；这是希望的春日，这是失望的冬日；我们面前应有尽有，我们面前一无所有；我们都将直下地狱…… Dozens of my books were purchased with money which ought to have been spent upon what are called necessities of life. Many a time I have stood before a stall, or a bookseller’s window, torn by conflict of intellectual desire and bodily need. 对照译文：我的成打成打的书都是用了该花在生 活必需品上的钱买来的。不止一次我站在书摊，或是书店的橱窗前，经受精神需要和物质需要的冲 突的折磨。 参考译文：鄙人所购的许多书籍，所用之款 本应用于所谓生活必需品。我时常留连于书摊前或是书店的橱窗前，在心智渴念与口腹之欲 的矛盾中受尽煎熬。 [4] At the very hour of dinner, when my stomach clamored(大声要求） of food, I have been stopped by sight of a volume so long coveted, and marked at so advantageous a price, that I could not let it go: yet to buy it meant pangs of famine. 对照译文：到用晚餐的时间，当我的肚子饿得咕噜咕噜直叫的时候，我已经因为看到一本我已想要多时的书籍而停住勒脚步。树上标着很合算的价格，我实在是不能错过这个大好的机会，但是如果我买下了这本书籍，那便意味着我将经受挨饿的痛苦。 参考译文：某日正当进餐之时，我饥肠辘辘，步履却为一书所止，此书令我心仪已久，而标价竟如此诱人，实不忍失之交臂。然而，购之便意味着忍饥挨饿。 咕噜咕噜直叫，一个滑稽，一个文雅 （5）The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. [译文1] 条条纤云在绛色霞光中飘扬，如海中游鱼般。 [译文2] 那里万道霞光，宛如无数锦鳞，正浮沉翔游于金光熠耀的猩红海洋。 [分析] 四字结构是汉语表达形式中一个极重要的组成部分.正是通过四字结构的使用，才使得译文二更加丰满，并极富色彩的变化，让人读起来有壮丽华美之感。 Youth me a n s a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 译文：青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯懦，进取压 倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬 男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂