第十届CASIO杯翻译竞赛英语组参考译.docxVIP

第十届杯翻译竞赛获奖作品（英语组）路??[英] 罗伯特·麦克法伦 作 侯凌玮 译Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers, though, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed.人是一种动物，因而和所有其他动物一样，我们行走时总会留下踪迹：雪地、沙滩、淤泥、草地、露水、土壤和苔藓上都有我们经过的痕迹。狩猎术语中有个词语清晰准确地描述了这种留痕行为：嗅迹。一种生物的“嗅迹”即它的踪迹。然而，我们往往会忘记自己也会留下踪迹，因为我们的大多数旅行都发生在沥青和水泥路上，而这些路面是不会