第十届CASIO杯翻译竞赛英语组参考译.docx

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，而这些路面是不会轻易留下印迹的。‘Always, everywhere, people have walked, veining the earth with paths visible and invisible, symmetrical or meandering,’ writes Thomas Clark in his enduring prose-poem ‘In Praise of Walking’. It’s true that, once you begin to notice them, you see that the landscape is still webbed with paths and footways – shadowing the modern-day road network, or meeting it at a slant or perpendicular. Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, sarns, snickets – say the names of paths out loud and at speed and they become a poem or rite – holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, halterpaths, cartways, carneys, causeways, herepaths.托马斯·克拉克在他那首经久不衰的散文诗《徒步赞》中写道：“时时处处，人们行走着，在大地上留下纵横交错、可见和不可见、或整齐或蜿蜒的路径。”的确，一旦你开始留意，你就会发现大地上仍旧覆盖着蛛网般交错的小路和小径，它们有的与现代道路网络相重叠，有的则倾斜或垂直与之相连接。朝圣之路、绿茵小径、牧羊小道、运棺之路、仙径雷线、弄堂小巷、石堤沟渠、墙间过道、低堑小道、斜道车道、单车小道、畜力车道、堤道砌道、古行军道；倘若我们快速地大声说出这些小路小径的诸多名称，它们竟成了一首诗甚至一种仪式祷词。Many regions still have their old ways, connecting place to place, leading over passes or round mountains, to church or chapel, river or sea. Not all of their histories are happy. In Ireland there are hundreds of miles of famine roads, built by the starving during the 1840s to connect nothing with nothing in return for little, unregistered on Ordnance Survey base maps. In the Netherlands there are doodwegen and spookwegen– death roads and ghost roads – which conve