《英汉翻译--家庭付出了代价》-毕业论文（设计）.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 2 英汉1500字文章翻译 姓名： 学号： 0803012322 班级： 08商务C班 Families Pay the Price 家庭付出了代价 Bob Herbert 鲍勃·赫伯特 “It’s like watching your son playing in traffic, and theres nothing you can do. “- Janet Bellows, mother of a soldier who has been assigned to a second tour in Iraq. “就像看着自己的孩子在车流中玩耍但却束手无策。” 珍妮特贝洛斯，一个第二次被分配给到伊拉克的士兵的母亲说到。 Back in the 1960s, when it seemed as if every other draftee in the Army was being sent to Vietnam, I was sent off to Korea, where I was assigned to the intelligence office of an engineer battalion. 早在20世纪60年代,似乎当其他被征召入伍的士兵被派去越南时,我被派去了韩国,在那里我被指派到情报办公室的工程师一大队。 Twenty years old and half a world away from home, I looked forward to mail call the way junkies craved their next fix. My teenage sister, Sandy, got all of her high school girlfriends to write to me, which led some of the guys in my unit to think I was some kind of Don Juan. I considered it impolite to correct any misconceptions they might have had. 二十岁就和家里相隔半个地球远，我期待着用邮件的方式点名了那些恳求得到一次用量的毒品的吸毒者。我年少妹妹桑迪带着所有她高中学校的女朋友写信给我，这导致我们单位的一些球员认为我是个风流荡子。我认为去纠正他们对我可能有的误解是不礼貌的。 You could depend on the mail for an emotional lift - most of the time. But there were times when I would open an envelope and read, in the inky handwriting of my mother or father or sister, that a friend of mine, someone I had grown up with or gone to school with, or a new friend I had met in the Army, had been killed in Vietnam. Just like that. Gone. Life over at 18, 19, 20. 大部分时间里你可以依赖的邮件传递得到一种情感的鼓舞。但有好几次当我打开一个信封来读时, 在我母亲或父亲或姐妹漆黑的笔迹里我总是会看到类似的这样的事和我一起长大或一起上学的朋友,又或者是我在军队里刚认识的新朋友已经丧生在越南。就这样走了，生命停止在18或19或20岁。 I can still remember the weird feelings that would come over me in those surreal moments, including the irrational idea that I was somehow responsible for the death. In the twisted logic of grief, I would feel that if I had never opened the envelope, the person would still be alive. I remember being overwhelmed with the desire to reseal the letter in the envelope and bring my dead friend