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第七届《英语世界》杯翻译大赛英译汉译文对比及点评 按语：本文为第七届《英语世界》杯翻译大赛英译汉类别的原作、参考译文及一等奖获奖译文的对比文稿，其中蓝色译文为北京外国语大学英语学院吴文安教授提供的参考译文，黑色译文为一等奖译文，获奖者为上海外国语大学高翻学院的蒋怡颖。文稿后的点评文章“细节·语言·风格”为吴文安教授所作。 Great Possessions By Aldo Leopold 巨大财富 奥尔多·利奥波德 开阔的领地 〔美〕奥尔多·利奥波德 【1】One hundred and twenty acres, according to the County Clerk, is the extent of my worldly domain. But the County Clerk is a sleepy fellow, who never looks at his record books before nine o’clock. What they would show at daybreak is the question here at issue. 一百二十英亩，据沙县书记员所言，是我拥有的世俗疆域。但沙县书记员总是昏昏欲睡，上午九点之前从不浏览他的记录簿。而拂晓时分领地上展现的一切才是问题所在。 按县书记员的话来说，眼前一百二十英亩的农场是我的领地。不过，这家伙可贪睡了，不到日上三竿，是断然不会翻看他那些记录薄的。那么拂晓时分，农场是怎样的一番景象，是个值得讨论的问题。? 【2】Books or no books, it is a fact, patent both to my dog and myself, that at daybreak I am the sole owner of all the acres I can walk over. It is not only boundaries that disappear, but also the thought of being bounded. Expanses unknown to deed or map are known to every dawn, and solitude, supposed no longer to exist in my county, extends on every hand as far as the dew can reach. 　　记录与否无关紧要，事实上，只有我与我的狗心知肚明，黎明时分我就是我走过所有地域的唯一主人。不仅仅地界消逝无踪，思维也没了羁绊。地契或地图上未知的广阔每个黎明都知晓，而荒野幽居之地，向来被认定在沙县已不复存在，却在露水洒落之处向四面八方蔓延。 管他有没有记录在册呢，反正破晓时漫步走过的每一英亩土地都由我一人主宰，这一点我的爱犬也心领神会。地域上的重重界限消失了，那种被桎梏的压抑感也随之抛诸脑后。契据和地图上没法标明的无边光景[1]，其美妙展现在每天的黎明时分。而那份独处的悠然，我本以为在这沙郡中已觅而不得，却不想在每一颗露珠上寻到了它的踪影。? 注释：[1] 无边光景，形容视线所及的所有风光景物，引自宋代诗人朱熹《春日》中的 “胜日寻芳泗水滨，无边光景一时新”。 【3】Like other great landowners, I have tenants. They are negligent about rents, but very punctilious about tenures. Indeed at every daybreak from April to July they proclaim their boundaries to each other, and so acknowledge, at least by inference, their fiefdom to me. 　　像其他拥有广阔土地的主人那样，我也有众多庄客。他们对租金浑不在意，却对租期一丝不苟。从四月到七月，实际上每个黎明，他们都宣告彼此的地界，至少据我推测，也承认向我租借了土地。 和其他大农场主一样，我也有不少佃户。他们不在乎租金这事，划起领地来却毫不含糊。从四月到七月，每天拂晓时刻，他们都会向彼此宣告领地界限，同时以此表明他们对我的臣服。? 【4】This daily ceremony, contrary to what you might suppose, begins with the utmost decorum. Who originally laid down its protocols I do not know. At 3:30 a.m., with such dignity