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经典英语散文带翻译-勿以善小而不为
If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it’s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ways to do this is by developing my own helping rituals.
如果你想让自己的生活安宁祥和,做一些友善平和的事情。我最喜欢的一种方式是培养 自己乐于助人的习惯。
These little acts of kindness are opportunities to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be kind and helpful.
这些小小的善行让你有机会去帮助别人,让你意识到待人友善、乐于助人的感觉有多好。
We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is beauty and nature. One of the exceptions to the beauty is the litter that some people throw out of their windows as they are driving on the rural roads.
我们住在旧金山圣弗朗西斯科湾地区的郊外。我们目所能及的几乎都是美丽的自然风光。与这美景不太和谐的是有人驱车行驶在乡间小路上时随手从车窗往外扔垃圾。
One of the few drawbacks to living out the boondocks is that public services, such as littercollection, are less available than they are closer to the city.
而居住在这种偏远的地方的一个缺点就是缺少必要的公共服务,例如,垃圾的收集就不如靠近市区那样方便。
A helping ritual that I practice regularly with my two children is picking up litter in our surrounding areas. We’ve become so accustomed to doing this that my daughters will often say to me inanimated voices, "There’s some litter, Daddy, stop the car!"
我跟我的两个孩子经常做的一件事就是捡拾我们周围地区的垃圾。对此我们已经习以为常,我的女儿们经常会兴奋地对我说,“爸爸,这儿有垃圾,请停一下车!”
And if we have time, we will often pull over and pick it up. It may seem strange, but we actually enjoy it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically anywhere. Once I even saw a complete stranger picking up litter close to where we live. He smiled at me and said, "I saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good idea."
只要时间来得及,我们总是将车开到路边并将垃圾捡起来。这似乎有点不可思议,但我们真的喜欢这样做。我们在公园里,人行道上,几乎任何地方捡拾垃圾。曾经有一次,我在我们家附近看到一位陌生人在捡垃圾。他笑着对我说,“我看到你这么做了,看来是个好主意。”
Picking up litter is only one of an endless supply of possible helping rituals. You might like holding a door open for people, visiting lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or shoveling snow off someone else’s driveway. Think of something that seems effortless yet helpful. It’s funny, personally rewarding, and can be a good example. And everyone benefits.
捡垃圾只不过是无数善意行为中的一种形式而已。你可以为别人开门,或者去敬老院看望那些孤独的老人,或者清除别人行车道上的积雪。总会想出一些似乎毫不费力但又非常有益的事情。这真的很有趣,自己会感觉很好,也为别人树立了榜样。每个人都会从中受益。
英语散文阅读:生命的度量
Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That’s why you pay him/her.
一些无关紧要的数字不要挂怀,包括你的年龄、体重和身高。让医生来操心吧。因为他们收了你的报酬。
Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
结交快乐的朋友。整日愁眉不展只能让你雪上加霜。
Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s."
学无止境。多学学电脑、手艺、园艺等等。不要让你的大脑闲置下来。无所事事是魔鬼的加工厂。魔鬼的名字叫"痴呆症".
Enjoy the simple things.
享受简单事物的乐趣。
Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
多笑,开怀大笑。上气不接下气地笑。
The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
有泪就流。在忍耐和伤心过后,要继续前行。陪伴我们度过此生的只有一人--那就是我们自己。让生命鲜活起来。
Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
让你的所爱包围着你,无论是家人、宠物、纪念品、音乐、植物、爱好,什么都好。你的家就是避风港。
Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
珍惜健康:如果它还好端端的,就好好地保护它。如果它反复无常,就调养好它。如果你已无力改善它了,就请别人帮忙吧。
Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next country, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
别踏上犯罪的道路。你可以去逛街,可以到邻县去,可以出国旅行,但就是别踏上犯罪的道路。
Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
把你的爱告诉你所爱着的人们,把握住每一个表达机会。
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
千万记住:度量生命的不是呼吸的次数,而是那些最最难忘的时刻。
张培基英译散文赏析之《海上日出》
海上日出
Sunrise at Sea
巴金
Ba Jin
为了看日出,我常常早起。那时天还没有大亮,周围非常清静,船上只有机器的响声。
I would often get up early to watch the sunrise when it was not yet quite light and all was quiet except for the droning of the ship engine.
要点:
本段重点在于合译,译者增用 了when, and, except for几个连接词 ,把汉语表达的意思串联了起来,表达的逻辑之美由此而生 。
天空还是一片浅蓝,颜色很浅。转眼间天边出现了一道红霞,慢慢地在扩大它的范围,加强它的亮光。我知道太阳要从天边升起来了,便不转眼地望着那里。
The sky was pale with a bluish hue. Soon a streak of pink dawn broke over the horizon,expanding gradually and becoming brighter and brighter. Knowing that the sun was about to rise, I had my eyes fixed on the distant edge of the sea.
要点:
1,“还没有大亮”=be not quite light,在《看月》中,有个“没有‘断黑’”= is not yet quite dark,“大亮”“断黑”都是程度副词+形容词的结构,通常用quiet+adj结构
2,“机器的响声”译为the droning of the ship engine.。“机器”这里指轮船上的steam engine,即蒸汽发动机,不宜译为macine.另外“响声”译为droning,表示机器的单调低沉的嗡嗡响声,较单纯的sound更有形象感
3,“浅蓝”=bluish,意为“带点蓝的,浅蓝色的”, -ish这个后缀表示”带…性质的,稍…的“,在《离别》和《杜鹃》中,我们也见到过此类构词法,这类表示颜色的词大家要注意,因为文学作品中出于细节刻画的需要,会将颜色描写得十分具体,翻译时也要注重选词的准确和美感哦~
4,“天边”是指海天交接之处,即“地平线”,译为the horizon,之后的“那里”文中处理为the distant edge of the sea,避免了重复
5,“一道红霞”也可译为a streak of rosy dawn或a rosy streak of dawn
综述:
果然过了一会儿,在那个地方出现了太阳的小半边脸,红是真红,却没有亮光。这个太阳好像负着重荷似的一步一步、慢慢地努力上升,到了最后,终于冲破了云霞,完全跳出了海面,颜色红得非常可爱。一刹那间,这个深红的圆东西,忽然发出了夺目的亮光,射得人眼睛发痛,它旁边的云片也突然有了光彩。
As expected, the sun soon appeared revealing half of its face, which was very red but not bright. It kept rising laboriously bit by bit as if weighted down with a heavy burden on its back until,after breaking through the rosy clouds ;it completely emerged from the sea aglow with a lovely red. Then,before I knew it, the dark red orb began to shine blazingly, dazzling my eyes until they stung and all of a sudden lighting up the surrounding cloud.
要点:
1,“这个太阳好像负着重荷似的一步一步、慢慢地努力上升…”译为It kept rising laboriously bit by bit as if weighted down with a heavy burden on its back…其中laboriously 包含“慢慢地”和“努力”两重意义,它还是 一个多音节词 ,有意 地延 长 阅读 的时间 , 让 读者在 阅读 中真切 地感 受 日出的缓 慢过程,本句用了拟人手法,而译文的laboriously,weighted down with等词,也很好地表现了原文的修辞意
2,“一刹那间,这个深红的圆东西…”译为before I knew it, the dark red orb…,其中before I know it (或before I know where I was,before I was aware of it)在此意为“一刹那间”,此处译者并没有译为in the twinkling of an eye,或者soon
3,“圆东西”译为orb,较round thing更加形象~
4,“颜色红得非常可爱”即“发出可爱的红光”译为be aglow with a lovely red,aglow意为“发亮的,发红的”
5,”射得人眼睛发痛“译为dazzling my eyes until they stung,其中until在此意为”以至于…”
6,” 它旁边的云片也突然有了光彩”为了避免再起一句,译者转换了主语与前句进行了合译,原文中几个小分句都围绕着“ 深红的圆东西” 这个 中心点,因此在翻译时,把 它作为主语 , 再运用 两个并 列 的现在 分词短语 把 语 意融 合 在一 起 ,结 构紧凑 、 意思连贯 , 同时也符合 英语 “ 头轻 尾重 ” 的表达习惯
综述:
本文最突出的特点就是拟人手法的运用,一般翻译时会通过动词,副词,从句的使用,尽量将其“拟人”的意思译出来~另外,注意本段人性化动词的灵活使用,例如“跳出”译为emerged from
有时太阳走进了云堆中,它的光线却从云里射下来,直射到水面上。这时候要分辨出哪里是水,哪里是天,倒也不容易,因为我就只看见一片灿烂的亮光。
Sometimes,hidden by the clouds, the sun nonetheless shed its rays straight onto the sea water, making it difficult for me to distinguish between the sky and the sea because what I saw in front of me was nothing but a wide expanse of brilliant light.
要点:
1,“有时太阳走进了云堆中”此处译者为了与下文照应,采用了主动转被动的手法~此句也可以理解为以“太阳”为主语的多动词句,“射出光线”为主要动词,“走进云堆”是次要动词,译为过去分词形式,至于句首~
2,”射到水面上“译为shed rays onto the sea,其中shed 此处意为”洒“
3,此句 译 文 中有 3处 使 用 了 头 韵 : sun/ shed / straight /seawater 、 difficult和distinguish、 s k y 和 s e a 。体现了散文的美感,读起来也是朗朗上口滴~
4,the sun nonetheless shed its rays straight onto the sea water中 , 将 原 文 “ 光线从云里射 下来 ”“ 直射到水面上 ” 两个动作合译,读起来一气呵成,流畅自然~后面直接用making连接两个句子,也体现了原文的简洁
有时天边有黑云,而且云片很厚,太阳出来,人眼还看不见。然而太阳在黑云里放射的光芒,透过黑云的重围,替黑云镶了一道发光的金边。后来太阳才慢慢地冲出重围,出现在天空,甚至把黑云也染成了紫色或者红色。这时候发亮的不仅是太阳、云和海水,连我自己也成了明亮的了。这不是很伟大的奇观么?
Sometimes, with thick layers of dark clouds hanging in the sky, the sun was hardly visible to the naked eye. But its radiance managed to show through the dark clouds to edge them with golden lace. Then, after gradually breaking through the tight encirclement, it came into full view and even dyed the dark clouds purple or scarlet. At the moment, apart from the sun,the clouds and the seawater, I too was luminous.Wasn't that a marvelous spectacle?
要点:
1,“太阳出来人眼还看不见” 非 人称 主语 使 折射 一 定 生 命 内涵 的动 词 被 “ 挪 用 ”于不具 生命 的主语 , 这样 的句 式 就 自然 而然 地 抹 上了拟人色彩。译为“ t h e s u n w a s h a r d l y v i s i b l e t o t h e n a k e d e y e ” , 符合英语行文。而且 , 把太阳赋与人性 ,以非人称主语替代人称主语 , 表达顿趋简洁 , 而且显 得生动活泼
2,“透过黑云”此处译为managed to show through the dark clouds,用penetrate也可以,从上文的emerge到这里的manage to do,译者运用大量人性化的动词,将原文的“拟人化”的手法表现得淋漓尽致~
3,scarlet(绯红,猩红),本段乃至全文对于颜色的描写都非常细致,值得借鉴和总结~
4,“这时候发亮的不仅是太阳、云和海水,连我自己也成了明亮的了。”译为At the moment, apart from the sun,the clouds and the seawater, I too was luminous. 是作者借景抒情,不知不觉地融入到自然环境当中 ,情和景 在此刻完全交融在一起了。” 译者刻意调整句子重心,将这种 递进关系传神地传达给了读者 ,主次分明,突出此时此“ 我 ” 的融情于景 。
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