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(8) It was, as Bill afterwards expressed it, “during a moment of temporary mental apparition”, but we didn’t find that out till later.
恰如后来比尔说的那样,那阵子简直是“一时鬼迷心窍”。不过,我们直到后来才明白了这个意思。
(apparition在原文中是鬼魂或幽灵出现的意思。mental apparition直译是“心中有鬼”,这就很容易给人造成误解,因此需要多少将原形象适当地转换一下。)
(9) They will be ice-skating in hell the day, when I vote the aid for them.
要我投票赞成给他们援助,除非太阳从西边出来。
(ice-skating in hell如译成“在地狱里滑冰”就很难为中国读者所理解和接受。)
(10)。 “Until her husband won the pools, she was the most commonplace, dowdy, illiterate creature imaginable, but now that she dresses herself up like a society queen and nearly always remembers to sound her aitches, people are already beginning to forget what she was like before.
”Fine feathers make fine birds.“
”过去没有比她更平平常常、无知无识而又邋邋遢遢的了,自从她男人赢得全部赌注以后,她打扮得象个社交皇后,总是记住发H的音,人们开始忘记她以前是什么样子了。“
”人靠衣裳马靠鞍嘛。“
(11) I‘d much rather see her once or twice and not do anything about it——what could I do about it anyway? She’s a bit out of my class, don‘t you think? If I did try to do anything, I’d only get sent off with a flea in my ear.
我宁愿见她一两面就算了──我还能干什么呢?你没看到她和我不怎么相称吗?我要干点什么,也只会碰一鼻子灰。
(原文a flea in one‘s ear的字面意思是”耳朵上有个跳蚤“,用来比喻”讥讽的话,刺耳的话“.send sb. off with a flea in one’s ear意思是”用讥讽的话气走某人“,与汉语”碰一鼻子灰“意思相近,但如译为”用讥讽话气走某人“,则过于平淡,远不如”碰一鼻子灰“生动、俏皮。)
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