讀書筆記：張培基英譯散文 《狗》02

狗
The Dog
老舍
Lao She
| 譯文摘自張培基《英譯中國散文選二》

中文：

中國人動不動就說：我們地大物博。那也就是說，我們不用着急呀，我們有的是東西，永遠吃不完喝不盡哪！

英文：
We are apt to declare that ours is a big country with rich natural resources, meaning that there is no need for us to worry because we have plenty of everything to last us forever and ever. Well, why not take a look at our dogs!

要點：
1，“動不動就說”即“經常說”，譯爲be apt to declare
2，“地大物博”譯爲a big country with rich natural resources
3，“哼，請看看你們的狗吧！”譯爲Well, why not take a look at our dogs!將感嘆句譯爲反問句，可以增強語氣

綜述：

以上兩段有很多口語化的表述，注意譯者是如何處理的

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中文：
還有：狗雖那麼摸不着吃，那麼隨便就被人踢兩腳，打兩棍，可是它們還照舊的替人們服務。儘管它們餓成皮包着骨，儘管它們剛被主人踹了兩腳，它們還是極忠誠的去盡看門守夜的責任，狗永遠不嫌主人窮。這樣的動物理應得到人們的讚美，而忠誠、義氣、安貧、勇敢，等等好字眼都該歸之於狗。可是，我不曉得爲什麼中國人不分黑白的把漢奸與小人叫作走狗，倒彷彿狗是不忠誠不義氣的動物。我爲狗喊冤叫屈！貓纔是好吃懶作，有肉即來，無食即去的東西。洋奴與小人理應被叫作“走貓”。

英文：
Dogs always remain man’s faithful servants though they are underfed and kicked and beaten without any reason. A dog continues to perform with loyal devotion the duty of guarding the door and keeping watch at night though he has been starved to a skeleton and kicked at by his master. He never minds how poor his master is. Such an animal deserves our high praise. We should attribute to them such laudatory epithets as “devotion”, “loyalty”, “content with poverty”, “courage”, etc. But I wonder why we have been undiscriminatingly calling traitors and villains “running dogs”, as if dogs were disloyal and unfaithful animals. I should voice grievances for them!Cats, however, are greedy and lazy. They come to you when you have meat to offer, but otherwise leave you. Flunkeys of imperialism and mean persons should have been called “running cats”.

要點：
1，“隨便”譯爲without any reason
2,“餓成皮包着骨”譯爲been starved to a skeleton，和前面的 reduced to skin and bones by hunger同義
3，“狗永遠不嫌主人窮”可譯爲He never minds how poor his master is。“嫌棄”還可以根據語境譯爲complain~
4,“這樣的動物理應得到人們的讚美”譯爲Such an animal deserves our high praise，或者earn out high commendation
5,” 我爲狗喊冤叫屈”可譯爲I should voice grievances for them，“喊冤叫屈”還可譯爲cry out about one's grievances
6，“有肉即來，無食即去”即譯爲They come to you when you have meat to offer, but otherwise leave you.用otherwise代替已知情況，是省略情況的一種~

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中文：
或者是因爲狗的脾氣好，不像貓那樣傲慢，所以中國人不說“走貓”而說“走狗”？假若真是那樣，我就又覺得人們未免有點“軟的欺，硬的怕”了！不過，也許有一種狗，學名叫作“走狗”；那我還不大清楚。

英文：
Perhaps the reason why we prefer to say “running dogs” rather than “running cats” is that dogs are good-tempered while cats are supercilious. If so, I would think that people are perhaps inclined to bully the weak and fear the strong.Maybe there is a kind of dog whose scientific name is “running dog”. I’m not quite sure.

要點：
1，“欺軟的，怕硬的”即“欺軟怕硬”，採取分拆譯法譯爲bully the weak and fear the strong

綜述：
老舍的文章句式都不是很複雜，重點注意其口語化表達的翻譯方法。

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