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5月14日
又及,由于笔误,你把collocation写成allocation。这只是一个小错。别把这些小事看得过重,变得谨小慎微,妨碍你写作方式的完善。
注解:
[1] My Dear…是英语书信的一种格式,并不非译出来不可。这里可译作:书武。林书武当时是中国社会科学院语言研究所研究人员。1970年冬,下放河南息县劳动锻炼,在那段时间跟钱钟书有过一段交往。此信写于1971年5月。
[2] a joyful surprise: 又惊又喜。英语的短语,译成汉语时往往变成动词短语。
[3] flannel: 花言巧语。此信中用双引号有两处。第一处有“所谓的”的意思,注8为第二处,意指原词。
[4] 这是一个复杂句,但并不难分析。要说的是"to say the least"是个插入语;英语句子常用插入语。例如: Your composition, to put it bluntly, is ill written. 你的作文,坦率地说,写得很不好。
[5]momentarily lost修饰cunning; through long lack of practice, 这里又是名词短语变作译文中动词短语的例子。
[6] sin和crime几乎是同义词。这里连用,旨在加强语气。
[7] 词底下划一横线,表强调之意。
第二封信
My Dear Lin[1], May 2
Excuse this belated reply to your very kind May Day greetings. It’s almost literally "a day after the fair". What with fixing the mosquito net, queuing for sweets at the co-op store, fetching and distributing letters, and the thousand and one odds and ends which eat away one's time, the red letter day was over before I know where I was[3]. Well[4], here go my best wishes in which my wife joins. Your letter makes me ashamed. I feel guilty like a swindler who has won your "gratitude" without doing anything to earn it. Your characteristic generosity has led you to overestimate the aids to study I gave. Yes, vocabulary is important. Pedagogues used to distinguish a pupil's active... or[5] writing and speaking vocabulary. As you know, the latter is far more extensive than the former. How to turn the supinelypassive into the nimblyactive-- that's the big problem[6]. However, enough of shop talk. Tomorrow to the battle and more power to your elbow![7]
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