这是一对已离婚的夫妻在电话里的对话。女方责怪前夫不该自己先回国而把女儿留在墨西哥。 Eliot是女方"的私人律师中男方对他本来就有反感,听到前妻提到他的名字便气不打一处来,"shit"用来指人,可译为"混蛋"。 5."Yes. She was a very beautiful woman, Morrie." "Yeah,"he said, and shook his head,"That's the shit of it,ain't it?From what I get from the complaint,she was beaten up real bad.So now she turns up on the beach,burned to death.Does it seem like a coincidence to you?"
这是一个警官与律师在谈论一桩凶杀案。受害老是一个年轻美女,案情扑朔迷离,警方一筹莫展,"shit"出自一个警官之口,正是他无可奈何心境的写照。与例3、例4不同的是,该词在上下文中尽管也用作名词,但没有明确的指代关系R是暗示案情复杂,难以理清头绪,因此bullshit committee,…
在以上两例中,shit与bull一起构成bullshit,前一个为名词后一个用作形容词,修饰committee。从上下文看, 前者指的是说话人前妻Susan对现在的情人Dale所使用的一个很难听的称号,另外考虑到下文里对方的抗议,即"that kind of language和"bad enough…",认为可将bullshit译作"狗屁". bullshit committee措的是一个群体淫乱团伙,故将其译作"乌七八糟委员会"。
除"shit"外,在此类词中较常见的还有"fuckgirls do-that's normal for Saint Mark's, cursing a lot,the whole `shit,piss,cunt,fuck'routine, you know。 But Heather really goes overboard with it,like she's trying to prove how mature she is,you know what I mean?" I was still reeling over the string of profanities my fourteen-year-old daughter had casually dropped into the conversation。 双引号中是一位上中学的女儿向父亲介绍班上一位名叫Heather的同学时所说的话,目的是想告诉父亲她这位同学是如何满口脏话,不知羞耻,其中单引号里的四个词是典型的"four letter words"。翻开英汉词典,"shit"和"piss"分别是"大便"和"撒尿",如此这般译成中文,平淡无奇,不足以表现Heather那种缺少教养、俗不可耐的"小痞子"神态。而"cunt"是女性生殖器,"fuck'是指发生性行为,直译过来显然也不妥。遇到这种情况,译者不必拘泥于原文字面意义,应跳出原文局限,在汉语词汇中挑选出几个粗俗、脏鄙的字眼来。将上文拟译如下:
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