世间有一种语言大才,在翻译界属于神一般的存在。优秀译者的译作可以用信、达、雅来衡量,而神译者的译作往往是一‘翻‘入魂。
看第一段英文:
I love three things in the world
The sun, the moon and you
The sun for the day, the moon for the night
and you forever.
读完上面这段英文,并且尝试自己翻译一下。
怎么样?你对上述这段话有何感受?
看一下对这段话最美的翻译:
浮世万千,吾爱有三。日,月与卿。日为朝,月为暮,卿为朝朝暮暮。
再来看一句:
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
想必普通人直译都感到困难。
这是余光中先生的翻译:
心有猛虎,细嗅蔷薇。
下面这一句
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
或许你应该猜到是那句话了:
使生如夏花之绚烂,死如秋叶之静美。(郑振铎先生翻译)
再来一句:
If you were coming in the fall, l would brush the summer by.
译文:往事不可谏,来者犹可追。
一段长英文:
I am not a graceful person.
I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset.
I am a Tuesday 2am,
I am gunshot smuffled by a few city blocks,
I am a broken window during February.
My bones crack on anightly basis.
I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and
I apologize for my awkward sadness.
I sometimes believe that I don't belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn't happen.
The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm .
You don't see the lightning ,but you hear the echoes.
上面这段话有些长,可能一遍读下来无法完全理解其中的意思。直接看下面的译文:
我非优雅之人,非周日清晨或者周五黄昏。我是穷街陋巷闷重的枪响,是二月的破窗,是周二两点的凌晨。我随阴暗的重击从高贵跌落,我为我无所适从的悲哀致歉,黯然伤神,碎骨焚心。我与周围的人群格格不入,我是闰日里虚无缥缈的灵魂。明暗已在我的肤表下汇聚成一场风暴,闪电还未到来,就已雷鸣阵阵。
英年早逝的英国诗人济慈,在死前要求,自己的墓碑上不要写上自己的名字,就写这么一句话
Here lies one whose name was written in water.
后来被广泛翻译成:此地长眠者,声名水上书。
拜伦给情人的一封信中写道:
Everything is the same, but you are not here, and I still am.
In separation the one who goes away suffers less than the one who stays behind.
钱钟书先生翻译:
此间百凡如故,我仍留而君已去耳。
行行生别离,去者不如留者神伤之甚。
还有更长、更美的译作。
Adele 歌曲《Someone Like You( 另寻沧海)》片段:
I heard, that your settled down. 已闻君,诸事安康。
That you, found a girl and your married now.
遇佳人,不久婚嫁。
I heard that your dreams came true. 已闻君,得偿所想。
Guess she gave you things, I
didn't give to you. 料得是,卿识君望。
Old friend, why are you so shy?
旧日知己,何故张皇?
It ain't like you to hold back or hide from the lie.
遮遮掩掩,欲盖弥彰。
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited.
客有不速,实非我所想。
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