Re: [請益]短文翻譯 J.B. Priestley's Delight - G …

看板translator (翻譯接案)作者Ailbert (艾柏特)時間16年前 (2009/12/27 14:46)推噓1(1推 0噓 19→)

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修了很多次，這是我最後的定稿，希望大家給點意見。這次我一樣分段，原文放在前面，後面是我的翻譯。 Giving advice, especially when I am in no position to give it and hardly know what I am talking about. I manage my own affairs with as much care and steady attention and skill as – let us say – a drunken Irish tenor. 我專門在沒有立場或不知所云時，給別人意見。我處理自身的事務，就像喝得爛醉的愛爾蘭男高音一樣，看似小心謹慎、沉著專注且手法幹練，但卻左支右絀。(*註1) *註1 drunken Irish tenor: A drunken singer is not in control of himself. Priestley is suggesting that he manages his own affairs badly. ______________________________________________________________________________ I swing violently from enthusiasm to disgust. I change policies as a woman changes hats. I am here today and gone tomorrow. When I am doing one job, I wish I were doing another. I base my judgments on anything – or nothing. 我一下熱情洋溢，一下又憤恨不平，搖擺不定：改變想法就像女人換鞋子一樣快；今天還在這裡，明日已然離去；工作的同時，心裡卻想著另一個；我的判斷立基於一切事物，也可能毫無根據。 ______________________________________________________________________________ I have never the least notion what I shall be doing or where I shall be in six months time. Instead of holding one thing steadily, I try to juggle with six. I cannot plan, and if I could I would never stick to the plan. I am a pessimist in the morning and an optimist at night, am defeated on Tuesday and insufferably victorious by Friday. 我從沒想過六個月後我該做什麼或我會在哪。我試著兼顧六件事，而不是穩當處理一件。我不會計畫，就算會，我也從不照計畫走。早上，我是個悲觀者，晚上，我是個樂觀者。星期二，我垂頭喪氣，到星期五前，我又春風得意。 ______________________________________________________________________________ But because I am heavy, have a deep voice and smoke a pipe, few people realize that I am a flibbertigibbet on a weathercock. So my advice is asked. And then ten minutes or so, I can make Polonius look a trifler. I settle deep in my chair, two hundred pounds of portentousness, and with some first-rate character touches in the voice and business with pipe, I begin: "Well, I must say that in your place -” And inside I am bubbling with delight. 但因為我長得很胖，有個低沉的聲音又叼根煙斗，幾乎沒有人意識到我是隻風向雞。所以別人常來諮詢我的意見。過了十分鐘左右，我可以把波洛尼厄斯(*註2)這個善於提供建議的角色，變成一個無足輕重的人。我兩百磅的體重，穩當當的坐在椅子上，叼根煙斗，帶點上流性格的語調提供中肯的建議(*註3)，告訴他：「嗯，站在你的立場，我必須說 ……」 *註2 Polonius: a character in SHakespeare's Hamlet, noted for giving advice. *註3 two hundred pounds of portentous...: In other words, a large man(two hundred pounds) using an impressive voice and using impressive gestures with his pipe(some first-grade character touches) gives grave(portentous) advice. This is a humorous description of the author's prose. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 111.252.84.29

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