翻译练习(2)

参考译文1)我告诉学生没有唯一“正确”的成功之路，因为他们彼此各不相同：每个人的起点不同，目的也不同。

我跟他们讲，变化是有益的，不必凡事都事先计划好。

为了让学生明白这个道理，每学年我都邀请学术界以外的成功人士来校园讲讲他们的经历，和学生聊聊。

我邀请的成功人士有：公司老板、杂志编辑、政治家、百老汇制片人、艺术家、作家、经济学家、摄影家、科学家和历史学家等等。

2)赢家不会置身于一种概念去想象他们“理当”成为何种人，相反，他们按天理行事，因此，他们不会费神地表演（装模作样），去伪装（故作姿态），去操纵他人（玩弄他人）。

他们很清楚爱与装爱，傻与装傻，真才实学与故作高深（知与无知/懂与装懂）之间的区别。

赢家们无需用面具掩饰自己。

赢家们不独立思考和运用自身的知识。

他们既懂得整个事实与想法，又不会装作通晓一切。

他们倾听他人意见，品评他人言论，从而得出自己的结论。

赢家们尊重和敬佩他人，但却不会完全为他们所限制、摧跨、束缚或吓倒（震慑）。

赢家们不会装作（自叹）可怜，博取同情，也不会怨天尤人，开脱自责。

相反，他们承担生活中自己应尽的责任。

翻译练习:师生缘（校园餐厅）(1) American Space, Chinese PlaceAmerican have a sense of space, not of place. Go to an American home in exurbia, and almost the first thing you do is drift toward the picture window. How curious that the first compliment you pay your host inside his house is to say how lovely it is outside his house! He is pleased that you should admire his vistas. The distant horizon is not merely a line separating earth from sky, it is a symbol of the future. The American is not rooted in his place, however lovely: his eyes are drawn by the expanding space to a point on the horizon, which is his future.By contrast, consider the traditional Chinese home, blank walls enclose it. Outside is a courtyard with perhaps a miniature garden around a corner. Once inside his private compound you are wrapped in an ambiance of calm beauty, an ordered world of buildings, pavement, rock, and decorative vegetation. But you have no distant view: nowhere does space open out before you, the only open space is the sky above. The Chinese is rooted in his place.(2)Go DutchThen what was once called the Women’s Lib came along and females of my generation claimed that we wanted equality. We didn’t want doors opened for us, we didn’t want bills paid. Suddenly, being wined and dined was considered insulting, part of the male conspiracy to keep us in our place. So we got out our checkbooks and went Dutch. What a huge mistakethat was! If I had carried on assuming I’d be paid for, I would not only have saved a lot of money, but a lot of worry as well. I used to spend entire meals wondering what to do when the bill arrived. Should I offer to pay half? If I don’t, will he expect me to kiss him or…And if he’s paying, can I still have the lobster? How fair is it of me even to offer to pay half when I know I’ll be disappointed in him if he accepted? And what if he’s got less money than me, should I pay for it all?(3) 过节孩提时住在农村，常常盼望过节。

记得最有乐趣的节，莫过于年终的“谢天地”。

那谢完天地之后，母亲用福礼汤（鸡、肉汤）下的银丝面条，其鲜美无比至今还留下十分美好的记忆。

工作之后，我却渐渐对过节不感兴趣了。

原因是当我单身时，我喜欢看书，笔耕。

在写文章时经常需要随时查阅文献资料，如果遇上节日放假，图书馆就关门，我就只好干着急，眼看时间白白流失，所以我讨厌过节。

在诸多家务中，每天买菜是我的任务。

中国人过节，吃是主要内容，为了显示过节的气氛和水平，少说也要搞它个十菜八肴的。

这样一来，节前的紧张采购暂且不说，节后的剩菜处理也落在我一个人身上，妻孩们是不愿吃隔天菜的，自幼来自农村且深受“谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦”陶冶的我，是断然不肯将能吃的剩菜倒掉的，于是节后天天吃剩菜。

所以我不喜欢过节。

参考译文:Festival-celebratingI always looked forward to festivals while I was a kid living in the countryside. As I now recall it, no other festiv al held greater fascination for me than “Thanksgiving” ceremony held at the end of the Chinese lunar year. To express gratitude to Heaven and Earth, Mother would use, among other dishes, “Thanks-for-Happiness Soup” (chicken and meat soup) as one of the offerings, and, the rituals over, she would cook the whitest and finest noodles (called “silver-thread noodles”) in the broth. The delicious taste lingers to this day!After I graduated and started my career, my interest in festival-celebrating began to fade. When I was single, I loved reading and writing, which necessitated frequent trips to libraries to consult the relevant data. When such a need should arise during the holidays when the libraries were usually not open, I’d feel much dismayed, being absolute ly unable to make use of the valuable time that flew away.Of the many household duties after my marriage, going marketing everyday is my job. Festival celebration for us Chinese chiefly consists in eating. To help create the festival atmosphere and show off the level of the festivities, at least a score of meat and vegetables dishes should be laid out. So, besides the pre-festival frantic shopping, the post-festival disposal of the leftovers fell to my lot, my wife and children being loath to touch the leavings. Born in the countryside and always taught to believe profoundly in the need to “treasure each and every grain of rice in the bowl”, I flatly refuse to throw away the leftovers. Therefore, in the days immediately following the festival I had to finish up the scraps one by one. Hence, my distaste for the festivals.(4) 春晓孟浩然春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟．夜来风雨声，花落知多少？The Spring DawnMeng HaoranSlumbering, I know not the spring dawn is peeping,But everywhere the singing birds are cheeping.Last night I heard the rain dripping and wind weeping, How many petals are now on the ground sleeping?Tr. Wu Juntao。