钱钟书翻译经典翻译

1．If all the sky were parchment and all the sea were ink

按“青天做纸张”之语，西方各国诗人皆有之，常以“碧海化墨水”为对。

2．New forms are simply canonization of inferior genres.

百凡新体，只是向来卑不足道之体忽然列品入流。

3．behind its attributes

须在未具性德以前，推其本质。

4．“Not of the letter, but of the spiri t; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

意在言外，得意忘言，不以词害意。

5．To hold, as’t were, the mirror up to nature.

持镜照自然。

6．selective imitation

取舍之工。

7．This is an art / Which does mend nature, change it rather, but/ That art itself is Nature (The Winter’s Tale, IV, iv. Polixenes)

莎士比亚尝曰：“人艺足补天工，然而人艺即天工也。”

8．In shape the perfection of the berry, in light the radiance of the dewdrop. (Lord Tennyson; A Memoir, by his son, Vol. I,

体完如樱桃，光灿若露珠。

9．“A poem round and perfect as a star. ”（Alexander Smith: A Life Drama）“诗好比星圆。”

10．“It used to be said of a famous cricketeer that he bowled or batted with his head. ”（S. Alexander: Beauty and Other Forms of Value, ）画以心而不以手。

11．A direct sensuous apprehension of thought.

能以官感领会义理。

12．Be thou thine own home, and in thy selfe dwell;/Inn any where, continuance maketh hell./ And seeing the snaile, which every where doth rome, /Carrying his owne house still, still is at home.(Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, ed. J. Hayward,

万物皆备于身，方之蜗牛戴壳，随遇自足，著处为家。——约翰唐（John Donne）名篇: （To Sir Henry Wotton）

13．“Poetry should strike the Reader as a working of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a Remembrance. ”（Letter to Taytor, 27 Feb. 1818, H. E. Rollins, ed., Letters I, 238）

“好诗当道人心中事，一若忆旧而得者。” ——济慈 (Keats) 论诗第一要义（axiom）

14．ear pleasure

悦耳

15．mind pleasure

餍心

16．unreasonable or magical element

不落理路、神幻无方。

17．natural magic

魔力

18．inspiration

落笔神来之际

19．catharsis

情欲宣泄

20．purification

斋心洁己

21．All Arts aspire to the condition of music.

佩特谓诸艺造妙皆向往于音乐之空灵澹荡。

22． Most imitative of arts（S. H. Butcher: Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, ）

“乐在诸艺中最近自然。”

23．committed fornication

意淫

24．mental fictions

乱真

25．“All emotion, Of thorough enough, would take one to heaven.”“一切情感，充极至尽，皆可引人入天。”

26．“This creative reason thinks eternally. Of this unceasing work of

thought, however, we retain no memory, because this reason is unaffected by its objects. ”（Aristotle’s Psychology, with Introduction and Notes, by E. Wallace, ” ,）

“无时间性，变易不居，勿滞于物，不可记忆。”

27．“None can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the sound of names. ”

“凡不知人名地名声音之谐美者，不足以言文。”——史梯芬生《游美杂记》（Stevenson: Across the Plains Tuesday）

28．“Silence and speech acting together”

“语言与静默协力”——卡莱尔论象征

29．“Leave something to the willing intelligence of the reader. ” 须留与读者思量。——佩特论文

30．thinking intently of his own name

英诗人丁尼生常言自思其名字，系念不散。

31．“and the earth looked black behind them, /as though turned up by plows. But it was gold,/All gold—a wonder of the artist’s craft. ”—Iliad, XVIII 630-32

“犁田发土，泥色俨如黑。然此盾固纯金铸也，盖艺妙入神矣。”

32．“O! One glimpse of the human face, and shake of the human hand, is better than whole reams of this cold, thin correspondence, etc. ”—Works, ed. E. V. Lucas, VI, 175

“得与其人一瞥面、一握手，胜于此等枯寒笔墨百函千牍也。噫！”

33．habitualization, automatization

落套刻板

34．defamiliarization

使熟者生

35．rebarbarization

使文者野

36．“Grace of style comes from arrangement. ”

“词意位置得当，文章遂饶姿致。”

37．repose, perfect fitness

一字之稳当