翻译：风筝 (鲁迅)对比

翻译：风筝 (鲁迅)对比

(a) Kite (translation: alexcwlin/edit: adam.L)

(b) The Kite (杨宪益、戴乃迭译)

(c) Kite (刘士聪译)

北京的冬季，地上还有积雪，灰黑色的秃树枝丫叉于晴朗的天空中，而远处有一二风筝浮动，在我是一种惊异和悲哀。

(a) It is wintertime in Beijing. The ground is covered with thick snow. Leafless tree-branches in greyish-black color reach into the clear sunny sky. A couple of kites floating high in the air at distance saddle me with a feeling of bewilderment and melancholy.

(b) A Peking winter dismays and depresses me: the thick snow on the ground and the bare trees' ashen branches thrusting up towards the clear blue sky, while in the distance one or two skies arefloating.

(c) When，in late winter in Beijing，there was still snow on the ground and, up in the air，an entanglement of dark-gray bare branches against a sunny sky，a couple of kites were already fluttering up and down in the distance - a sight that filled me with amazement and forlornness.

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故乡的风筝时节，是春二月，倘听到沙沙的风轮声，仰头便能看见一个淡墨色的蟹风筝或嫩蓝色的蜈蚣风筝。

(a) The kite-flying season of my hometown is around February in springtime. If you happen to hear rustling sound of wind-wheels, look up and you would see a grayish-black crab-shaped kite or a light-blue centipede-shaped kite.

(b) At home, the time for kites is early spring. When you hear the whirr of a wind-wheel, you

raise your head to see a grey crab-kite or a soft blue centipede-kite.

(c) In my hometown，kites were flown in early spring. When you heard the whirring of wind-wheels and looked up，you saw a darkish crab-kite or one resembling a centipede of limpid blue.

还有寂寞的瓦片风筝，没有风轮，又放得很低，伶仃地显出憔悴可怜的模样。

(a) There is also the solitary tile-shaped kite which doesn’t have wind-wheels. Helplessly it flies at low altitude with a worn-out and piteous look.

(b) Or there may be a solitary tile-kite, without wind wheel and flown too low, looking pathetically lonely and forlorn.

(c) There were one or two others in the shape of old-fashioned tiles, without wheels. They flew at a lower level，looking lonely and shriveled，arousing a sense of compassion.

但此时地上的杨柳已经发芽，早的山桃也多吐蕾，和孩子们的天上的点缀相照应，打成一片春日的温和。

(a) At this time, the foliating willows and budding wild-peaches on the ground complement those children’s high-flying adornments to fill a warm spring’s day.

(b) By this time, though, the willows on the ground are putting out shoots, and the early mountain peaches have budded. Set off by the children’s fancy work in the sky, together they make up the warmth of spring.

(c) Around this time of the year，poplars and willows began to sprout，and new buds appeared on