张培基英译现代散文选3

张培基英译现代散文选3

The Commercial Press and I

Unable to see the manuscripts well, I have to rely on someone to read out for me.只能听别人念

With a comment scribbled in red ink about my mistake

Enter…on the recommendation of sb. 经…介绍

Co-compile with sb.与…合编

I acted on his behalf as editor of the magazine Fiction Monthly. 代他编…（小说月报）

With sb. as my collaborator跟…合作

Do proofreading看校样

It was the post-Great Revolution days when the stirring times found expression in literature.时代的激荡会在文学领域反应出来。

He had up to then written no fiction.他过去不写小说。

Start its publication of the magazine…创办…杂志

Sports requisites体育器械

…boast a galaxy of talent…是知识分子聚集的地方。A galaxy of talent人才济济

Became concurrently director of the People’s Education Publishing House兼任社长

…are still living and enjoy good health健在

It is said that people in the publishing trade live longer.有人说做出版工作的人就是长寿。

《什么事不可能》Nothing Is Impossible to a Willing Mind

中国古代神话classical Chinese mythology

《封神传》Canonization of the Gods

Make aviation experiments

不过这还是极少数“痴子”的信心，一般人还是嗤之以鼻。Yet the handful of “dreamers”of those days were subjected to jeers and laughters.

学徒出身的发明家an apprentice-turned-inventor

Without the above-mentioned early trailblazers, there would be no human flight to speak of today.

对于飞机大饶兴趣(sb. be) enamored of the flying machine.

…不是一蹴而成的。Orville’s 1903 plane was something he accomplished after going through numerous setbacks. Made their first glider(滑翔机)patterned after a paper kite(纸鸢)

所以能向前努力者，无论成败，都有贡献。Therefore, succeed or fail, one is considered to have made a contribution so long as he has tried his utmost.

In the face of obstacles面对困难

You need to take much time, do a lot of planning, go through countless procedures and carry out many improvements. And you’ll never make it unless you show the utmost patience.

《说开卷有益》On “Reading Is Always Beneficial”

现在多了一点智识，反过来又觉得古人的不欺我了。Now I know better than to do that. （明事理而不至于…）可是坏书读了，而知道它的坏的原因与地方，岂不也是一得？After reading a bad book, we know all the whys and wherefores of its being bad.

Isn’t that something of benefit to us too?

《当教师的快乐》Joys of the Teaching Career

Began to teach at my alma mater Yenching University在母校燕京大学教书

开教授会的时候At faculty meeting, I always chose a seat at an unobservable corner of the room.

不满26岁I was then on the right side of 26.

来自…students hailing from various places of China

从讲台上望去Looking down from the rostrum 点名簿roll-call book

笑语纷纭中，我们一下子就很熟悉很亲热了。Thus between laughter and chat, we came to know each other better and were soon on friendly terms.

汉语基础好的学生，译文也会更通顺。I found that students with a solid grounding in Chinese often did good