毛荣贵-翻译美学

毛荣贵，翻译美学，上海交通大学出版社，2005年11月
●翻译美学的研究对象是翻译中的审美客体（原文、译文），翻译中的审美主体（译者、
读者），翻译中的审美活动，翻译中的审美判断，审美欣赏，审美标准以及翻译过程中富于创造性的审美再现等等。

●生在杭州，吃在广州，死在柳州。

It is good to live in Hangzhou, to eat in Guangzhou, and to die in Liuzhou.（意合美，译文无审美价值，无基本的“有效性”及“合适性”）
语感中包含了美感的译者，其译文将是：
There are three best choices in China-living in Hangzhou, eating in Guangzhou and buying a wooden coffin in Liuzhou.（p. 23）
●As a youngster I was effervescent, outgoing, and I talked too much. I had a talent for saying
the wrong things at the wrong time. I tortured myself because of the foolish things I had said.
有基本语感的译者会译成：
我年轻的时候，活力四射，乐于助人，非常健谈，却不知道在什么场合说什么话。

言既出口，内心又懊恼不已。

试译：我年轻的时候，活力四射，乐于助人，非常健谈，而且还有在错误的场合发表错误言论的才能。

言既出口，内心又懊恼不已。

（23-24）
●The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and
tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.(Gone with the Wind) 傅东华：她的腰围不过十七英寸，穿着那窄窄的春衫，显得十分合身。

里面紧紧绷着一件小马甲，使得她胸部特别隆起。

她的年纪虽只十六岁，乳房却已十分成熟了。

改译：她的十七英寸的腰围，在附近三个县里算是最细的了，这身衣服把她的细腰束得尽善尽美，年方十六的她，乳房已经十分丰满，那紧而贴身的小马甲，更使其跃然显现。

（28）
●Change is part of life and the making of character, hon. When things happen that you do not
like, you have two choices: You get bitter or better. 变化是生活的一部分，而且也塑造了人的意志品德，亲爱的。

当你不喜欢的事情发生了，你有两种选择：要么痛苦不堪；要么痛快达观。

（31）
●Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and
supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. 青春不是年华，而是心境；它不是桃面，朱唇，柔膝；它是坚定的意志，驰骋的想象，炽热的情感；它是生命的源泉，汩汩地涌出。

(31-32) Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, of the craving for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
青春意味着性情的优越，勇气驱走怯懦，冒险战胜苟安。

二十岁有之，六十岁则更常见。

岁月有加，并非垂老；理想泯灭，暮年即至。

（32）
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. 岁月悠悠，容颜衰老；抛弃热忱，心灵受损。

担忧、恐惧、自暴自弃。

必然重创心灵，令心灵屈从、精神蒙尘。

（32）Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being‟s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what‟s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young. 无论年届花甲，
还是二八芳龄，心中皆有奇迹的诱惑，永恒的童真，生命的快乐，你我心中皆有一台天线，只要接收来自人们和上帝的美丽、希望、快乐、勇敢的信息，就会青春永驻，风华正茂。

（32）
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with sorrow of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 30, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80. 一旦天线倒下，心灵为愤世嫉俗和悲观厌世的冰雪所覆盖，你就有可能年方二八而衰；只要天线不倒，不断接受乐观的电波，你有望年届八十而终，年轻依旧。

（32）
●During the war he was sent on dangerous secret missions abroad. Very exciting! He was a
sort of James Bond. 在战争中，他被派往国外担任一项危险的秘密使命。

太令人兴奋了！
他是位出色的谍报人员。

（34）
●To many parents, the three Gs---gays, guys and gangs---have replaced the three Rs as
benchmarks of school life.对于许多父母来说，同性恋、枪支、团体这三个词已经代替了读、写、算作为学校的标准尺度。

（36）
●More recently he introduced himself into the debate on welfare reform by insisting that
unwed motherhood, not joblessness, was the problem. 最近，由于坚持认为是未婚母亲而不是失业才是问题症结所在，他使自己卷入关于福利政策改革的争论中去。

（37-38）●The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a
sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad, deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest. 山岩壁立，不可逾越。

岩顶上一道的瀑布，飞流直下，水花四溅，雾气弥漫，山泉轰然落入一个宽广的深潭，周围树林的影子，使得潭水一片黝黑。

（42）●Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the
end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. 其后，河面逐渐展宽，两岸相距愈远，水流趋缓，最后则流入大海，与海水融为一体，海天一色，平心静气地结束其单独存在的那一段历程。

（43）
●（物称）The horrible sense of his view of her so deadened her that she staggered.真没想到，
他居然会这样看待她；她吓得魂飞魄散，体瘫肢软。

（45）
Analysis of a damaged material usually requires intuitive judgment followed by real-time testing. (When we are doing an analysis of a damaged material, it usually requires intuitive judgment followed by real-time testing.)
The effectiveness of the electronic computer lies in its great speed and accuracy in calculation. (The effectiveness of the electronic computer is achieved because it has great speed and accuracy in calculation.)
Even the dissolution in water cannot enable common salt to change its chemical properties.
(Even though we dissolve it in water, we cannot enable common salt to change its chemical properties.)
●Illness brought her a strange restlessness and made her all the more eager to cling to life and
squeeze from it the last drop of happiness. It made her envy health, but it also made sentimental over a leaf that the wind had blow into her room. 这种病使她特别敏感不安，她越发急切于抓住人生不放，似乎是要把人生的甜蜜幸福挤到最后一滴而后已。

这病使她多么羡慕人家的健康，也使她多愁善感，见一叶飘零，随风入室，便愁绪满怀，无已自解。

（46）
●It begins when a feeling of stillness creeps into my consciousness. Everything has suddenly
gone quiet. Birds do not chirp. Leaves do not rustle. Insects do not sing.
1．起初，有一种平静的感觉悄然袭上我的心头。

刹那间，万物都沉寂无声。

鸟儿不再啁啾，树叶不再沙沙作响，昆虫也停止了欢唱。

2．起初，有一种平静的感觉悄然爬上我的心头。

世间万物，顿时沉寂。

鸟儿不再啁啾，树叶不再婆娑，昆虫不再吟唱。

（65）
●For the rest, after the first six months, she grew quickly, and could soon walk and talk. She
was a real beauty, with the Earnshaws‟ handsome dark eyes, but the Linton‟s fair skin, and small features with blonde, curly hair. She was sensitive and affectionate. She did not look a great deal like her mother, as she could be sweet and gentle; her anger was never furious, and her love was deep and tender.
1．其余的时候呢，她在六个月之后，就成长得很快，也很快会走路说话了。

她真是个美人，继承了恩萧家漂亮的黑眼睛，却有林顿家的细白皮肤，秀气的脸庞和金色的
卷发。

她是个善感、温柔的女孩子。

她并不很像她的母亲，因为她是那么温和、恬
静；她即使生气也不会发怒的，而她的爱是那样深沉、柔和。

2．其余的时候呢，她在六个月之后，就成长得很快，也很快会走路说话了。

她真是个美人，继承了恩萧家漂亮的黑眼睛，却有林顿家的细白皮肤，秀气的脸庞和金色的
卷发。

她是个善解人意、温柔体贴的女子。

她并不很像她的母亲，因为她是那么温
和恬静；她的怒，绝非暴风骤雨般的狂怒；她的爱，却似水柔情般的挚爱。

翻译，在某种程度上说，是对译者协作能力的一种考验。

原文所无的美，尤其是表
象美，能在译者笔下创造扯拉。

比如上一段末句，何等平淡：她即使生气也不会发
怒的，而且她的爱是那样深沉、柔和。

译文2就平添了几分表达整饰美和形象美（69）●If any one would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens and fine
dinners, and wines and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
如果有人让我成为有史以来最伟大的君王，给我宫殿花园，锦食美食、琼浆玉液、香车宝马、成群奴婢，但须以不再读书为代价，我宁可不作君王。

我宁愿作一个身处阁楼但有书相伴的穷人，而不作一个不爱读书的君王。

（70）
●We can nowhere find a better type of a perfectly free creature than in the common house fly.
Not free only, but brave. There is no courtesy in him; he does not care whether it is king or clown whom he tastes; and in every step of his swift, mechanical march, and in every pause of his resolute observation, there is one and the same expression of perfect egotism, perfect independence and self-confidence, and conviction of the world‟s having been made for flies.
Strike at him with your hand; and to him, the aspect of the matter is, what to you it would be, if an acre of red clay, ten feet thick, tore itself up from the ground and came crashing down with an aim. He steps out of the way of your hand, and alights on the back of it. You cannot terrify him, nor govern him, nor persuade him, nor convince him.
He has his won positive opinion on all matters; not an unwise one, usually, for his own ends;
and will ask no advice of yours. He has no work to do---no tyrannical insects to obey. The earthworm has his digging; the bee her gathering and building; the spider her cunning network; the ant her treasury and accounts. All these are comparative slaves, or people of business. But your fly, free in the air, free in the chamber---a black incarnation of caprice---wondering, investigating, flitting, flirting, feasting at his will, with rich variety of choice in feast, from the heaped sweets in the grocer‟s window to chose of the butcher‟s back yard---what freedom is like this? (John Ruskin: The Freedom of the Fly)
我们无论在什么地方都找不到像普通家蝇那样一种绝对自由的生物了。

苍蝇不仅自由放任，而且勇敢无畏。

它全然不将什么谦恭礼让，不管是高贵的国王，还是贫贱的村夫，它都毫不在意，照样去吮舔；在它敏捷而机械式地前进的每一步，或在它果断观察的每一间歇，总是露出一副自命不凡、无求于人、十分自信的申请，俨然认为世界是为苍蝇而创造的。

如果你用手去拍打它，其情其景好像一块一英亩大十英尺厚的红色黏土拔地而起，突然劈头盖脑地照直朝你猛砸下来。

可是，苍蝇却振翅一飞，逃脱了你的一掌一击，接着又轻落在你的手背上。

你吓不倒它，制服不了它；既不能动之以情，也不能晓之以理。

苍蝇对一切事物都有自己的明确的见解，就其所要达到的目的而言，这些见解却也不失为睿智之见。

它不会征求您的高见。

苍蝇无需干活，在虫豸中没有统治它的暴君能使之俯首听命。

蚯蚓要疏松土壤；蜜蜂要采花酿蜜和营造蜂房；蜘蛛要巧结迷网；蚂蚁也要聚财盘宝。

相形之下，它们只是一群庸碌之辈。

而我们的苍蝇却在户外逍遥自在，活像一位反复无常的黑色精灵鬼。

它到处游逛，到处查访，东飞西荡，搔首弄姿，同时还能大饱口福，从食品店橱窗里陈列的糖果点心到肉铺后院存放的大堆肉食，诸般美味，任其挑选，还有何种自由堪与之媲美呢？（77-78）
●当夜幕无声落下，将一切远山近景从你的视线抹去的时候；当热闹的晚会结束，欢声笑
语已经消逝的时候，什么都没有留下，只有思想还在活动。

1．When night falls, blurring from view the distant hills and the nearby landscape, or when
a hilarious party is over and all the noise and laughter gone, nothing is left but your own
thoughts.
2．Nothing, but your own thoughts, is left, when night falls, blurring from view the distant hills and the nearby landscape, or when a hilarious party is over and all the noise and laughter gone.
英语句子以“尾重”（end-weight）为美。

（80）
●In a wagon, you can be one place today and another the next day.
1．坐着马车，你今天可以在一个地方，明天又可以在另外一个地方。

2．坐着马车，你可以今日看山，明天玩水。

（87）
●I am never at a loss for a word; Pitt is never at a loss for the word.（英国18世纪大演说家
Charles James Fox认为他的对手William Pitt比他更加出色）
1．我总是能凑合找个词儿说说，可是皮特什么时候都能找到恰如其分的词儿。

2．我总能找到一个词，而皮特总能找到那个绝妙好词。

3．我总能找到一个觉得妙的词，而皮特总能找到那个意思其党的词。

4．我和皮特都能出口成章，但我用的词大都不可言妙，而他用的总是妙不可言。

改译：我总是滔滔不绝，而皮特则是字字珠玑。

（88-89）
●Mole had suddenly realized that his old house was nearby. It was very close. All Mole had to
do was find it. All of a sudden he deeply wanted to see his old home again. Mole‟s house was small, and not as nice as his friend‟s houses. But it was his, and he wanted to see it!
1．鼹鼠突然记起，他的老家就在这附近，近得很。

此时，他需要干的就是去发现它。

突然，他真的想再看一眼他的老家。

他的家很小，没有朋友们的那么气派，但那毕
竟是自己的家呀，他就是想看看！
2．鼹鼠突然记起，他的老家就在这附近，近得很。

此时，他需要干的，只要四下寻找一下就行了。

突然，他真的想再看一眼他的老家。

他的家很小，没有朋友们的那么
气派，但那毕竟是自己的家呀，他就是想看看！（89）
●So long, chicken. Hello! Tofu. Tofu and a host of other products made from the mighty
soybean are pushing aside meat, milk and even ice cream on grocery store shelves these days as scientists rave about the health benefits of soy.
1．再见，鸡肉。

你好豆腐！科学家们对大豆有益健康的赞扬，使得如今着杂货店的货架上，豆腐和其他很多用大豆制成的食品正逐步取代肉类、牛奶甚至冰淇淋。

2．再见，鸡肉。

你好，豆腐！因科学家们对大豆有益健康的事实摇旗呐喊，而使得如今杂货店的货架上的豆腐和其他豆制品正在把肉类、牛奶甚至冰淇淋挤到一旁。

（91）
●The rich man believes he possesses his big house, his expensive clothes, his horses and
servants and his bank accounts. He does not. He depends on them. He worries about them.
They possess him. He is their slave.
1．有钱人认为他拥有大房子、昂贵的服饰、马匹、奴婢和银行存折。

其实，他并没有真正拥有，他依靠着这些财富，他为财富而忧心忡忡，是财富占有了他。

他是财富
的奴隶。

2．富人以为是他占有大屋、华服、马群、奴仆和银行存折。

不。

富人傍财而活，为财所累，被财所占。

富人，财之奴也。

（105）
●Parents bear children, bore teenagers and board new weds.父母生儿育女，还要招青春期子
女的厌烦，待其新婚时，还得包吃包住。

（114）
●Accident: car, caress, careless and carless.车祸：驾车上路、卿卿我我、一不当心，车子没
了。

（114）
●林语堂译《声声慢》：多少年来，译界高手趋之若鹜，竞相译之，在众多译作中，林语
堂的译文闪闪发光，胜出一筹！林译不仅一气连用了七个so，更让人叫好的是，林译连用了七个以d字母开头的形容词，一气呵成，自然构成了Alliteration，与李清照的原诗的尾韵遥相呼应，词趣洋溢。

（118）
●Spring (Thomas Nash)
The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
Young love meet, old wives a-sunning sit.
In every street these tunes our ears do greet,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
Spring! The sweet Spring!
遐思译：
田野吐芬芳，雏菊舔衣裳，
情侣去踏青，老妪暖夕阳，
悠悠春之声，入耳实难忘。

布谷声声叫，夜莺呖呖唱！
春！馨香的春！（120）
●Disease: ill, pill, bill and sometimes will.疾病：不舒服，吃药，付帐单，有时还要写遗嘱。

（121）
●Better late than the late.
1．迟到总比丧命好。

2．晚了总比完了好。

（127）
●我从小就对自己没有信心，这是问题的根子。

这种情绪使我受到一点点表扬多会难为情，
使我怎么也说不出一个“不”字，也使我不敢向父母多要一分钱。

此外，这种缺乏信心的情况也影响了我对钢琴的热爱。

1．I lack confidence since childhood, which was the root of the problem. I would feel
embarrassed while receiving the slightest praise. I found it hard to say “no”. I even dared not to ask for one more cent from my parent. Besides, this lack of confidence also influenced my love for the piano.
2．At the root of it is my diffidence by which I have been enslaved since childhood. It embarrasses me at the mildest flattery, crushes me utmost efforts to say “no”, and prevents me from asking my parent for one cent more than necessary. Among other things, diffidence has wormed its way into my love of the piano.（140）
●丹麦语言学家Jespersoen讲过一个著名的语言笑话：
A young lady home from school was explaining. “Take an egg,”she said, “and make a
perforation in the base and a corresponding one in the apex. Then apply the lips to the aperture, and by forcibly inhaling the breath the shell is entirely discharged of its contents.”
And old lady, who was listening exclaimed, “It beats all how folks do things nowadays.
When I was a gal they made a hole in each end a nd sucked.”
一个从学校汇价的年轻女子正在解释。

“取一枚鸡蛋，”她说，“在底部打一只孔，在顶部再打一只相应的孔。

然后置嘴唇于孔上，竭力吸气，而后蛋壳中所贮之物即会被抽近。

”
一位在侧聆听的老妇惊叹：“如今的人做事真希奇。

我小时候，我们一头打一个洞，吸就是了。

”（144）
●大词（big words）
英国语言学家A. G. Gardiner的On Big Words：
It looks so learned and knowing that it calls attention to the absurdity like a college cap on a donkey‟s ear.
We do not make a thing more impressive by clothing it in grand words any more than we crack a nut more neatly by using a sledgehammer. We only distract attention from the thought to the clothes it wears. If we are wise our wisdom will gain from the simplicity of our speech, and if we are foolish our folly will only shout the louder through big words. 妄图以冠冕堂皇的词修饰一件事，使其留下深刻的印象，无异于抡起大锤砸核桃一样荒诞不经。

这样做只能把人们的注意力从思想内容分散到装饰外表上。

如果我们是聪明人，我们的智慧将从简单的语言中得以提升；如果我们是愚蠢的人，那么，我们的愚昧只能从我们使用的大词中得以彰显。

（144-145）（但如运用恰当，“大词”也可以传递委婉、和谐、庄重等表现效果）
●The first fall of snow is not only an event but is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of
world and make up to find yourself in another quite deferent, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found? The very stealth, the eerie quietness of the thing makes it more magical. If all the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night, the event would be robbed of its wonder. But it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are sleep. Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transformation scene is taking place, just as if a myriad of elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. And then what an extraordinary change it is! It is as if the house you are in had been dropped down in another continent. Even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cozier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter‟s hut or a snug log cabin.
这场初雪并非一场寻常变化，而是魔幻般的变化。

你上床睡觉时是一个世界，醒来时却发现自己已置身于另一个迥然不同的世界。

假如这不是魔法，那么魔法又到哪儿去寻觅呢？而这一切都在静谧中神秘地发生，使得这场初雪愈发迷人。

如果所有的雪在瞬间轰
然落下，在午夜将我们惊醒，那么这场雪就无奇妙可言。

雪花落下，纷纷扬扬，无声无息，不停不息，而此刻的我们正在梦乡。

窗帘拉拢的卧室外，苍茫大地正在发生一场巨变，就像无数调皮的小精灵和小仙童在干活；此刻，一无所知的我们却在辗转反侧、打着哈欠、舒展四肢。

于是，我们见到了一场巨变！你的寓所，似乎落到了一个新大陆，甚至屋内，虽然没有被人动过手脚，似乎也发生了变化。

每一间屋子都显得更加小巧、更加温馨，好似某种神奇的力量把它变成了伐木的工棚或是温暖的小木屋。

（148-149）●When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into
saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. (Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie) 一个18岁的姑娘离家出走门，她无非有两种遭遇。

要么落到好人手里，而过上好日子，要么马上接受了三教九流的道德标准，由好变坏。

（149-150）
●The small and elite club of clones, restricted until now to females like Dolly the sheep and
Cumulina the mouse, has gone co-ed with the cloning of a male mouse. (It‟s a Boy! Scientists Clone First Mammal)
1．小而精的克隆家族，迄今是由多利羊和卡母里那鼠等雌性动物组成，但是，随着雄性鼠的克隆成功，克隆家族从此有了雄性。

2．由少数精英构成的克隆家族，一直是由多利羊和卡母里那鼠组成的雄性天下，但是，随着雄性鼠的克隆成功，雌雄共存的局面已经开始。

（154-155）
●Husbands have been killed, babies born deformed, wives left deserted, children crippled in
accidents, homes burned to the ground---I‟ve looked and heard and wet and thought this too much for anyone to bear…and then I‟ve been astounded at how happiness of a kind can be regained out of the hell of grief. (Margaret Foster: Why I Am Glad to Be 40) 丈夫被杀、婴儿畸形、妇人被弃、儿童致残、房屋焚毁——我目睹、我耳闻、我哭泣、我尝想：如此灾难，在这个世界上，何人能承受！——然而，接下去，我之所见，让我震惊，人们如何一步步走出被动的地域，获得了这样那样的幸福。

（159）
●They vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing;
where they were a mistake and failure and foolishness; where they have left no sign that they had existed. 他们从世界上消失了，他们对这个世界来说，无关紧要；他们一无所有，一事无成；他们来到这个世界本来是一个错误，一个失败，一种不智；他们在生活过的世界上没有留下一点一滴的痕迹。

（161）
●Happiness isn‟t about what happens to us; it‟s about how we perceive what happens to us. It‟s
the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as challenge. It‟s not wishing for what we don‟t have, but enjoying what we do possess. 幸福不是什么事情降临到我们头上，幸福是我们如何感知降临在我们头上的事情。

其诀窍在于，在消极中寻找积极，视挫折为挑战。

幸福不是我们想得到我们没有得到的，而是享受我们现在正拥有的。

（162）
●Stanford University, famous as one of northern California‟s several institutions of higher
learning, is sometimes called “the Harvard of the West”. Its reputation is based on its location, its intelligent students, its distinguished faculty, its growth opportunities offered to students, its overseas programs, its substantial endowment, and its recent extensive growth. 斯坦福大学，是北加州几个高等学校之一，有时被称为“西部哈佛”。

它的声誉基于它所处的位置，基于才智出众的学生，基于卓越而优秀的师资，基于学生获得的成长机遇，基于海外的科研项目，基于可观的捐赠以及最近的全面发展。

（163）
●被动语态的翻译：
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and men must be proclaimed and denounced. 我们必须触动这个国家的感情，唤醒她的良知，撼动她的礼仪规范，揭露她的伪善，公开和谴责她违反上帝和人类的罪行。

（164）
●Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any
burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 让每一个关心我们或对我们怀有敌意的国家知道，我们愿付出任何代价，承受任何负担，迎接任何困难，支持任何朋友，反抗任何敌人，以争取和维护自由。

（165）
●非人称主语：
发怒之后，我不难过，也不后悔。

After I got angry, I felt neither sorrow nor regret.
Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst.
进入青年期，他工作了，他恋爱了。

After he became a youth, he got a job and then fell in love with a girl.
Youth sees (finds) him on a job and in love.
Only the thought of his mother gave him the strength to go on doing it. 他想起了母亲，才鼓足勇气继续干下去。

The want of his family had kept him from school, and he seemed to feel the loss.他因家境贫寒失学，似乎感到了失学的痛苦。

Careful comparison of them will show you the differences.你只消比较一下，就会发现不同。

The application of electronic computers makes for a tremendous rise in labor productivity.人们使用了电脑，劳动生产率突飞猛进。

Courage deserted him.他失去了勇气。

The morning sun greeted us as we came out on deck.登上甲板，我们便见到一轮旭日。

He gave up all the hope when the appearance of a distant sail kindled his hope of rescue.他绝望了，正在此时，他见到远方的帆影，点燃了绝处逢生的希望。

四十岁的女人呢？揽镜自照，昔日光滑的额头已见依稀纹路，浓密的黑发也全没了光泽。

哦，时光流逝太快，还没有很好地一览风光，怎么就已入了秋境呢？便觉得有三分惆怅，三分无奈。

然而，思之又觉得释然。

What has become of a woman at forty? The answer comes from the mirror, which shows up vaguely discernible wrinkle on the formerly smooth forehead and the thick black hair with its gloss gone. A touch of frustration and helplessness comes over me as I realize how time flies. Before I have sufficiently admired the scenery and enjoyed the beauties of life, it‟s already autumn. However, a second thought brings me relieved calm.（170）
有的人如游客，不急不慌，走走停停，看花开花落，看云卷云舒，有时也在风中走，雨里行，心却像张开的网，放过了焦躁苦恼。

Others travel leisurely like tourists. They would take time off now and then for a look at blooming flowers or fallen petals. They would stop to admire clouds gathering and dispersing. Even when they go against the wind or are caught in the rain, they never get annoy6ed, for worries ship off their minds as from an open net.
（170-171）
她们或许是我们的奶奶，满头银丝，满脸皱纹，世人多用“慈祥”去形容她们，但很少
有人能品味皱纹背后那岁月与历史拂过的幽香。

她们无须再用铅华刻意雕饰，我却分明看见她和她的老伴共同演出那首动人的歌——《牵手》。

She is very charming when singing “Hand in Hand” in a duet with her lifelong companion. White-haired and wrinkled, she may be one of our grannies, a perfect image of kindness as she is often described. The furrows ploughed by time deny replenishment with cosmetics, for they are fertile soil radiating the fragrance of history.（171）
每天不厌地擦拭，清洁着我的小屋，不使它被尘埃埋没，回家来时，便总有一份欢欣的感觉。

不管夜有多深，总有一盏小灯亮着，留给迟归的人，远远望见，温暖便从窗口一直注入心底。

Day in and day out my room is cleaned with meticulous care to keep it always dust-free, so that it greets me with a pleasant look whenever I return. No matter how far into the night, there is always a light at that window shining through darkness like a beacon to the one bound for home late. The sight of it, even in the distance, brings warmth from the window all the way to the heart.（172）
于是，暮色中匆匆的人群里总有我赶路的身影，雨里，雾里，雪里，只盼着早些回家，洗去一身的疲劳，泡上一杯清茶，点上一炷檀香，打开半卷的书卷，一任轻柔的旋律把我带进一个美丽的境界……所有的喧嚣和乱都被抛在朔风冷雨里，因为我已经到家了。

Thus the gathering dark often finds me hastening home in a hurrying crowd. Whether it rains or snows, windy or foggy, it is the longing to be home that quickens my steps. To be home means to end a day‟s fatigue and enjoy myself in a world of my own. With a nice cup of tea and a burning sandalwood incense by my side, I can either resume my suspended reading, or listen leisurely to a soft melody and let myself be carried away to a fairyland… All the urban noises and disturbances are shut out, thrown to the winds and rain, for I am saf4e at home.（172）
又过了几个月，我看见他们手上戴了结婚戒指。

可是他们不像以前那样健谈了，她又在看书，他在看报。

Months later, rings appeared glistening on their fingers but chatting was gradually replaced by reading, one with a book the other a newspaper.（173）
我或许是在发泄心中无法诉说的一种情绪，或是在构思一首暂时还羞于见人的小诗，或是再次拿起久违的彩笔勾勒童年的彩虹，请你让我信笔驰骋。

It may be that I‟m venting some pen-up feelings long denied expression, or trying to compose a little poem not yet presentable for the time being, or attempting to sketch out something visualized from my childhood memories which glows in my mind like a rainbow. When I am in such a mood, please leave me alone and let me write as the pen dictates me.（173）
珍惜感情
那是一个秋日微凉的黄昏。

刚跟丈夫怄过气，一头湿漉漉的乱发披散，站在院子的当口，让锋使劲吹着。

“过来！坏脾气小姐！”说话的当儿，丈夫已拿着电吹风从房里走出来。

没好意思再别扭，便拉过一把椅子顺从地坐下来。

就这样，面对着满院子灿烂的花，不说一句话，心中的怨恨却早已全消了
一头雾气渐渐散近了，耳畔不时地有一种湿热的感觉。

“也许，多年后的一个黄昏，像现在，你一个人独坐的时候，你会想起眼前的这一刻的。

”沉默了很长时间的丈夫，突然说出这样的话来，而且在声音中还带着一丝藏不住得伤感。

“那你呢？”
丈夫关掉了手中的吹风机，看了我一眼，笑笑，甩手拜正我的头，手中的电吹风又响了起来，好一会才说：。