今天kindle到手了,摸鱼了好久。
之前在扇贝上看了《了不起的盖茨比》英文版,似乎并没有感受到他的美。
今天在kindle书城扫了眼村上春树翻译的版本。就被一个句子惊艳了。
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“每当你想批评别人的时候,”他对我说,
“要记住,这世上并不是所有人,都有你拥有的那些优势。”
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故今天翻译原版,想看看自己和大神之间差了多少。
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《了不起的盖茨比》原版Chapter One (1)
- In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
<pre>在我脆弱的童年时期父亲给了我一些忠告,并从那时起我就一直在揣摩其中深意。</pre>
- “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
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“每当你想批评别人的时候,”他对我说,
“要记住,这世上并不是所有人,都有你拥有的那些优势。”</pre> - He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
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他没再说些别,但他总是如此的保有余地,
我懂得这其中的深意远比字面上来的多。
因此在后来的日子来,我习惯对所有判断持保留看法
——这个习惯既使得许多有怪僻的人肯原因和我谈心,
也使我深受那些爱唠叨的讨厌鬼们的骚扰。
</pre> - The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
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T T 不会翻.....为什么把小说写的这么拗口....哭泣...每一个单词都认识的痛</pre> - Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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大多数秘密都不是我打听来的
——当有明显的迹象表明某些人想要吐露心声时,
我通常假装睡在觉,走神,或烦躁的样子。
因为年轻人的心声,表达的方式差不多是一样,
带有明显的重复性和强烈的压抑。
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