🔥说明：108篇的汉译英部分已经学习完毕，从此篇开始，会再从108篇中的EC部分选取6篇不同类型的学习材料，现仍将内容整理为CE形式（也就是所谓的“回译”）供大家学习。将母语人士写的文章和由译者翻译的文章的译文放在一起，能轻而易举得知哪个是母语人士的手笔，原因很简单：母语人士能想到的，非母语人士想不到。无论中文还是英文，母语人士写作的流畅、自然与出其不意，译者往往需要大费力气才能有所弥补，这正是翻译时需要特别注意和加强的地方。🔥提示：该篇类型为人生哲理类。这篇短文的作者罗伯特• G.奥尔曼是位盲人，他在运动、法律及电台体育广播三个不同的领域获得极大的成功。他幼时就读于费城奥弗布鲁克盲人学校并在该校学会了摔跤。在宾夕法尼亚大学学习期间，他曾在五十多场摔跤比赛中获胜。在弟弟的帮助下（因为几乎没有法律书籍是用盲文印刷的），他在该校法学院学习并顺利毕业。由于他热爱运动，一度任电台体育节目广播员，他认为盲人不应该只从盲人身上寻求安慰，而应该“走出家门与世人接触”。该文文字朴实，生动流畅。其间所含的人生哲理，对人颇有启迪。🎈roll around在美国口语中有return at a regular or usual time即“周而复始”之意。但此处的意思与正文中的roll it around 一致，取“滚…”之意。四岁那年在大西洋城，我从货场一辆货车上摔下来，头先着地，于是双目失明。I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head.🎈CE看到这样的中文句子，大部分人会下意识地老老实实按原句语序处理，甚至可能会出现一组并列结构。但母语人士写出的句子主干只有：I lost my sight，剩下的成分则合理安排。但EC时，我们必须调整语序，说地道的中文。了解中英两种语言的差异对翻译学习是很有帮助的。现在我已经32岁了。我还模糊地记得阳光是多么灿烂，红色是多么鲜艳。Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is.🎈“阳光是多么灿烂，红色是多么鲜艳”也可译作how +adj +S +is。能恢复视觉固然好，但灾难也能对人产生奇妙的作用。It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people.🎈恢复视觉 restore vision/see again。有一天我突然想到，倘若我不是盲人，我或许不会变得像现在这样热爱生活。It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind.🎈那天/那天早上/那天晚上/那个星期（用于指说话前不久的日子）the other day/morning/evening/week《健忘的画眉》<那天>，我刚刚走进滨河公园，便听到从小树林中传出了画眉的叫声。The other day when I went into Riverside Park, I was greeted by the chirrup of a song thrush from a grove.🎈if I hadn’t been是一个对过去的虚拟语气(即一种对过去的假设)；又，“might +have +done”表示对过去事情的推测，might与may意思相同，但可能性更小，多用于虚拟语气结构中。现在我相信生活，但我不能肯定如果自己是明眼人，会不会像现在这样深深地相信生活。I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise.🎈 otherwise 在这里作副词用，可用 if I hadn’t been blind代替。这并不意味着我宁愿成为盲人，而只是意味着失去视力使我更加珍惜自己其他的能力了。I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.🎈prefer to go/live without my eyes = prefer being blind🎈 what I had left指除眼睛以外的脑、耳朵、嘴等其他器官。 我认为，生活要求人不断地自我调整以适应现实。Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality.🎈I believe是插入语。🎈补充adjust的一个常用搭配：adjust oneself to the new environment适应新环境人愈能及时地进行调整，他的个人世界便愈有意义。The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes.🎈此句是the+比较级…, the+比较级…（……越…，则…越…）结构。调整决非易事。The adjustment is never easy.🎈决非易事is never easy/is always difficult我曾感到茫然害怕。但我很幸运：父母和老师在我身上发现了某种东西——可以称之为活下去的潜力吧——而我自己却没有发现。他们激励我誓与失明拼搏到底。I was bewildered and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a kind of potential to live, you might call it—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.🎈此句双语对照形式基本一致，尤其是破折号的保留。🎈以斗争方式解决；辩论出结果fight out sth /fight it out例句The conflict is still being fought out.仍在通过战斗解决这次冲突。我必须学会的最艰难的一课就是相信自己，这是基本条件。The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic.🎈看到…was to do结构，我们顺带回顾一下“前有do后省to”萧乾《说起香港》在送审的校样上他随便打个红叉，我就只好抽掉。When a British censor put in a red cross at will, all I could do was withdraw the entire manuscript. 注意“all I could do was withdraw”中是withdraw而不是to withdraw。如做不到这一点，我的精神就会崩溃，只能坐在前门廊的摇椅中度过余生。If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life.🎈a chair rocker = a person sitting on the rocking chair。同理，a dreamer= a person pursuing his/her dream。相信自己并不仅仅指支持我独自走下陌生的楼梯的那种自信。When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone.🎈相信自己belief in myself（名词短语）；“支持我独自走下”译作that helps/allows/encourages me down…alone均可。那是一部分。但我指的是大事：是坚信自己虽然有缺陷，却是一个真正的有进取心的人；坚信在芸芸众生错综复杂的格局当中，自有我可以安身立命的一席之地。That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.🎈“是坚信…”对应“an assurance that…”，注意此处的词性转化，这也是翻译常见的技巧之一。sweeping, intricate pattern of people指世界上的人形形色色，很复杂。我花了很长时间才树立并不断加强这一信念。这要从最简单的事做起。It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things.🎈学习discover这个词的妙用，非母语人士多半会选择build、establish之类的词。有次一个人给我一个室内玩的棒球，我以为他在嘲笑我，心里很难受。Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me and I was hurt. 🎈心里很难受was hurt/was upset/feel sad/…“我不能使这个。”我说。“你拿去，”他竭力劝我，“在地上滚。”他的话在我脑子里生了根。“I can’t use this,” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head.🎈“在我脑子里生了根”译作stuck in my head（刺进了我的脑袋中），stuck的原形是stick，这个表达是不是很有冲击力，甚至觉得自己脑瓜儿也被刺了一下？“在地上滚！”滚球使我听见它朝哪儿滚动。“Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went.🎈around作副词，表示“各处、在别的地方”。我马上想到一个我曾认为不可能达到的目标:打棒球。This gave me an idea of how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball.🎈how to achieve a goal (that) I had thought impossible: that在定从中作thought的宾语，可以省略。在费城的奥弗布鲁克盲人学校，我发明了一种很受人欢迎的棒球游戏,我们称它为地面球。At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.🎈the Blind是the+adj结构，表示一类人或物。variation表示一种“变体”，词根是vary。我这一辈子给自己树立了一系列目标，然后努力去达到，一次一个。All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time.🎈ahead of me理解为for me/for my future即可。我必须了解自己能力有限。若开始就知道某个目标根本达不到却硬要去实现，那不会有任何好处，因为那只会带来失败的苦果。I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure.🎈没（或没什么、没多大）用处（或好处）It was no good to=It was not any/much good例句This gadget isn’t much good.这小玩意儿没多大用处。🎈wildly out of reach中wildly是副词，表程度，指“非常、极其”；out of reach则指“无法到达、无法达成、能力范围之外”。(学习invite（带来）一词的灵活运用，这也是非母语人士基本想不到的用法。我有时也失败过，但一般说来总有进步。I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.🎈“would+动词原形”可指过去的一种状态/发生的动作。🎈平均而言；一般说来on the average例句On average, the virus kills about half of those who get it.平均来说，这种病毒使一半的感染者死亡。🔥必背词汇calamity n.灾难，灾祸，祸患英义A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.例句He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.他称毒品是这个时代最大的祸害。bewildered adj.困惑不解的，不知所措的，晕头转向的英义If you are bewildered, you are very confused and cannot understand something or decide what you should do.例句Some shoppers looked bewildered by the sheer variety of goods on offer.光是摆在那里的各式商品就让一些购物者晕头转向了。🔥重点表达从……上摔下来fall off…头先着地landing on my head双目失明lost my sight模糊地记得vaguely remember……固然好It would be wonderful to…对人产生奇妙的作用do strange things to people倘若我不是盲人，我或许不会变得像现在这样热爱生活。I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind.那天/那天早上/那天晚上/那个星期（用于指说话前不久的日子）the other day/morning/evening/week决非易事is never easy茫然害怕bewildered and afraid相信自己to believe in myself在芸芸众生错综复杂的格局当中in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people树立并不断加强这一信念discover and strengthen this assurance从最简单的事做起start with the most elementary things心里很难受was hurt在我脑子里生了根stuck in my head一次一个one at a time那只会带来失败的苦果that only invited the bitterness of failure没（或没什么、没多大）用处（或好处）It was no good to=It was not any/much good（某个目标）根本达不到was wildly out of reach平均而言；一般说来on the average🔥复盘测试从……上摔下来头先着地双目失明模糊地记得…固然好对人产生奇妙的作用倘若我不是盲人，我或许不会变得像现在这样热爱生活。那天/那天早上/那天晚上/那个星期（用于指说话前不久的日子）决非易事茫然害怕相信自己在芸芸众生错综复杂的格局当中树立并不断加强这一信念从最简单的事做起心里很难受在我脑子里生了根一次一个那只会带来失败的苦果没（或没什么、没多大）用处（或好处）（某个目标）根本达不到平均而言；一般说来🔥表达对比「突然想到」有几种表达？有一天我（突然想到），倘若我不是盲人，我或许不会变得像现在这样热爱生活。It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind.关于孩子底名字，秀才是煞费苦心地想着，但总（想不出）一个相当的字来。As to the baby’s name, the scholar racked his brain, but just could not hit upon a suitable one. 他（突然想到）了一个绝妙的主意。An ingenious idea suddenly came upon him.就（突然想到）的吗？It just popped into your head?
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