《背影》选段翻译练习.doc

我与父亲不想见已二余年了，我最不能忘记的是他的背影。那年冬天，祖母死了，父亲的差事也交卸了，正是祸不单行的日子，我从北京到徐州，打算跟父亲奔丧回家。到徐州见着父亲，看见满院狼藉的东西，又想起祖母，不禁簌簌地流下眼泪。父亲说“事已如此，不必难过，好在天无绝人之路！”回家变卖典质，父亲还了亏空；又借钱办了丧事。丧事完毕，父亲要到南京谋事，我也要回北京念书，我们便同行。 学生译文： I haven’t seen my father for two years, and it was the figure of his back that I can’t forget. My grandmother died and my father was fired in that winter. It never rains but it pours. I arrived in Xuzhou from Beijing, intending to go home to attend funeral with my father. I met my father in Xuzhou, and could not help but shed tears when reminded of my grandmother and saw everything out of order in the yard. “It has happened, so do not to be sorrowful. Luckily, there is always a way out,” my father said. We sold out and pawned objects for money, and my father paid off the debt; we also borrowed money to hold a funeral. After the funeral, my father planned to work in Nanjing, and I also should go back to Beijing for studying, so we went together. 参考译文： It was more than two years since I last saw father, and what I can never forget is the sight of his back. Misfortunes never come singly. In the winter of more than two years ago, grandma died and father lost his job. When I met father in Xuzhou, the sight of the disorderly mess in the courtyard and the thought of grandma started tears trickling down my cheeks. Father said,“now that things have come to such a pass, it’s no use crying. Fortunately, heaven always leaves one a way out.”After arriving home in Yangzhou, father paid off debts by selling or pawning things. He also borrowed money to meet the funeral expenses. After the funeral was over, father was to go to Nanjing to look for a job and I was to return to Beijing to study, so we started off together.