干校六记汉英对照.doc

《干校六记》--学圃记闲 杨绛 “The Vegetable Garden: On Idleness” From A Cadre School Life: Six Chapters By Geremie Barme “Leisure: Tending a Vegetable Plot” from Six Chapters from My Life “Downunder” by Howard Godblatt “Leisure Between Chores at the Vegetable Garden” from Six Chapters of Life in a Cadre School:Memoirs from China’s Cultural Revolution 章楚 译 我在菜园里拔草间苗，村里的小姑娘跑来闲看。 When I was pulling out weeds some of the young girls from the village came to watch. Whenver I was weeding and pruning in the vegetable plot, some of the village girls would run over to watch me work. Once, as I was weeding in the vegetable garden, two young girls from the village came to visit me. 我学着她们的乡音，可以和她们攀话。 I imitated their local accent and struck up a conversation with them. Once I had mastered their local speech I passed the time of day with them. I carried on a conversation with them by imitating their native dialect, albeit imperfectly. 我把细小的绿苗送给她们，她们就帮我拔草。 I gave them some green seedlings and they helped me with the weeding. I gave them some of the smaller twigs and they helped me do the weeding. I gave them some surplus young seedlings and they in return helped me in the weeding. 她们称男人为“大男人”；十二三岁的小姑娘，已由父母之命定下终身。 They called all males “big men”, and though none of them were old enough to be married - they were all about twelve or thirteen - their parents had already chosen their future mates. The referred to their men folk as “the big guys”. They referred to their men folk as “bid daddies”. They were all young girls of twelve or thirteen whose future marriages had been arranged by their parents. Their marriages were arranged by their parents; even girls as young as twelve or thirteen were promised in future marriages. 这小姑娘告诉我那小姑娘已有婆家；那小姑娘一面害羞抵赖，一面说这小姑娘也有婆家了。 One girl pointed to a friend who, she said already had “in-laws”. One of them told me that one of the others had already been accepted by her in-laws. One girl pointed a finger at the other one, saying, “she has been