05钱钟书先生翻译举隅[2].doc

05 钱钟书先生翻译举隅 [2] 钱钟书先生翻译举隅 摘自《管锥编》 1. like a purge which drives the substance out and then in its turn is itself eliminated (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, IX. 76, “Loeb”, II, 491) 譬如泻药，腹中物除，药亦泄尽。(P. 13) 2. The number of similes for life to be found in his works exceeds the number in any poet known to me. (A History of Western Philosophy, Allen and Unwin, 827) 西洋伯格森说理最喜取象设譬，罗素当嘲讽之，谓其书中道及生命时，比喻纷繁，古今 诗人，无堪伦偶。(P. 14) 3. For she with art and paint could fine dissemble/Her loathsome face: her back parts (black as night). (Phineas Fletcher, The Locusts, I, st.12, The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century English Verse, 210) 十七世纪英国诗写罪恶现女人身，面抹粉施朱，掩饰本相，以蛊媚凡俗，而背尻深黑作 夜色。(P. 34) 4. He [Zeus]is humbling the proud and exalting the humble. (Diogenes Laertius, I. 69, Chilo, op. cit., I, 71) 古希腊哲人曰:“神功天运乃抑高明使之卑，举卑下使之高。”(P. 53) Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. (Isaiah, XL. 3; Luke, III. 5.) 《旧约全书》亦言:“谷升为陵，山夷为壤。”(P.53) 5. One two three four, /we don’t want the war! / Five six seven eight,/we don’t want the state! 偶见西报摘载纽约民众示威大呼云:“一二三四，战争停止～五六七八，政府倒塌～” Cf. W. H. Auden: “One, two, three, four/ The last war was a bosses’ war/ Five, six, seven, eight / Rise and make a Workers’ State.” (G. Grigson, ed., The Concise Encyclopedia of Modern World Literature, 1963, P. 42) 6. Darkness came down on the field and the city: and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. (Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ch.32, ed. G. and K. Tillotson) 夜色四罩，城中之妻方祈天佑夫无恙，战场上之夫仆卧，一弹穿心，死矣。( (P.69) 7. I would have broke mine eyestrings, crack’d them but / To look upon him, till the diminution / Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle; / Nay, followed him till had melted from / The smallness of gnat to air, and then / Have turn’d my eyes and wept. (Cymbeline, I. iii. 17-21. Cf. Hardy: “On the Departed Platform”) 1 莎士比亚剧中女角惜夫远行云:“极目送之，注视不忍释，虽眼中筋络迸裂无所惜;行 人渐远浸小，纤若针矣，微若蠛蠓矣，消失于空濛矣，已矣～