Re: [問題] 求《百年孤寂》西譯中版的一段譯文

看板book作者heavenbeyond時間3年前 (2021/02/07 23:11)推噓3(3推 0噓 5→)

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最後「death」那個字和「死亡」一點關係也沒有。要了解這個death的意思，我們得先往前看比較完整的段落： Aureliano smiled, picked her up by the waist with both hands like a pot of begonias,and dropped her on her back on the bed. With a brutal tug he pulled off her bathrobe before she had time to resist and he loomed over an abyss of newly washed nudity whose skin color, lines of fuzz, and hidden moles had all been imagined in the shadows of the other rooms. Amaranta Ursula defended herself sincerely with the astuteness of a wise woman, weaseling her slippery, flexible, and fragrant weasel’s body as she tried to knee him in the kidneys and scorpion his face with her nails, but without either of them giving a gasp that might not have been taken for the breathing of a person watching the meagerApril sunset through the open window. It was a fierce fight, a battle to the death, but it seemed to be without violence because it consisted of distorted attacks and ghostly evasions, slow, cautious, solemn, so that during it all there was time for the petunias to bloom and for Gaston to forget about his aviator’s dreams in the next room, as if they were two enemy lovers seeking reconciliation at the bottom of an aquarium. Suddenly, almost playfully, like one more bit of mischief, Amaranta Ursula dropped her defense, and when she tried to recover, frightened by what she herself had made possible, it was too late. A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like. 這一整段描寫了從反抗到墜落的發展。而在一開始反抗的階段，那個反抗的力道是極為強烈的。有多強烈呢？從這句可以看出：『It was a fierce fight, a battle to the death....』所以最後那個death是在對比一開始那近乎「寧死不屈」的反抗。寧死不屈反抗的對立面是什麼？就是完全的臣服。 orange whistles and the invisible globes的典故是什麼，就無從而知了，但那也不是重點。重點在於最後的death不是指死亡，更不應該翻譯成死亡，它指的是之前反抗階段的力道。 ※ 編輯: heavenbeyond (36.225.177.40 臺灣), 02/07/2021 23:17:35

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