从事口译与笔译之心得体会及教训

coolfool wrote:

1. We, I to be more specific, ain’t conscious exactly of what 孺子牛 really was and of how it was actually performed.

2. Stumble occasionally across a few kids next door on and off the backs of their fathers, stooped forward and downward on the wooden floor, dressed up as neither fish nor fowl, but as they are, excited and yelling along with their mothers egging them on on the sidelines. Whether or not it has anything to do with 孺子牛, I ain’t any the wiser. What’s more, it can also be deemed in a sense to be tamed horse, if not toothless tiger, instead of cattle, ox, or whatever.

3. Given the above-mentioned reason, or reasons, I tried successfully or not to avoid being particular with fuzzy handling in this context in a broader sense.

4. According to New Oxford English Dictionary,
4.1 Ox, pl. oxen, means
4.1.1 a domesticated bovine animal kept for milk or meat; a cow or bull. See Cattle (sense 1);
4.1.2 a castrated male of this, formerly much used as a draught animal: [as modifier] an ox cart; and
4.1.3 an animal of a group related to the domestic ox. See Cattle (sense 2).
4.2 We’re here, you see, referred, not once but twice, to the entry of cattle, like New Oxford Thesaurus Dictionary.
4.3 Cattle, pl. n., is defined as follows:
4.3.1 large ruminant animals with horns and cloven hoofs, domesticated for meat or milk, or as beasts of burden; cows and oxen;
4.3.2 Bos taurus (including the zebu, B. indicus), family Bovidae; descended from the extinct aurochs;
4.3.3 similar animals of a group related to domestic cattle, including yak, bison, and buffaloes; and
4.3.4 Tribe Bovini, family Bovidae (the cattle family): four genera, in particular Bos. The cattle family also includes the sheep, goats, goat-antelopes, and antelopes.
4.4 Apprently, the range of cattle covers ox, as does New Oxford Thesaurus Dictionary.

5. The topic in question is exclusive beyond doubt of other factors, like tone, rhyme, to name a few.

6. Obviously, it ain’t a federal case. If don’t like cattle, choose ox or bull or cow, instead. If hate kit, pick dress or suit, then. All roads, shorter or longer, straight or winding, smooth or rough, lead to Rome.

7. With my tunnel vision, in cattle kit and like [a] cattle ain’t two peas in a pod. In my opinion, like [a] cattle is acceptable. Furthermore, kit ain’t indispensable. How about costume?

8. The second line sounds, at least to me, a bit tongue-tied as kit and kid cram cheek by jowl against each other, whereas the text rolls right off the tongue.

9. Well, let’s now wait and see if the jade would come up, knock on wood.

wherestip wrote:



You're welcome, J.H..

No need to be sorry. IMO, the purpose of a professional forum is to benefit the users. If everyone keeps quiet, those who aren't clear on something may likely remain so. So I think your raising an issue like this is great.

Incidentally, a few days ago I came across the use of the term "another B.S.". Nobody ever spoke up; since I don't post in that forum, neither did I. In this instance, to be grammatically correct, one needs to say "another piece of B.S.".

http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/pluraleterm.htm


[Edited at 2016-01-06 14:27 GMT]

coolfool wrote:



Your encouraging remark is highly appreciated.

I'd appreciate it even more if you'd be more specific about 不通, so that I'd rewrite, modify, and/or improve it accordingly.

coolfool wrote:

1. v2.0
Go toe-to-toe with an endless barrage of bum raps coldheartedly
Go on all fours at kid’s beck and call in cattle kit wholeheartedly

2. v3.0
Go toe-to-toe with an endless barrage of bum raps stonyheartedly
Go on all fours in cattle costume at kid’s beck and call bigheartedly

3. Stumble occasionally across a few kids next door, excited and yelling, on and off, off and on the backs of their fathers, stooped forward and downward on the wooden floor, dressed up as neither fish nor fowl, but as they are, along with their mothers egging them on on the sidelines. Whether or not it has anything to do with 孺子牛, I ain’t any the wiser. What’s more, it can also be deemed in a sense to be tamed horse, if not toothless tiger, instead of cattle, ox, or whatever.

coolfool wrote:


3. Gratitude to you for the valuable link. Unluckily, it can’t be accessed for the time being.

J.H. Wang wrote:

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Please remove the last dot, which should not have been a part of the link.

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Rita Pang wrote:

中文其中一个最叫人拍案叫绝的地方就是精简 - 短短几个字已经带出无限意境。同样地，译文应该尽量和原文看齐。

我自己觉得译文的词句选择都很不错。但是直接点说一句，还是简洁些比较好。

您别怪我直接，我性子比较大喇喇，从一个读者心态角度出发，再精简点，用些较简单直接的词语，读起来会让您的译文更上一层楼。"...bum raps wholeheartedly" 这段让我看了好一会才理解用意。

[Edited at 2016-01-21 18:47 GMT]

coolfool wrote:

v4.0
Go toe-to-toe with a thousand potshots stonyheartedly
Go on all fours at kid’s disposal in cattle kit bigheartedly

Look, just wondering if we have all the while to please peers and readers?

tanglsus wrote:

横眉怒对千夫指， 俯首甘为孺子牛， 此句名言， 尽述（法律和其他题材）口笔译者的不同境遇心态。

Rita Pang wrote:



而是讀者能否看懂的問題。再直白一點吧，我真的沒看懂。stone-hearted 我聽過，stonyheartedly 好像說不通。不是什麽adjective 加個 ly 就可以變成 adverb 的。