7月18日应试班阅读课:长难句分析《No Signposts in the sea》 8
(2012-07-17 18:50:49)
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【Chapter 8】
②(One night we passed two
islands, steeply humped(驼峰形的岛)
against faint reflected
moonlight; and on each of them, high up, shone a
steady yellow gleam).
‘Not lighthouses.' I said to Laura.
'Villages.'
③(We gazed,
as the ship slid
by(flash滑过)
and the humps receded(倒退)
into darkness and even the
lights were
obscured(模糊)
by the shoulder of a
hill, never to be
seen by us
again). So peaceful and secret; so self-contained(深沉的).
One of the
ship's officers joined us, off
duty.
‘Yes, 'he said, following our gaze. ‘One
of them is a leper(麻风病的)
colony(聚集点)
and the other a penal(罪犯的)
settlement.'
God, is there no escape from suffering and sin(罪恶)?
一、
【idyllic】:carefree, simple, natural, happy, unrestricted, invented
【with a vengeance】:emphasizing a much great extent than was expected, here means my attention turn to great degree大改变
Several weeks past, his love to the pretty girl came roaring back to life with a vengeance. 几个礼拜过后,他对那个漂亮姑娘的情感又死灰复燃。
【hump】:to bend or round into a hump, arch
Over the hump 渡过难关
At last, we have been over the hump on my paper.
【recede】:move backward/become faint or distant
As time went by, my hate and anger to him began to recede.
【obscure】:unravished/unblemished
【self-contained】:self-sufficient/undisturbed
二、Paraphrase:
…steeply humped against faint reflected moonlight…
P: In the shape of a steep arch under the dim moonlight reflected by sea.
hump这里指的是驼峰形的海岛,reflected是指在月光的照射下,倒影浮现在海面上。
三、参考翻译:
哇,那些海岛!为了消愁解闷,我开始想象岛上生活的情景。令我觉得有趣的是,我发现我的想象总是竭力靠近田园诗般的生活。这完完全全是另一个爱德蒙. 卡尔。①(假如我们看见一叶扁舟靠向海岛的岸边,我的想象便随着那扁舟上的渔夫而去,看着他把船推上小海湾的沙滩,接着发出一声海鸟的叫唤,向家中人通报他的归来,他的女人马上出门迎接他。他们都很年轻,皮肤是金褐色的。她从他手中接过捕捞的鱼,他们那间茅草编成的棚屋里充满着健康和爱)。
“不是灯塔,”我对劳拉说。“是村落。”
船上的一名下了班的高级船员走过来加入了我们的谈话。
“没错,”他顺着我们的目光望去,一边说,“其中的一个村落是麻风病患者聚居点,另一个是犯人劳改营。”