The sky was a sheet of murky grey, completely devoid of sunlight.海水的蓝色浓得惊人(2),舌氏岸的微波吐出群鱼喋嗡的声韵。
The sea was a ghastly dark blue. The gentle waves licking at the shore gave forth ahumming sound like that of fish in shoals.这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆(3)。海中的岛屿和乌木的雕刻一样静凝着了。我携着中食的饭匣向沙岸上走来,在一只泊系着的渔舟里面坐着。
All that foreboded a storm Some isles in the sea stood quiet and still like ebony sculptures I walked towards the sandy beach carrying my lunch-box and then sat inside a fishing boat moored at the seashore.一种淡白而无味的凄凉的情趣一一我把饭匣打开,又闭上了(4).回头望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场(5)。红砖砌成的高耸的烟囱口上,冒出了一笔灰白色的飘忽的轻烟……
What an insipid and dreary scene! I opened the lunch-box only to have it covered up again. Looking back, I caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood. Its towering red-brick chimney was giving off wisps of grayish smoke.翻译解析:(1)“水墨画”除译An Inkwash Painting外,也可译为An Ink-and-Wash Painting o(2)“海水的蓝色浓得惊人”译为The sea was a ghastly dark blue,其中ghastly的意思是“可怕的”,但兼有“不正常”的含义。(3)“这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆”译为All that foreboded a storm o“先兆”也可译为 foretold但不如foreboded确切,因后者一般都针对不好的事物。(4)“又闭上了”译为only to have it covered up again,其中only(用在不定式前)往往作“结果却”或“却又”解。(5)“望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场”译为caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood,其中用looming代替standing等能(6)‘冒出了……轻烟”译为giving off... smoke to emit等。较好地表达“赫然耸现”的含义。其中to give off是成语,意同to send out