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  3. 华裔电脑名人王安博士说，影响他一生的事发生在他6岁之时。 一天他外出玩耍，经过一棵大树时，突然有一个鸟巢掉在他的头上，里面滚出一只嗷嗷待哺的小麻雀。他决定把它带回去喂养，连同鸟巢一起带回了家。走到家门口，突然想起妈妈不允许他在家里养小动物。他轻轻地

华裔电脑名人王安博士说，影响他一生的事发生在他6岁之时。 一天他外出玩耍，经过一棵大树时，突然有一个鸟巢掉在他的头上，里面滚出一只嗷嗷待哺的小麻雀。他决定把它带回去喂养，连同鸟巢一起带回了家。走到家门口，突然想起妈妈不允许他在家里养小动物。他轻轻地

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问题     华裔电脑名人王安博士说，影响他一生的事发生在他6岁之时。
    一天他外出玩耍，经过一棵大树时，突然有一个鸟巢掉在他的头上，里面滚出一只嗷嗷待哺的小麻雀。他决定把它带回去喂养，连同鸟巢一起带回了家。走到家门口，突然想起妈妈不允许他在家里养小动物。他轻轻地把小麻雀放在门后，急忙走进屋去请求妈妈，在他的哀求下妈妈破例答应了儿子。王安兴奋地跑到门后，不料小麻雀已经不见了，一只黑猫在意犹未尽地擦拭着嘴巴。王安为此伤心了很久。从此，他记取了一个很大的教训：只要是自己认定的事情，决不可优柔寡断。犹豫不决固然可以免去一些做错事的机会，但也失去了成功的机遇。
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答案 Dr. An Wang, a well-known Chinese American computer entrepreneur, once remarked that an incident that had a lifetime influence on him occurred when he was six. One day, he ran outside to play. As he walked past a large tree from underneath, a bird nest fell on his head and out fluttered a baby sparrow crying piteously for food. He decided to keep the poor creature at home and took it along with its nest. He was about to enter the house when he remembered that his mother would not allow him to keep any pets. Gentry he placed the little sparrow behind the door and hurried in to seek approval from his mother, who finally bent the rule upon her son’s pleas. Overjoyed, he ran back to the door, only to find the bird disappeared and a black cat rubbing its mouth with its paws after a delicious meal. This incident had saddened Wang for a long time. An important lesson he learned from it was: never hesitate over what one believes to be the right thing to do: indecision may allow one to avoid certain mistakes, but it may also deprive one of the opportunity to succeed.
解析     本篇出自《当机应立断》，译文出自李运兴之手。故事短小精悍，寓意深刻，读来收获不小。翻译时，不仅需要充分运用近语境，而且要学会利用远语境，以期译出质量上乘的译作。
电脑名人：根据语境将其具体化为“well-known computer entrepreneur”。
外出：原文中的“外出”是一个比较笼统的讲法，考虑到作者当时只有6岁，故译为“ran outside”。
里面滚出一只嗷嗷待哺的小麻雀：联系前文，说明“我”对鸟巢掉在头上一点准备都没有，句式上采用倒装，突出小鸟“滚出”之快。  “嗷嗷待哺”用“crying piteously for food”译出，  “piteously”一词既使得“嗷嗷待哺”语义更加丰满，又起到承上启下的作用，为“我”做出下一步决定埋下伏笔。
养小动物：  “养小动物”就是“养宠物”，译为“raise／keep any pets”。
在他的哀求下妈妈破例答应了儿子：  “破例”表示“打破常例”，可译为“break a rule”，  “make an exception”，  “bend a rule”等。故整句译为“who finally bent the rule upon her son’s pleas”。
不料：英语常用“only to do something”，表示“随即发生的事情出乎意料”。
意犹未尽地：指猫吃了麻雀之后，还想吃，考生可以将隐性转换为显性。译为“a black cat rubbing its mouth with its paws after a delicious meal”。
王安为此伤心了很久：原文的主语是“王安”，翻译时可以转换视角，用“事件”作主语。译为：  “This incident had saddened Wang for a long time．”。
从此：  “此”指代“这件事”，而非“since then”。理解正确是翻译顺畅的保证。
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