I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Before college, the only p

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问题    I was slow to understand the deep grievances of women. This was because, as a boy, I had envied them. Before college, the only people I had ever known who were interested in art or music or literature, the only ones who read books, the only ones who ever seemed to enjoy a sense of ease and grace were the mothers and daughters. Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the omens who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blessed fact. By comparison with the narrow, ironclad days of fathers, there was an expansiveness, I thought, in the days of mothers. They went to see neighbors, to shop in town, to run errands at school, at the library, at church. No doubt, had I looked harder at their lives, I would have envied them less. It was not my fate to become a woman, so it was easier for me to see the graces. Few of them held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses. I didn’t see, then, what a prison a house could be, since houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any factory. I did not realize—because such things were never spoken of—how often women suffered from men’s bullying.  

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答案 像男人一样,女人也为钱发愁,也省吃俭用,凑合度El。但是,如果家里断了收人,问题并非出在她们身上。她们也用不着去外面打拼,这在我看来是一桩幸事。跟做父亲的那种拥挤、刻板的生活相比,我觉得做母亲的日子过得比较宽松自在。她们上邻居家串门,去城里买东西,到学校、图书馆、教堂跑跑腿儿。当然,我若是对她们的生活观察得敏锐一些,就不会那么羡慕她们了。我命中注定不是女人,因而更容易发现女人悠闲的一面。她们很少有人外出做工,即使有去做工的,也是做些诸如文书和女招待之类的吃力不讨好的差事。那时候,我还意识不到家会多像一座监狱,因为在我看来,家比哪座工厂都要亮堂美观。

解析 本文翻译时主要使用了词义引申和指明指代对象的方法j文中多处使用代词,翻译时应将其对应的名词译出,这样才不会造成混淆。此外,翻译时多处进行词义引申,例如第四句中的narrow修饰的是days,不能直接译成“狭窄的”,这不符合中文表达习惯,应引申为“拥挤的”,同理expansiveness,graces等都需要进行词义引申。
   这段材料选自《中国翻译家联盟》中的Men and Women一文,语言运用比较朴素、平实,句子结陶也不是很复杂,但个别单词有一定难度,需要根据上下文语境进行推断和引申。
   1.fret about意为“发愁”。
   2.scrimp有“精打细算,节省”之意。
   3.omen原意为“征兆,预兆”,这里需进行词义引申。根据上下文含义,将they were not the omens who had failed译为“问题并非出在她们身上”。
   4.ironclad意为“刻板的”。
   5.expansiveness原意为“广阔的”,这里与前面的narrow,ironclad对比,引申为“宽松自在”。
   6.第六句使用了虚拟语气,从句中省略了if,翻译时注意语气。
   7.thankless role意为“吃力不讨好的角色”。
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