[2011.05.26] 欢迎来到人类纪

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 16:55

本帖最后由 migmig 于 2011-5-28 16:58 编辑

http://www.wildnesswithin.com/2001/01-12/inwildness.html
"In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World"

       The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World. Every tree sends its fibers forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind. . . .  


FROM  Henry David Thoreau

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 19:40

Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too 人类改变了世界运行方式，现在，人类不得不改变他们的思考方式

评论： about it（=the world） 指的是有关世界的思考

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 19:43

a species that has been scampering across its surface

想象一下蚂蚁吧， 爬来爬去的

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 19:46

A single engineering project, the Syncrude mine in the Athabasca tar sands, involves moving 30 billion tonnes of earth—twice the amount of sediment that flows down all the rivers in the world in a year. That sediment flow itself, meanwhile, is shrinking; almost 50,000 large dams have over the past half- century cut the flow by nearly a fifth. That is one reason why the Earth’s deltas, home to hundreds of millions of people, are eroding away faster than they can be replenished. 阿萨巴斯卡油砂的辛克鲁德矿是一个单一工程项目。该项目涉及移动300亿吨泥土——这一数字是地球上所有河流一年中流动的沉积物总量的两倍。与此同时，砂石流本身也在逐渐消减。在过去半个世纪中，近50000个大型大坝截断近1/5的水流。这也是为什么数以百万计人类的家园——地球三角洲地带在得以补充之前就逐步消失的原因之一。

这段翻译错误多且大。

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 19:52

sediment 在本文中为避免混淆， 只能有一个译名， 不能一会儿是沉积物， 一会儿是沙石流。
cut the flow （=sediment flow， 不是水流）
are eroding away faster than they can be replenished补充不及流失的快。

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 19:55

hammering away at
既有比喻意义， 也是实际在干的事情。 问温家宝就知道。 地质锤干什么用的？

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 19:58

Now a number of these scientists are arguing that future geologists observing this moment in the Earth’s progress will conclude that something very odd was going on.

future geologists observing this moment in the Earth’s progress 将来的地质学家， 观察现时现刻（此时此刻）地球演化，

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 20:03

It means thinking afresh about the relationship between people and their world and acting accordingly.它意味着对人与世界以及相应行为之间关系的重新审视。

错译。 it means 两件事， 一是thinking， 一是acting according to the thinking

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 20:09

“in wilderness is the preservation of the world”. But the wilderness, for good or ill, is increasingly irrelevant.

世界的保存要靠荒野。 可是， 荒野云云， 已经日渐题不及义了（跑题了），这是好是坏，亦未可知。

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 20:11

fossil fuels化石燃料

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 20:13

The relevance of wilderness to our world has shrunk in the face of this onslaught.
荒野对我们世界的意义减少了（翻译反了！！！）

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 20:27

yannanchen 发表于 2011-5-28 20:13
The relevance of wilderness to our world has shrunk in the face of this onslaught.
荒野对我们世界的 ...

我也感觉是反了。但是shrink 是收缩、退缩的意思啊。

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 20:31

yannanchen 发表于 2011-5-28 19:43
a species that has been scampering across its surface

想象一下蚂蚁吧， 爬来爬去的

scramble 不知道怎么翻译好。

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 20:36

yannanchen 发表于 2011-5-28 19:52
sediment 在本文中为避免混淆， 只能有一个译名， 不能一会儿是沉积物， 一会儿是沙石流。
cut the flow  ...

前面是sediment  沉积物
后面是sediment flow  砂石流

That sediment flow itself, meanwhile, is shrinking;
这里我把sediment flow理解为名词。

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 20:40

yannanchen 发表于 2011-5-28 19:55
hammering away at
既有比喻意义， 也是实际在干的事情。 问温家宝就知道。 地质锤干什么用的？ ...

查的hammer away   是
苦心研究 的意思啊。

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 20:47

yannanchen 发表于 2011-5-28 20:03
It means thinking afresh about the relationship between people and their world and acting accordingl ...

It means thinking afresh about the relationship between people and their world and acting accordingly.它意味着对人与世界以及相应行为之间关系的重新审视。

错译。 it means 两件事， 一是thinking， 一是acting according to the thinking

我理解成了think about (people、their world、acting accrodingly 之间的relationship了。）
看来是错了。。

引用 migmig 2011-5-28 21:12

yannanchen 发表于 2011-5-28 19:58
Now a number of these scientists are arguing that future geologists observing this moment in the Ear ...

Now a number of these scientists are arguing that future geologists observing this moment in the Earth’s progress will conclude that something very odd was going on.


我是这样理解的：（a number of these ）scientists are arguing（that future geologists observing this moment in the Earth’s progress will conclude that something very odd was going on）

主语 scientist,谓语 are arguing
宾语 that从句。
从句主语future geologists
从句主语的后置定语observing this moment in the Earth’s progress
从句谓语  will conclude
从句宾语 something very odd was going on

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 22:15

it wouldn’t stop climate change any time soon,
不能很快地......

引用 yannanchen 2011-5-28 22:18

fiddling—finding ways to apply human muscle with the grain of nature, rather than against it, and help it in its inbuilt tendency to recycle things.
fiddling 已经有说明了， 破折号后头是同位语。

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