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首先想要准确地翻译这句话,需要结合上下文,下面是原文:
That the equipment of modern camping becomes yearly more sophisticated is an entertaining paradox for the cynic, a brighter promise for the hopeful traveler who has sworn to get away from it all.
It also provides-and some student sociologist might care to base his thesis upon the phenomenon -- an escape of another kind. The modern traveller is often a man who dislikes the Splendide and the Bellavista, not because he cannot afford, or shuns their material comforts. but because he is afford of them. Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure what to tip the doorman or the chambermaid. Master in his own house, he has little idea of when to say boo to a maitre d'hotel. From all such fears camping releases him. Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists; but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with. There is no superior 'they' in the shape of managements and hotel hierarchies to darken his holiday days.
下面是参考译文:
现代露营装备一年比一年讲究,这对那些厌世嫉俗者来说是一件有趣的自相矛盾的事情。而对于发誓用露营来摆脱烦恼的人来说,却带来了更光明的前景。
学社会学的大学生来露营是另一种形式的摆脱现实,他们的目的很可能是根据观察到的露营现象去写论文。现代露营旅游的人往往讨厌在“斯普兰迪德”和“贝拉维斯塔”这样的大酒店,这并不是因为他们付不起钱,也不是为了躲避物质享受,而是因为他们害怕酒店。他们可能很富有,但给看门人和房间女服务叫多少小费,心中却根本没有数;他们在家可能是主人,但不知道什么时候才能对酒店的经理表示不满。露营便人们免除了这些忧虑。诚然,露营地本身也存在以露营装备和方式取人的势利现象,但如果有这种情况,露营者也容易理解,知道如何对付,但在露营地里根本不会有管人的“人上人”和酒店里的等级制度来种露营者的假日过得阴郁低沉。
首先说明,助助认为这个参考译文对这句话的翻译不对。如果你跟我有不同的理解,可以再联系讲课的老师讨论。下面我解释我的理解:
It also provides——and some student sociologist might care to base his thesis upon the phenomenon——an escape of another kind.
这句话的主干,如果去掉破折号里面的内容,就是
It also provides an escape of another kind.这里的it联系上文,指代的是“the equipment of modern camping becomes yearly more sophisticated”,所以这句话应该理解为“一年比一年讲究的现代露营装备使另一种方式的逃避成为可能”。
这另一种方式, an escape of another kind, 是什么方式呢?就是在这段里面接下来的内容里面解释的:
选择露营的旅游者,不是因为他们住不起奢华酒店,也不是为了躲避物质享受,而是因为他们害怕酒店。这个another kind对比的是哪里呢,是开头描述的“hopeful traveler who has sworn to get away from it all”,一些人选择露营就是为了逃避烦恼,远离世俗,不是像段落后面描述的这种害怕酒店才选择露营的旅游者。
破折号中间的内容,是一个完整的句子,学社会学的学生根据观察到的露营现象去写论文,这种现象指的什么呢?就是这种旅行者害怕酒店才选择露营的现象,就是这种 an escape of another kind。
所以助助不同意译文,翻译也只是一个参考,有时为了翻译通顺,逐字逐句是对照不上的,也可以理解。但是这里我认为译者翻译错了。不是学社会学的学生逃避现实。
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