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海上日出 Sunrise at Sea 巴金 Ba Jin | 译文摘自张培基《英译中国散文选二》 为了看日出，我常常早起。那时天还没有大亮，周围非常清静，船上只有机器的响声。 I would often get up early to watch the sunrise when it was not yet quite light and all was quiet except for the droning of the ship engine. 要点： 本段重点在于合译，译者增用 了when, and, except for几个连接词 ，把汉语表达的意思串联了起来,表达的逻辑之美由此而生 。 天空还是一片浅蓝，颜色很浅。转眼间天边出现了一道红霞，慢慢地在扩大它的范围，加强它的亮光。我知道太阳要从天边升起来了，便不转眼地望着那里。 The sky was pale with a bluish hue. Soon a streak of pink dawn broke over the horizon，expanding gradually and becoming brighter and brighter. Knowing that the sun was about to rise, I had my eyes fixed on the distant edge of the sea. 要点： 1，“还没有大亮”=be not quite light，在《看月》中，有个“没有‘断黑’”= is not yet quite dark，“大亮”“断黑”都是程度副词+形容词的结构，通常用quiet+adj结构 2，“机器的响声”译为the droning of the ship engine.。“机器”这里指轮船上的steam engine,即蒸汽发动机，不宜译为macine.另外“响声”译为droning,表示机器的单调低沉的嗡嗡响声，较单纯的sound更有形象感 | 
