Context and Word Selection 语境与选词

以句子为基础 The parents left their children, feeling depressed. I appreciate this oil painting much more now that you have explained it to me.

He took out a collapsible bicycle, unfolded it, and fastened his briefcase and tightly rolled umbrella to the side.

In an office, figures, diagrams and information are compiled which tell the managers or heads of the business what is happening in their shops or factories.

1. Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar. 剥去文明的外壳，就会发现野蛮的内 核。 2. The Romans made London their capital soon after they landed in Britain in the first century.

3. They were too strong to be opposed head on. To do that was to tilt at windmills. 4. I will have to beard the lion in his den when I go to ask my boss for a better job.

语境是意义的最终决定因素 In contrast with New York, a city full of youthful vitality, London is a brave December rose. 和纽约这样一个朝气蓬勃的城市相比，伦 敦是一朵坚强的十二月的玫瑰。

To be brief, she was that wisest, but unloveliest, variety of woman, a philosopher, bearing troubles of the heart with equanimity, dispensing with all that should have been her happiness, and making the best of what remained. —— The Wedding Knell

1. 简单一句话，她就是那样一种最聪明也 最不可爱的女人，是一位哲学家，对拂 逆的事处之泰然，放弃了一切理应属于 她的欢乐，只对剩下的一点点乐趣尽情 享用。 2. 简单的说，她是最聪明也最不可爱的那 种女人，她总是喜欢琢磨，对于情感上 的痛苦，总是泰然处之，舍弃了原本属 于她的幸福，最大限度地享受残存下来 的欢乐。

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulences as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessly; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. 乘车上班族如潮水般喧嚣（奔流不息）； 土生土长族使纽约稳固、延续；而外来寻 梦族则给纽约带来了激情。

I bought a tape-recorder for a song. Joe felt proud when he put his John Henry on his very first driver’s license He said that no one could beat him at tennis, but he had to eat his words after losing several games. 不要望文生义

Child’s play 简单容易 Move heaven and earth 竭尽全力 Dog eats dog 你死我活 The longest day must have an end. 苦 难终有尽头。 Throw a sprat to catch a whale. 吃小 亏占大便宜。

Appreciation

静夜思英译版本的赏析 静夜思 李白 床前明月光，疑是地上霜。 举头望明月，低头思故乡。

Quiet Night Thoughts Bedside bright moonlight Is suspected to be frost on the floor. Raising head to watch the bright moon, Lowering head to think of the hometown.

In the Still of the Night I descry bright moonlight in front of my bed. I suspect it to be hoary frost on the floor. I watch the bright moon, as I tilt back my head. I yearn, while stooping, for my homeland more.

A Tranquil Night Abed, I see a silver light, I wonder if it’s frost aground. Looking up, I find the moon bright; Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned.

Night Thoughts I wake, and moonbeams play around my bed, Glittering like hoar-frost to my wandering eyes; Up towards the glorious moon I raise my head, Then lay me down---and thoughts of home arise. ( Tr. Herbert A. Giles)

Nostalgia A splash of white on my bedroom floor. Hoarfrost? I raise my eyes to the moon, the same noon. As scenes long past come to mind, my eyes fall again on the splash of white, and my heart aches for home.