野次馬 · @raka
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野次馬 · @raka
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因此,我谋取了一职,自以为铅刀虽钝,终得一割,扬帆济海,行路匪难,岂料中路蹉跌,蹭蹬以至今日,身微人贱,何有于人间;抽毫命笔,了无足述;有生如此,不如无生也。阁下,这一份怨激的心,怕不是善根所生的。

—— 附录 《邓约翰传》

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he says also, that in the time of their breeding, which is in summer, when the sun hath warmed both the earth and water, and so apted them also for generation…
缪:夏天是鲤鱼生育对策季节,因太阳暖遍了地和水,宜其子孙振振也。

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and that the largest are in the lake Thrasymene in Italy; and the next, if not equal to them, are the Pikes of England…
缪:狗鱼最大的,在意大利的斯拉西闵湖;而产于英国者,不与之抗行,也与之雁行。

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…and that there the spawner casts her eggs, and the melter hovers over her all that time that she is casting her spawn, but touches her not.

缪:雌鱼排卵时,雄鱼浮在上面,撩云播雨,惟不亲芳泽。

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but that it is observed, that the old or very great Pikes have in them more of state than goodness; the smaller or middle-sized Pikes being, by the most and choicest palates, observed to be the best meat: and, contrary, the Eel is observed to be the better for age and bigness.

缪:你只要记住有人说过,狗鱼之老而大者,有气派,有威仪,却不中吃,美食家推为至味的,是半大的狗鱼。鳝鱼相反,人说鳝不厌大,不厌老,老而弥胜。

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for you are to note, that the great old Trout is both subtle and fearful, and lies close all day, and does not usually stir out of his hold, but lies in it as close in the day as the timorous hare does in her form; for the chief feeding of either is seldom in the day, but usually in the night, and then the great Trout feeds very boldly.

鳟之老而大者,每狐狸心,兔子胆,白天里晏居而伏处,轻易不出门,像蹲窝的兔子。鳟、兔之吃食,吝于白天,奢于晚上;夜壮㞞鱼的胆,天一黑,老鳟则贸贸然而来,大嚼一场的。

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野次馬 · @raka
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The world is ours, and ours alone;
For we alone have world at will
We purchase not, all is our own;
Both fields and streets we Beggars fill.
Nor care to get, nor fear to keep,
Did ever break a Beggar’s sleep,
Play, Beggars, play; play, Beggars, play;
Here’s scraps enough to serve to-day.

纵浪大化中,天地为我庐。
谁人得如此?都缘不自如。
万物备于我,何用钱刀为。
充巷皆乞丐,田野任来去,
不为利而往,不为守财惧,
巷陌春睡足,葛天之民欤?
艳阳照当头,乞丐肆游戏,
残羹与冷饭,足以度今日。

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这伙人刚去,就听见乞丐们也哄吵起来。他们争论的是:心术“不正”和心术“歪”,有没有不同。有个丐姐说,这是一码事,但马上有人反驳道:“不正”若是“歪”,那一名“木工”,岂不是一根“杠”子?她只好承认自己的错。这时又有丐姐接过话头说:“不正”是不“歪”,怎能是“歪”呢?但又有丐兄反问道:“不正”若是不“不歪”,则“不好”就是不“孬”,故“孬”种是“好”汉;这成什么道理?于是她也承认是自己错了。火不热,马有卵,规不圆,矩不方,像是这等是非无度的话题,你立我破,他们往往复复二十多个,丐民的巧辩、狂热,一展无遗,仿佛出自那裂教者的悠悠之口。

碰到这种文字游戏,真的很难…感觉缪哲这段处理得还是有点捉襟见肘,也有点“满”。

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野次馬 · @raka
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my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

不是我瞎说,徒弟,钓鱼的人,自己有把持;说什么快乐,道什么幸福,谁比得过他?做律师的,事多得像苦海,当政客的,不放冷枪,就躲暗箭,颠颠倒倒不得安闲,咱们却逍遥于川泽,放旷乎人外,听鸟唱,俯清流,看素波如银水泻;睹物而感怀,少不得“心之悄矣”、“如川之静”了。

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But take this for a rule, When you fish for a Trout with a worm, let your line have so much, and not more lead than will fit the stream in which you fish; that is to say, more in a great troublesome stream than in a smaller that is quieter; as near as may be, so much as will sink the bait to the bottom, and keep it still in motion, and not more.

你记住这个规矩:拿蛆钓鳟鱼,线之修短,要以水之静躁为度,水躁,则线长,水静,线则短,距水之远近,要以饵垂入水底为盈绌;而且要不停地摆动它。

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野次馬 · @raka
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But yet, though while I fish, I fast,
I make good fortune my repast;
And thereunto my friend invite,
In whom I more than that delight:
Who is more welcome to my dish
Than to my angle was my fish.

垂钓时,我粗茶淡饭,
却用钓起的鱼,大摆盛宴,
垂钓虽乐,总不如
座中客常满;
比起鱼吃饵,
我更爱客赴宴。

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But I will not compliment you out of the debt that I owe you, and therefore I will begin my song, and wish it may be so well liked.

缪:然口惠不顶实惠,欠债得还钱,故我还是唱我的歌吧,但愿能入各位的耳。

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Look! under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the brow of that primrose-hill. There I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots and pebble-stones, which broke their waves, and turned them into foam…

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then, as he grows stronger, he gets from the dead still water into the sharp streams and the gravel, and, there, rubs off these worms or lice …
缪:于是出止水,如急流,掠过石滩,一荡,一磨,虮子便落下身去了。

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…and that his age neither impaired his hearing, nor dimmed his eyes, nor weakened his memory, nor made any of the faculties of his mind weak or useless”.

缪:虽高年,却未损其聪,害其明,弱其智,隳其神思。

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And an ingenious Spaniard says, that “rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration “. And though I will not rank myself in the number of the first, yet give me leave to free myself from the last, by offering to you a short contemplation […]

缪:一位西班牙才子说,“河与水中的鳞介,生来是智者沉思的资粮,愚人有眼,但无珠,故视而不见。”我自不敢班列于前,却还是想出脱于后的,故把我一得之愚,献给仁兄 […]

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I say, if I should enter into these, and many other observations that I could make, it would be much, very much pleasure to me: but lest I should break the rules of civility with you, by taking up more than the proportion of time allotted to me, I will here break off, and entreat you, Mr. Venator, to say what you are able in the commendation of Hunting, to which you are so much affected […]
缪:我是说,若容我稍作铺排,并说说我的大量心得,我自是何乐而不为,却只怕唐突二位,因为这么一来,会超过了归我用的时间。还是打住的好。温兄既酷爱打猎,则请抖擞精神,为它叫几声好吧。

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“Lucian, well skilled in scoffing, this hath writ;
Friend, that’s your folly, which you think your wit:
This, you vent oft, void both of wit and fear,
Meaning another, when yourself you jeer.”

卢氏善轻嘲,嘴荤不守斋。
误将痴迷语,念作一世才。
狂吠乏机捷,何人将畏哉?
指骂他人桑,反及自家槐。

神完气足。

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野次馬 · @raka
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You know, Gentlemen, it is an easy thing to scoff at any art or recreation; a little wit mixed with ill nature, confidence, and malice, will do it; but though they often venture boldly, yet they are often caught, even in their own trap…

缪:先生们,想必你们清楚,任何一门手艺或娱乐,想嘲笑都不太难。一点小聪明,外加乖张、自负、和恶意,就足够了。人尽可以肆其恶口,却终不免自陷罗网的。…

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