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HAIR IN YOUR EYESBy Helen Foster SnowIt is still a mystery to me – why anyone wants to have hair hanging down into their ey es. I don’t like anything in front of my eyes. Even one hair bothers me. I understand s haggy-cut bangs, not too short, and I have had a windblown cap cut off and on since t he idea first appeared about 1925. (We used to use soap to make the cheek piece curl up.)In the 1960’s men and boys began to hide behind long feminine haircuts, with the ban gs so long, sometimes they actually hung over most of the eyes like a thin curtain. Wh at did this mean? It had to be unkempt looking, even if by the art of studied carelessne ss. I discovered one reason: both boys and girls constantly made the gesture of pushin g their hair back. Then sometimes, they would shake their heads to make sure it had f allen down again, so they could put up a hand to push it back. This gesture is the ultra -feminine one and also it gives you something to do with your hands if nervous and ill at ease.On television “Cher” was an example of the long, straight, flat hair parted in the midd le and hanging down on both sides, always about half way over the eyes. Then the “C her” panache was to constantly swing the hair back or to put up the hand to keep brus hing it out of the eyes. She obviously thought this was the ultimate in charm and style, even though she usually had a little bit of burlesque. We know the hair fetish is one o f the chief expressions of human nature, primitive or any time. Human beings wave it like a banner and a challenge. For unknown generations hair hanging long and unkem pt has been the fetish of the artist, musician, actor and other off-beat types, the mark o f their exceptionalness. One example is the Japanese conductor of the Boston Pops Or chestra – he waves his shaggy mane from one side to another, peeping out from unde r the heavy bangs half covering his eyes. All conductors tend to have long leonine ma nes, but covering thevision and hiding behind it is not quite the same as waving it.I once had a severe nosebleed and went to the emergency ward of Yale New Haven Hospital. I was assigned to a young Japanese woman, training to be a doctor. Her hair was short and so heavy and bushy; she actually could not see through the ove rlong heavy bangs and had to keep brushing them out of her eyes right in the middle o f using a scalpel and mirror to cut off the artery. In the end, she made such a “hairy” mess of it, she had to call another doctor to do the job – he was a real square, fortunately, with nice neat short hair and good glasses.When I was in China in 1970’s, I was always bothered by the straight wisps ofhair esc aping from a bobby pin to hold the bangs back and directly obscuring the vision. I cou ld not understand it at all, but assumed the hair grew in that intractable manner. I well remembered in the 1930’s when the old-fashioned women plucked their foreheads to make a square, then brushed the long hair down like a crow’s wing to be as flat as pos sible.When I was a child, my grandmother’s second husband was the superintendent of a bi g insane asylum. Once or twice I wentthere and I noticed that unkempt hair was the co mmon denominator, also that the wildest inmates hid behind heavy locks in front andpeered out with paranoid fear and hostility. In fact, I am writing this today because last night I watched “Nicholas Nickleby” on television. The retarded boy, Smoke, had b een hiding behind long unkempt hair over his eyes – a miracle occurred when it was cut short all over.In the 1960’s one of my aged friends went to visit a family of relatives around Halloween. Their girls appeared in long calico skirts with the long straight hair hangin g like witches and covering half their eyes. At first she thought it was a costume partyfor the holiday – but of course, that was the ne plus ultra of young fashion then all the time.A few minutes ago I watched a woman author on the Donahue show. Her long bangs were curved, but resting actually on the eyelids. She thought herself most attractive, but this hair problem gave me the “creeps”.(Madison, 14 January 1983)英译中及眼碎发有一件事一直令我费解－为什么大家都喜欢那种及眼碎发。
海伦斯诺翻译奖
海伦斯诺翻译奖关于举办第三届全国⼤学⽣“海伦?斯诺翻译奖”竞赛的通知海伦·斯诺（Helen Foster Snow）是美国著名作家、记者、社会活动家、中国⼈民的⽼朋友。
她为中国⾰命和建设事业、为促进中美两国和两国⼈民之间的相互了解和友谊，倾注了毕⽣的⼼⾎。
为了弘扬海伦·斯诺的“架桥”精神，培养⼤学⽣对翻译的兴趣，发现译界新⼈，陕西省翻译协会在斯诺第⼆故乡陕西设⽴“海伦·斯诺翻译奖”,并已成功地举办了两届。
第三届全国⼤学⽣“海伦·斯诺翻译奖”竞赛定于2010年举⾏，由陕西省翻译协会主办、北京⼤学中国埃德加?斯诺研究中⼼、《外语教学》编辑部和陕西斯诺研究中⼼协办。
现就竞赛办法和参赛规则通知如下：⼀、“海伦·斯诺翻译奖”设‘英译汉’和‘汉译英’两个奖项。
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To_Helen_中文翻译_评析
To HelenHelen, thy beauty is to me海伦，你的美貌于我Like those Nicean barks of yore, 昔日 似远古尼西亚人的帆船，That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, 轻轻飘过芬芳的海面，The weary, way-worn wanderer bore让旅途劳顿的游子，To his own native shore. 回到他故乡的岸边。
On desperate seas long wont to roam, 在漂泊已久、波涛汹涌的海上，Thy hyacinth[ˈhaiəsinθ] hair, thy classic face,你风信子般的头发、古典的脸庞，The Naiad airs have brought me home和尼厄神般的风采已带我回家乡，To the glory that was Greece, 回到罗马曾经的伟大， And the grandeur that was Rome. 和希腊曾经的荣光。
Lo! In yon brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!瞧！彼处辉煌窗龛里你，恰似雕像，伫立，玛瑙灯儿手中提！啊，普赛克，来自仙土圣地！注：1. those Nicean barks of yore: 古代尼西亚人的那些航船，意指具有古典的美。
2. hyacinth: 风信子花。
根据古希腊神话，太阳神阿波罗所钟爱的少年海尔欣瑟斯（Hyacinthus）有一头美丽的长发，在他被误杀后，从他的血泊中长出了一种纤细修长，迎风招展的美丽鲜花。
3. airs: 音乐旋律和曲调。
Unit1 译文
Unit1 The Splendor of the Lake District坐落于英格兰西北部一角的湖区是无可比拟的。
在这个仅有30里的郁郁葱葱的角落里，英格兰最高耸险峻的山与最广阔幽深的湖紧紧依偎在一起，构成了最壮观美丽的风景。
令人叹为观止的山峰和绵延起伏的丘陵俯瞰着绿意盎然的山谷。
羊群在山谷间布满青苔的石墙边安静地吃草。
现在这个风景秀丽的乡村一角已经成为国家湖区公园, 具有典型的英式风格。
这里的风景布局完美紧凑，所以当人们大步流星地走在布满青草的山坡上时，可以观赏到脚下群山倒映于水中的壮丽平和的景象。
这里的风景布局巧妙紧凑，当你漫步于长满青草的山坡，便可欣赏到壮丽秀美的景象。
脚下远处的湖泊在宏伟山峰的衬托下, 展现出了田园般的静谧和平和。
湖区有着很长的一段历史，由火山、地震和冰河世纪形成的独特景象留下了险峻的火山岩山峰、美丽的褶皱景象以及奇妙的冰蚀河谷。
高耸于凯斯维克之上的克斯尔里格怪石圈能够唤起人们对早期定居者以及它们被巍峨群山包围着的聚居地的回忆。
来自斯堪的纳维亚的定居者也在这片风景区留下了他们的痕迹. 在这里, 游客们随处可见发出清脆声响的小溪和奔涌而下的瀑布. 于是他们创造出了独特的湖区词汇, 比如“tarn”指小山地湖, “force”指瀑布, “fell”指小山, “gill”指山涧, “beck”指小溪. 此外, 当中世纪的修道院开始通过羊毛贸易赚钱时, 他们也留下了在湖区草场那田园般安静平和的角落里放羊的习俗.湖区风景有着独特的魅力，难怪这个国家一些最一流的作家都选择在那里居住并对其情有独钟。
诗人威廉•华兹华斯与她的妹妹多萝西、妻子玛丽和最大的三个孩子曾经生活在格拉斯米尔的鸽舍。
当布谷鸟的钟声敲出和谐的乐音时，来访者轻叩了前门，然后坐在窗边一个深凹下去的座椅上，或者坐在壁炉旁，细细读起了多萝西那周的日记。
1802年一个宜人的春天，多萝茜散步回来写下一篇日记, 描写了厄尔斯沃特湖边随风摇曳的水仙花。
海伦斯诺的(汉译英).docx
汉译英Mother's influence on HelenAll of us appreciate a lot to our mother’s upbringing and education. The effects of mother is finely in everywhere, especially the influences of our manner and action which we sometimes cannot notice.Helen Foster Snow was deeply influenced by her mother. It cannot be understood that Helen’s attitude towards challenge, the strong power and aspiration she had on her career without the influence of her mother. Owing to her mother, she had the brave, selfless experience, during the process of doing good things. The whole life of Helen’s mother, Hannah Davis Foster, is to serve people and devote herself to the public. In order to improve the life equality of women and children, she forged ahead and worked actively. She did a lot of things such as teaching, doing business and leading the community works. Meanwhile, Helen’s mother was energetic and creative. She, along with Helen, worked on the community public events and worked selfless for the social developments.Helen’s mother was the leader of the women, and she often did the work that men did, for example, she built the house of her family by herself. Before the age of 15, Helen lived with her mother all the time and studied from her. During the time when she was nearly of full age, Helen absorbed the aspiration of achieving the noble cause and the consciousness of serving for others. Helen’s mother worked hard for the whole life. She built parks and playgrounds for children and built up the Mentoring System to let children grow up in a healthy condition so that they can be the people who are strong, noble-minded, positive and behave properly.In her mother’s opinion, it is very important to talk about the values and helping others, and she told these ideas to Helen patiently. Helen emphasis the nice moral attititudes is the vivid evidence that Helen was influenced by her mother. Compared with the two ladies’ experiences, we can easily find many common aspects.In June 4th1910, Hannah took a flout which represents the fighting for the voting rights for women and representing the state of Utah to take part in the parade in the Independence Day, because Utah is the first batch of states of four to get this right. What’s more, Helen was one of the earliest women correspondent. Hannah fighted for rights for women and kids, and Helen endeavored to work for Chinese women and children；Hannah was the chairman of an organization to help women get development; The chairman of Church Children's Organization aims to educate children mostly at aspects of morals and community service，and Helen proposed to set up an Industrial Cooperative Organization，helped Chinese people in wars against Japan and young female activists and artists，wrote about women's existing circumstances and problems. Both of them give their unreserved passion to care and serve others by the end of their lives.Hannah Davis Foster was gifted and successful. She did well in writing，photographing and taught Helen to write，shoot professional pictures and fish. When Helen was studying writing，Hannah would compete with Helen，learn from each other and polish essays together. She also taught Helen how to master the key methods from her own experience.As they lived in a traditional and conventional society，Hannah could not get plenty opportunities to show her wits and talents. Helen thought herself as a modern woman，which may be the reason she never talked about Hannah in public. However，she praised her mom quite appropriately before death. It was probably her crying for Hannah's resurrection；it was probably a pigeon that sent her miss to Hannah. The nurse who looked after Helen，Nancy Farnan，reported that in the last two weeks of Helen，she often called for her mom，talked to her mom，just as her mom in the room.It was her mother's influence on her that makes her right attitude and good manners in her early life, which is also the foundation of her later great achievement in China.。
Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy在现代英语中，Helen of Troy这个成语，除了表示a beautiful girl or woman;a beauty who ruins her country等意义外，还可以用来表示a terrible disaster brought by sb or sth you like best的意思。
【成语来源】Helen of Troy 直译"特洛伊的海伦"，源自源自荷马史诗Iliad中的希腊神话故事。
Helen是希腊的绝世佳人，美艳无比，嫁给希腊南部邦城斯巴达国王墨涅俄斯(Menelaus)为妻。
后来，特洛伊王子帕里斯奉命出事希腊，在斯巴达国王那里做客，他在爱与美之神阿芙罗狄蒂的帮助下，趁着墨涅俄斯外出之际，诱走海伦，还带走了很多财宝。
此事激起了希腊各部族的公愤，墨涅俄斯发誓说，宁死也要夺回海轮，报仇雪恨。
为此，在希腊各城邦英雄的赞助下，调集十万大军和1180条战船，组成了希腊联军，公推墨涅俄斯的哥哥阿枷门农(Agamemnon)为联军统帅，浩浩荡荡，跨海东征，攻打特洛伊城，企图用武力夺回海轮。
双方大战10年，死伤无数，许多英雄战死在沙场。
甚至连奥林匹斯山的众神也分成2个阵营，有些支持希腊人，有些帮助特洛伊人，，彼此展开了一场持久的恶斗。
最后希腊联军采用足智多谋的奥德修斯(Odusseus)的“木马计”，里应外合才攻陷了特洛伊。
希腊人进城后，大肆杀戮，帕里斯王子也被杀死，特洛伊的妇女、儿童全部沦为奴隶。
特洛伊城被掠夺一空，烧成了一片灰烬。
战争结实后，希腊将士带着大量战利品回到希腊，墨涅俄斯抢回了美貌的海轮重返故土。
这就是特洛伊战争的起因和结局。
正是由于海轮，使特洛伊遭到毁灭的悲剧，真所谓“倾国倾城”，由此产生了Helen of Troy这个成语。
特洛伊战争的真实性，已为19世纪德国考古学家谢里曼在迈锡尼发掘和考证古代特洛伊古城废墟所证实。
最新To Helen 中文翻译 评析
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me-worn wanderer bore海伦，你的美貌于我似远古尼西亚人的帆船，轻轻飘过芬芳的海面，让旅途劳顿的游子，回到他故乡的岸边。
g wont to roam,在漂泊已久、波涛汹涌的海上，你风信子般的头发、古典的脸庞，和尼厄神般的风采已带我回家乡，回到罗马曾经的伟大，和希腊曾经的荣光。
ant window-niche-like I see thee stand,-Land!瞧！彼处辉煌窗龛里你，恰似雕像，伫立，玛瑙灯儿手中提！啊，普赛克，来自仙土圣地！注：1. those Nicean barks of yore: 古代尼西亚人的那些航船，意指具有古典的美。
2. hyacinth: 风信子花。
根据古希腊神话，太阳神阿波罗所钟爱的少年海尔欣瑟斯（Hyacinthus）有一头美丽的长发，在他被误杀后，从他的血泊中长出了一种纤细修长，迎风招展的美丽鲜花。
3. airs: 音乐旋律和曲调。
4. agate: 玛瑙。
5. Psyche: 普塞克，古希腊、罗马神话中嫁给爱神厄洛斯的美女。
厄洛斯禁止她看见自己的形象，但是普塞克还是克制不住好奇心，在夜晚举灯看见了丈夫的模样，结果被逐出家门。
6. Naiad: 古希腊、罗马神话中的水泉女神。
"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. It was first published in 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe then reprinted in 1836 in the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe revised the poem in 1845, making several improvements, most notably changing "the beauty of fair Greece, and the grandeur of old Rome" to "the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome." These improved lines are the most well-known lines of the poem.BackgroundEdgar Allan Poe wrote “To Helen” as a reflection on the beauty of Mrs. Jane Stith Stanard, who died in 1824. She was the mother of one of Poe’s scho ol classmates, Robert Stanard. When Robert invited Edgar, then 14, to his home in 1823, Poe was greatly taken with the 27-year-old woman, who is said to have urged him to write poetry. He was later to write that she was his first real love.ThemeThe theme of this short poem is the beauty of a woman with whom Poe became acquainted when he was 14. Apparently she treated him kindly and may have urged him–or perhaps inspired him–to write poetry. Beauty, as Poe uses the word in the poem, appears to refer to the woman's soul as well as her body. On the one hand, he represents her as Helen of Troy–the quintessence of physical beauty–at the beginning of the poem. On the other, he represents her as Psyche–the quintessence of soulful beauty–at the end of the poem. In Greek, psyche means soul.Imagery and Summary of the Poem Poe opens the poem with a simile–“Helen, thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicéan barks of yore”–that compares the beauty of Helen with small sailing boats (barks) that carried home travelers in ancient times. He extends this boat imagery into the second stanza, when he says Helen brought him home to the shores of the greatest civilizations of antiquity, classical Greece and Rome. It may well have been that Mrs. Stanard’s beauty and other admirable qualities, as well as her taking notice of Poe’s writing ability, helped inspire him to write poetry that mimicked in some ways the classical tradition of Greece and Rome. Certainly the poem’s allusions to mythology and the classical age suggest that he had a grounding in, and a fondness for, ancient history and literature. In the final stanza of the poem, Poe imagines that Mrs. Stanard (Helen) standing before him in a recess or alcove in front of a window. She is holding an agate lamp, as the beautiful Psyche did when she discovered the identity of Eros (Cupid). For further information on the agate lamp, Psyche, and Eros, sees the comments opposite the third stanza.Analysis:As is typical with many of Poe's poems, the rhythm and rhyme scheme of "To Helen" is irregular but musical in sound. The poem consists of three stanzas of five lines each, where the end rhyme of the first stanza is ABABB, that of the second is ABABA, and that of the third is ABBAB. Poe uses soothing, positive words and rhythms to create a fitting tone and atmosphere for the poem. His concluding image is that of light, with a "brilliant window niche" and the agate lamp suggesting the glowing of the "Holy Land," for which Helen is the beacon.Original 1831 version Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfum'd sea,The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the beauty of fair Greece,And the grandeur of old Rome.Lo ! in that little window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand!The folded scroll within thy hand —A Psyche from the regions whichAre Holy land !Revised 1845 version Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece,And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand,Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!。
第五届海伦斯诺翻译奖英译汉译文
第五届海伦·斯诺翻译奖英译中译文在你眼里的头发作者：海伦·福斯特·斯诺1978年时的海伦·斯诺直到现在我都不明白，为什么会有人愿意在眼睛里．．．垂下头发。
“碍眼”的东西我是一概不喜欢，哪怕只是一根头发碍着我的眼，我都会着急上火。
蓬蓬松松的刘海不就挺好，即使不是很短，我也能接受；在刘海于1925年前后出现之后，我自己就曾不时地在额前剪出过这样的“飘逸”的“鸭舌帽”来。
（而之前我们都是经常凭着肥皂让腮边的头发卷曲起来。
）到了1960年代，老老少少的“男子汉”们也像姑娘们一样，躲到薄薄的“纱帘”之后去了，一任大半片目光都被长长的刘海遮住。
这是何苦呢？就算是十分考究的“闲散”，到头来还不一样都是一派狼藉吗？后来我才明白，原来，人不分男女，都会不停地作着把头发拨回去的动作。
这一拨回去，在某个时刻，他或她就又可以把头一甩，让头发再落下来，好让自己能得手把头发再拨回去。
这很女气，可要是你觉得局促不安，它也能给你的手找点儿事做。
雪儿1就曾在电视上披散着一片又平又直的中分长刘海。
刘海顺着她额头的两边一路垂下，一直垂到把她的上半边眼睛都给盖着。
于是，为了不让头发停在眼里，她就一会儿甩一甩，或者一会儿捋一捋，反复如此，很有一种“雪儿范儿”。
她显然是觉得这样能让自己具有一种无与伦比的气质。
就算常常要扮一些滑稽戏，她也照样这么觉得。
我们知道，对头发的迷恋自远古时起就是人类天性的一张重要表情了。
张扬的头发像是一面旌旗，也像是一封战书。
且不知从何时起，画家、乐师、演员等各种另类的人就已开始披散着长发，并以此标示自己的特立独行了。
在波士顿通俗管弦乐团就有这样一位日本指挥家，他把满头的蓬松长鬃甩过来又甩过去，仅从遮下了一半视线的厚厚刘海中探出一些目光来。
似乎所有的指挥家都会在头上留起长长的狮鬃，可是甩归甩，若是用头发挡住视线、然后再把自己藏在后面，那可就是另外一回事了。
有一次，我因鼻子流血不止到耶鲁-纽黑文医院的急诊室去。
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The Impact of Mother to Helen
Each individual is extremely grateful to mother’s tending and educating. The influence of mother is anywhere but subtle. Sometimes we are unaware of the influence on our attitudes and behaviors.
Helen Foster Snow was deeply influenced by her mother, without whom it could be extremely difficult to understand Helen with her attitude towards various challenges and her great motivation and desire for making success. In her struggle for kindness, Helen had had experiences such as being brave to be the first, acting as heroic and fearless and daring to take risks. All above came from her mother’s influence when Helen was young. Hannah Davis Foster, mother of Helen, devoted all her life to public service and her affairs. To improve lives of women and children, Hannah forged ahead and worked very hard. She was once a teacher, a businesswoman and even led community work. Energetic and creative, Hannah always participated in service activities in community with Helen around her, working selflessly for the development of society.
Although she was a women leader, Helen’s mother always did men’s work. For example, she build house herself. Before Helen was 15, she stayed with her mother and learned from her mother during the whole process of her growth and development. In the period that Helen was to be an adult, she absorbed her mother’s crave for accomplishing gracious undertakings and the awareness of serving for the others. Helen’s mother worked very hard all her life and always worked over times. She built parks and playgrounds for children. Also she established the system of tutorship and she hoped that children could grow healthily, becoming physically- strong, noble-thinking, good-attitude and normative-behavior.
As Helen’s mother put it, it was of great importance to adhere to good values and take pleasure in helping others, which she instructed Helen in a methodical and patient way. Helen emphasized on good morals which was a proof that her mother indeed influenced her. If we compared Ha nnah’s life with Helen’s experience, we will find many similarities.
In 4th July, 1910, seated in the float for woman suffrage, Hannah took part in the
Independence Day March on behalf of Utah, for that was one of the first four states to get woman suffrage; Helen was one of the earliest female journalists overseas.
Hannah struggled for the rights for women and children, which Helen worked for women and children in China. Hannah served as the chairwoman of Relief which aimed at seeking women’s development. Moreover, she was the chairwoman of children organization combined with church, who focused on children’ education on morality and service of community. Helen was an advocate to set up industrial cooperative community. She served the Anti-Japanese War of Chinese, helped young woman activists and artists and wrote articles about women’s then situation. Both of them were well achieved in writing and had strong interest in their family history. Both of them did not give up giving enthusiastic service to and cared about others until they said goodbye to the world.
Hannah Davis Foster was gifted in many ways, such as writing and photographing. With her great achievements, Hannah taught Helen many things such as how to take professional photos, write and fish. It was when Helen went to China with her mother’s camera that she took a lot of famous pictures. When Helen learned to write, Hannah exchanged her experience as an old hand with Helen, from which she told her daughter how to acquire some important writing skills.
Living in a traditional, conservative society, Helen’s mother had never made full use of her intelligence and wisdom. Helen regarded herself as a modern women, that was why she never mentioned her mother in public. However, before her death, her exact appreciation of her mother may be her continuous call for her mother. During the last two weeks of Helen’s life, her caregiver Nancy Farnan reported that Helen often called her mother and talked with her, like her mother was in the ward with her.
Hannah i nfluenced Helen’s whole life deeply. The early behaviors and attitudes made Helen very famous in China.。