No Signposts in the Sea(excerpts) 海上无路标
No Signposts In The Sea
From Sackville-West to Woolf
Milan [posted in Trieste] Thursday, January 21, 1926 I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this—But
《海上无路标》译本翻译策略分析
走样 的地方。”“文学翻译 的最高标准是 ‘化 ’。把作 品从一国 文 字 转 变 成 另 一 国文 字 ，既能 不 因语 文 习惯 的差 异 而 露 出 生 硬牵强 的痕迹 ，又能完全保存原有 的风 味，那就算得入于 ‘化 境 ’。”“译本对原作应该 忠实得以至于不像译本 ，因为作品在 原文里绝不会读起来像经过翻译似 的。”
［摘 要】《海上无路标》是英国女小说家和诗人ｖ·萨克维尔．韦斯特（ｖ．Ｓａ。ｋ、，ｉｌｌ。Ｗ。 ｔ）的作品。作者用第一
人 称 的 口 吻 叙 述 了一 名 身 染 重 病 、行 将 就 木 的 文 人 Ｅｄｍｕｎｄ Ｃａｒｒ在 海 上 漫 无 目的 的 旅 行 。 主 人 公 感 到 自 己将 不
钱钟 书先 生曾谈到 ：“一国文字 和另一 国文字之 间必 然 有距离 ，译 者的理解 和文风跟原作 品的内容 和形式之 间也 不 会没有距离 ，而且译者 的体会和他 自己的表达能力之 间还 时 常有距离。从一种文字出发 ，积寸累尺地度越那许多距离 ，安 稳到达另一种文字里 ，这是很艰辛的历程 。一路上颠顿风尘 ， 遭遇风险 ，不免有所遗失或受些损伤。因此 ，译文总有失真和
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《海上无路标》是英 国女小说家和诗人 ｖ·萨克维尔 ·韦 斯特（Ｖ．Ｓａｅｋｖｉｌｌｅ Ｗｅｓｔ）的作 品。作者用第一人称的 口吻叙述 了一名身染重病 、行将就木 的文人 Ｅｄｍｕｎｄ Ｃａｒｒ在海上漫无 目的的旅行 。主人公感到 自己将不久于人世 ，所以格外珍惜 生命 中美好的事物。作者将其心理活动掺杂在对 自然景物 的 描绘中 ，充满诗意，也显露 了作者的诗才。作者从主人公人生 观 的转变 中传达 出这样一 种信 息 ：人生之旅短暂 易逝 ，不应 只顾着赶路 ，而忘记欣赏沿途的风景 ，忽略了生命 的初衷。一 部好的文学作 品应该让各 国的读者都能分享 。但小说 中出现 了许多有关西方神话故 事和人生哲理 的内容 ，在一定程度上 为中国读者准确理解带来 了困难 。为了能让 中国的读 者把握 住文章主 旨，译文必须要准确地再现原著的信息与 内容 。笔 者通过对 比小说原著和其汉译本 ，从翻译策略 的角度探讨汉 译本的优 劣得失之处。
Lesson 15 No Signpost in the Sea
Lesson Fifteen:No Signposts in the Sea___By V. Sackville -westI. Additional Background Knowledge1. About the author:( 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962 )Victoria MarySackville-west was anEnglish poet and novelist.She was born in KnoleHouse, Kent, UK. She wasa descendant of LordTreasurer ThomasSackville, who is the cousinof Queen Elizabeth I.In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), and they traveled extensively during his years in the foreign office. In London she was a member of the Bloomsbury group of literary and artistic friends including Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E.M. Foster and others.In the 1920s Sackville-West became romantically involved with the writer, Virginia Woolf, who celebrated this love affair in the novel Orlando(1928). Dedicated to Sackville-West, the book traces the history of the youthful, beautiful, and aristocratic Orlando, and explores the themes of sexual ambiguity. This was followed by her novels, The Edwardians(1930), All Passion Spent(1931) and The Dark Island(1934).She was famous for herexuberant aristocratic life,her strong marriage, andher passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf. Sackville-West's first published works were a collection of poems, Powers of West and East(1917). Her long poem The Land won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She also wrote the novel Heritage (1919)Personal life, marriage and bisexuality (Bit of profligacy )In 1913, Sackville-West married Harold Nicolson, and the couple moved to Cospoli, Constantinople(君士但丁堡of Turkey). Nicolson was at different times a diplomat, journalist, broadcaster, Member of Parliament, author of biographies and novels and also bisexual in what would now be called an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive same-sex relations.(gay, lesbian)These were no impediment(obstacle) to a true closeness between Sackville-West and Nicolson, as is seen from their nearly daily correspondence (published after their deaths by their son Nigel), and from an interview they gave for BBC radio after World War II. Nicolson gave up his diplomatic career partly so that he couldlive with Sackville-West in England, uninterrupted by long solitary postings to missions abroad.They returned to England in 1914 and bought Long Barn, in Kent.The couple had two children:Nigel, also a politician and writer; and Benedict, an art historian. In the 1930s, the family acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook, in Kent.Her main writings(Prolific Writer)1) The land(1926): It‟s a long poem,which was praised as one of themost beautiful bucolic/idyllic inEnglish literature ant wonHawthorndon prize.2) The Garden(1946), won theHeinemann prize3) The Edwardians (1930), a novel.（爱德华时代的人）4) All passion spent (1931), a novel(激情耗尽)5) The Eagle and the Dove (1943)6) Another World than This (1945)(an anthology)7) No Signposts in the Sea (1961)2. Styles and Influence:1) Sackville–west’s novels are more widely known, yet her poetry may prove to be more enduring: there is a depth of feeling and perception in the best of her poems, a quality at once stately and moving. Her prose is of consistently in high quality, supple clear, and craftsman-like, viewed as one of Britain‟s p romising young writers in the 1920‟s. She is now regarded famous for her personality as much as for her writing.She is a prolific writer, the author of 15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.2) About the novel:“No Signposts in the Sea”(1) The novel with144-pages is in theform of a journal kept by a man calledEdmund Carr, 50 years old, aninfluential political columnist and abachelor. He learns that he has alimited time to live___ a few weeks, amonth or two at most. How will hespend them? In this dilemma/(quandary, predicament), he met awidow_ Ms. Laura by chance,whohas booked on a cruise / trip to theFar East. Laura, the widow‟s warmth,and intelligence struck him. Therefore,he decided to board the ship.(2) While sailing at sea, Carr was full ofemotions, such as: the undercurrentsadness, the idyllic feelings, therelease from pressure, the dullrhythms of ship life, the enticing /(luring) scenery. Later he fell in lovewith the Window Laura.(3) Edmund Carr grows love for Laurathough he knows it is impossible toget her. Simultaneously, a handsomecolonel also shows great interest inLaura, which makes Carr feel jealous,despairing, and an outburst ofdisappointment against his “rival”.3) Styles: This story (a short novel) showsa romantic love affair. The cruise onthe sea is full of imagination, lyric,and idyllic.(1) Attitudes: __ more critical than praise/commendation;__ more pessimistic than optimistic. (2) Diary __ prose.3. Rhetorical Devices:1. transferred epithet;2. personification3. simile4. Pre-reading Questions1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr getby observing Laura without her knowing it?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty?3) Why does Carr like islands?4) What kind of coastline does he like?II. : Detailed study of the text1. She wears soft rich colours.__ It means her dress is in deep, intense colors such as dark red, olive green. Rich: = banquet (luxurious, sumptuous ) ~ wine (full of strength & flavor )~ odors (very fragrant;Cf: flagrant =notorious)~ soil (fertile , yielding in abundance ) 2. The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire-builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs.___The Colonel, an Empire-builder who is not too disgustingly aggressive,sometimes tries to talk to me aboutpublic affairs.3.He says he used to read me(metonymy), and is ……charming deferential= to read my writings /articles metonymy: I like Shakespeare(his works ).__I find Saul Bellow very difficult tounderstand.= ( a U.S novelist. 1915- )4. (1) ill-informedeg. ill-bred, (considered, defined , mannered , treated,)(2) and just about ……anybody could go--- just about as conservative as anybody could be . (极端保守)5. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else …to the extent of a bored distaste. __I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world, anddevoted all my attention to it so that I only have one rest by reading poetry and listening to music. But now, I found amusingly that the world affaires are just some boring distaste.To the exclusion of=To do sth. only; without concerningother things.Eg: __ He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.__ Never concentrate all your attention on one or two problem, to theexclusion of others.Trans:我有趣的发现，自己过去偶尔借诗歌或音乐消遣放松一下，一心专注的世界大事现在不仅索然无味，而且到了令人厌烦的地步。
高级英语 unit13 No Signposts in the Seappt课件
• Born • Died • Occupation • Nationality
9 March 1892 2 June 1962 novelist & poet English
Marrige • In 1913, at age 21, married the 27 year-old diplomat and journalist Harold George Nicolson. • Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive same-sex relations(同性恋). • The couple had two children:
The Pharisees(means "to separate" ) were depending on the time, a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era.
About the novel
Details In this quandary (困惑), he decides to leave his job
on a Fleet Street paper, and takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger to Far East.
高级英语Lesson 15 No Signposts in the Sea
Brief Introduction
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Bloomsbury Group
• The Bloomsbury Group was an informal group of literary and artistic friends who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century. Their works deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.
高级英语 unit13 No Signposts in the Sea
LOGO
Endymion(Para.5)
a handsome shepherd in Greek mythology, was deeply loved by Selene(月 亮女神). Olympus(Para.5)奥林匹斯山 It is believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods.
About the author
Vita Sackville-West was viewed as one of the Britain's promising young writers in the 1920s. Best known novels: The Edwardians (1930) describes the development of the main character Sebastian within his social world . All Passion Spent (1931) Lady Slane who, after her husband dies,defies the wishes of her children and grandchildren and retreats to a cottage in the countryside, where she rediscovers herself and her passions.
Details The novel is written in the form of journal, narrated by Edmund Carr, 50, an eminent political columnist and a bachelor. He has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. How shall he spend them?
高级英语no signposts in the sea翻译
In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sitssome way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I canobserve her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, forit is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures,whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with aremark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from hercase with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eyefor noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression thatLaura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when otherpeople are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the eveningshe wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue,always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to saysomething of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsycompliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articlesinstead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
No Signposts in the Sea
Main Idea about the Novel
Three Characters
• An enminent journalist and self-made man;only a short • Edmund Carr time to live. • Laura • An intelligent widow
Brief Introduction of the Writer
• She was viewed as one of the Britain’s promising young writers in the 1920s. • Her influence on other writers, especially Woolf, was perhaps greater than her own individual achievement. • No Signposts in the Sea (1961) is her last novel.
• 而是一个摆脱束缚的人，沐浴在神话之水里； 一个年轻健壮的牧童，有着神的身份和天国 赋予的远见。 • 而是一个摆脱束缚正沐浴在神话之水中的人； 一个年轻健壮，并有着天神做父亲和天国赋 予的智慧的月之女神所爱的英俊牧童。
All weight is lifted from my limbs; I am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism .
• 我认为，应该抛弃所有惯常的弱点，摒弃嫉妒， 野心，邪念，和挫败邻人的渴望，来尽情享受心 灵的净化，就如我想象着暖风吹拂在我的肌肤， 沁凉的池水托起我的身体所带来的纯净的情欲。 • 我认为，应该摒弃常人所有的弱点，嫉妒之心和 野心，不再心生邪念，以及不再惦记着挫败他人， 来尽情享受心灵的净化，就如享受着暖风轻抚着 我的肌肤，沁凉的池水托起我的身体所带来的纯 净的情欲。
(完整版)高级英语no_signposts_in_the_sea翻译
In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter。
I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure，for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers。
I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women，but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day，looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat；in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green，midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。
高级英语Lesson_15_No_Signposts_in_the_Sea[优质ppt]
• Almost everything about Bloomsbury appears to be controversial, including its
• They had two children, the art critic Benedict Nicholson and
the publisher Nigel Nicholson.
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Virginia Woolf
• British famous novelist, had great contribution in novel creation and literary review.
Bloomsbury Group
• The Bloomsbury Group was an informal group of literary and artistic friends who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century. Their works deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.
membership and name.
• Same-sex relations are common among the Bloomsbury Group
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Brief introduction of Writer
A prolific writer.
15 novels as well as biographies and travel books Her poetry may be prove to be more enduring. She was viewed as one of the Britain's promising young writers in the 1920s. Her influences on others writers especially Virginia Woolf is perhaps greater than her own individual achievement. （Orlando: a Biography） (1928年)
No Signposts in the Sea
（excerpts） ） 节选） 海上无路标（节选）
By Vita Sackville-West
Brief introduction of Writer
Vita Sackville-West
薇塔萨克维尔韦斯特
An English poet and novelist. She was born in Knole Castle, the seat of the Sackvillie family from the time that Queen Elizabeth Ⅰgave Knole to her cousin, Lord Treasurer Thomas Sackville. She was educated at home, and its tradition exerted a major influence on her life. In 1913 she married a diplomat Harold Nicolson and traveled extensively during his years in the Foreign Office.
e.g. The room was littered with discarded newspaper. He discarded his jacket because of the heat.
2. to get rid of the card that you don’t want; (打出无
用的牌)
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Main Idea about the Novel
Three Characters Edmund Carr
An eminent journalist and self-made man; only a short time to live.
Laura
A beautiful and intelligent widow love
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Translation
我只觉身体四肢轻飘飘的没有任何重量，并且和 夜的世界合为一体。我悟出了泛神论的真正意义。我 的那些朋友们若知道我已变成这样，他们不知会笑成 什么样子!在享受着这暖风浴肤，凉水托体所带来的清 新快感时，我相信我的心灵也得到了净化，丢弃了凡 人皆有的种种弱点，变得不会嫉妒，没有野心，没有 恶意，与世无争。照我想象，那些虔诚的教徒在做完 庄严的忏悔仪式离开忏悔室时，他们心灵得到净化的 感觉一定就像我此时的感觉一样。
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The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters, an Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of the world inspired from Olympus.
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Vocabulary
frailty
noun.
1. weakness and poor health;
e.g. Increasing frailty meant that she was more and more confined to bed.
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Vocabulary
pantheism 1. the belief that God is present in all natural things;
2. belief in many or all gods (泛神崇拜)
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discard
1. to get rid of sth. that you no longer want or need;
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今夜的一弯新月仰面斜躺在天空，这是月亮在热 带地区常见的姿势。在我看来，这种姿势对一个少女 来说虽说有些不雅，但却还是适宜的。没有哪一颗星 星不愿飞射下来接受邀请做她的情人。当船上的其他 乘客最后一个个都回舱就寝之后，我一个人又悄悄爬 上空荡荡的甲板，滑人游泳池，在水面上浮游着。这 时我已不再是人们所熟悉的那位在远洋海轮上度假的 中年记者了，而是一个无拘无束的沐浴着天池神水的 自由快乐的人，就像神话中那位有天神作父亲并有一 双奥林匹斯山诸神所赐的观察人世的慧眼的年轻健壮 的恩底弥翁。
adj.
connected with ancient myths
mythological subjects/ figures/ stories.
e.g. A mountain in central Greece where the Muses （缪斯）lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry.
Vocabulary
liberated
adj.
free from the restrictions of traditional ideas about social behavior.
liberation/ liberate/ libertarian
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Vocabulary
mythological
2. to spread or make sth. spread over a wide area.
e.g. The seeds are dispersed by the wind.
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Vocabulary
creep
verb. 1. to move slowly, quietly and carefully because you
noun.
a person who has never had sex.
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Vocabulary
disperse
1. to move apart and go away in different directions; to make sb./ sth. do this.
verb.
e.g. The fog began to disperse. The crowd dispersed quickly.
e.g. A slight feeling of suspicion crept over me.
4. to be friendly or helpful to sb. in authority in a way that is not sincere, especially to get an advantage from them. 5. to grow around the ground using long sterms or roots. noun. a person you dislike very much./ who isn’t sincere but try to win your approval by being nice to you Back
don’t want to be seen or heard;
e.g. I crept to the stairs, trying not to wake my parents.
2. to move with your body close to the ground; 3. to move or develop very slowly;
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All weight is lifted from my limbs; I am one with the night; I understand the meaning of pantheism . How my friends would laugh if they knew I had come to this! To have discarded , as I believe, all usual frailties , to have become incapable of envy, ambition, malice , the desire to score off my neighbor, to enjoy this purification even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the cool support of the water. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution .