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—— C. P. Snow: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
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(我现在相信如果我发出一个更加简单的问题,……凡是受过高等教育的十之八九,都会觉得我是说的和他们同样的语言。)
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The best of the communications an author has to make is to his own generation, and he is wise to let the generation that succeeds his choose its own exponents. They will do it whether he lets them or not. His language will be Greek to them.
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—— W. S. Maugham: A Writer’s Notebook
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(一个作家必须与之尽力交换意见的,原只限于他自己的一代,而他要让后继的一代去选择他们自己的代表者,是明智的办法。不问他要不要,他们终归会是这样做。他所说的这一套,他们是不会懂得的。)
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文人王尔德( Oscar Wilde)说得更加调皮:
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Greek and Latin were English to me.
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(希腊拉丁我都精通)。
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他的意思是说那难懂的外国文,对他简直像自己的国语一样。把莎士比亚的话做个翻案,原说完全不懂的,现在变得没有什么不懂了。
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以上所谓 all Greek to me,是专指语文而言的,现在用法指什么都可以,只要是不懂的东西什么都用得着这句成语,例如:
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“ Yes.”
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That “yes” tickled Ashurst. It was so crisp and graceful, so conclusive, and politely acquiescent in what was evidently Greek to her.
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—— Galsworthy: The Apple Tree
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“是呀。”
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这个“是呀”使阿雪感到愉快。那表示非常明确而合度地,且又非常决断地,对她那显然是很不了解的事,很客气地予以默认了。
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That science is all Greek to me, I cannot follow it at all.(那种科学我是一窍不通。)
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英文疑难详解 196.at large
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美国说的 an ambassador at large 是怎样的一种外交使节?又 at large 一个片语到底是什么意思?应怎样翻译才对?
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【解答】an ambassador at large 是“无任所大使”,政府派往外国协办外交,不固定驻在某一国,所以他没有确定的任所,在英国则说 an ambassador plenipotentiary unattached,与内阁中的不管部大臣(a minister without portfolio)相似。至于 at large 一个片语,含义颇多,没有一定的译法,要看用在什么地方,才知道怎样翻译,现就其七种用法分别举例如下:
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(1)逍遥法外、在逃(free,not in jail):
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The culprit is still at large.(犯人仍未捕获。)
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(2)详细地(at full length,in complete detail):
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He discoursed on the subject at large.(他详细讨论了那个问题。)
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