【正确答案】 She was suffocated with pain and depression gathering in her heart and chest, a burning fever mounting between the eyebrows and a gush of agony overflowing from the stomach to the throat. And she was totally blank in her mind when the dean told her that the child suffered from growth retardation. She paced back and forth in the room where her child stayed with other little pals. Only one window is there in this room, and the shadows of trees were whirling outside. "Just leave him here," she told herself, "it is the best shelter for him, not only because of those kind priests and nuns, but also its possibility of developing into a protectory with medical care. " She kept the child as her secret, the one she kept in the building shadowed by the trees.
【答案解析】1.画线部分第一句缺少主语,在翻译时应进行补充使其更加符合英语的表达习惯。翻译时可以根据英语句式重新调整分句顺序并加以整合。其中,“痛苦纠聚心中”和“胸口郁闷难展”两个小分句意思是“心中充满痛苦和郁闷,令人窒息”,因此可以译为was suffocated with…;而余下的两个小分句可以译为两个并列的独立主格结构。“胃里一股气”这里指的是a gush of agony。
2.画线部分第二句中,“院长”指的是“育幼院院长”,因此译为dean比较合适。“发育迟缓”应译为growth retardation。
3.画线部分第三句中,“踱步”可译为paced或strided。“其他小孩”这里可译为other little pals。
4.画线部分第四句中的“树影婆娑”可译为the shadows of trees were whirling。
5.画线部分第五句描写的是女主人公的内心活动,翻译时应适当增词,如she told herself。根据上下文,“看护中心”可译为protectory,而“留住孩子最好的地方”可译为the best shelter for him。
6.画线部分最后一句中两个分句的主语不同,翻译时应注意调整。此句中的“这树木掩映的”可以译为shadowed by the trees。