【正确答案】 Father & Son
A boy was throwing on his satchel when his father stopped him.
"Don't go to school today, " his father said. "Come with me to the fields and lend a hand in spreading fertilizer." Seeing the displeasure in his offspring's face, the old man glowered at his junior and said, "I don't know no Chinese character. Ain't I growed up?"
The son picked up the bag of fertilizer resentfully and in the twinkling of an eye poured all of the contents into a dustbin.
"What the hell ..." the illiterate man shouted, flabbergasted.
"Without the fertilizer the crop will grow all the same. Isn't it?" the son answered unhurriedly.

【答案解析】背景介绍
本篇选自《报刊文摘》，作者阎耀明，是一篇微型小说，表面上批评的是一个文盲农民，实际上批评的是所有无视知识的重要、急功近利的人。文学翻译，特别是小说翻译时，讲究语言性格化，即根据故事情节，适当调整人物的对话，使人物言语符合人物性格。翻译“父亲”这个形象时，要突出他大老粗的形象，应使译文传达出“文盲言语味”。
难点解析
- 父与子：题目译为“Father＆Son”，不加冠词，英语中成对使用的名词不加冠词，如“paper and pen，cup and saucer”。
- 父亲拦住背起书包的儿子：按照原文语序，可译为“the father stopped his son who was shouldering his schoolbag”。但似乎不够活灵活现，可以适当调整句子结构，制造一些悬念，即儿子像平常一样背起书包，就在那时父亲拦住了他： “A boy was throwing on his satchel when his father stopped him．”。
- 父亲瞪起了眼： “stare”用在此处不恰当，因为“stare”仅仅表示“睁大眼睛盯着看”，而不表示“怒目而视”，可使用“glare”或“glower”。英文还需要增补“朝谁”瞪起了眼，即“glare／glower at sb．”。
- 我一个大字不识，不也照样长这么大!：这一句充分体现了父亲大老粗的形象，建议使用英美人中文盲使用的语言来塑造这一形象——“I don’t know no Chinese character．Ain’t I growed up?”在非标准英语中，双重否定不等于肯定， “ain't”可以是“am／is／are／has／have not”。 “grow”的过去分词应该是不规则变化“grown”，故意使用“growed”来突出文盲的用语不规范。
- 你怎么……：父亲惊得话都说不出来，可以译为“What the hell／fuck…”，突出粗人的气愤。