作者gififi (beagle)
看板Eng-Class
标题[请益] The anaconda in the chandelier
时间Tue Jun 20 12:19:12 2017
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China and reform : The anaconda in the chandelier
看了一下原文 提到的意思大概是
有股势力在暗处虎视眈眈地监视着
别轻举妄动的意思
请问中文有简洁明了的翻译吗
原文如下:
Here are a few. Should Zhao Ziyang, general secretary
of the party until near the end of the Tiananmen
demonstrations, remain under house arrest, silenced
for expressing measured sympathy for the students?
Should it remain true that Tiananmen was a
"counter-revolutionary uprising"? Should all several
hundred members of the Democratic Party be behind
bars? Should Taiwan be threatened with invasion
if the government there uses the word "independent"
about itself? Is the Dalai Lama really a "criminal splittist"
and should Tibetans who demand religious freedom
be subject to imprisonment and torture?
China is not the nearly totalitarian Maoist state of old.
But instead of the fire-breathing dragon there is now,
in the brilliant image of Princeton's Perry Link,
"the anaconda in the chandelier." Like the giant snake,
the Communist Party need do little. It is simply there,
as everyone knows, and what provokes it is unclear.
The anaconda's constant, silent message is "You decide."
This kind of threat, usually silent, occasionally and
unpredictably enforced with a burst of violence,
is remarkably immune to reform.
麻烦大家了
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1F:推 JI1: american revolution is second to chinese revolution... 06/20 13:48
3F:→ kaifrankwind: chandelier 的第一出处 你给的文章 作者就是在引用 06/20 21:27
4F:→ kaifrankwind: 这篇/ 我觉得没有太大的变动空间 原文就写得这麽明y 06/20 21:32
5F:→ kaifrankwind: 白 我可能会翻"头顶上的巨蟒" 06/20 21:33
6F:→ wohtp: 头上巨蟒稍微缺了原文那个躲起来窥探猎物的意思 06/21 10:41
7F:→ wohtp: 亚洲不作兴头顶上吊一圈蜡烛,所以chandelier直翻也没感觉 06/21 10:43
8F:→ wohtp: 不过我觉得我已经扯到英文以外的地方去了 06/21 10:46
9F:→ kaifrankwind: 原文片语本身也看不出来啊。那些额外的意涵得仰赖 06/21 13:40
10F:→ kaifrankwind: 读者自己对蟒蛇的认知才得以理解(原使用者也特地 06/21 13:40
11F:→ kaifrankwind: 对此说明一翻,意识到这不是既有用法,随便讲出来别 06/21 13:40
12F:→ kaifrankwind: 人不一定懂) 06/21 13:40
13F:→ wohtp: 如果你用中文讲「草丛里的蛇」就有会被突然咬到的感觉啦 06/21 15:22
14F:→ wohtp: 本来讲蟒蛇和烛台就是要给你那个图像,前後左右看似安全, 06/21 15:25
15F:→ wohtp: 抬头乍一看也没有危险,其实蟒蛇一直默默注视着你 06/21 15:26