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Hong Kong 香港最近发生了很多事，看似遥远却和我们息息相关，这让我们不由地重新审视香港这座城市。爱国的话自不必多说，相信香港不久便可以恢复往日的秩序与繁荣。 今天，我们一起回忆回忆印象中的香港模样。  At first, Hong Kong doesn’t seem to make sense. It is simultaneously Western and Asian, both a concrete jungle and an actual jungle, and equally glitzy and gritty. 乍一看，香港似是叫人捉摸不透。这座城市既植根于亚洲文化又散发着西方风情；既是一片钢筋混凝土森林，又拥有货真价实的热带丛林；既灯红酒绿又真实残酷。 Make sense：to be clear and easy to understand；这个词还可以这么用：make+ adj+ sense，我们可以说the protest doesn’t make financial sense，换句话说就是做这事划不来，要亏钱的 Concrete jungle：an unpleasant area in a city that is full of big ugly buildings and has no open spaces；随着城市化的飞速发展，很多城市变成了混凝土丛林The sprawling urban development has turned city after city into concrete jungles，几乎千篇一律，毫无特色 Glitzy：盛大的、浮华的，略带贬义 Gritty：showing a difficult or unpleasant situation as it really is；gritty本意是某某东西里面含沙砾，如gritty soil，仔细一想，真相往往像手中的沙砾一样有点硌得慌呢？ Glitzy和gritty连用，押了头韵，意思上则呈对比关系，可以看得出作者的用心。不知各位读者看到这两个词的时候是不是和我想的一样，香港高楼林立，有些人生活光鲜，有些人还在为下个月的房租发愁。 But somehow, the city balances it all beautifully, and this unique DNA courses through the veins of every resident and every neighborhood. 不过，香港优雅地在这些矛盾体中取得了平衡，这种独特的生活态度早已融入每一位居民的血液中、每一片街区的角落里。 DNA：不是咱们初中学的脱氧核糖核酸，指的是一种精神、一种文化。是企业介绍的常见表达 Course：作动词时近义词是flow，往往和液体、情感搭配；举个栗子，tears course down her cheeks You can take a hike before work, have dirt cheap dim sum for lunch, then later indulge at a Michelin-starred restaurant—so don’t forget to pause and take it all in. 清晨出发上班前信步慢踱。午饭来一份算不上卫生的便宜点心。晚些时候再找一家米其林餐厅，尽情享受美味佳肴。所以，不妨时常驻足片刻，留心香港的日常生活。 Dim sum：点心 Indulge：to let yourself do or have something that you enjoy, especially something that is considered bad for you，中性偏贬的词；具体是褒是贬，还看语境，这里就是褒义词。Teenagers will indulge in mobile games as long as there is WiFi connection这就是贬 Michelin-starred：米其林餐厅，不是米其林开的餐厅，而是收录在《米其林指南》的餐厅。没错，这个米其林就是卖轮胎的米其林，至于为啥卖轮胎的可以评选餐厅，那又是另一个故事了。这里还是注意下表达，米其林大厨应该怎么说呢？留言区试试看。 Take in：观察、欣赏，如Take in the stunning countryside scenes after a three-hour climb 以上算是对香港的一个整体感受，我们再看看街头巷尾的生活。  The fortune-tellers with their street stands. The banners of clothing drying on windowsills. Musicians playing the traditional erhu, a two-stringed violin. The earnest chess players hunched over boards on tables and chairs. Vendors stir-frying woks of hot chestnuts or selling sweet potatoes and duck eggs. A shoe repairman hammering away at his open-air worktable. 算命的在街上摆着摊。窗台上晾着一排排衣物。卖艺的拉着二胡演奏音乐。下棋的坐在椅子上，耸拉着肩膀，满脸专注地望向桌上的棋盘。街头小贩有的炒着热乎乎的板栗，有的叫卖着红薯、鸭蛋。修鞋的头顶天空，在缝纫台上聚精会神地修修补补。 Fortune-tellers：算命的，稍微变一下就是tell fortune算命。In ancient times, the Chinese people used oracle bones to tell their fortune Earnest: serious Hunch：to bend the top part of your body forward and raise your shoulders and back。举个栗子，He stood hunched at the door, lost in thought Sweet Potato：红薯 Hammer away：to do something with great energy and with all your attention；后面介词跟at 这几句话全是名词结构，描绘了一副香港日常生活的画面，有点清明上河图的感觉。不少细节描写值得我们学习，也提醒我们要把一件事情说生动，细节不可少。 And if you get up by 7 a.m. you can catch a little hush in Hong Kong, and see locals doing tai chi or walking dogs. 如果你早晨七点能爬的起来，便有机会一睹安宁的香港，可以看到当地人遛狗、打太极，一片祥和。 Catch：这里相当于discover；catch是个百搭词，比如说catch a glimpse，或者是catch sb with their pants down（出其不意、措手不及） Hush：a period of silence, especially following a lot of noise, or when people are expecting sth to happen；也可以直接作动词，让别人安静。上学那会儿，一有同学讲话，班长就说：“安静（hush）！” Do taichi or walk dogs：这个直接背熟，聊天写作拿来就用。 以上片段节选自《国家地理》，感兴趣的同学可以点击链接欣赏原文。 https://www./travel/destinations/asia/china/hong-kong/explorers-guide/ https://www./travel/best-family-trips/hong-kong/ 结尾再啰嗦两句。香港事件暴露了很多问题，其中之一便是咱们在信息传播的过程中缺乏话语权，导致满是偏见的部分外媒成了国际社会了解事态的主要渠道。舆论走向可想而知。身为翻译，咱们要做到师夷长技以制夷，讲好中国故事。望共勉。 感谢阅读！ 翻译如做菜，煎炒炸煮、油盐酱醋 样样有学问，处处需琢磨 |
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