20190702长难句每日一练
【昨日长难句】
Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person's early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual. The sobering aspect of Allen's book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.
然而,正如任何一位传记作家所知道的那样,一个人的早期生活和生活环境通常是他/她获得的最好礼物。艾伦这本书中令人警醒之处在于它提出:对于我们的现状,除了自己,我们不能责怪任何人。
【今日长难句】
The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
【结构解析】
1. 本句由分号连接的两个分句构成。主干为The upside is the possibilities …; … we become authorities…。
2. contained in knowing that everying is up to us 后置定语修饰possibilities,其中that引导宾语从句做knowing的宾语。be up to us为固定搭配,意为“由某人决定”。翻译时,如果将此后置定语直译为前置定语“知道一切取决于自己所包含的可能性”,就显得不是人话,所以此处将后置定语单独译为一个分句。
3. 第二个分句中包含一个由where 引导的比较状语从句。此时,where为连词,引导从句,用于比较两个人、物或行为,可译为:然而、但是。该句中experts 并非一种职业,所以翻译是转译为动词,即:熟练应对……;
【词的处理】
upside / ˈʌpsaid / n. 积极的一面
expert / ˈekspə:t/ n. 专家
array / əˈrei / n. 一大群,一大堆
limitation / ˌlimiˈteiʃn / 局限
authority / ɔ:ˈθɔrəti/ 权威,泰斗
【参考译文】
The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
(这个观点)积极的一面是,既然万事都取决于我们,那么我们就拥有无限可能。以前,我们能够熟练应对种种局限,而现在我们把握着各种可能。
【明日预告】
Since the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise. Newton’s laws of motion and Darwinian evolution each bind a host of different phenomena into a single explicatory frame work.
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