《夜访吸血鬼》视听精讲第15期:路易与克劳迪娅的最后一面
日期:2012-03-15 11:44

(单词翻译:单击)

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CLAUDIA: Who will care for me my love, my dark angel, when you are gone?
克劳迪娅:谁会关心我呢,亲爱的,我的黑暗天使离开后谁再来爱我?

LOUIS: What do you think she is, Madeleine? A doll?
路易:你认为她是什么,马德琳,一个布娃娃?

MADELEINE: A child who cannot die...
马德琳:一个不会死的孩子!

LOUIS (softly): And the child who did die?
路易:还有一个已经死去了的孩子?

MADELEINE: My daughter...
马德琳:我的女儿……

CLAUDIA (whispers): Louis, what’s happening to her?
克劳迪娅:路易,她怎么了?

LOUIS: She is dying. It happened to you too, but you were too young to remember.
路易:她要死了,这也发生在你身上,但当时你太小了,它没给你留下任何印象。

CLAUDIA: But if she dies...
克劳迪娅:可是如果她死了……

LOUIS: It's only mortal death. Bear me no ill will, my love. We are now even.
路易:这是凡俗的死亡,仅仅是凡俗的死亡而已。别对我有什么恶意,宝贝。我们彼此彼此。

CLAUDIA: What do you mean?
克劳迪娅:什么意思?

LOUIS: What died tonight was not that woman. What has died is the last breath in me that was human.
路易:今晚死的并非那个女人。今晚死的是我内心人性的最后残余。

CLAUDIA: Yes father. At last we are even.
克劳迪娅:没错儿,父亲,我们彼此彼此。

重点解释
注释:It happened to you too, but you were too young to remember.
这也发生在你身上,但当时你太小了,它没给你留下任何印象。
1. happened to碰巧 ;发生于;偶然发生
what happened to you: 你怎么了
What happened to society: 这个社会是怎么了 ?
例句:
(1) Look at what happened to them.
看看他们发生了什么吧。
(2) What almost happened to the woman?
这女子差点发生什么事?
(3) Whatever happened to the food crisis?
粮食危机时都发生了什么?
(4) Whatever happened to the food crisis?
粮食危机?!究竟发生了什么?
(5) That day, I happened to wake up earlier.
那一天,我碰巧起得比较早。
(6) Let me tell you what happened to me once.
让我告诉你曾经发生在我身上的事。
(7) An odd thing happened to John that morning.
那天早上约翰发生了意外。
(8) A strange thing happened to me this morning .
今天早晨我发生一件怪事。

2. too...to 在翻译时,通常可译为"太……而不能……"、"太……无法……"。下面就谈谈"too...to"结构表示否定的常见句型:

句型I:too+adj./adv.+to do这个句型是too...to的最基本的常用句型。too+形容词或副词,有时too后也可跟一个起形容词作用的过去分词。例如:

The boy is too young to go to school.这男孩年龄太小,不能上学。

The hat is too large to wear.这帽子太大,没法戴。

He walks too slowly to get there on time.他走得太慢,不能按时到达那儿。

I'm too tired to think of anything now.我太累了,什么也不能想了。

使用这个句型要注意以下几点:

1.如果用介词for引出to+动词的逻辑主语,而且该逻辑主语又是to+动词动作的执行者,to do就要用主动式。如果该主语是to+动词动作的承受者,则须用被动形式。它不像句型II中的不定式既可用主动式,又可用被动式来表示一个主语承受的动作。

2.在这个句型中,句子主语和不定式的宾语是指同一个事物,则宾语不能重复,必须省掉,有时甚至其后的to do也可以省去。请试译:

①这个箱子太重,我搬不动。

误:This box is too heavy for me to carry it.

正:This box is too heavy for me to carry.

②这辆小汽车太贵,他买不起。

误:The car is too expensive for him to buy it.

正:The car is too expensive for him(to buy).

3.带for sb./sth.的"too...to"结构应是以物为主语,for sb./sth.可以省略,并不会影响句子否定意义的表达。如果原句以人作主语,一般来说就没有必要加不定式的逻辑主语了。例如:

It's too late for us to catch the early bus.太晚了,我们赶不上那趟早班公共汽车了。

The teacher spoke too fast for us to follow.老师讲话太快,我们听不清楚。

句型IV.too+adj.+a(an)+n.+to V./to be V-ed.这个句型在too+adj.后再接一个带不定冠词的名词,不定冠词一定要放置于形容词后。与此同时,只有当too后形容词修饰一个可数名词时,才可以在形容词与名词间加不定冠词"a"。当句子主语能发出该不定式的动作时,可以用to+V.的主动式,当主语是该不定式动作的承受者时,则用to be+V-ed的被动式。例如:

He's too experienced an artist to mind what the critics say.(=As an artist he's too experienced to mind what the critics say.)他是个经验非常丰富的艺术家,不会介意批评家说些什么。

He is too experienced an artist to be worried by what the critics say.他是一个经验非常丰富的艺术家,不至于为批评家们的议论而担忧。

必须特别指出的是,并不是所有"too...to"结构的句子都表示否定意义,在下列情况下,"too...to"结构可以表示肯定意义:

1."too...to"结构之前带有but,only,all,never,not时,是强调肯定的表示法,译作"非常……"、"十分……"、"实在……"、"真是太……"等。例如:

I am but too glad to do so.我非常喜欢这样做。

We are only too happy to live in China.生活在中国,我们太幸福了。

They are all too satisfied to go and do this work.他们很乐意地去做这项工作。

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重点单词
  • spokev. 说,说话,演说
  • experiencedadj. 有经验的