no sort of life

最近幾天補讀永安翻譯的 The Vicar’s Garden and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence

台灣的出版社或為銷路，故意用書中一篇《密愛》當書名，其實我初看此兩字，根本無法想像原篇的英文……

DHL 的文字，就是那麼不同。或許，所有的翻譯都無法取代原文。連書名都無法認真翻譯…..

譬如說 ，A Sort of Life by Graham Greene*

這種 說法，是英國人歷盡滄桑或玩世不恭時的用語。

譬如說；

“ Well, what a man to do? It’s no sort of life for a man of my years, to sit at my own hearth like a stranger….”ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS by D. H. Lawrence

*《小說家的人生》台北：時報

kind of
Also, sort of. Rather, somewhat, as in I'm kind of hungry, or The bird looked sort of like a sparrow. [Colloquial; c. 1800] This usage should not be confused with a kind of or a sort of, which are much older and refer to a borderline member of a given category (as in a kind of a shelter or a sort of a bluish color). Shakespeare had this usage in Two Gentlemen of Verona (3:1): "My master is a kind of a knave." Also see of a kind.