doomed hills, the glaciers

……密瓦德望著那些倒楣小山頂一帶閃爍著的可怕光忙，終於明白了那是什麼聲音。

冰河已再度來臨，…….

As he saw that deadly glitter along the crest of the doomed hills, Millward at last understand the sound.
Out of the north, their ancient home, returning to triumph to the lands they had once possessed, the glaciers had com again.
---- THE FORGOTTEN ENEMY by Arthur C. Clarke,

《讀者文摘‧遺忘了的敵人》1990年3月號，頁146-52

翻譯討論: doomed hills 翻譯成"倒楣小山頂"可能太有點人味--它是"注定被毀的"......
懸疑小說原文將主角the glaciers冰河在末段的末尾亮相
翻譯則一開始就.....

Definition of doomed

adjective

likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated:the moving story of their doomed love affair

 

 

 doom,

 [名]

1 [U][C]運命；凶運, 悲運；破滅, 滅亡, 死

an evil ［a cruel］ doom
不吉な［残酷な］運命

a sign of doom and decay
破滅のきざし

meet ［go to, fall to］ one's doom
死ぬ, 滅びる.

2 [U][C]((古))判決, （罪の）宣告.

3 最後の審判(the Last Judgment)

the day of doom
最後の審判の日（⇒DOOMSDAY 1）.

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1 〈人・事を〉（…するように）運命づける((to ..., to do))

be doomed
消える運命にある

doomed love
悲恋

He is doomed to failure ［to fail］.
失敗するように生まれついている.

2 〈人に〉（…の）判決を下す, （刑罰の）宣告をする((to ...))

doom a person to life imprisonment
人に終身［禁固］刑を宣告する.

doom and gloom/gloom and doom

((略式))希望のない状態, 暗い見通し.