Translations 譯藝 : ambitions；facebook 翻譯 rectum； "安德立亞"；"先生"的兩難；"史坦朗"

2016年5月16日星期一

ambitions；facebook 翻譯 rectum； "安德立亞"；"先生"的兩難；"史坦朗"

夏目漱石《我是貓》劉振瀛譯，台北：志文，2001

第一篇，畫家"安德立亞"是配角。不過，夏目漱石沒給原文，而這名字 (非姓)在義大利很平常，隨便Google 一下可以找到，諸如： (根據譯註，應該是Andrea del Sarto )

Andrea Mantegna (Italian: [anˈdrɛːa manˈteɲɲa]; c. 1431 – September 13, 1506)
Andrea Solari (also Solario) (1460–1524) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school.

Andrea del Sarto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_del_Sarto

Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the HighRenaissance and early Mannerism. Though highly regarded ...

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這整本書碰到漢字"先生"的兩難：日本敬稱教師為"先生"---這很多台灣人可以理解，不過當代中國日常語的"先生"，已無此義。所以用"教師"稱之。
到第二篇，去看"三毛小姐" (貓)時，稱其為"先生" (因為宿教師家而無名字)，則或許該加註。

篇末的史坦朗：

Théophile Steinlen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théophile_Steinlen

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter ...

有作品
La tournée du Chat Noir deRodolphe Salis(1896)
黑貓魯道夫·薩利斯的巡迴賽（1896年）

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ambition 一般翻譯成"野心"、"雄心"，此處的 ambitions 指
"抱負、目標"。
參考：capstone, arresting, meteoric, vaulting ambition
http://word-watcher.blogspot.tw/2008/08/capstone.html

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