Mark Sutherland's film about the adventures of an ageing whippet has become a hit online. What would you put on your dog's bucket list?'
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Wikipedia 的whippet 項目英文版有詳說https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippet。
日文版也有傳言牠等會"鞭"馬兒得名。缺中文版。
Google 翻譯為"惠比特犬"。
noun
a dog of a small slender breed originally produced as a cross between the greyhound and the terrier or spaniel, bred for racing.一隻小細長的品種的狗最初生產為灰狗和狗或西班牙獵犬之間的十字架,育種為賽車。
In addition to salukis, eligible breeds are whippets , greyhounds, Afghan hounds, borzois, Ibizan hounds, pharaoh hounds, Irish wolfhounds, and Scottish deerhounds.
{大陸簡明英漢}:一種賽狗、輕便戰車。
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Günter Grass 1927-2015《給不讀詩的人:我的非小說:詩與畫》,
這本詩畫集通常1頁1首。
例外是第168頁,竟然收3首。
第1首:一整天
第2首標題1914.
寫3位畫家誠船駛往突尼斯。
Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet
August Macke 8月8日從軍去,9月26日陣亡。
August Macke, Louis Moilliet
Google 翻譯:奧古斯特·馬克,路易斯·莫伊利特 (無"利"音。)
發音近似 "馬枯"
雨云《克利日記選》翻譯 (149頁):
馬格; 莫利葉 (瑞士伯爵;近點 )
(p. 193 翻譯者不知道Grey Hound翻誠譯"灰狗"令人不知所云:......在電車後頭跑了好一程,他是一隻真正的灰狗。"
與香港的賽馬相比,逸園賽狗的比賽日程更頻密,每週一、四、六、日晚,每晚十八賽場,即是一週共有七十二場,而每場出賽的狗隻數目不等,少則六隻多則八隻,但都是體型瘦長、反應靈敏的格力狗。
發現連Wikipedia都已有正確的翻譯。
格雷伊獵犬(Greyhound),又稱靈𤟥 、格力犬,是一種用在狩獵和競速的狗,牠是陸上速度僅次於獵豹的哺乳類動物之一,牠強健的四肢、深厚的胸肌和流線的體形使牠...
http://csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/ctxt/DQ_Ormsby/part1_DQ_Ormsby.html
IN a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income.
似乎屠孟超先生的翻譯有誤(或版本不同)。
不過,此英文本用greyhound(我們以前有專文討論它 新文:greyhound 等),而這兩本都沒細緻處理。 而且此處英文的 courcing 有專門"用 greyhound 獵兔"之意思.....