Machine / troubled waters 的翻譯

 Taiwan's fishermen ply their trade in troubled waters
Financial Times
Trucks laden with headless frozen tuna carcases speed down the waterfront as trading gets under way at the Donggang fish market in southern Taiwan. Less than an hour after dawn, dozens of colourfully painted small boats are unloading their holds after ...



 troubled waters 雙義  不是"危險的"


2013年07月08日 06:16 AM

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troubled

Syllabification: (trou·bled)

Pronunciation: /ˈtrəbəld/

Definition of troubled

adjective

• beset by problems or conflict:his troubled private life
• showing distress or anxiety:his troubled face

Phrases

troubled waters

a difficult situation or time.

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Today, troubled assets are stuck in a quagmire and will be for years unless bankruptcy laws are changed. The capitalist system is the most efficient wealth-producing machine in existence. We must strive to remove barriers that thwart this efficiency.
Mr. Icahn is chairman of Icahn Enterprises, a publicly traded diversified holding company.
wsj
眼下﹐問題資產深陷泥潭﹐如果不改革破產法﹐它們將在那裡呆上數年。資本主義體系是現存的最有效率的財富創造機器。我們必須努力消滅那些削弱這種效率的障礙。

評
這兒 machine的意思是"制度"
機構 (the military ～ 軍部; the social ～ 社会機構）

宇文所安（Stephen Owen）的《中國文 論：英譯與評論》，上海社科院出版社 2003
版權頁為(Stephen Owen, Readings in Chinese Literary Thought（Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1992）)
封面為Chinese Literary Theory:English Translation with Criticism

本文主要指出 p.188 中Discourse Machine的不一致

"...《文心雕龍》開動了五世紀的修辭和分析技術的機器
劉勰的天才表現在他駕馭這一套解說機器的高超本領..."注... 專文 "Liu Xie and the Discourse Machine” (《劉勰的話語機器》)


這machine 不只是 A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot. 它是兼具希臘哲學的分析與修辭的"通其變"
HC 參考
"Liu Xie and the Discourse Machine” for Conference on Wenxin diaolong,. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April, 1997
Culture, Creativity and Rhetoric in Wenxin Diaolong in Liu Xie's time it is a ... the task of the discourse machine is to take the constituents apart. ... A Chinese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity and Rhetoric in ... - Google 圖書結果
“Liu Xie and the Discourse Machine,” in A Chinese Literary Mind. ed. Cai Zhongqi . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.