时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课
第三封信

  My Dear Lin1,
    
  I am deeply grateful, but I have smiting 1 of conscience. As you know, I have my own ration 2 of sugar, & I must not deprive you of yours. As to the dim sum(点心), a healthy young man has more need of them to stay his hunger between the meals--much more that and old man does. So I am returning them with heartfelt thanks--accompanied with a little token of esteem 3. The latest No. of Broadsheet is worth glancing at.
   Your thankfully

  林:
  很感谢你,但我深感不安。正如你知道的,白糖,我有自己的定量,我不应该取你的。至于那些精美的点心,健康的小伙子比老人更加迫切需要,以便在两顿饭之间充饥。所以我怀着衷心的谢意把糖和点心还给你,同时附上一些英文报纸杂志,聊表敬意。最近一期的Broadsheet(报纸)值得一看。
  钱钟书 谨上
    
  注解:

  1、这封信没署日期。大概写于1972年钱钟书杨绛离开河南明港,提前返回北京的几个月前。信中提到“白糖”、“点心”等话,指的是林书武为了感谢钱钟书赠送英语书报,对林书武学习上的指导,送给钱钟书的东西。
  2、smite和conscience搭配,是地道的英语,如:His conscience smote 4 him. 他受到了良习的谴责。也可以说成:He had smiting of conscience.
  3、to deprive you of yours, 夺取你的东西,不能说成to deprive yours.同类动词还有一些,例如:rob, Those barking of a dog robbed me of my sleep. 狗吠了又吠,弄得我无法入睡。
  4、to stay ones hunger是地道的英语,学生往往想不到这种用法。充饥,不要说成to fill ones hunger, 要采用这里的说法。
  5、a little token of esteem, 当时钱钟书还送给林书武一些英文报纸杂志。
  6、to be worth 接动词的ing形式,表示值得做……,这里的is worth glancing at, 值得一看。注意:跟to be worthy 5的差别:to be worthy of something: 应该得到某事物;to be worthy to do sth.:应该做某物。
    
  总的来说,钱钟书这三封英语信,是珍贵的学习资料。除了其思想内容之外,单从英语写作技巧来说,就有许多值得学习的地方。以下仅提出两点。1、这三封信句法变化丰富,相邻的两句句型绝不相同。简单句,复杂句,定语从句,非完全句,等等,变化多端,多有神来之笔。钱钟书的英文信,富有灵气。2、用词特点之一是多用近义词,如flannel和butter; sin 和crime; 词的搭配很地道,如“充饥”,“值得一看”等等的英语表达式,都是不可更改的。

1 smiting
v.猛打,重击,打击( smite的现在分词 )
  • He set to smiting and overthrowing. 他马上就动手殴打和破坏。 来自辞典例句
2 ration
n.定量(pl.)给养,口粮;vt.定量供应
  • The country cut the bread ration last year.那个国家去年削减面包配给量。
  • We have to ration the water.我们必须限量用水。
3 esteem
n.尊敬,尊重;vt.尊重,敬重;把…看作
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • The veteran worker ranks high in public love and esteem.那位老工人深受大伙的爱戴。
4 smote
v.猛打,重击,打击( smite的过去式 )
  • Figuratively, he could not kiss the hand that smote him. 打个比方说,他是不能认敌为友。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • \"Whom Pearl smote down and uprooted, most unmercifully.\" 珠儿会毫不留情地将这些\"儿童\"踩倒,再连根拔起。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
5 worthy
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
学英语单词
acardiacus anceps
accessable
accretionary structure
alimentary system
antiparalytical
autoclassified
baccatas
Bartramia
basket-weaving
bearded oyster
Benzaiten
blackfaced
bohols
bottom engine
brat pack, bratpack
builder furnished equipment
cement hardener
cerolysin
charge of rupture
Chloronase
clearing heart and inducing resuscitation
confectio
coregulators
crossful
declining balance rate
diesel LHD
digestible energy
discontinuity stress
downconvertor
drammach
eocryptozoic eon
exoethnonyms
face lathe
field activation item
fokkema
frequency shift modulation
frontolenticular
full-floating axle
gas shell
Goldberg Mohn friction
hails from
hierophants
house to house
international procedure of frequency assignment
irsay
joint surface
knuckle gear
lavochka
leucophanes albescens
line negative
Lophophora
luginar
macro-accounting
magnesiofoitite
make havoc
Moschcowitz's operation
multiple well system
neutron-removal cross-section
northwest monsoon
outcome yield
overlay network
oxyacetylene powder gun
parabundle
parvorders
pitch damping device
plane the way
platymeters
plaudits
primno abyssalis
process identification number
put something in the hopper
Quang Yen
reciprocal strain ellipsoid
residual air volume
rhotacize
Rosenwald
RRI
schockley partial dislocation
set-
Shcherbinka
sidi barrani
silverpot
skip operation
sodium deuteroxide
Sol, Pta.del
songbook
Spratly Islands
stone tumor
ststment
tarverse motion
taxonomic phonemics
thigh
trideoxynucleotide
Udarnyy
UNCOR
under-ones
unique id listing
V formation
water-removing leaves
xcvi
xfc