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原文节选自:阿瑟米勒《推销员之死》

译作者:英若诚

Before us is the Salesman’s house. We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides. Only the blue light of the sky falls upon the house and forestage; the surrounding area shows an angry glow of orange. As more light appears, we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home. An air of the dream dings to the place, a dream rising out of reality. The kitchen at center seems actual enough, for there is a kitchen table with three chairs, and a refrigerator. But no other fixtures are seen. At the back of the kitchen there is a draped entrance, which leads to the living room. To the right of the kitchen, on a level raised two feet, is a bedroom furnished only with a brass bedstead and a straight chair. On a shelf over the bed a silver athletic trophy stands. A window opens onto the apartment house at the side.

观众面前出现的是推销员的家。可以感觉到这个家背后和周围四面都是高耸的见棱见角的建筑。照耀着这所房子和舞台前部的只有从天上来的青光,周围区域则笼罩着一种愤怒的橘红色。灯光再亮一些以后,观众可以看清,这所小小的、脆弱的房子被包围在周围坚实的公寓大楼之中,因此这个地方有一种梦似的情调,从现实中升华起来的一场梦。房子中央的厨房确实很真实,有一张厨房的桌子,三把椅子和一个电冰箱,但是看不见别的设备。在厨房后墙上是一个挂着帘子的门,通向起居室。在厨房右边,比厨房的地面高出二尺,是一间卧室,其中只有一张铜架床和一把直背椅子。在床上方的格架上放着一个银制的体育竞赛奖品。卧室有窗,窗外就是旁边的公寓大楼。

Behind the kitchen, on a level raised six and a half feet, i s the boys’ bedroom, at present barely visible. Two beds are dimly seen, and at the back of the room a dormer window. (This bedroom is above the unseen living room.) At the left a stairway curves up to it from the kitchen.

在厨房后面,地面比厨房高出六英尺半,是两个儿子的卧室。现在这里几乎全在暗中,只能模糊看到两张床和后墙上的一扇小顶窗。(这间卧室处于那问看不见的起居室的上层。)左边有一道弯曲的楼梯,从厨房通上来。

The entire setting is wholly or, in some places, partially transparent. The roof-line of the house is one-dimensional; under and over it we see the apartment buildings. Before the house lies an apron, curving beyond the forestage into the orchestra. This forward area serves as the back yard as well as the locale of all Willy’s imaginings and of his city scenes. Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken, and characters enter or leave a room by stepping through a wall onto the forestage.

整个布景全部或者某些地方部分是透明的。这座房子的屋顶轮廓线是单线画出的,在轮廓线下面和上面都可以看到那些公寓大楼。在房子前面是一片台口表演区,越过舞台前部,伸展到乐池上方,呈半圆形。这个表演区代表这家的后院,同时威利的幻想场景以及他在城里活动的场面也都发生在这里。每当戏发生在现

在时,演员都严格地按照想象中的墙线行动,只能通过左边的门进入这所房子。但是当戏发生在过去时,这些局限就都打破了,剧中人物就从屋中“透”过墙直接出入于台口表演区。

From the right, Willy Loman, the Salesman, enters, carrying two large sample cases. The flute plays on. He hears but is not aware of it. He is past sixty years of age, dressed quietly. Even as he crosses the stage to the doorway of the house, his exhaustion is apparent. He unlocks the door, comes into the kitchen, and thankfully lets his burden down, feeling the soreness of his palms. A word-sigh escapes his lips —it might be “Oh, boy, oh, boy.” He closes the door, then carries his cases out into the living room, through the draped kitchen doorway.

威利·洛曼,推销员,手里拎着两个装样品的大箱子,从右方上。笛声在继续。他听得见笛声,但并没有注意。他六十多岁了,穿着朴素。仅仅从他横穿舞台走到房子大门的几步路也看得出来他累极了。他打开门锁,进入厨房,深呼了一口气,放下手里的负担,抚摸着累疼了的手掌。他情不自禁地长吁一口气,感叹地说了句话——可能是“够呛,真够呛”。他关上了门,然后通过挂帘子的门,把手提箱拿到起居室去。

Linda, his wife, has stirred in her bed at the right. She gets out and puts on a robe, listening. Most often jovial, she has developed an iron repression of her exceptions to Willy’s behavior —she more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end.

在右边的屋里,他的妻子林达在床上翻动了一下。她起床,披上一件睡袍,倾耳听着。她通常是个乐呵呵的人,但多年来已经形成克制自己的习惯,决不允许自己对威利的表现有任何不满——她不仅仅是爱威利,她崇拜他;威利的反复无常的性格,他的脾气,他那些大而无当的梦想和小小的使她伤心的行为,似乎对她只是一个提醒,使她更痛心地感到威利心里那些折磨他的渴望,而这些渴望在她心中也同样存在,只不过她说不出来,也缺少把这些渴望追求到底的气质。

译文赏析:

1、作者身份与译文的可表演性。英若诚是我国著名的话剧导演和翻译家,话剧导演这一身份决定了他与众不同的翻译风格,人的翻译作品肯定会受到其长期所从事的职业影响,而《推销员之死》本身就是一部伟大的戏剧,而由一名话剧导演翻译的戏剧作品无疑将体现戏剧最主要的一个特点---可表演性。英若诚的译本本身就是为表演服务,其翻译的可读性很强,译文很口语化,能够能各层次文化水平的观众理解接受,口语的直接呈现能够更简单地表达话剧作者希望表达深层含义。例如第一段中We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides. Only the blue light of the sky falls upon the house and forestage; 英若诚译为:可以感觉到这个家背后和周围四面都是高耸的见棱见角的建筑。照耀着这所房子和舞台前部的只有从天上来的青光,周围区域则笼罩着一种愤怒的橘红色。译文忠实地传达了原文信息,并且在忠实的基础上增强了其可表演性,对各种方位词的翻译明显而直白,没有过多的咬文嚼字。

2、译文的归化。英若诚先生的译文对象是中国话剧界人士和读者,观看戏剧时观众没有许多时间思考译文的言外之意,所以在译文中采取了归化的手段。第四段中原文:A word-sigh escapes his lips —it might be “Oh, boy, oh, boy.” 英译文:他情不自禁地长吁一口气,感叹地说了句话——可能是“够呛,真够呛”。“够呛”比较符合中国人的口语习惯,在译文其他部分还有许多归化表达,例如“八字没一撇”等。

3、译文对于动词的处理。这在第四段体现的特别明显,原文:He unlocks the door, comes into the kitchen, and thankfully lets his burden down, feeling the soreness of his palms. A word-sigh escapes his lips — it might be “Oh, boy, oh, boy.” He closes the door, then carries his cases out into the living room, through the draped kitchen doorway. 译文:他打开门锁,进入厨房,深呼了一口气,放下手里的负担,抚摸着累疼了的手掌。他情不自禁地长吁一口气,感叹地说了句话——可能是“够呛,真够呛”。他关上了门,然后通过挂帘子的门,把手提箱拿到起居室去。这三句话一共用了10个动词,这也是戏剧翻译与其他文本翻译有所不同的地方,戏剧台词的动作丰富,才能把人物活灵活现地展现在舞台上。

4、也许英若诚的译文对于注重语言优美凝练的读者来说没有很大的赏析性,但是对于话剧文本本身来说,这是一篇很成功的译文,考虑到了戏剧本身的特性、主要受众群和观众的文化背景知识。

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