翻译练习 10

外国语学院2013级3班

王丽君 20131040307

10 There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself. Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the center of her heart go hard. This troubled her, and in her manner she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much. Only she herself knew that at the center of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody. Everybody else said of her: “She is such a good mother. She adores her children.” Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other’s eyes. (D. H. Lawrence: The Rocking-House Winner)

有位美丽的女士，本来具有所有的优势。然而她运气不好，为了爱而结婚，但爱情已化为灰烬。她有几个漂亮的孩子，但她没办法爱他们，她觉得他们是被强加在她身上的。他们冷冷地看着她，好像在挑她的刺。很快，她觉得自己必须掩盖自己的缺点。可她自己也不知道到底要掩盖些什么。然而，当她的孩子在场时，她总能感觉到自己的铁石心肠。这让她很苦恼。在行为举止上，她变得更加温柔，更加关心她的孩子，好像她十分疼爱他

们一样。只有她自己明白，在她内心深处，她是铁石心肠，体会不到爱的存在，是的，体会不到对任何人的爱。所有人提到她时都说“她是这么好的一个母亲，深爱着她的孩子。”只有她自己和她的孩子们本人才知道这并不是真的。他们通过对方的眼神就对这一点心领神会。