Smiley's People汉译11难译句子汇集1

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有些句子觉得很难处理，汇集起来，以后集中处理



On one of these August days—the fourth, and at twelve o’clock exactly, for a church clock was chiming and a factory bell had just preceded it—in a quartier once celebrated for its large population of the poorer Russian émigrés, a stocky woman of about fifty, carrying a shopping bag, emerged from the darkness of an old warehouse and set off, full of her usual energy and purpose, along the pavement to the bus-stop.
就在这八月的一天，四号中午，工厂刚打过下工铃，教堂的钟就紧接着敲响了，刚好十二点整，在巴黎的一个区（这个区一度因为有大量贫困的苏联流亡者而出名），一位大约五十上下的矮胖妇女，拎着购物袋，从一家阴暗的旧货栈出来，精神头和往常一样，沿着人行道径直向公交车站走去。


说明：主要难译之处在“full of her usual energy and purpose”，感觉大致意思就是她走路时的精力，精神和往常一样，所谓purpose，大概指她和往常一样，目标明确，就是要走到公交车站去。但中文如何表达，不是太满意，暂时先这么译着，将来再考虑如何改善。

Her cracked shoes, which in walking tended outwards at the points, set a stern tattoo rattling between the shuttered houses.
脚上一双破鞋子，走路时破损的地方就向外翻折出来，边走边发出单调沉重的咔哒咔哒声，好像军队的归营操。

说明：施译为“她穿一双破皮鞋，走起路来脚趾都快要露出来了”虽然好懂，但感觉不太忠实。李译“脚上那双走起路来向外翻斜的鞋子”又有点不知所云。现在这样译，感觉又不是说得太明白。stern tatton rattling也不好处理，从保留文化信息(异化)考虑，暂时这样译。