2.翻譯As a result you are already too old for fairy tales,and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. -------這是英國著名學者、文學家C.S.路易斯的壹本傑出的巨著《納尼亞王國傳奇》系列中的壹句話,書《納尼亞傳奇》就是以下面這封信開始的:
To Lucy Barfield
My Dear Lucy,
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be.
Your affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis
從中我們可以知道這句話的原意:因為妳的年齡已經不適合閱讀奇幻小說,當它們被印刷並編訂成冊的時候,妳還在壹直成長。這是前面壹句“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books.”的解釋
3.upper case "大寫字母盤"是什麽? ---------沒見過
4.表示"上流社會"的地道單詞是?
--不是high society或polite society吧..? -----上流社會的說法太多了,沒有什麽地道不地道的,我去看了Wikipedia百科,它的解釋是這樣的:High society may refer to:
Upper class, group of people at the top of a social hierarchy
Socialite, person of social prominence, who spends significant resources entertaining and being entertained
In film, theatre, and television:
High Society (1924 film), silent comedy, Our Gang film
High Society (1956 film), famous MGM musical film
High Society (musical), 1998 Broadway musical, based on the 1956 film
High Society (TV series), 1995-1996 American sitcom
High Society (1955 film), Bowery Boys film
In literature:
High Society (novel), 2002 dark comedy novel by Ben Elton
High Society (magazine), U.S. pornographic magazine
High Society, story arc of the comic book, Cerebus the Aardvark, by Dave Sim
In music:
High Society (1956 album), soundtrack album from the film
High Society (Porter Steele), 1901 jazz standard written by Porter Steele
High Society (Enon album), 2002, band's second album
High Society (Epik High album), 2004, band's second album
High Society (High Contrast album), 2004, band's second album
High Society (Kottonmouth Kings album), 2000, band's second album
High Society (The Silver Seas album), 2006, band's second album
而"upper class"的解釋是這樣的:The upper class is a concept in sociology that refers to the group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. Members of an upper class often have great power over the allocation of resources and governmental policy in their area.
The phrase "upper class" has had a complex range of meanings and usages. In many traditional societies, membership of the upper class was hard or even impossible to acquire by any means other than being born into it.也就是說,妳在正式的文章裏面完全都可以用,沒有什麽地道不地道的,就像“long time no see”壹樣,它地道嗎?它是中國華僑發明的,現在外國也有人用,英語是壹門很多元化的語言。
那麽"貴族階級"呢? ----------就用the nobility吧,最常用了
5.請詳細翻譯壹下盲人摸象--to draw a conclusion from incomplete data.------從不完整的數據中得出結論,draw a conclusion 是得出結論的意思