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麦卡锡确实不简单，但，这种密度的错译，甚至漏译是不是有点太对不起读者了呢？
贴一点出来，泥萌感受一下~

原文和译文的摘录仅止于中译本第5页，打字毕竟太累了。。。。


原文：It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. 

译文：切勿以为，黑暗之物的生命会沉默在苦痛之中，犹如迷失于悲伤。


原文：the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, 

译文：埃塞俄比亚北部阿尔法地区

【是阿法尔亲，译者看走眼了，校对也一起眼歪歪吗？】


原文：a re-examination of a 3OO,ooo-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped.

译文：通过对该地区发现的距今30万年的化石头骨进行重新考察，他们发现，割头皮的做法自古有之。


 原文：He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. 

译文：他醉倒在地，吐着无名诗人的句子。

 原文：The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. 

译文：狮子座流星雨。众星纷坠，何其壮观！我仰望天空，寻找诸天黑色的洞口。


原文：he hangs dead from his rope while urine darkens his trousers.

译文：他吊死在绞索上，裤裆尿湿了一大片。


原文： there was standing room along the walls, a place or two

译文：只有墙边剩下可容一二人站立的地方

原文：Dont you know that he said I will foller ye always even unto the end of the road?

译文：难道你不知道，他说过我会永远与你同在，直到无路可走？


原文：Well, he said, I aint askin nobody to go nowheres. And I said: Neighbor, you dont need to ask. He's a goin to be there with ye ever step of the way whether ye ask it or ye dont. I said: Neighbor, you caint get shed of him. Now. Are you going to drag him,him, into that hellhole yonder?

译文：这个嘛，他说，我又没叫谁去啥地方。然后我说：乡亲们，你不用请他。管你有没有请，你走到哪儿，他就跟到哪儿。我说：乡亲们，你甩不掉他。好。你还要拖着他，就是他，去那头的地狱吗?


原文：He was bald as a stone 
译文：他头如秃石

【头秃如石才对吧。。。】

原文：His face was serene and strangely childlike. His hands were small. He held them out.

译文：他面色平静，长着一张孩子似的脸，甚是奇异。他举起双手，双手不大。

原文： —I said eleven—who had come to him in trust and whom he was surprised in the act of violating while actually clothed in the livery of his God.

译文：——注意，是十一岁——他震惊地发现在强暴她时，他自己竟然穿着上帝的制服。