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David Bellos 出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 副标题: Translation and the Meaning of Everything 出版年: 2011-10-11 页数: 384 定价: USD 27.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780865478572
Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical ...
Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical roots of written language to the stylistic choices of Ingmar Bergman, from the United Nations General Assembly to the significance of James Cameron’s Avatar. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across human experience to describe why translation sits deep within us all, and why we need it in so many situations, from the spread of religion to our appreciation of literature; indeed, Bellos claims that all writers are by definition translators. Written with joie de vivre, reveling both in misunderstanding and communication, littered with wonderful asides, it promises any reader new eyes through which to understand the world.
In the words of Bellos: “The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same—that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition.”
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大卫·贝洛斯（David Bellos），著名翻译家，牛津大学法国文学博士，现任职于美国普林斯顿大学比较文学系。研究领域为现当代法语写作和翻译研究，近年来主要专注于文学翻译和翻译研究，现任该校翻译与跨文化交流项目主任。贝洛斯翻译过许多脍炙人口的文学作品,2005年由他翻译的伊斯梅尔·卡达莱（Ismail Kadare）的作品就曾荣获首届布克国际文学奖；《世纪的小说》（The Novel of the Century）讲述了雨果撰写《悲惨世界》的历程，2017年荣获巴黎的美国图书馆奖。
大卫·贝洛斯（David Bellos），著名翻译家，牛津大学法国文学博士，现任职于美国普林斯顿大学比较文学系。研究领域为现当代法语写作和翻译研究，近年来主要专注于文学翻译和翻译研究，现任该校翻译与跨文化交流项目主任。贝洛斯翻译过许多脍炙人口的文学作品,2005年由他翻译的伊斯梅尔·卡达莱（Ismail Kadare）的作品就曾荣获首届布克国际文学奖；《世纪的小说》（The Novel of the Century）讲述了雨果撰写《悲惨世界》的历程，2017年荣获巴黎的美国图书馆奖。
…believed that much of the world's troubles could be ascribed to the illusions that a thing exists just because we have a word for it. He called this phenomenon "Word magic." (查看原文)
Can a book be less captivating? Style and depth are horridly inconsistent, humour is smirk-worthy at its best and cringe-inducing at its worst. It's a little shocking that there's a Penguin classics e...Can a book be less captivating? Style and depth are horridly inconsistent, humour is smirk-worthy at its best and cringe-inducing at its worst. It's a little shocking that there's a Penguin classics edition out there(展开)
在正文第一页看到这句话的时候，我只觉是意外。 Despite the tantalizing puzzle set by Roy Harris at the start of my adult life, I... 虽然刚进入成年，罗伊·哈里斯就把那个令人困惑的难题把在了众人面前…… 然而，看到第二章的前几段，我放弃了。 第一段译者将 translat...
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1.页1行13：Despite the tantalizing puzzle set by Roy Harris at the start of my adult life. 正确的翻译：我刚进入成年，罗伊·哈里斯那个令人困惑的难题就摆在了我面前。 2.页6行9：Like Hofstadter, I take the opposite view. 正确的翻译：像侯世达一样，我不同意上述观...
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3 有用 U京 2014-09-18 17:50:10
Can a book be less captivating? Style and depth are horridly inconsistent, humour is smirk-worthy at its best and cringe-inducing at its worst. It's a little shocking that there's a Penguin classics e... Can a book be less captivating? Style and depth are horridly inconsistent, humour is smirk-worthy at its best and cringe-inducing at its worst. It's a little shocking that there's a Penguin classics edition out there (展开)
0 有用 miller 2012-10-27 10:43:08
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142309214/meaning-of-everything-often-lost-in-translation http://www.economist.com/node/21528592
0 有用 一个人·杜阿 2024-03-02 15:20:10 北京
在美国的时候买的书，很有意思。作者一定是漫游银河系指南的粉丝，同为粉丝真是秒懂标题。有趣的概念包括L1 L2,母语者概念、word的指代意义、爱斯基摩人有100种描述雪的词汇、Hopi语的指代用法、civilized和primitive语言的差别、纽伦堡审判的同声传译系统等等
0 有用 炸东律 2021-02-23 14:34:17
Meh
0 有用 咔咔 2019-07-27 11:32:15
内容挺好的 作者真是博学，激发我学语言的热情 就是太难读了，每次打开都不能超越第三十页……
0 有用 一个人·杜阿 2024-03-02 15:20:10 北京
在美国的时候买的书，很有意思。作者一定是漫游银河系指南的粉丝，同为粉丝真是秒懂标题。有趣的概念包括L1 L2,母语者概念、word的指代意义、爱斯基摩人有100种描述雪的词汇、Hopi语的指代用法、civilized和primitive语言的差别、纽伦堡审判的同声传译系统等等
0 有用 Grey Grey 2022-05-03 09:38:35
一本翻译概论啊。。。涉及翻译的方方面面，作者是个话痨。。。。
0 有用 RosamundLilith 2022-01-27 08:36:17
2022年看的第一本書，碩士時的教授開學第一天推薦的。讀的時候感覺好像回到了本科課堂。 算是個簡單的overview，旁徵博引，很淺地涉及到一些理論，不少討論都挺有意思，不過其實內容不深。 適合有一定相關背景且試圖涉獵理論的人。門外漢看會吃力。
0 有用 炸东律 2021-02-23 14:34:17
Meh
0 有用 咔咔 2019-07-27 11:32:15
内容挺好的 作者真是博学，激发我学语言的热情 就是太难读了，每次打开都不能超越第三十页……