2018专八翻译练习：朋友四型

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2018专八翻译练习：朋友四型

　　专八翻译练习在每个专八考生复习专八时是必须的，多做练习自己揣摩中文文学翻译的妙处，相信大家的翻译水平会逐步提高。

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　　一个人命里不见得有太太或丈夫，但绝对不可能没有朋友。即使是荒岛上的鲁滨逊，也不免需要一个“礼拜五”。一个人不能选择父母，但是除了鲁滨逊之外，每个人都可以选择自己的朋友。照说选来的东西，应该符合自己的理想才对，但是事实又不尽然。你选别人，别人也选你。被选，是一种荣誉，但不一定是一件乐事。来按你门铃的人很多，岂能人人都令你“喜出望外”呢?大致说来，按铃的人可以分为下列四型：

　　第一型，高级而有趣。这种朋友理想是理想，只是可遇而不可求。世界上高级的人很多，有趣的人也很多，又高级又有趣的人却少之又少。高级的人使人尊敬，有趣的人使人欢喜，又高级又有趣的人，使人敬而不畏，亲而不狎，交接愈久，芬芳愈醇。譬如新鲜的水果，不但甘美可口，而且富于营养，可谓一举两得。朋友是自己的镜子。一个人有了这种朋友，自己的境界也低不到哪里去。先生杖履所至，几曾出现过低级而无趣的俗物?

　　A person may have no wife or husband in their lifetime, but it is absolutely impossible to have no friends. Even Robinson Crusoe on a desolate island was badly in need of a “Friday”. One cannot choose his or her parents, but except for Robinson, everybody can have the freedom to choose friends. It is true that one’s choices should be to one’s liking, but it’s not always the case. You pick and choose, and at the same time, are picked and chosen by others. Being chosen is an honor, but is may not be a pleasure. There are many who come to press your doorbell, but how many of them can make “go into raptures?” generally speaking, doorbell pressers fall into the following four categories.

　　The first category: refined and humorous. Friends of this category are ideal, but they can only be chanced upon rather than be sought after. There are as numerous refined people as there are humorous ones, but how many can you find who are refined as well as humorous? Refined people are respectable, humorous people are loveable, and people who are both refined and humorous are respectable but not awesome, intimate but not improperly familiar. The longer you are with them, the closer you will be, just as the fresh fruit you eat, which is not only delicious but also nutritious: it kills two birds with one stone. Friends are a mirror of one’s own self. If one has a friend of this kind, his or her own taste will not be low. How many vulgar and humorless people have you found wherever Su Dongpo, a great genius of the Song Dynasty, went?

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