短文翻译练习（13）
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1．The Pleasure of Ignorance
The greatest pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen. One envies so inquisitive a man as Jowett, who sat down to the study of physiology in his sixties. Most of us have lost the sense of our ignorance long before that age. We even become vain of our squirrel’s hoard of knowledge and regard increasing age itself as a school of omniscience. We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
2．一点九
检查团走了，给该县的总评分是九十八点一分，这使得活动委员会的成员们感到疑惑，全市十一个县，他们县夺魁呼声一直很高，何处被扣了一点九分？
会议室里弥漫着浓烈的烟雾，如在座的思绪，混沌、缭绕。
沉默、迷惑、沉闷。这另人费解的一点九分。
委员会主任眨巴着眼睛，细细地琢磨着：“只少一点九？……一点九……”
坐在身边的县政府办公室主任突然受了启发，说：“九十八点一，只少了一点九……对了！忽然，主任拍案而起，嚷到：“是不是我们接待吃饭少了一点酒！”
委员会主任忙站起来说：“怪不得哩，检查团长一来就说，这次评比，十拿九稳。”
“食拿酒——稳。”委员会再次陷入沉默、迷惑、沉闷之中。
无知的乐趣
刘炳善
归根结底，无知的极大乐趣即在于提出问题。一个人，如果失去了这种提问的乐趣，或者把它换成了教条的答案，并且以此为乐，那么，他的头脑已经开始僵化了。我们羡慕象裘伊特这样勤学好问之人，他到了六十多岁居然还能坐下来研究生理学。我们多数人不到他这么大岁数(shifting perspective)就早已丧失了自己无知的感觉了。我们甚至象松鼠似(simile)的对自己小小的知识储存沾沾自喜，把与日俱增的年龄看作是培养无所不知的天然学堂(literal translation)。我们忘记了：苏格拉底之所以以智慧名垂后世，并非因为他无所不知，而是因为他到了七十高龄还能明白自己仍然一无所知。
无知长乐
傅惟慈 译
无知的乐趣，归根结底，就在于探索问题的答案。一个人如果失去了这种乐趣，或者以武断的乐趣取代了它，也就是说，以能解答问题而沾沾自喜，他也就开始僵化了。象乔义特这种充满好奇心的人是很另人羡慕的，他在六十岁的时候还坐下来孜孜研究动物生理学。我们大多数人早在他那个岁数之前(literal translation both in form and in word order)就已失去无知的感觉了，甚至还为我们那点少的可怜的知识自鸣得意，认为年龄增长本身就意味着饱学博识(generalization)。我们忘记了一件事：苏格拉底之所以被看作是个智者，并不是因为他什么都知道，而是因为他在七十岁的时候领悟到他还什么都不知道。
Original:
The Pleasure of Ignorance
The greatest pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering(free translation), is already beginning to stiffen. One envies so inquisitive a man as Jowett, who sat down to the study of physiology in his sixties. Most of us have lost the sense of our ignorance long before that age. We even become vain(conceited, having too high of one’s own ability) of our squirrel’s(metaphor) hoard(small storage) of knowledge and regard increasing age itself as a school of omniscience. We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
Explanation:
This paragraph is taken from the well known essay The pleasure of Ignorance by Robert Lynd, famous English modern essayist.
It is the last part of the whole article. That is to say, it is the conclusion and summery of the author. The original passage is an argument with rich witty languages. The author introduces his life philosophy that a man, whose life is short and abilities are limited, should always keeps his curiosity and interests towards the outside world, which is boundless and limitless. Ignorance, which in another word means the strong desire for knowledge, is oxymoronly used here, for normally we don’t use it together with the word Pleasure, which is always associated with something positive. So in order to keep the original figure of speech, we’d better translate the title literally: 无知的乐趣。
Original:
一点九
检查团走了，给该县的总评分是九十八点一分，这使得活动委员会的成员们感到疑惑，全市十一个县，他们县夺魁呼声一直很高，何处被扣了一点九分？
会议室里弥漫着浓烈的烟雾，如在座的思绪，混沌、缭绕。
沉默、迷惑、沉闷。这另人费解的一点九分。
委员会主任眨巴着眼睛，细细地琢磨着：“只少一点九？……一点九……”
坐在身边的县政府办公室主任突然受了启发，说：“九十八点一，只少了一点九……对了！忽然，主任拍案而起，嚷到：“是不是我们接待吃饭少了一点酒！”
委员会主任忙站起来说：“怪不得哩，检查团长一来就说，这次评比，十拿九稳。”
“食拿酒——稳。”委员会再次陷入沉默、迷惑、沉闷之中。
One Point of Nine
The inspection group has gone. It gave the county 98.1 points in total. This very much perplexed the members of the committee responsible for welcoming the inspection group. Of the eleven counties in the city, their county had been the most hopeful of winning the competition. Why had they taken off one point nine?
The conference room was filled with thick tumbling smoke, as were the minds of the conferees with confused thoughts.
Silence, bewilderment and oppressive atmosphere in the room, everyone was puzzled over the missing one point nine.
“Only one point nine short, …one point nine, …” the director of the committee was puzzling over the problem, blinking his eyes and murmuring the figure.
“Ninety-eight point one, one point nine short,…” echoed the director of the County Government Office sitting nearby. Suddenly he had an inspiration. Giving the table a loud thump, he shot up from his seat, and yelled, “I’ve got it! It must be because there was no wine at the welcome banquet.”
“No wonder,” the director of the committee also rose to speak, “the head of the group hinted to me the moment he came, ‘Treat the guests vine and everything will be fine.’”
“Wine and dine, and everything will be fine!”
Silence, bewilderment and oppressive atmosphere again dominated the room.