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M君 MTI资料与资讯 2022-10-02

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本期的M君讲翻译篇幅相对之前几期较长一点，讲述了一名印度女孩成长过程中与妈妈的关系产生变化的心路历程。原文出自一名职业作家之手，对于母女关系的刻画非常的细腻。这样的文章翻译起来的难点是如何让译文更自然，更能体现作者想要讲述与表达的意图，这也许就需要译者在翻译前好好的通读一下原文了。加油，尝试着翻起来吧！

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原文：

My mother, on the other hand, seemed more and more unloving to me. Some days she positively resembled a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second uncle's home in provincial Barddhaman -- a fate worse than death to a cool Calcutta girl like me -- if my grades didn't improve. Other days she would sit me down and tell me about "Girls Who Brought Shame to Their Families". There were apparently, a million ways in which one could do this, and my mother was determined that I should be cautioned against every one of them. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair, and her favorite phrase was "over my dead body." It was clear that I loved her far more than she loved me -- that is, if she loved me at all.

After I finished graduate school in America and got married, my relationship with my mother improved a great deal. Though occasionally dubious about my choice of a writing career, overall she thought I'd shaped up nicely. I thought the same about her. We established a rhythm: She'd write from India and give me all the gossip and send care packages with my favorite kind of mango pickle; I'd call her from the United States and tell her all the things I'd been up to and send care packages with instant vanilla pudding, for which she'd developed a great fondness. We loved each other equally -- or so I believed until my first son, Anand, was born.

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翻译要点：

provincial 乡下的

caution sb. against 警告，告诫

shape up nicely 顺利发展

care package 专递的包裹

develop fondness for sth. 喜欢上...

1. Some days she positively resembled a witch as she threatened to pack me off to my second uncle's home in provincial Barddhaman -- a fate worse than death to a cool Calcutta girl like me -- if my grades didn't improve.

在语序上要把if条件句提前，符合汉语的“威胁说，如果你不...，就...”。

2. On principle, she disapproved of everything I wanted to do, from going to study in America to perming my hair...

这里from...to...表示的不是范围，而是举例“既不让我...也不让我...”。

3. It was clear that I loved her far more than she loved me -- that is, if she loved me at all. “我是说如果她还爱我的话”。

划线部分这一结构是用来表示怀疑的，是一种暗示，“我怀疑她根本不爱我”。

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