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翻译研究 | “奋斗”用英语怎么说?

2018年7月15日 翻译与写作

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近日看到某电视台将“奋斗的青春”与“struggle youth”写在单位墙上,鼓励年轻员工。“struggle youth”这个完全不合语法的表达暴露出了另一个可能并不太明显的问题。在“百度”和“必应”搜索“奋斗 英文”,得到的翻译结果都是将其首选译为struggle。

翻译研究 | “奋斗”用英语怎么说?

根据《韦氏词典》,struggle解释有两个:

to make strenuous or violent efforts in the face of difficulties or opposition. to proceed with difficulty or with great effort.

词典中的例句:

He has been struggling with the problem of how to keep good workers from leaving. They struggled for the right to vote. She struggled up the hill through the snow. She struggled to lift the package by herself, but it was too heavy. He struggled to get free of the wreckage. He's been struggling in math class for most of the year. The team has continued to struggle in recent weeks. He was living as a struggling artist in the city.

可见,struggle包含“努力”的意思,但这种努力多暗示逆境与压力,意思上更接近“奋争”、“抗争”或“斗争”。反观“奋斗”则不一定是对困境做出的抗争,顺境之下也可以“奋斗”。比如例句He was living as a struggling artist in the city,这个艺术家虽然在为自己的梦想努力,但“struggling”还有身处困境之意(in the face of difficulties or opposition),这是“奋斗”所没有的。“奋斗”的意思只是为达到一定目的而努力干到最好,不一定要穷困潦倒或四处碰壁。

逆境有时也会占上风,导致struggle的结果失败。比如上面的例句“She struggled to lift the package by herself, but it was too heavy”,struggle就没有成果。《柯林斯词典》中对struggle的释义也有这么一条,说的更直接:If a person or organization is struggling, they are likely to fail in what they are doing, even though they might be trying very hard。

例句包括:

The company is struggling to find buyers for its new product. One in five young adults was struggling with everyday mathematics. By the 1960s, many shipyards were struggling.

因此,一个struggling的年轻人确实在努力、在奋斗,但他的努力多半只是为了维持生计,是在与困难和逆境抗争,而且这种抗争的结果很难说,甚至失败的可能要大于成功的可能。 上进的年轻人都愿意为梦想奋斗,但没有人愿意处于struggle的境地。

即使说明struggle的对象不是为了基本的生活,比如struggle for outstanding job performance,struggle给人的感觉也是努力和阻力各占一半,接下来批评单位制度不合理也不意外。

“奋斗”多为积极向上,昂扬拼搏,而struggle虽然也要付出辛劳,但多是为了满足基本的要求,伴随的是愁苦唏嘘、茫然无助。

 去掉struggle中“逆境”的部分,可用strive来翻译“奋斗”。 “奋斗的青春”可译为striving youth,但可能引发“奋斗的年轻人”的歧义。为更准确翻译原文,可考虑将其译为Cherish your youth/Don’t squander away your youth之类。

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