大家不妨品味一下:Madame Hu gave a sigh and watched her husband anxiously pacing

有名家如是说：“将语言的双关语译成另一种语言，有作适当转换和不作转换两种译法，这两种译法都得借助上下文，才能基本做到译文和原文‘形似’与‘神似’的统一”著名翻译家钱歌川先生在英译茅盾小说《动摇》时，便遇到这样的问题：。

胡太太叹了口气，看见胡国光还是一肚子心事似的踱方步“张铁嘴怎么说的？”胡太太惴惴地问“很好，不用瞎担心了我还有委员的福分呢！”“么事的桂圆！”“是委员！此前兴的是大人老爷，现在兴委员了，你还不明白？”读者不难发现，上面对话中的“委员/桂圆”是个谐音梗。

钱歌川起先也颇感其棘手，苦思良久之后却给出了妙不可言且传为美谈的处理大家不妨品味一下：Madame Hu gave a sigh and watched her husband anxiously pacing about as before. “What did Chang Tieh-tsui say?” she asked timidly.

“He gave me very good news. We need not look for trouble; I have the possibility of being a member of a committee!”

“What’s a common tea?” asked the wife, who only caught the sound.“A committee! Lords and esquires are out of date, and the prevailing nomination is to a committee. Don’t you still understand?”

某名家给予其无上的褒扬：“这里，钱先生把汉语中的‘委员’与‘桂圆’的谐音变成了英语中‘committee’与‘common tea’的谐音，自然贴切，又无斧凿之痕，达到了‘情与貌，略相似’”尽管钱歌川先生曾预言过些许不可译现象，但本例却被国内翻译界推崇备至。

读过先生作品者，相信其英语功力，一般人恐难以企及我们在想，倘若沿着该译文之思路再探索，可否再发现一个谐音？比如：Madame Hu sighed, eyeing her husband pacing anxiously about. “What did Glib-tongue Zhang say?” she asked timidly.

“Very good news. I needn’t trouble in vain, for I might serve on a committee!”“Commit! What to commit?” asked the wife, upon catching the sound.

“Committee! Lords or esquires are out, and committee members are in. See it?”简要说明：commit之意有褒有贬（做错事；犯罪），读者若是那位替丈夫着急的胡太太，听到“委员/桂圆”等稀奇词汇，是否也会联想到后者，即将committee误听成commit呢？一家之言，权作参考。

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