Pages 111-123 Variation Analysis

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Quotation:

我在圣马可广场，看到天使飞翔的特技，摩尔人跳舞，但没有你，亲爱的，我孤独难耐。     ——I. V. Foscarini         Page 133

I was at St. Mark’s Square, watching the acrobatic flights of angels and the dancing of the Moors, but, without you, my dear, the loneliness was unbearable.    ——I. V. Foscarini      Page 111

 

Variation:

祗园街上却满满都是人…… 你也随着人潮走…… 我在圣马可广场，看到天使飞翔的特技，摩尔人跳舞，但没有你，亲爱的，我孤独难耐。page 180-181

Gion was wall-to-wall people… You got swept up in the crowd… I was at St. Mark’s Square, watching the acrobatic flights of angels and the dancing of the Moors, but, without you, my dear, the loneliness was unbearable.  page 181

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Quotation:

咸丰七年春正月、淡水大雪    Page 134

The first lunar month in the seventh year of the Xianfeng reign, a major snowfall in Tamsui.   Page 112

 

Variation:

1.  A 随后毫不犹豫地便陪宋去搭车送她回家。……

你一人走在荒草长长的路上，看着通红的晚霞：心里宁静的微小声音唱着学校合唱团正练习的《当晚霞满天》，唱到我爱、我爱，让我祝福你…… 眼前哗哗哗地降起漫天大雪。  Page 137-138

Without the least hesitation, A walked with Song to the bus stop and saw her home…

Walking alone on the weedy path and looking at the fiery red sunset, in a tiny voice you sang to yourself “When the Sunset Rages in the Sky,” a song your school choir had been practicing. When you got to “My love, my love, let me wish you the best … ,” snow flurries filled the air.     Page 116-117

 

2. 你回答A，你和xxx一定会收拾好再离开，xxx是你当时的男朋友，A看你一眼，咸丰七年春正月，大雪。 Page 179

You replied that you and X X X would make sure everything was neat and tidy before leaving, X X X being your boyfriend at the time. A gave you a look. The first month of the seventh year of the Xianfeng reign, a heavy snowfall.    Page 178

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Quotation:

可憎的绿，湿滑的城，总督垂垂老矣，有着远古的双眼。——D·H·劳伦斯    Page 138

In the disgusting green and slippery damp city, the aging Governor had ancient eyes. —— D.H. Lawrence   Page 138

Variation 1:

Your school was located in Bumbu-machi and the first thing you saw when you left the school grounds was the Governor-General’s Office. The building was less than four decades older than you, but it gave the impression of being old and decrepit. Without giving it a second thought, you assumed it had a history going back at least a century or two, but at other times you assumed it had been built by the Nationalist government, which came over with your parents’ generation.     Page 119

学校在文武町，出门就是总督府，总督府大你们不到四十岁，却给人垂垂老矣之感，你们从不考虑地以为它起码有一两百年历史，有时又以为它是父辈随来的国府盖的。Page 139

  

Variation 2:

如今得把对面两三幢公寓抹平、把环河快速道路和提防拆除，才能明白陈天来当年怎么会斥巨资把宝贝房子建在这里。总督垂垂老矣，有远古的双眼，他最发达的后人陈寿山已退隐，料它能像黑面祖师一般物态何曾改、江山一古今这样豁达吗？  Page 203

But now you’d have to level the apartment buildings across the way and demolish the River Expressway and levees before you could appreciate why Chen Tianlai had lavished so much money on his precious house. The aging Governor-General had a pair of ancient eyes. Chen Shoushan, his most prosperous descendant, had retired. Could he have been as sanguine as the black-faced patriarch, who said, “The appearance of things has not changed; the mountains and rivers are the same now as they were in ancient times”?   Page 213

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