张培基英译中国现代散文选(一)之《水墨画》

水墨画
   ——郭沫若
   天空一片灰暗，没有丝毫的日光。
海水的蓝色浓得惊人(2)，舐岸的微波吐出群鱼喋噏的声韵。
   这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆(3)。海中的岛屿和乌木的雕刻一样静凝着了。我携着中食的饭匣向沙岸上走来，在一只泊系着的渔舟里面坐着。
   一种淡白而无味的凄凉的情趣——我把饭匣打开，又闭上了(4)。
   回头望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场(5)。红砖砌成的高耸的烟囱口上，冒出了一笔灰白色的飘忽的轻烟……

注释：
(1)“水墨画”除译An Inkwash Painting外，也可译为An Ink-and-Wash Painting。
(2)“海水的蓝色浓得惊人”译为The sea was a ghastly dark blue，其中ghastly的意思是“可怕的”，但兼有“不正常”的含义。
(3)“这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆”译为All that foreboded a storm。“先兆”也可译为foretold，但不如foreboded确切，因后者一般都针对不好的事物。
(4)“又闭上了”译为only to have it covered up again，其中only（用在不定式前）往往作“结果却”或“却又”解。
(5)“望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场”译为caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood，其中用looming代替standing等能较好地表达“赫然耸现”的含义。
(6)“冒出了……轻烟”译为giving off…smoke，其中to give off是成语，意同to send out, to emit等。

An Inkwash Painting
                  ——Guo Moruo
    The sky was a sheet of murky grey, completely devoid of sunlight.
    The sea was a ghastly dark blue. The gentle waves licking at the shore gave forth a humming sound like that of fish in shoals. 
    All that foreboded a storm.
    Some isles in the sea stood quiet and still like ebony sculptures.
    I walked towards the sandy beach carrying my lunch-box and then sat inside a fishing boat moored at the seashore.
    What an insipid and dreary scene! I opened the lunch-box only to have it covered up again.
    Looking back, I caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood. Its towering red-brick chimney was giving off wisps of grayish smoke.