Sunday, 23 February 2014

［極祕密］其實做毒L又有咩好怕wor by kenny Lau

話說一位LN師兄FB：
－－－－－－－－－－－

其實毒_一個更開心
駛_你講???

[巴黎之毒]
巴黎聖母院外的鎖橋，
身邊無個伴可以點?
巴黎毒_有辦法。

而正所謂毒_無彊界，
Mary是可以分享的，
我地手拖住手既時候，
果刻我望住塞納河洶湧既水波，
腦裡面哼起———
「可否不分膚色的界限……」

我感到世界大同，心情激動到不得了
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有圖有真相：

分析：（HOW）法國故事與香港MARY的文化結合並揉合香樂音樂文化，光輝歲月的歌詞刻畫心情。

當中MARY指的是吹氣自娛公仔；「毒＿」是香港次文化用語，指欠缺異性緣的單身男性，源自日文「獨男」。

巴黎有個浪漫的傳說據說在塞納河畔，和你的戀人買個鎖頭，把鎖鎖在河畔的橋上，然後把鑰匙丟進塞納河裡從此以後你倆的愛情將會永遠鎖在一起。

－－－－－－－－－－－－－－

（WHY）香港加巴黎，內含性題材，或涉同性戀題材。這等題材七十年代的香港，是絕無僅有。我朋友是位雜誌中文編緝，發文原因可能是企圖學術地打破性文化鎖；或個人－求偶。根據嶺南大學翻譯系張南峰指出：媒體報道性題材，比對70年代，現今可謂質的飛躍，見於幽默的性笑話。此外，IT亦促進文化的交流。圖中MARY、鎖，相片都可為中間物及載體。當受體（reception ）接觸到這段訊息，亦即翻譯。如：法國人眼中，他經接收到MARY的背後，吸納香港的文化；讀者看到這張相／篇文時，亦轉譯當中的文化。香港的性文化被中國傳統所醜化這個觀點，當中不少知識份子支持，如陶傑。

過去，求偶方法不外孚：書信傳情／當街兜嗒，亦很有可能在刊登徵友啓事。試問這類現代引入性的文章，是多麼新穎和奪目？圖中不單有能到法國的SYMBOLIC CAPITAL；個人風格、衣著品味都一一呈現。試問豈是古時的爛纸可以爭一日之長短？這種直率的表現手法，FACEBOOK的平台上，遠勝過傷春悲秋的自拍交友方式數百萬倍。這既搏紅顏一笑，又能傳達交友的信息，何樂而不為？我認為這文章能令部分同是天涯的同性讚，因為文章滿足了他們被社會伽鎖所壓抑的潛意識。透過推PO＆SHARE（以回應及轉載增加文章覆蓋面），以表其同理心。

Hong Kong Street Names (By Ng Sze Sze, Sabrina)

Translation can be found everywhere in our daily life. Have you noticed street name is also a part of translation? Though street names are short, we can also learn a lot from translation of them. Let’s see some street names in Chinese and English.

First, ‘路’and ‘道’ are not only translation of ‘road’. Here are some wordings which also mean ‘路’and ‘道’’.

1. Avenue: the word is used when there are trees beside the roads. (e.g. Tat Chee Avenue達之道)

2. Crescent: it describes roads in a curved shape. (e.g. Essex Crescent雅息士道)

3. Incline: it tells the roads are inclined. (e.g. Jat’s Incline扎山道)

4. Drive (e.g. Cotton Tree Road 紅綿路)

Similar to ‘路’, ‘道’ and ‘大道’, ‘街’and ‘徑’ do not only mean ‘street’ and ‘path’. For example, the word ‘path’ is translated into ‘街’and ‘徑’. ‘Steps’, ‘alley’, ‘rise’ and so on are translated into ‘街’. From English street names, we can have basic understanding of features of streets. Yet, we can hardly find difference among streets from Chinese street names because they are similar.

Here is some interesting translation.

1. Hammer Hill Road 斧山道

Hammer does not mean ‘斧’. It means ‘鎚’. The word ‘Axe’ means ‘斧’.

2. Public Square Street 眾坊街

Public Square Street used to be ‘公眾四方街’. This is an example of literal translation. However, the real meaning of ‘public square’ is ‘plaza’. The new translation眾坊街 is much more suitable.

3. Power Street 大強街

The word ‘power’ should mean electric power because there was a power station. But again, the translator used literal translation and did not consider the environment so the ‘power’ was translated into ‘強’ which usually refers to strength.

4. Lion Rock Road獅子石道

Lion Rock means ‘獅子山’, but ‘Rock’ was translated into ‘石’ directly.

Do you have any other ideas about street names? Or do you think they are good translation?

Sources: http://hk-place.com/view.php?id=307

http://hk-place.com/view.php?id=306

Saturday, 22 February 2014

Lost in Translation ( Poetry Translation) by Chung Wai Yee. Minnie

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
－－Robert Frost
This is one of my favorite English poems ever, composed by celebrated American author, Robert Frost , written in plain, everyday language, tells a simple, short episode of life, yet it explores deep philosophical themes in life. Here are the different Chinese translations I can find of it, let's compare them with each other.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

谁家的林，我想我知道。

虽然他家要在村里找；

他不会见我在此驻足

看他的林子白雪浩浩。

身旁小马定狐疑满腹

附近看不见什么农户

停在树林和冰湖之间

驻于一年最黑的夜幕。

马儿摇动头颈铃儿喧

探问停在这里为哪般。

别无声响只有风习习

轻轻地吹落雪花片片。

树林可爱，幽暗又深密。

但诺言须守怎能儿戏，

想要歇息还需行万里，

想要歇息还需行万里。

雪夜林畔小驻（译）余光中

想来我认识这座森林，

林主的庄宅就在邻村，

却不会见我在此驻马，

看他林中积雪的美景。

我的小马一定颇惊讶：

四望不见有什么农家，

偏是一年最暗的黄昏，

寒林和冰湖之间停下。

它摇一摇身上的串铃，

问我这地方该不该停。

此外只有轻风拂雪片，

再也听不见其他声音。

森林又暗又深真可羡，

但我还要守一些诺言，

还要赶多少路才安眠，

还要赶多少路才安眠。

暗夜飘雪似飞花，林木繁茂知谁家；

村中林主君未见，停马赏景尚有暇。

良驹想必应称奇，农家远离驻足地。

独是一年昏暗夜，密林冰湖相偎依。

宝马奋铃心茫然，欲问何故滞林间；

轻风拂面万籁静，唯有雪花漫天旋。

美林深幽天色昏，履约还须赴前程。

路途遥遥难入梦，愁煞风雪夜归人！

雪夜过寒林-四联绝句体译

我心知是哪家林, 远有人居傍小村

擅自停车意难止, 原来披雪最销魂

四下无人我自知, 暂停归路马迟迟

银湖玉树谁欲静, 夜色一年唯此时

空林寂寂响鸾铃, 似问缘何在此停

除却轻风无天籁, 枝间尽是雪来声

林深林暗惹心开, 一诺千金兀自来

此去求眠路多少, 归程多少计难哉

Which translation do you like best ? Which version is the closest to the original? Which version is more like a rewrite of the original, following the same theme? Which one best preserves the essence of the original? How much liberty should a translator be allowed to take ?

Friday, 21 February 2014

韓國「食聊」- BY Wing Kwok

最近，韓國興起一種新的網絡文化，有人把日常吃飯的過程在網上直播，在韓國稱為「먹방」(mok-bang)，「먹」解吃東西，「방」解廣播。香港譯為「食聊」，此譯法大概是想把這與「祼聊」歸為一類，就如徐緣<<Hit過「裸聊」？—韓國「食聊」>>一文，標題把兩者比較。此外，此文亦繪形繪聲地描述「食聊」的情形：

「她們不是普通的進食，而是像挑戰大胃王比賽般喪食一小時，全程以『jap jap聲』清掉滿枱食物，時而送上知味飽滿的表情，滿足宅男對「動作、聲音、表情」的三大要求。」

把「食聊」與「宅男」的要求扣上關係，因為可能對某些男性受眾而言，「食聊」可能是滿足他們的慾望的一個媒介。作者只提及男性受眾的要求，但無提及女性受眾對「食聊」的看法，可見作者認為對香港的受眾而言，「食聊」是一種以男性為目標的一個新興文化。

雖然有人把「食聊」與「祼聊」這一種色情活動加上關聯，但對某些人而言，「食聊」有其好處。就如英國雅虎新聞 ”Korea's Extreme Eating Fetishists”提及，有人認為「食聊」可以幫助人，例如在醫院的病人或是感到孤獨的人，可以從收看「食聊」節目得到慰藉，好像多了一個新朋友似的。

食聊文化反映網絡虛擬世界如何影響現實世界，好壞參半。對我們有著什麼影響，視乎我們如何去詮釋，用什麼既有的知識去理解這個新現象的所指。而決定我們如何詮釋，有時往往受媒體的影響，媒體如何將一文化轉載呈現在讀者眼前。

Sources:

- http://www.youtube.com/

- http://hk.news.yahoo.com/徐緣-hit過-裸聊-韓國-食聊-224637383.html

- http://uk.news.yahoo.com/korea-39-extreme-eating-fetishists-104500839--politics.html

Leftover Women
shengnü
剩女

By lisa

EastSouthWestNorth is a great website where you can find some in-depth article that focus on the problem of Chinese society. “ Hong Kong’s Troubling Shortage of Men” http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/12/hong-kongs-troubling-shortage-of-men/281942/ ( accessed on 21/02/2014)
is one of the work post on the The Atlantic written by a foreign freelance writer who try to present the marriage situation in Hong Kong by showing lot of Chinese ways of expressions and culture features to the English readers that have limited contact to Chinese society.

I would like to have a brief analyze on this article using the concepts we have learned from class. First of all, we can easily find that in order to improve the credibility of the information, the writer had referred to many statements from the local citizens such as a public relations adviser, a professional researcher from Chinese University in Hong Kong or common people like Miss Phoebe. By translating their words into English revealed the real situation in Hong Kong which may be different to other part of the world.

For example, from the words of Miss Phoebe “ Most of my single girl friends are all panicking about finding their other half now because men have a tendency to favor younger girls,” she explains. “Asian men seem to be attracted to girls around 25 rather than girls over 30, so if we don't find the right man soon, our chances of meeting a future partner will get slimmer.” we learned a typical culture from Asia that is different to the Western culture that men tend to like younger girls and single women who are in their late 20s or early 30s will be branded as “leftover women” or “shengnü” which is a use of language mixing in this piece of work.

Furthermore, as it is reported by the Dr.Suzanne Choi that due to Chinese traditional marriage norm of men marrying down and women marrying up, “some men may be unable to find a local wife due to their comparative socioeconomic disadvantages. But some may also want to find a wife with lower qualifications and earning power anyway, so they can conform to social expectations” , it is a use of culture bricolage that let more people without this value or norm in mind get to understand the phenomenon in Hong Kong.

At last, it also talked about the famous TV series in Hong Kong Bride Wannabes and use the word of “ Love Coach” which is also used in western countries to shorten the distance between readers and Hong Kong by re-contextualizing and it not only gave people an inner look on this issue but also disclosed a beauty standard in Hong Kong which is that women are expected of double eyelid.

In a word, it is a very nice piece of article that worth reading and learning from. It exposed the marriage market and problem in Hong Kong in an exact way and throw out a social issue that we all need to think of. I think that might be more points in it can be analyzed by the concepts we have learned from class that I have not covered. Would you find more about it and leave your commend? Tips: you may also find articles on the same topic through other channels such as BBC News or New York Times,ect.

從紅樓夢看中英翻譯的難處 (一) By Mandy Tse Tsz Yan

看過各位同學寫的網誌和留言，不少同學都發現(特別是)中文翻譯成英文時，很容易出現缺失，而且很多時候譯文難以表達原文的深層含意。我認為那是因為不同的語言特色和文化背景。中國文學作品充滿了想像力，這些是英文，甚至其他語言也以再現的。翻譯後，很多原汁原味的語言與文化特色也就消失了。因此，翻譯缺失有時候是無可避免的。中國古典名著紅樓夢就是很好的例子。

一. 語言特色不同
請先看例子:
寶鼎茶閒煙尚綠，幽窗棋罷指猶涼。

1. Still green the smoke from tea brewed in a rare tripod，Yet cold the fingers from chess played by quiet window.
楊憲益，戴乃迭譯文

2. From the empty cauldron the steam still rises after the brewing of tea，by the darkening window the fingers are still cold after the game of go.
David Hawks 譯文

這句對聯其實是賈寶玉在瀟湘館創作的。下圖所見，瀟湘館周圍滿是竹子，因此即使這對聯中沒有提及"竹"，我們也可猜想到句中所謂的"綠"意指翠竹的顏色。而且從這句中，我們不難發現作者使用了間接描寫，由周遭的事物描繪竹林的春色，形容"竹"才是作者的主要目的。中國文學喜歡這樣的含蓄，可是這種寫作手法在西方不常見，外國人未必能輕易理解。因此， David Hawks的譯文中沒有表達"綠"的意思，便不能完整呈現原文的意境和主題。因此，翻譯時若能留意原文的文學特色，定能貼切反映其中的美感。

(瀟湘館)