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神奇的翻譯幻想魔力

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True?
什麼才是真的？：真實世界的神奇魔力
作者： Richard Dawkins
譯者： 黃煜文
繪者： 戴夫．麥金
出版社：大塊文化
出版日期：2012/05/29

這位譯者譯了幾本我感興趣的書，幾年前揭露過他翻譯另一本書（《是邏輯還是鬼扯？》）時的一些誤譯，有些頗爲好笑。著名無神論者、倡導演化論的英國科學家道金斯這本科普好書的翻譯，看來也一樣的不用心（還是無能爲力？），這裡略舉例幾段。

博客來試讀第1-2頁（原文第一章第14-16頁、中譯第12-14頁）

// Back to those dinosaurs. How do we know that they once roamed the Earth? We have never seen them or heard them or had to run away from them. Alas, we don’t have a time machine to show them to us directly. But here we have a different kind of aid to our senses: we have fossils, and we can see them with the naked eye. Fossils don’t run and jump but, because we understand how fossils are formed, they can tell us something of what happened millions of years ago. We understand how water, with minerals dissolved in it, seeps into corpses buried in layers of mud and rock. We understand how the minerals crystallize out of the water and replace the 【materials】 of the corpse, 【atom by atom,】 leaving some trace of the original animal’s form imprinted on the stone. So, although we can’t see dinosaurs directly with our senses, we can work out that they must have existed, using indirect evidence that still ultimately reaches us through our senses: we see and touch the stony traces of ancient life.

讓我們回頭來談談恐龍。我們怎麼知道牠們曾經一度漫遊在這片大地上？我們從未看過或聽過恐龍，也從未因為恐龍出現而四處逃竄。真可惜，我們沒有時光機能讓我們直接看到恐龍。但我們有不同的方法可以協助我們的感官：我們有化石，所以我們可以用肉眼看見「它們」。化石不會跑也不會跳，但我們了解化石是怎麼形成的，我們可以從化石得知數百萬年前發生的事。我們知道溶有礦物質的水分會以什麼方式滲透到埋在泥土與岩石層裡的殘骸中。我們也知道這些礦物質在水分蒸發後會留下結晶，然後取代原來存在於殘骸裡的【礦物質】。它們會【一個原子接著一個原子】把動物原本的形體痕跡滲印在石頭上。所以，雖然我們無法直接用我們的感官看見恐龍，但我們可以推斷恐龍真的存在，這些間接的證據最終還是能被我們的感官感知到：我們可以看到與摸到古代生物留在石頭上的痕跡。//

1a. //We understand how the minerals crystallize out of the water and replace the materials of the corpse, atom by atom, leaving some trace of the original animal’s form imprinted on the stone.
我們也知道這些礦物質在水分蒸發後會留下結晶，然後取代原來存在於殘骸裡的礦物質。它們會一個原子接著一個原子把動物原本的形體痕跡滲印在石頭上。//

「礦物質」取代「礦物質」？原譯把materials看成minerals。

改：這些礦物質在水分蒸發後會留下結晶，取代殘骸裡的物質。

（後記：感謝讀者 @ Michelle Wen〔小說譯者兼資深校稿人〕指出materials的誤譯。）

1b. Atom by atom，從英文的寫法看，應當修飾前句的「取代」(replace)，不是修飾後句的「leave some trace」。

改：這些礦物質在水分蒸發後會留下結晶，一個原子接著一個原子取代殘骸裡的物質，把動物原本形體的些許痕跡滲印在石頭上。

這些錯誤如果看來沒什麼，好戲還在後頭！

// In a different sense, a telescope can work like a kind of time machine. What we see when we look at anything is actually light, and 【light takes time to travel.】 Even when you look at a friend’s face you are seeing them in the past, because the light from their face takes a tiny fraction of a second to travel to your eye. Sound travels much more slowly, which is why you see a firework burst in the sky noticeably earlier than you hear the bang. When you watch a man chopping down a tree in the distance, there is an odd delay in the sound of his axe hitting the tree.

從不同的角度來看，望遠鏡就像時光機。我們看到景物時，我們實際上看到的是光，而【光可以帶著時間旅行。】即使我們看著朋友的臉，我們看見的也是他們以前的臉，因為光從他們臉上到達我們的眼睛需要時間，儘管那是極其短暫的時間。聲音的速度比光慢得多，這是為什麼你會先看到煙火在天空炸開，然後過一陣子才聽到爆炸的聲音。你從遠處看人砍樹，你會發現斧頭砍在樹幹的景象與實際上聽到聲響有一種奇妙的時間差。//

2. 這個錯誤不必多解釋，很爆笑，但非提出來不可：

「光可以帶著時間旅行」，正確意思應該是「光的旅行（穿越空間）需要時間」。takes time （花時間）想像成擬人化的「攜帶時間」，真的很有趣。同一段下一兩句譯者卻又恢復神智，寫出「光從他們臉上到達我們的眼睛需要時間」。

「帶著X旅行」也是一本書名：Umberto Eco有本趣味散文集「帶著鮭魚去旅行」，張定綺譯，好像是從義大利文的英譯版再轉譯成中文。艾柯愛玩語言，那本書翻譯的挑戰很大。

// Are there really aliens in outer space? We’ve never seen or heard them. Are they a part of reality? Nobody knows; 【but we do know what kind of things could one day tell us if they are.】 If ever we got near to an alien, our sense organs 【could tell us about it.】 Perhaps somebody will one day invent a telescope powerful enough to detect life on other planets from here. Or perhaps our radio telescopes will pick up messages that could only have come from an alien intelligence. For reality doesn’t just consist of the things we already know about: it also includes things that exist but that we don’t know about yet - and won’t know about until some future time, perhaps when we have built better instruments to assist our five senses.

外太空真的有外星人嗎？我們從未見過外星人的樣子，也從未聽過外星人的聲音。外星人是現實的一部分嗎？沒有人知道；【可以確定的是，如果外星人真的存在，那麼總有一天我們會知道他們的長相。】如果我們靠近外星人，我們的感官會讓我們知道【外星人長什麼樣子。】或許有一天，人類會發明性能強大的望遠鏡，使我們能從地球觀測到其他行星上的生命。或許我們的電波望遠鏡會偵測到唯有具有智能的外星人才能發出的訊息。現實不只包括我們已經知道的事物：現實也包括已經存在，但我們尚未得知的事物──我們可能要等到未來某個時候才能知道這些事物，屆時我們可能已經造出更好的設備使我們的五官能知覺到這些事物。//

3. 真是鬼扯的翻譯！

// But we do know what kind of things could one day tell us if they are.
可以確定的是，如果外星人真的存在，那麼總有一天我們會知道他們的長相。//

「長相」是從英文的哪一個地方憑空妄想出來的啊？〔請想像這裡插入三萬個黑人問號！〕

But we do know 但我們確知：
what kind of things could one day tell us 什麼東西可以在未來的某一天告訴我們
if they are. 外星人是否存在
(=if they are a part of reality.外星人是否是現實的一部分)

英文完全沒有關於「長相、外貌」的痕跡！

4. 下一句也一模一樣，完全未提外星人的長相，爲何譯者那麼執念於外星人的長相？

// If ever we got near to an alien, our sense organs could tell us about it.
如果我們靠近外星人，我們的感官會讓我們知道外星人長什麼樣子。//

這裡，got near 是與現實相反的虛擬語氣，表示作者認爲我們距離認識、看到外星人還很遙遠。單單譯成「如果」也不夠力，可以說「萬一、萬一真的」。

5. 更基本的英文理解失能，是這個：it 指的是「our getting near to an alien」即條件句的內容，翻譯怎麼會瞎扯為「外星人的長相」呢？

改譯：萬一我們真的與外星人接近了，我們的感官會讓我們知道（這件事）。

// Atoms have always existed, but it was only rather recently that we became sure of their existence, and it is likely that our descendants will know about 【many more things that, for now, we do not.】 That is the wonder and the joy of science: it goes on and on uncovering new things. This doesn’t mean we should believe just anything that anybody might dream up: there are a million things we can imagine but which are highly unlikely to be real - fairies and hobgoblins, leprechauns and hippogriffs. We should always be open-minded, but 【the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.】

原子一直都存在著，但我們知道有原子這個東西卻是相當晚近的事。很可能到了我們子孫的時代，人類【對原子的了解會比現在更深入。】 而這正是科學奇特與令人雀躍之處：科學總是能不斷揭露新的事物。但這不表示任何人夢想的任何事物我們都應該深信不疑：我們可以想像出一百萬件事物，但這些事物卻有可能極不真實，例如仙女與妖精，矮精靈與駿鷹。我們的心胸應該保持開放，【但我們必須要有真憑實據才能相信事物真的存在。 】//

6. 才一下段，又是一個基本英文句的誤解：

// it is likely that our descendants will know about many more things that, for now, we do not.
很可能到了我們子孫的時代，人類對原子的了解會比現在更深入。 //

know about many more things that, for now, we do not 指的不再是原子了，前句的原子只是舉例，告訴我們：很多存在的事物，人類會需要一段時間才知道存在。

改：很可能到了我們子孫的時代，人類才會認識許多目前不知道（已存在）的事物。

7. // the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.
但我們必須要有真憑實據才能相信事物真的存在//

這句意思雖大致沒錯，卻失去原文的強調，「唯一」的好理由：

改：有真憑實據證明事物存在，是相信事物存在的唯一好理由。

以這種每段幾乎都有莫名其妙的誤譯的進度來看，整本書細究下來，問題恐怕是罄竹難書的「天文數字」！

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虎尾被稱為「布袋戲的故鄉」，而布袋戲，則是很多台灣人童年的共同記憶，想要了解布袋戲的歷史，一定要去拜訪雲林布袋戲館。
Huwei has been called the home of traditional puppet theatre in Taiwan. Many Taiwanese remember glove puppets,from their childhoods, but to really understand the history of this art form, you’ll have to visit the Yunlin Glove Puppetry Museum.

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布袋戲一開始在台灣，扮演著酬謝神明和娛樂大眾的角色，盛行於傳統的廟會中，到後來，這項民俗技藝，演變成了新興的文化產業，這些過程，在館內的展示都可以看的到。
Glove puppet theatre started out in Taiwan as a way of thanking the gods and entertaining the general public at traditional temple festivals. Later on , the folk art performances were revitalizing the genre. That evolution is all on display at the museum.

要操作布袋戲，其實很簡單，你只要用食指控制它的頭，姆指和中指控制它的雙手，像這樣，然後就可以編織出屬於你自己的故事囉。
Controlling the glove puppets is actually pretty easy. Using your forefinger to move the head, and your thumb and middle finger to move the arms, like this,then you can act out your own stories.

布袋戲讓人著迷的地方，在於它的栩栩如生，而在虎尾，還有一個標榜著「以假亂真」的地方...
One of the fascinating parts of glove puppet theatre is how its master performers make it seem so lifelike. There’s one particular place in Huwei that prides itself on passing off the fake as genuine.

這是蛋糕、這個是三明治，但是千萬不要放到嘴巴裡，因為它們都是毛巾做的...
This is a cake, and this is a sandwich, but don’t put them in your mouth, because they’re made out of towels!

在這裡，原本平凡無奇的毛巾，一個個都化身成超萌的療癒小物，彷彿就像是被施了魔法一般。
Here, regular-looking towels have been changed into a variety of objects by something almost like magic. Now, you guess which one is real

妳猜猜哪一個是真的蛋糕 ？
Now, you guess which one is real?

哪一個… 我想… 不是…是這個！
Real…I think…no…this one

妳答錯了！you are wrong!

怎麼可能？What?

這個才是真的蛋糕！This is the real!

我不相信？What?

雖然現場可以看到毛巾變身的過程，但是仍然無法滿足我的好奇心。
Displays let you see each step in the towels’ transformation,But it still wasn’t enough to satisfy my curiosity.

現在我要做一件煞風景的事，就是把它拆開....
I’m going to spoil the fun and open one up…

哇！真的是毛巾耶... 好奇心殺死貓，這句話說的一點都沒錯...
Wow! It really is a towel… Curiosity killed the cat, there’s no doubting that.

虎尾這兩個字，在中文的意思，指的是老虎的尾巴，這地名由來有很多種說法，雖然跟老虎都沒有關係，但是這裡還是有　很多小村莊，非常值得逛一逛。
The word “Huwei” in Chinese literally means the tail of a tiger. None of the several explanations for how Huwei got it’s name actually involve a tiger, but it’s still fascinating to explore Huwei’s many small villages.

好多貓咪哦～好可愛哦～
So many cats,How cute!

這個彩繪村叫做「屋頂上的貓」，一開始，為了改變農村單調的景色，兩個電影看板畫師，把過世的流浪貓彩繪在牆壁上，沒想到竟然變成了台灣相當熱門的拍照景點。
This village of murals is called “cat on a roof.” In the beginning, to give the village a bit more flavor, two movie billboard artists painted some wall murals of wild cats they knew who had passed away. They didn’t expect that the place would become attract photographers from across Taiwan.

救命啊！我快要融化了～
Help! My heart is about to melt!

也因為太受歡迎的緣故，這裡現在還增加了兩個主題，讓大家一次拍個夠。
Because of its overwhelming popularity, the village later set up two attractions for visitors to go and shoot photos to their hearts’ content.

現在我要參觀另一個彩繪村，這個彩繪村有什麼特別的？就是這裡只有兩個顏色「白色」和「紅色」。
Now, I’m going to see another village of murals. What’s special about this one is that the murals only use two colors –white and red.

北溪彩繪剪紙藝術村，是虎尾科技大學的駐校藝術家，帶領了四十位學生，所共同創造出來的作品，大紅色的剪紙圖案，彩繪在白牆，讓樸實的農村，充滿了喜氣洋洋的幸福感。
Beixi Mural and Papercutting Art Village is arists in residence at National Formosa University led 40 students in making this work. Their red papercut motif mounted on a white wall has enlivened this sleepy farmers’ village.

今年是雞年，所以當然要跟雞拍一張照片！
This is the Year of the Rooster, so of course I’m going to pose for a picture with the rooster!

虎尾是一個適合放慢腳步、輕鬆玩的地方，有機會的話，你一定要親身來感受一下。
Huwei is a place for taking things slow and enjoying your leisure. If you have the chance, you should definitely come see it for yourself!

我是林柏妤，享受在台灣的時光，我們下次見。
I am Poyu Lin, enjoy your time in Taiwan! Ciao～see you next time.