Imagery in Translation
wanted to stay and see your trial. You can imagine what a time we've had with reporters and people. You don't think it awful of her, do you? And listen, there's something else. Can that policeman hear? It's this. You remember that awful old man Maltravers. Well, you've probably seen, he's Home Secretary now. He's been round to Mamma in the most impossible Oppenheim kind of way, and said that if she'd marry him he could get you out. Of course, he's obviously been reading books. But Mamma thinks it's probably true, and she wants to know how you feel about it. She rather feels the whole thing's rather her fault, really, and, short of going to prison herself, she'll do anything to help. You can't imagine Mamma in prison, can you? Well, would you rather get out now and her marry Maltravers, or wait until you do get out and marry her yourself? She was rather definite about it."
Paul thought of Professor Silenius's "In ten years she will be worn out," but he said:
"I'd rather she waited if you think she possibly can."
"I though you'd say that, Paul. I'm so glad. Mamma said: 'I won't say I don't know how I shall be able to make up to him for all this, because 1 think he knows I can/ Those were her words. I don't suppose you will get more than a year or so, will you?"
"God Lord, I hope not," said Paul.
His sentence of seven years' penal servitude was rather a blow. "In ten years she will be worn out," he thought as he drove in the prison van to Blackstone Goal.
EXERCISES FOR TRANSLATION
• Mark the words and expressions that may need comments
or references. Compile a glossary of them.
• Find some information about Evelyn Waugh and his
works. Look through the contents of Decline and Fall.
- Measure the style of the text in terms of both stylistic
devices and the choice of linguistic units.
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• Study the vocabulary in the text and mark the lexical prob
lems for translation.
• Study the syntax of the text and its logical functions.
• Outline the rhythmic pattern of the text.
• Look for some Russian literary parallel to Waugh's style.
Try Bulgakov.
• Complete the Glossary with Russian counterparts.
• Work on the choice of words and syntactical structures in
Russian.
• Check the results of translation with special attention to
the appropriate reconstruction of the overt and covert irony in the
source text.
• Read the Russian version aloud to feel the rhythm of the
text.
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PROSE UNIT 4:
TRANSLATING/. D. SALINGER INTO RUSSIAN