原文：他自以为这信措词凄婉，打得动铁石心肠。谁知道父亲信来痛骂一顿：“吾不惜重资，命汝千里负笈，汝埋头攻读之不暇，而有余闲照镜耶？”（钱钟书 - 《围城》）

 

译文：Since he felt the wording of the letter was sad and entreating¹ enough to move a heart of stone, he was quite unprepared for the express letter which came from his father. It gave him a severe scolding: I did not begrudge² the expense of sending you hundreds of miles away to study. If you devoted³ yourself to your studies as you should, would you still have the leisure⁴ to look in a mirror? (美 Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K.Mao <译> –Fortress Besieged)

 

 

凄婉， 形容凄切/悲凉/悲伤婉转，文中用来形容方鸿渐在信中的措辞。

 

文中译为sad and entreating，这里的entreating是entreat的变形

 

—entreat vi/ vit恳求，乞求。近义词：beg

 

还有其他的译法sad and mild

 

铁石心肠，从字面上解释，心肠像铁和石头一样，又硬又冷。这个词用来描述一个人不带有任何感情，冷酷无情的。

 

译为a heart of stone (stone-hearted)，也可以译作为a heart of steel；很好记，石头/铁做的心。

 

—铁石心肠的：hardhearted; marblehearted; roughhearted; stonehearted

 

John is the stone-hearted man refused save her mother's life.

约翰是一个铁石心肠的人，他拒绝拯救他的母亲。

 

千里负笈，指背着重重的书箱，在千里之外的地方求学。

 

文中译为hundreds of miles away to study； 负笈从师 leave home to seek knowledge

 

负笈是一个古词，现今我们都称作为“留学”study abroad

 

—留学生 abroad student; international student

 

—留学签证 studiumvisum

 

I finally got the studiumvisum I dreamed about. I'm on top of the world that I can be sent hundreds of miles away to study.

最后我终于拿到了梦寐以求的留学签证，我高兴坏了，终于可以被送去留学了！

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