【正文】 。⑾“我絕不傷害他們的腦筋”意即“我絕不強迫他們做傷腦筋的事”，故譯took care not to impose on my students anything that would cause mental torture。⑩“而且對于這些學(xué)生，簡直是一種無形的精神虐待”譯為but also subject them，so to speak，to an ordeal of invisible mental abuse，其中插入語so to speak或so to say是成語，作“可以這么說”、“恕我直言”等解，用以表達原文的“簡直”。⑧“國家興亡，匹夫有責(zé)”譯為The Destiny of the Nation Is the Concern of Every Citizen，其中The Destiny也可改用The Rise and Fall。⑥“望斷天涯兒不歸”譯為Mother’s Longing for the Return of Her Wandering Child，是參照作者當(dāng)時為逃避母親為她包辦的婚姻而流落他鄉(xiāng)的背景而譯的。④“老師”不宜譯為teacher，因teacher還沒有變成Dr.、Judge、Professor等有尊敬含義的習(xí)用稱呼，故譯為Sir（姑且把“老師”定為男性）。此句也可以這樣處理：Now, as university students…。①“女師大”指當(dāng)時的“北京女子師范大學(xué)”，故譯Peking Women’s Normal University。I Love CompositionXie BingyingAt the beginning of my first year at Peking Women’s Normal University, our teacher of Chinese said to the class,“Now that you’re university students, you may write on any subject of your own must each hand in for each semester at least seven or eight more, the , mind you, each position should be well written, not slipshod.”“Sir, what if it’s beyond my ability to do so?” a classmate, whose name was not personally known to me, suddenly asked.“Beyond your ability? Then how did you pass the examination for admission to the university? You’re supposed to have learned position as long ago as your middle school university teacher’s job is little more than giving you guidance in advanced ’s up to you to improve your writing ’m in no position to do much to help you.”“You’re too modest, sir, ” mumbled another classmate.“Sir, shall we do the writing in the classroom or after school?”That was a silly question raised by my humble self, a country classmates started giggling at I wasn’t embarrassed at the contrary, I thought their giggling was totally uncalled for.“Do as you ’s OK if you want to do it in the write on a subject most favourite to , see you!”We watched him passing out of sight around a corner of the long , two thirds of the students also left the student sitting on my right asked me in a whisper,“What are you going to write about?”“Mother’s Longing for the Return of Her Wandering Child,” I answered without the slightest hesitation.“A short story?”“’s a lyrical essay.”I was overjoyed at the advantages enjoyed by university of all, we were given more freedom to do what we thought position class was just one remembered what had annoyed me most in middle school was that the teachers of Chinese then never gave us position subjects in would write a subject on the blackboard at the last minute when they came to meet the of them gave two or three subjects for us to choose gave us only one subject like Learn the New by Reviewing the Old, The Destiny of the Nation Is the Concern of Every Citizen, Thoughts on National Day, etc., all of which I found extremely preferred our teacher to make public the position subject several days before the class preferred lyrical, descriptive and narrative subjects to argumentative ones because being enthusiastic, young people are fond of lyrical and descriptive writings and also eager to write about their own emotions and by giving a true account of our feelings, thoughts and life, can weproduce good students to do hollow theorizing in position will not only fail to improve their writing ability but also subject them, so to speak, to an ordeal of invisible mental my school days, I chose to write on whatever subject I liked , when I became a school teacher, I, by keeping firmly in mind the maxim