《翻译习作小札》马桶盖爱电磁炉

2、倾城之恋 流苏勾

　　流苏勾搭上了范柳原，无非是图他的钱。真弄到了钱，也不会无声无臭的回家来了，显然是没得到他什么好处。本来，一个女人上了男人的当，就该死；女人给当给男人上，那更是□□；如果一个女人想给当给男人上而失败了，反而上了人家的当，那是双料的淫恶，杀了她也还污了刀。
　　Liusu hooked up with Fan Liuyuan simply and solely for his money. If she’d got the money, she wouldn't have come home in obscurity. It was more than obvious that she hadn't gotten any favor from him.
　　A woman who is taken in by a man is thought to be damned, while a woman who baits a man is an absolute femme fatale. If a woman tries to trick a man but ends up being the victim, then she is both salacious and sinister. Killing her is only to pollute the knife.
　　平时白公馆里，谁有了一点芝麻大的过失，大家便炸了起来。逢到了真正耸人听闻的大逆不道，爷奶奶们兴奋过度，反而吃吃艾艾，一时发不出话来。大家先议定了："家丑不可外扬"，然后分头去告诉亲戚朋友，逼他们宣誓保守秘密，然后再向亲友们一个个的探口气，打听他们知道了没有，知道了多少。最后大家觉得到底是瞒不住，爽性开诚布公，打开天窗说亮话，拍着腿感慨一番。
　　Ordinarily in the Bai family, whenever anyone made any tiny mistake, it got blown up — everyone was wagging their tongues. Now they finally had met something really perverse and sensational, they stammered with over excitement and failed to utter a single word for a moment.
　　The Bai family first came to an understanding that "dirty linen shouldn't be washed in public", and then went to tell all their friends and relatives the secret while compelling them into keeping their mouths shut. Later they went back to the same group of people, and felt them out one by one — asking about whether they knew about the scandal or not, and if so, how much they knew. In the end they realized it was impossible to bind others to secrecy, so they decided to level with relatives and friends and put all cards on the table. They slapped their thighs with emotions, sighing and moaning about the whole thing.

　　他们忙着这各种手续，也忙了一秋天，因此迟迟的没向流苏采取断然行动。流苏何尝不知道，她这一次回来，更不比往日。她和这家庭早是恩断义绝了。她未尝不想出去找个小事，胡乱混一碗饭吃。再苦些，也强如在家里受气。
　　Occupied with all the decision-making and actions followed, they didn’t have time for evident moves towards Liusu until after the autumn. Liusu bade fair to know that this return is worse than ever. She made the break with this family long ago. Needless to say, she wanted to find a job, even a small one, just to keep her ends meet. Because nothing was tougher than being a doormat in this family.

　　但是寻了个低三下四的职业，就失去了淑女的身份。那身份，食之无味，弃之可惜。尤其是现在，她对范柳原还没有绝望，她不能先自贬身价，否则他更有了借口，拒绝和她结婚了。因此她无论如何得忍些时。
　　But it would be very no lady for her to take some degrading jobs, even though the title of lady was neither good enough to keep nor bad enough to detrude. Especially at this very moment, her heart for Fan Liuyuan is not entirely dead, she can’t make the first move by debasing herself, or else he’d have a more valid excuse not to marry her. So she just has to put up with it for a while.