散文佳作汉译英翻译赏析：an inkwash painting水墨画(1)-郭沫若（双语）
an inkwash painting水墨画(1)
guo moruo郭沫若
天空一片灰暗，没有丝毫的日光。
the sky was a sheet of murky grey, completely devoid of sunlight.
海水的蓝色浓得惊人(2)，舌氏岸的微波吐出群鱼喋嗡的声韵。
the sea was a ghastly dark blue. the gentle waves licking at the shore gave forth ahumming sound like that of fish in shoals.
这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆(3)。海中的岛屿和乌木的雕刻一样静凝着了。我携着中食的饭匣向沙岸上走来，在一只泊系着的渔舟里面坐着。
all that foreboded a storm some isles in the sea stood quiet and still like ebony sculptures i walked towards the sandy beach carrying my lunch-box and then sat inside a fishing boat moored at the seashore.
一种淡白而无味的凄凉的情趣一一我把饭匣打开，又闭上了(4).回头望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场(5)。红砖砌成的高耸的烟囱口上，冒出了一笔灰白色的飘忽的轻烟……
what an insipid and dreary scene! i opened the lunch-box only to have it covered up again. looking back, i caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood. its towering red-brick chimney was giving off wisps of grayish smoke.
翻译解析：
(1)“水墨画”除译an inkwash painting外，也可译为an ink-and-wash painting o
(2)“海水的蓝色浓得惊人”译为the sea was a ghastly dark blue，其中ghastly的意思是“可怕的”，但兼有“不正常”的含义。
(3)“这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆”译为all that foreboded a storm o“先兆”也可译为 foretold但不如foreboded确切，因后者一般都针对不好的事物。
(4)“又闭上了”译为only to have it covered up again，其中only(用在不定式前)往往作“结果却”或“却又”解。
(5)“望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场”译为caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood，其中用looming代替standing等能
(6)‘冒出了……轻烟”译为giving off... smoke to emit等。较好地表达“赫然耸现”的含义。其中to give off是成语，意同to send out