随笔
随笔，聊天
读完小说<狼图腾>的英译本，发现不少翻译错误。这里我只列举一些明显错误。
令人惊讶的是译者是一位有名的中国文学教授。
在下面的列表中我用：
[CHINESE] 代表: <狼图腾>， 姜戎著，长江文艺出版社，2004，
和
[ENGLISH] 代表: "Wolf Totem", Jiang Rong, Translated by Howard Goldblatt, The Penguin Press, New York, 2008.
1.
[CHINESE] P. 41, Line 11: 每头狼几乎都是怀着以命拼食的亡命报复劲头冲过来的。
[ENGLISH] P. 66, Line 20: Alpha males, filled with murderous thoughts of revenge, ...
[NOTE]: 每头狼 is not "Alpha males".
2.
[CHINESE] P. 43, Line 27: 每头狼浑身的皮毛被白毛风嵌满了雪，全身雪白。
[ENGLISH] P. 71, Line 1: The fur of the pack leader was inlaid with snow driven there by the wind, turning it a spectral white.
[NOTE]: 每头狼 is not "the pack leader".
3.
[CHINESE] P. 50, Line 35: 每挪一步，马身与泥浆缝隙里就被灌进更多的雪沙和寒风，
[ENGLISH] P. 82, Line 1: They were trapped, though they kept struggling, each torturous step bringing more snow and cold air into the spaces that opened up between hoof and mud.
[NOTE]: 马身 is not "hoof".
4.
[CHINESE] P. 57, Line 8: “黄河百害，惟富一套。”
[ENGLISH] P. 90, Line 31: "The Yellow River causes a hundred calamities but enriches all it touches";
[NOTE]: 一套 is the Hetao Area (河套地区), the Great Bend of the Yellow River.
5.
[CHINESE] P. 69, Line 2: 牧民粮食定量每月19斤，少就少在小米上。
[ENGLISH] P. 109, Line 29: The herdsmen were given only nineteen jin of grain a month, all of it millet.
[NOTE]: 6 of it millet.
6.
[CHINESE] P. 72, Line 30: 陈阵常想，额仑草原的狼个头大得出奇，
[ENGLISH] P. 115, Line 2: Chen Zhen wondered if the reason the Olonbulag wolves had such large heads and so easily outsmarted humans was that they often dined on Olonbulag mutton.
[NOTE]: 个头 is size, height, not head; the same mistakes are in [ENGLISH] P. 393, Line 3 and in [ENGLISH] P. 447, Line 33.
7.
[CHINESE] P. 82, Line 34: 进了包，漂亮的地毯已恢复原状，三个灯捻的羊油灯将宽大的蒙古包照得亮堂堂，
[ENGLISH] P. 132, Line 4: Inside, the rug had been restored to its original state; three lanterns in which sheep's oil burned lit up the spacious yurt,
[NOTE]: should be: the lantern of three wicks ...
8.
[CHINESE] P. 86, Line 28: 这是狼钟爱之地，隐蔽，背风，
[ENGLISH] P. 138，Line 19: ... was a favorite place for the wolves, with its hiding places and the wind at their backs;
[NOTE]: 背风 is lee side, leeward, not "the wind at their backs"; the same mistake is in
[ENGLISH] P. 210, Line 6.
9.
[CHINESE] P. 99, Line 27: 但是眼前的场景使他差点泄了气：平平的地面上，只有一个直径30厘米左右的小洞，
[ENGLISH] P. 160, Line 1: He was discouraged by what he saw: a hole no wider than a few inches had been opened in the ground,
[NOTE]: 30厘米(cm) is equal to 12 inches, not a few inches.
10.
[CHINESE] P. 114, Line 31: 这里正是马群全军覆没地的东边。
[ENGLISH] P. 181, Line 34: It was a spot just south of the site of the horse massacre.
[NOTE]: should be: east, not south.
11.
[CHINESE] P. 128, Line 21: 那片苇地我知道，太大了，有几千亩，
[ENGLISH] P. 204, Line 12: I know that valley, it's huge, thousands of acres,
[NOTE]: 1 acre = 6 mu (亩), the same mistakes are in [ENGLISH] P. 251, Line 4, in
[ENGLISH] P. 242, Line 26, and in [ENGLISH] P. 509, Line 31.
12.
[CHINESE] P. 129, Line 20: 要把狼全烧死了，遇上大灾年，遍地的死牲口谁来处理？
[ENGLISH] P. 205, Line 31: But let's say you burn them all up--then who pay when the fire kills our livestock?
[NOTE]:
13.
[CHINESE] P. 152, Line 20: 春天的黄羊粪很湿，
[ENGLISH] P. 239, Line 23: Gazelle dung is wet in the summer,
[NOTE]: should be: spring, not summer.
14.
[CHINESE] P. 173, Line 5: 士可杀，不可辱。
[ENGLISH] P. 269, Last line: You can kill a warrior; you cannot humiliate him.
[NOTE]: 士 is bachelor (in ancient China), not warrior.
15.
[CHINESE] P. 265, Line 3: 天苍苍，野茫茫，
[ENGLISH] P. 392, Line 10: The sky is dark, the wilderness vast /
[NOTE]: should be: Vast is the sky, boundless the wilds.
