bristling, precipitation of water, bristling with prejudice

With Charles Addams, James Thurber and Saul Steinberg, Mr. Koren was one of the most popular cartoonists in The New Yorker’s long love affair with humor. To connoisseurs, his bristling pen-and-ink characters, with or without captions, were instantly recognizable — nonconfrontational humans and a blend of fanged crocodile and antlered reindeer who poked fun at a society preoccupied with fitness fads (bike-riding), electronic gadgets (cellphones) and pop psychology.

The Mirror and the Lamp

現在可以簡單地談此書的翻譯

人名的翻譯不去找標準譯名 如 Titian /Mill 等

由於多人翻譯 將 norm 有時翻譯成規範 有時為模式 (這詞比較長常翻譯 pattern)


poem, poetry, poet 只翻譯成詩歌與詩人

有時候必須考慮常識
譬如說 a bristling of the skin, a precipitation of water. and a sensation like.....p.138

bristle

/ˈbrɪsl/

noun

1. a short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face.

   Similar:

   hair

   whisker

   stubble

   designer stubble

   five o'clock shadow

   seta

   

   

   

   

verb

1. 1.

   (of hair or fur) stand upright away from the skin, typically as a sign of anger or fear.

   "the hair on the back of his neck bristled"

   Similar:

   rise

   stand up

   stand on end

   horripilate
2. 2.

   be covered with or abundant in.

   "the roof bristled with antennae"

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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

a precipitation of water 譯成 水對著眼睛澆來 p.164

[名][U][C]

1 [U]（まっ逆さまの）落下, 墜落.

2 [U]急がせること, 促進；大急ぎ；大あわて, 軽挙, 性急

act with precipitation
軽率にふるまう.

3 《物理学・化学》沈殿（物）；《冶金》析出.

4 《気象》降水［降雨, 降雪］（量）

annual precipitation
年間降水量

liquid precipitation
降雨量（▼雪, あられなど固形のものに対する）.

這水其實是類淚水 通長常說法市是 "奪眶而出"


[U][C]生体の分泌［排出］液, 体液（涙・汗・尿・よだれ・羊水など）