[2011.10.12] 黑死病的诞生

引用 Somersault 2011-10-18 07:43

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interesting topic    just some little correction...

1.and is published in this week’s Nature.    漏译了。

2.邓肯博士和斯科特博士的质疑是基于黑死病杀死了欧洲三分之一人口，在欧洲大陆上扩散的速度比现代鼠疫要快得多。
总觉的不是很通顺的感觉   试译：邓肯博士和斯科特博士的质疑基于一个事实，那就是.......

引用 aubreychen 2011-10-18 09:16

来捧场，感觉翻译得很好啊。
挑些骨头，
Later outbreaks of plague would have occurred in a population which had grown more used to the pathogen, and had both primed immune systems and evolved resistance caused by those with genetic protection against the disease having survived it.
后来受到鼠疫袭击的人群对该病原体已有一定适应性，免疫系统已经过锻炼，还有当初黑死病的幸存者发展出来的基因抵抗力。
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这个翻译得是差不多啦，但是人家原句的would have done，就是接着上句说，后来因为你翻译得这些原因，才木有再爆发瘟疫。。你把原因翻译得这么好，怎么把主句扔了？

引用 nayilus 2011-10-18 09:24

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我以为是后来的鼠疫传染性没那么强的原因。不是没有爆发。我再想想……

引用 nayilus 2011-10-18 09:43

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已经更正了，你看怎么样？谢谢捧场啊

引用 yannanchen 2011-10-18 10:43

Other differences between the strain of Y. pestis found in Smithfield and more modern cases, which have been used to question the theory that bubonic plague was responsible for the Black Death, are also addressed by the paper. They could be explained by factors such as the genetics of the host population, social conditions and climate, and also by the fact that over the centuries the microbe itself has evolved, and thus changed in virulence.更现代的鼠疫菌株以前曾被用于质疑淋巴腺鼠疫引起黑死病的理论。该论文也讨论了这些现代菌株和史密斯菲尔德发现的鼠疫杆菌菌株之间的其它差异。这些差异可以由寄主人群的基因特性，社会条件和气候，以及该微生物在几个世纪的时间内进化而改变了其病毒性等因素解释。
Comment: 更现代的鼠疫菌株以前曾被用于质疑淋巴腺鼠疫引起黑死病的理论---this translation seems to pinpoint “more modern cases” as the antecedent of the relative pronoun “which”. It is more likely than not that the antecedent of “which” is “other differences between the strain found in Smithfield and the strain found in more modern cases.

引用 nayilus 2011-10-18 11:52

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Yes, now I see the antecedent is indeed "differences", not "strain". The differences raise question about links between bubonic plague and Black Death. Thanks a lot.

引用 翻译无国界 2011-10-20 07:16

1.Dr Duncan’s and Dr Scott’s scepticism was based on the fact that the Black Death, which killed about a third of Europe’s population, spread throughout the continent far faster than modern plague spreads.
邓肯博士和斯科特博士的质疑是基于一个观察：黑死病曾杀死欧洲三分之一人口，它在欧洲大陆上扩散的速度比现代鼠疫要快得多。
我认为“fact”应译为“事实”，“观察”不合适。

2.But that is not all. The paper also suggests that every existing strain of Y. pestis can be traced to the Black Death, and not to the Plague of Justinian, a series of epidemics which hit Europe in the sixth, seventh and eighth centuries, as had been previously thought.
但这还不是全部。该论文也提出现存的所有鼠疫杆菌菌株都可以追朔到黑死病，而不是像之前所认为的来源于六到八世纪先后数次席卷欧洲的查士丁尼大瘟疫。
“sixth, seventh and eighth”应译为“第六、七、八世纪”，而“六到八世纪”感觉不妥。

3.That goes some way to explaining the speed of its dispersal and the severity of its symptoms—just as smallpox hit Amerindian populations particularly severely when that virus was first introduced into the Americas by European explorers.
这很大程度上解释了它的传播之快和症状之凶。这和天花病毒最早随着欧洲探险者被带到美洲后对美洲土著造成的毁灭性打击类似。
牛津字典上”go a long way/some way towards doing”翻译为”to help very much/a little in achieving sth”,即“帮助很大/不大”
感觉你翻译的也挺顺的，如果知道“that”指什么就好办多了。或许，towards 与 to 在这里不能替换，或者go some way towards doing 还有其他意思，或者原文作者误用了这个本有固定意思的搭配？
还请高手指点。
不得不说，这篇文章的确翻译的很好。

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