Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. But her increasingly bizarre requests cannot all be blamed on his defective hearing. So much for growing old gracefully...
这是我给戴维·洛奇(David Lodge) 2008年的小说Deaf Sentence 提议的书名翻译。本来两个英文词够简单的,可是“sentence”是个可数名词,既不在前面加个“a”,又不是复数形式,弄啥玄虚啊?是要读者联想到“death sentence”?此公喜欢玩文字游戏,像现实生活中的出版社Mi...
评分这是我给戴维·洛奇(David Lodge) 2008年的小说Deaf Sentence 提议的书名翻译。本来两个英文词够简单的,可是“sentence”是个可数名词,既不在前面加个“a”,又不是复数形式,弄啥玄虚啊?是要读者联想到“death sentence”?此公喜欢玩文字游戏,像现实生活中的出版社Mi...
评分 评分两周前去fnac的时候无意中看到新书货架上摆着一本David Lodge的《La vie en sourdine》,David Lodge竟然出新书了而且我一点都不知道。后来回家上网一查,原来这本《Deaf Sentence》就是David Lodge最新的一本小说,出版于今年五月,而法文的翻译版也是八月底的时候才刚出版。...
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评分"Deafness is comic and death is tragic,because final,inevitable,and inscrutable."
评分very amusing!
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评分way too depressing.房间没网的好处就是只能专心读书了。。。。
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