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看着都觉得好笑


Fred0

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A poem starts out like this:

 

我穿着一件破衣衫出门, 

  这么丑,我看着都觉得好笑,

 

My translation is: I put on an old, worn out robe to go out/How disgusting,  I  feel entirely ridiculous.  

 

Can someone help me do better than this? Thank you.

 

 

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Wearing a worn-out robe,

So ugly, so crude,

I step out the door,

Parting from my abode 

Oh, How ridiculous I feel!

 

I just rearranged some of the order of the original and tried to write it in a more poetic fashion (which I'm not good at). Your translation actually preserves the style of the original a lot better than mine. Poetic and literary translation has a lot more leeway than other forms of translation, but you did better than me to preserve the original style.

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...so I would translate: 我穿着一件破衣衫出门, 

  这么丑,我看着都觉得好笑,as

 

"I put on an old, worn out robe to go out/How disgusting!  Even I,  seeing myself, feel ridiculous. "

 

Any comments?   Thanks to all, especially Mouse, for your help.

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Fred0, 你好,

 

“都(dou1)” 在这里,口语中,有“也”的意思。

这句话的潜在含义是:这么丑,(不光其他人/除了其他人觉得丑),(连)我都(/也)觉得好笑。

“都”在这里也表达了一种递进情感,可以理解为“甚至”,作强化语气。

我只是从一个普通中国人的感觉去解释的,并不一定专业哦。

 

Dear Fred0,

 

“都”here, in speaking, has a meaning of "and", "as well", "too".

So the potential meaning of this sentence is: so ugly, (beside others), I feel myself ridiculous too.

“都” delivers a stronger emotion, which you can view it as "even", to strengthen the tone.

 

However, I just try to explain it from an ordinary Chinese's sense, which maybe not professional and academic.

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