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improve translate #181

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@xiewei18 xiewei18 commented Feb 5, 2023

improve translate, based on 翻译探讨 #53

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原文:

What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this “losers” (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it “lusers”).

We realize that there are many people who just want to use the software we write, and who have no interest in learning technical details. For most people, a computer is merely a tool, a means to an end; they have more important things to do and lives to live. We acknowledge that, and don't expect everyone to take an interest in the technical matters that fascinate us. Nevertheless, our style of answering questions is tuned for people who do take such an interest and are willing to be active participants in problem-solving. That's not going to change. Nor should it; if it did, we would become less effective at the things we do best.

翻译:

尽管如此,我们为那些真正有兴趣并愿意积极参与问题解决的人调整回答问题的风格。这点不会变,也不该变:否则,我们就是在最擅长的事情上降低效率。

翻译说明:

这里有两个大家争论比较大的地方:一是第一句话过长以及中英文表达风格差异带来的翻译困难;二是关于“不该变”那里的直翻表达冗余问题。

  1. 在这里,参照原文(在 do 处加了斜体强调),并结合上下文语义(前面讲了一些人只索取而不回报),增加了加粗的“只”和“真正”来尽可能传达出作者的真实含义。在这里,强调的是为谁服务,所以将“只为……的人”放在句子前面。
  2. 对于表达冗余问题,参考了上面@sailist 的翻译,并结合原文表达,更改为上述翻译版本。

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@ryanhanwu ryanhanwu merged commit 35961fa into ryanhanwu:main May 30, 2023
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