翻译实践作业
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中国矿业大学外文学院 _10_____级翻译实践
姓名学号专 业 班 级指 导 教 师
2012年 12月13徐州
Silence is not golden
People always said that \"silence is golden \".Even in many places it is written in calligraphy and framed then stuck on wall.People use it to remind themselves: more words and more mistakes; le talks ,more actions; misfortunes iue from the mouth; spend more time on practical matters.In short, that means when you can keep silence then speak no word.
While Martin Luther King, Jr once said:\" We will have to repent in this
generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Human progre never rolls in on wheels inevitably.\'\'
In the history,the collective silence led to the numerous sadne.During the second world war, although most of Germany ordinary people had indistinctly realized the ending of those Jewry who had been pushed onto the train, they kept silent for that iues and still bought bread and milk, still went to work in the morning and went home in the night, still tenderly said hello to their neighbors as usual.
Today, in China, after friends costly dine together, the person who work in public office ask a invoice then there is nobody to investigate who is the people pay for that deal meal at last.
In English ,\"Elephant in the room\" is an metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is either being ignored or going unaddreed.The idiomatic expreion also applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discu.Eviatar Zerubavel\'s said that is the thing we \"know but realized that we shouldn\'t know.\"
In a blind dating program, all honored guests were signifying the inappropriate places that someone who failed to take the girl: which sentence he should not say or which facial expreion was not property in confusion, while there was no one ever mentioned that the really problem was his occupation.It is hard for some girls to
accept the person whose job is a chef or a shoemaker as her dating person.At this moment, all the people knew the truth, but there was no one courage enough to speak it out.There was an elephant in the TV.
Sometimes, silence maybe stem from kindne and politene: we don\'t talk aboutthe state of illne before our friends or relatives\' who really sickne heavily; and similarly, we neglected the stammerer\'s stammer when talking with them.But sometimes other, silence maybe stem from recreancy.People scared to power,scared to overpre, scared to lost the chance that they could promote, scared to lost their house and car.Silence is become a way people to protect themselves.Some people overlook the existence of obvious problems to satisfied themselves\' benefits, some people regard silence as a principle to live on.
Actually, sometimes, what people really scared is not the lo of their benefit or physical hurt, but lonene in spiritual separated by the people who contact with them.Silence is a way to keep away from this lone situation and find the sense of safety.
Therefore, it is more difficult to break this silent situation when there are more people to keep silence ---when more and more people are caught in the eddy of silence, more and more power need to break away from it.The prophet in history, they always had sad destiny.For the person who first shorted that \"their is an elephant in the room\", people will not see with his finger\'s direction whether their is an elephant, but reproach him why he ruins their dream.What\'s worse, they become madne because the person\'s courage indicate that how recreance they are.They may blamed him that what\'s the hell you shorted so loudly? You are just play to the gallery,you are just show off , you are the stupid man who not see through the situation and you are really an insane.\"Silence like a cancer cell ,division and growth\".The elephant is growing bigger when people embraced each other friendly.
The author who wrote The elephant in the room told us that with the time go by and the elephant grow up, there are more poibilities to puncture the seeming.Because as bigger as the elephant , as higher as the cost to cover it.What\'s more, more witnees also mean that more poibilities to exist the turncoat.At last, the little child\'s grumble that \"the king wear nothing\" will poibly bring the truth in light.After second world war, most of the Germany open their eyes, the sadne is that during the time they close and open their eyes, there are unnumbered people died due to some other people\'s silence.
It is not strange to refuse to say a word, because phonation is not only need courage but means to response to it.It means that we are going to search the solution to deal with it when we talk about the Global warming, means that we are poibly going tochose the life without car, or as le as poible to use heater and air conditioner, or saving water when we use it.For this iues, silence is golden.While the elephant will never vanished even you never talk about it.You can deliberately avoid talking about it, even don\'t remind this don\'t talk, but the global warming is going on.
Now, look at the silence in our daily life, people are used to use political or social restraint to defend for themselves\' silence, but neglected the truth that it is their silence make things worse.Yes , we can block our ears and close our mouth, but as soon as there is an elephant in the room, it is very easy for it to lift its feet up and ruin our all delusion.
“沉默是金。”人们常说。这话还被写成大字，镶在框里，贴在很多墙壁上，人们用它来告诫自己：言多必失，少说多做，祸从口出，实干兴邦，空谈误国。总之，能闭嘴的时候就闭嘴。
但是马丁•路德金说过：“历史将记取的社会转变的最大悲剧不是坏人的宣泄，而是好人的沉默。”二战期间，普通的国人已经隐隐知道那些被推上火车的犹太人的下场，但是他们对此不闻不问，照常买牛奶面包，上班下班，并对迎面走来的邻居温和地问候“早上好”。
今天的中国，朋友们聚餐，点龙虾鱼翅燕窝，结账的时候，在座的人中有公职的的那位“要张发票”，这上万块钱的餐费最后摊到了谁的头上，不会有人追问。
“房间里的大象”在英文里，意指所以那些触目惊心的存在却被明目张胆的忽略甚至否定的事实或者感受，用作者泽鲁巴维尔的话来说，就是那些“我们知
道，但是我们清楚地知道我们不该知道”的事情。
在一个电视相亲节目中，嘉宾们七嘴八舌地分析某个相亲失败的男人那句话说错了、哪个表情不当，却绝口不谈他的职业是厨师或者鞋匠的事实，这时候，电视屏幕里有一只大象。高贵是高贵者的墓志铭，沉默是沉默者的通行证有些时候，沉默或许源于善意和礼貌：比如在罹患重疾的亲友面前，我们不愿谈起他们的病情；比如和一个口吃的人聊天，我们假装注意不到他的口吃。但是另一些时候，沉默源于怯懦。人们害怕权力，害怕高压，害怕失去神官发财的的机会，害怕失去房子和车子，于是，沉默成了自我保护的机制。高贵是高贵者的墓志铭，沉默是沉默者的通行证。另一些时候，人们所恐惧的甚至不是利益上的损失或者身体上的暴力伤害，而是精神上被自己的同类群体孤立。出于对归属感的依恋，他们通过沉默来实现温暖的“合群”。
所以，沉默的人越多，打破沉默就越难---因为当越来越多的人卷入沉默的漩涡，从这个漩涡中挣脱出来的需要的力气就越大。历史上的先知，往往命运悲惨。面对以第一个站出来喊“屋子里的大象”的人，人们往往不会顺着他的手指去看有没有一只大象，而是怒斥他为什么吵醒了自己的好觉。甚至，他们会因为那个人的勇气映照出自己的怯懦而恼羞成怒，你那么大喊大叫干什么？哗众取宠、爱出风头、不识时务、神经病。“沉默如癌细胞般分裂生长”，房间里的大象就这样在“合群”的人们的相互拥抱中越长越大。好在随着大象越长越大，作者指出，他被戳穿的可能性也随之加大——因为随着大象越来越大，掩盖着只大象所花费的成本也越来越高，并且，目击者的增多也意味着出现“叛徒”的可能性在增大。最终，小孩小声的一句嘟囔“皇帝没穿衣服”就可能使这只充了气的大象迅速的瘪下去。“二战”之后，德国人纷纷睁开闭上的眼睛，可惜，在众人眼睛的一睁一闭之间，已经有无数人成了沉默的祭品。
拒绝发生并不奇怪，因为发生不但需要勇气，也意味着承担 谈论全球变暖以为着我们要去寻找解决问题的方案，意味着我们可能要选择不买车、少开暖气和空调、可以节约用水。所以，沉默是金。但是大象并不会因为你不谈论它而消失，你可以不谈论它，甚至不谈论这种“不谈论”，但是全球还会继续变暖......直视我们生活中的沉默，人们习惯用政治或社会的压制来为自己的沉默辩护，却往往忘记了正视自己的沉默，在为这种压制添砖加瓦。我们尽可以堵上自
己的耳朵或者捂着自己的嘴巴，但是当房间里有大象时，它随时可能会抬起脚来，踩碎我们天下太平的幻觉。
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