一个比较复杂的英语句子，汉译时如何摆平结构？

mxh3698 · 发表于 2020-3-29 09:56:55

THE tall, bespectacled, grey-haired man standing at the edge of the throng in the main room of the gallery, stooping very close to the young woman in the red silk blouse, his head lowered and angled away from her face, nodding sagely and emitting a phatic murmur from time to time, is not as you might think an off-duty priest whom she has persuaded to hear her confession in the midst of the party, or a psychiatrist conned into giving her a free consultation; nor has he adopted this posture the better to look down the front of her blouse, though this is an accidental bonus of his situation, the only one in fact.

mxh3698 · 发表于 2020-3-30 00:13:38

本帖最后由 mxh3698 于 2020-4-1 07:46 编辑

THE tall, bespectacled, grey-haired man standing at the edge of the throng in the main room of the gallery, stooping very close to the young woman in the red silk blouse, his head lowered and angled away from her face, nodding sagely and emitting a phatic murmur from time to time, is not as you might think an off-duty priest whom she has persuaded to hear her confession in the midst of the party, or a psychiatrist conned into giving her a free consultation; nor has he adopted this posture the better to look down the front of her blouse, though this is an accidental bonus of his situation, the only one in fact.
顺译版本：
那个高个，戴眼镜，灰发的男子站在画廊主厅人群的边缘，俯下身子贴近身着红绸衬衣的女人，头低下偏离她的脸庞，时不时圣人般地点头、低语，好像在与人寒暄。如果你以为他是一个被她说服了来听她在派对上忏悔的下了班的神父，或者一个受骗给她做免费咨询的精神科医生，那你就错了。他现在做出如此姿态也并不是为了更好地一睹她衬衣的风光，虽然他现在所处的局面确实有这样一个意外的好处，事实上也是唯一的好处。

dooomer · 发表于 2020-4-1 07:13:04

衬衣的风光，忒含蓄了，哈哈

[语言讨论] 一个比较复杂的英语句子，汉译时如何摆平结构？

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