2011年4月6日 星期三

You can't put new wine in old bottles'舊瓶不能裝新酒'嗎?

香港出版的
Renditions( 譯叢) 不知有沒人寫 "胡適與翻譯" (我知道有人寫過錢鍾書的)

胡適先生在1934/1/27 寫過一篇"'舊瓶不能裝新酒'嗎?"
他說1822年官話翻譯新約 將bottles 翻譯成"(舊)皮袋(山羊皮作的.....)"
1804年的文言本翻譯成"舊皮囊".....今人不懂猶太人的酒囊做法....翻譯成"'舊瓶不能裝新酒'這種傻話來.....

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With allusion to matthew ix. 17

也沒有人把新酒裝入舊皮囊裏的,不然,皮囊一破裂,酒也流了,皮囊也壞了; 而是應把新酒裝在新皮囊裏,兩樣就都得保全。 」(思高本)

(AV) Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. The idea is also expressed allusively as a metaphorical phrase.

The new spirits had animated the prose of Chateaubriand and the poetry of Lamartine; but‥the form of both these writers retained most of the important characteristics of the old tradition. It was new wine in old bottles.
[1912 L. Strachey Landmarks in French Literature vi.]
The new wines of industrialism and democracy have been poured into old bottles and they have burst the old bottles beyond repair.
[1948 A. J. Toynbee Civilization on Trial vi.]
‘I don't think you can put new wine in old bottles.’ I looked doubtful. ‥‘A lot of this could be rationalized.’
[1960 I. Jefferies Dignity & Purity viii.]
‘Motives?‥Good old-fashioned lust.’ ‘That hardly explains the explosive nature of his end.’‥‘You can't put new wine in old bottles.’
[1974 T. Sharpe Porterhouse Blue x.]


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