2022考研英语：《经济学人》中英读译Day166

英语阅读能力依靠什么？必然是词汇的积累，但，仅仅是词汇的积累是不够了，更应该了解英语句式，不同句型所表达意义。如何培养自己的阅读语感呢？那么就跟着聚创考研网小编每天学一点英语，一起为考研筑起坚实的地基。阅读是需要积累的，就像我们需要经常和人沟通才会促进我们的表达能力一样~小伙伴跟着小编一起，每天坚持打卡，培养英语阅读能力及语感，了解文章一些经典词汇的用法。

经济学人:小说家约翰-勒卡尔(3)

At the end of the avenue lay a games field, with a goalpost askew and a few boys playing. Their bicycles were sprawled by the path. Across the field stood a small green tin pavilion, like a bus shelter. There Smiley had found, at head-height, the shiny mi6drawing pin whose message was Proceed to the rendezvous, no danger sighted, together with Vladimir's chalked reply. Here, too, Smiley's shadow walked. A plump figure, balding, bespectacled and breathtakingly ordinary; keenly observant, wise, cunning, yet also shy, embarrassed by life, convinced that his clothes were wrong. He had emerged in 1961, in Call for the Dead, a fully fledged combination of several people from the le Carre past; he took his bow in 2017, giving lectures in "A Legacy of Spies".
译文

在大街的尽头有一个运动场，门柱歪了，几个男孩在玩。他们的自行车散开在小路边。田野对面矗立着一个绿色的小锡亭，像一个公共汽车候车亭。斯迈利在头部的高度发现了一枚闪闪发光的军情六处的图钉，上面写着要去集合点，没有发现危险，还有弗拉基米尔的粉笔答覆。斯迈利的影子也走了过来。丰满的身材，秃顶，戴着眼镜，平凡得惊人；敏锐的观察力，睿智的，狡猾的，但也害羞，对生活感到尴尬，确信他的衣服是错的。他在1961年出现在《召唤死者》中，一个成熟的组合，几个人从勒卡雷过去；他鞠躬在2017年，在“间谍的遗产”讲座。

 

And he had exposed his creator, through the books and films and especially the tv series of"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", to the blaze of literary fame. It was not wanted. "John le Carré" was a mask for a man, as much as a necessity for an author in the intelligence service. As a writer, like a spy, he needed to go incognito, sit at a back table, slip through doors, avoid the crowd. If he wanted he could unleash in a warm, military tone a fund of good stories, such as his near-seduction at 16, in front of her husband, by a countess at dinner in Panama, which drew him to the country later to set a novel of a crooked tailor. Storytelling was what he did.

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他还通过书籍和电影，特别是电视连续剧《补锅匠-裁缝-士兵-间谍》，向他的创作者展示了文学名气。这不是我们想要的。”约翰·勒卡雷“是一个男人的面具，也是情报部门一个作家的必需品。作为一个作家，就像一个间谍一样，他需要隐姓埋名，坐在后座，溜过门，避开人群。如果他愿意的话，他可以用一种温暖的、军事的语调释放出大量的好故事，比如他16岁时的近乎诱惑，在她丈夫面前，一位伯爵夫人在巴拿马的晚宴上，这使他后来到乡下去写了一本关于一个骗子的小说。他就是这么讲故事的。

注释

1.account for 说明

How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?

你怎么解释这家公司高得令人忧虑的人员流动率？

 

2.to the edge of 边缘

The children lead me through the maze of alleys to the edge of the city.

孩子们领我穿过迷宫一般的街巷，来到城边。

 

3.secret service 情报机关

Secret Service officer Robin Thompson spoke on behalf of his colleagues.

特工处官员罗宾·汤普森代表他的同僚发表了讲话。