今天换了一本书，The Craft of Research, 四年后重读这本书，觉得自己很幸运。后天就要开始新的学期了，作为一个慢热的人，觉得自己就像是百公里加速需要半个小时的老破车，除了喇叭不响，哪儿都响的那种。但是加起速来之后就好啦。只要不放弃，就不会有失望。
看了书，跑了步，睡前做翻译，睡得香。
原文：
That plan for a draft helps researchers write, but created with their readers in mind, it also helps readers read.
翻译：
打草稿列大纲，学者能写得顺畅，而且做计划时心中有读者，读者也能读得痛快。
这句话看似简单，其实很容易纠结。个人习惯了剑走偏锋，所以help这种词我是觉得不会翻译成“帮助”的，也不可能翻译成“让”“使”，总觉得怪，中国人不那么说话。中文习惯主语开头，前后正好可以形成主语的对应，“学者”对应“读者”，就很顺便地用了这种结构。第二个就是对help的理解，我对help的理解是“因果关系”，相当于“if you plan for a draft, you write better.” “如果……就……”的结构，中文里又可以双双省略连接词，哈哈，那就省略掉吧。第三个难点，“but”，这里的“but”不是转折，而是递进或者并列，后面有个“also”，虽然我也是第一次见“but also”离得那么远。
原文：
No small part of that satisfaction comes from knowing that your work sustains the fabric of a community of people who share your interests, especially when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers' lives by changing what and how they think.
翻译：
你的这种满足，很大程度上是因为你能肯定，你的研究成果延续了你所在圈子的交流互动，如果你觉得这个发现能改变读者观念和思路，从而改善他们生活的话，就会更加满足。
又一句看似简单，却很难用中文表述的话。第一个难点，“knowing”和“believe”的对比，“knowing”不是“知道”，而应该是“确定，肯定”。比如“You really think I can do this? I know you can do it!”第二个，“fabric of a community”，如果每个人是一根线的话，这些线交织在一起就变成了“fabric”（布），网上能查到“social fabric”，网友给的解释是“interaction between social members”，我觉得放在这里的语境下还算适用。其他的就是些小伎俩啦。
原文：
When you arrange and rearrange the results of your research in new ways, you discover new implications, connections, and complications. Even if you could hold it all in mind, you would need help to line up arguments that pull in different directions, plot out complicated relationships, sort out disagreements among experts. That's why careful researchers never put off writing until they've gathered all the data they need: they write from the beginning of their project to help them assemble their information in new ways.
翻译：
如果换个方式组合研究结果，会发现它们之间新的含义、联系和问题。哪怕光靠脑子能记住，也得借外力罗列不同角度的论据，勾勒复杂的关系，理清不同专家的分歧。所以，谨慎的学者从来不会等到搜集了所有数据之后，才开始动笔：一般来说，研究一开始，他们就下笔了，这样能用新思路安排行文。
原文：
But it would be a feeble education that did not change you at all, and the deeper your education, the more it will change the "you' that you are or want to be. That's why it's so important to choose carefully what you study and with whom. But it would be a mistake to think that learning to write sound research reports must threaten your true identity. It will change the way you think, but only by giving you more ways of thinking. You will be different by being freer to choose who you want to be and what you want to do with the rest of your life.
翻译：
但是，如果受到的教育一点都没改变你的话，那就白受教育了。而且，教育程度越深，对你的现状和目标的改变就越大。所以选择学习内容和搭档的时候要格外慎重。不过，千万别觉得用严谨的格式写研究报告就一定会抹杀你的个性。严谨格式会改变你的思考方式，因为你的思考方式更多样了。你变了，是因为你能在剩下的时光里，能更自由地选择想要的人生，做想做的事。
原文：
By the time you fix your ideas in writing, they are so familiar to you that you need help to see them not for what you want them to be but for what they really are.
翻译：
等你的想法变成了白纸黑字，你对它们的了如指掌可能会让你先入为主，要真正理解它们的意思，光靠自己就不行了。
原文：
Too many beginning researchers offer readers a relationship that caricatures a bad classroom: Teacher, I know less than you. So my role is to show you how many facts I can dig up. Yours is to say whether I've found enough to give me a good grade. Big mistake. Do that and you turn your project into a pointless drill that demeans both you and your teacher.
翻译：
很多研究新手会把自己和读者的关系搞得像一节烂课：老师，我懂得没你多，那我只需要给你看我能找到多少有用的信息。你呢看看我找到的这些能不能拿高分。大错特错。这么干只会让你的研究变成一文不值的无脑练习，让你和你老师都不好看。
终于翻完了，害PL小姐觉得我今天晚上不理她。
