The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 3
(b) 由于页面尺寸缩小，有必要对一些标题进行缩短，在此过程中，参考了巴特勒在其两本书的自藏本上所做的各种标题和旁注的更正与补充。
(b) Owing to the reduction in the size of the page it has been necessary to shorten some of the headlines, and here advantage has been taken of various corrections of and additions to the headlines and shoulder-notes made by Butler in his own copies of the two books.
(c) 在大多数情况下，每幅插图现在各占一页，而在原版中，插图通常是两幅同处一页。对于奥德修斯之家的平面图，有必要进行缩小处理。
(c) For the most part each of the illustrations now occupies a page, whereas in the original editions they generally appeared two on the page. It has been necessary to reduce the plan of the House of Ulysses.
在《女作者》第153页，巴特勒写道："没有哪位伟大的诗人会把他的英雄比作一肚子鲜血和脂肪、在火前烤制的猪肚（第二十卷，第24至28行）。"
On page 153 of "The Authoress" Butler says: "No great poet would compare his hero to a paunch full of blood and fat, cooking before the fire (xx, 24-28)."
这段话没有收录在书首节略版的《奥德赛》故事中，但在译文里，它以如下文字出现：
This passage is not given in the abridged Story of the "Odyssey" at the beginning of the book, but in the Translation it occurs in these words:
他如此责问自己的内心，强迫它忍耐克制，但他辗转反侧，犹如一个人在熊熊烈火前翻转一只装满鲜血和脂肪的猪肚，先翻这一面，再翻那一面，只为让它尽快烤熟；他就这样从一侧翻到另一侧，心中始终盘算着，凭他一己之力，该如何杀死那一大群邪恶的求婚者。
"Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible; even so did he turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single-handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men as the wicked suitors.
Vocabulary
- Owing
- 由于，因为某原因
- reduction
- 缩减，减少的程度或过程
- size
- 尺寸，大小
- page
- 页面，书或文件的一页
- necessary
- 必要的，不可缺少的
- shorten
- 缩短，使变短
- headlines
- 标题，文章或新闻的大标题
- advantage
- 优势，有利条件；利用机会
- various
- 各种各样的，多种多样的
- corrections
- 更正，修改错误之处
- additions
- 增补内容，新添加的部分
- shoulder-notes
- 页边注释，印在页面边缘的注解
- copies
- 副本，书籍或文件的复本
- illustrations
- 插图，书中的图画或图示
- occupies
- 占据，占用某空间或位置
- whereas
- 然而，与此相反，表示对比
- original
- 原始的，最初的版本
- editions
- 版本，书籍的出版版次
- generally
- 一般地，通常情况下
- reduce
- 缩小，减少，降低
- plan
- 平面图，建筑或空间的布局图
- Authoress
- 女作家，女性作者
- poet
- 诗人，写诗的人
- compare
- 比较，将两者进行对比
- hero
- 英雄，故事中的主角
- paunch
- 大肚子，肥胖的腹部
- blood
- 血液，人体中的血
- fat
- 脂肪；肥胖的
- passage
- 段落，文章中的一段文字
- abridged
- 删节的，经过缩短的版本
- Translation
- 翻译，将文字译成另一种语言
- occurs
- 出现，发生
- Thus
- 如此，因此
- chided
- 责骂，训斥
- checked
- 抑制，克制某种冲动
- endurance
- 忍耐，承受困难的能力
- tossed
- 翻来覆去，被抛动
- single-handed
- 独自一人，无他人帮助地
- contrive
- 设法，想出计策或方法
- wicked
- 邪恶的，道德败坏的
- suitors
- 求婚者，追求女方的男性
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