照镜子（双语加油站●跟我学）

　　句子：她常常照镜子。

　　误译：She often looks at her in the mirror.

　　正译：She often looks at herself in the mirror.

　　解释：“照镜子”是从镜子里看自己的形象，需要用反身代词。此外，She often looks at her in the mirror有歧义，She 和 her可能指的不是同一个人，即她在镜子里看另外一个女性。“照镜子”可以译为to look in/into a mirror， to look at oneself in a mirror。例如：当小女孩对着挂在墙上的镜子照时，她看见妈妈站在她身后。When the young girl looked into the mirror hanging on the wall， she saw her mother standing behind her.

　　“照镜子”的比喻意义是“对照标准或规范审视自己”。英语可以译为 to examine oneself。例如：我们都应该照镜子，找差距。We should examine ourselves to find out where we fall short.

　　“照妖镜”是中国神话特有的、用来照妖魔使其现原形的宝镜。英语可以直译为mirror that shows up a monster as it is。“照妖镜”比喻能够识别坏人坏事的依据或方法。英语可以意译为 treasure mirror (宝镜)，magic mirror (魔镜)或sharp eyes (敏锐目光)。例如：在执法人员的照妖镜下，所有的伪劣产品都现出原形。All the fake and shoddy goods betrayed their true features under the sharp eyes of the law enforcement officers.

　　有人将“照妖镜”译为monster-detector，是不妥的。英语的monster的意思为an imaginary creature that is very large， ugly and frightening，即“怪兽”，像苏格兰的Loch Ness尼斯水怪。monster-detector实际上是怪兽探测仪。例如：一队配备有现代怪兽探测仪(精密声呐装备)的科学家进行了这次观察。 The observation was made by a team of scientists armed with a modern monster detector: sophisticated sonar equipment.▲

　　（本栏目供稿：王逢鑫教授）