Chapter 153
this is a very good book!
Close the book with the blue of the sea as the cover and background, Yang Guo thought in his heart.
As its cover shows, in the sea with sharks, one person and one tiger lie quietly on a small junk that can't be smaller. The picture is a little strange and harmonious, which is a little unreasonable. So is this book!
"Full of absurd words" seems to be used to describe the story of this book.
This book describes a fantastic and absurd adventure. A 16-year-old Indian boy and a Bengal tiger drifted on the Pacific Ocean for 227 days, and finally both were reborn!
It's ridiculous! How can people and tigers coexist in a small boat with some difficulties in free activities? How could they survive on the vast Pacific Ocean for more than 200 days? What did they survive on for so long? Why don't Bengal tigers choose to eat Indian teenagers when they are hungry? These problems are constantly challenging the readers' acceptance ability.
When Yang Guo began to read this book, he was soon attracted by it! The previous chapters and stories seem to indicate the future encounter of the protagonist. These foreshadows make people feel itchy and can't stop!
After returning from the rescue station, in addition to taking care of Qiqi and golden haired pups, Yang Guo spent the whole day reading this book, and even Qiqi was left by him playing with toys by himself.
The author's description of the scene and the creation of the atmosphere have reached the level of perfection.
"There is noise in the boat. The low moan of the machine structure. I tripped and fell. I wasn't hurt. I got up. I held the railing and ran down the stairs four steps at a time. As soon as I ran down the next floor, I saw water. A lot of water. Water blocked my way. Water surged up from below like a noisy crowd, surging, rolling, bubbling. The stairs disappeared into the dark water. I couldn't believe my eyes Eyes. What's the matter with the water? Where does the water come from? I seemed to be nailed in place, full of fear and doubt in my heart, and I didn't know what to do next. My family is down there. "
No one expected the sinking of the ship, but it seems that only the protagonist found it. It seems that he is the only one helpless to face such a disaster and the pain of losing relatives!
The full text only gives a detailed description of the scene, but between the lines, we can clearly feel the despair and confusion of the protagonist.
Although the atmosphere was very depressing, some scenes made people want to laugh: "I clearly heard the scream of monkeys. Something was shaking the deck. A white legged Buffalo - Indian buffalo - suddenly rushed out of the rain, rushed past me, and made a rumbling sound. It was frightened, became furious and uncontrollable. I looked at it, stunned. God, who released it?"
In the stormy ship, there is a bison running wildly. How can people not feel absurd and funny? There are also the zebra that hit the lifeboat directly from the air with more than 500 pounds, and many incredible but joyful scenes, which make the beginning of this disaster less depressing.
Before lunch, Yang Guo saw the chapter in which the hero found the Bengal tiger on the ship. This makes Yang Guo lose his mind to eat. When he ate, he was thinking about what measures the hero would take in the face of a living tiger in such a dilemma?
After eating quickly, Yang Guo didn't have a lunch break, and then looked down.
The good news is that there are still a lot of materials on the lifeboat, but the bad news is that the Bengal tiger is occupying the lifeboat and looking at him covetously.
"I grabbed the mouse and threw it at him. Now I can still recall the scene of the mouse flying in the air - its outstretched claws and upstanding tail... Richard Parker opened his throat, and the squeaky mouse disappeared inside, like a baseball disappearing in the glove he took over. Its hairless tail disappeared in his mouth like a spaghetti." It is another interesting and delicate description.
Facing a tiger, the protagonist mentally calculated six plans to kill it, but later, he chose the seventh plan!
In order not to face the desperate loneliness, an enemy worse than the tiger, the protagonist decides to let it live!
However, it is not easy to coexist with a hungry tiger!
The protagonist behind is struggling with twists and turns, and has experienced the danger of escaping from the tiger several times before successfully taming the fierce Bengal tiger! Even without hiding on the raft, he and the tiger can really coexist in the lifeboat!
In this long floating journey, the owner shared many incredible experiences, among which the most memorable is the carnivorous island!
This island is so beautiful that it makes people dizzy. They don't want to leave again. However, in this island intertwined with seaweed and tree roots, there are creepy facts hidden!
If the protagonist did not peel the fruit that wrapped the human molar teeth, then it would never find that this is an island that will devour and digest all creatures at night!
"These trees are also carnivorous, but the acid level is much lower. When the rest of the island is bubbling, the trees are a safe place to spend the night. But once people die and stop activities, the trees will slowly wrap the body, digest it, filter the nutrients in the bones, until the bones disappear. Finally, even the teeth will disappear."
This drifting is more hopeless than Robinson Crusoe!
However, fortunately, the protagonist just drifted on the Pacific Ocean for more than 200 days, and most of these 200 days were spent in the struggle with tigers. Finally, the hero was saved!
Although saved, Yang Guo read the following chapters repeatedly several times. The ending is too tangled! Yang Guo also couldn't figure out whether the story described in the first 200 pages of the book was true, or whether the story finally fabricated by PI and the representatives sent by the nihonguo company was true?
However, this possibility may be the distillation of this book!
Anyway, this book is not a great work, but this story must be attractive! Yang Guo can even predict how popular this film made by Li an will be today, when the special effects of the film have reached the peak!
Not only some famous media, but also many Chinese and foreign celebrities recommend this book!
Apart from other things, obaniu, the black president of the United States, spoke highly of this book as "an elegant proof of the existence of God and a perfect demonstration of the power of the story".
Teacher zhouguoping, a famous writer familiar to Chinese people, also spoke highly of it: "we need this story, of course, not to hide our brutality, but to have confidence in our human nature."
But why? Why should such a wonderful book sell so poorly in mainland China?
Opening the Chinese translation, Yang Guo suddenly realized!
It turned out that it was not someone else's book that was bad, but this translation made someone else's book stupid!
The translation of this book can almost be used as a typical negative textbook!
This is what Yang Guo used to say when giving Guan Yan an their meeting. Translation cannot be word for word, word for word, sentence for sentence!
Such translation seems to convey the meaning of the original text to the readers. But in fact, what they translate is only the literal meaning of the original text! Using Nida's functional equivalence theory, they do not bring the same feelings to the target readers as the original readers!
In short, they fail to meet the translation standard of "faithfulness" in "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance".
What is a letter? Meaning does not recite the original text, that is, the translation should be accurate, not distorted, not missed, and do not increase or decrease the meaning at will. But as translators, they don't even see through the original text. How can they translate the meaning of the original text completely?
In the first volume, the author buried a lot of foreshadows, and spent a lot of effort to describe a lot of metaphors. However, in the translation, Yang Guo just saw that the plot was laid out in this way, and he couldn't find any thought-provoking traces anymore!
Yang Guo saw the first volume of the Chinese translation version, which was very insipid, just like the daily account. It was so insipid that people couldn't raise their interest in reading the first volume anymore.
From the perspective of readers, Yang Guo thinks that 40% of readers will abandon this book because they feel bored, and half of the rest will give up the idea of buying because they don't know what to say.
No wonder this book is recommended by so many celebrities and sold so well!
If you change yourself, this book will not be so boring! Yang Guo stuffed the garbage Chinese translation directly into the garbage can. He wondered how he would turn the book if he translated it himself.
After thinking for a while, he turned hundreds of words in his mind. Just from these hundreds of words, he saw the effect hundreds of times better than the Chinese translation!
This is not his boasting, but the actual effect is indeed so. Yang Guo still has some confidence in his appreciation ability. After all, he is also a well read person!
Finally, Yang Guo called Zheng Yujie: "this book! I have confidence!"
"Really?" Zheng Yujie said in surprise, "can we also catch the east wind of Li an?"
"Rest assured!" Because of his confidence in his strength, Yang Guo said with some arrogance, "this book is a good book. Even if Li An is not making a movie, I can help you sell!"
Zheng Yujie patted her sofa and laughed proudly, "OK, I'll report tomorrow! Yang Guo, you said, I'll ask you to translate at that time. Don't stand me up!"
Yang Guo said with a smile, "no problem. In fact, after seeing this book, I'm a little itchy now. I can't wait to start right away!"
"That's not good," Zheng Yujie said with a smile, "we have to wait until we get the publishing right of this book, otherwise, you're not wasting your efforts?"
"When will that wait?" Yang Guo said with some disappointment.
Zheng Yujie hesitated and said, "after the Spring Festival, I'll try to make them faster! After the Spring Festival, we'll fight together again! Haha!"
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