幾句句子的翻譯 - 翻譯

※ 引述《erickin (阿更)》之銘言：
: 最近自己在翻譯Jeffery Archer的短篇小說"An Eye for An Eye"
: 遇到幾句不太會翻...
: 煩請各位擅長英譯中的大大幫忙看一下^^
: 1. I was chopping up some wood for the stove before I prepared my breakfast.
: 在準備早餐前，我砍了一些木頭，要放到火爐裡燒的。
: (覺得自己這句的翻譯有點累贅)

在做早餐前，我劈了些之後爐灶要用的柴火。

: 2. My husband thought it was rats, so he told me to get a large quantity of
: strychnine to finish them off. "Once and for all" were his own words.
: 「我丈夫猜是老鼠造成的，所以他叫我買很多番木虌鹼回來，把牠們殺死。
: 『一勞永逸』是他講過的話。」
: (這邊我是不確定"once and for all"的翻法)

就是這個意思。

: 3. He knew his timing had to be exact, because he had become uncomfortably
: aware that he was dealing not only with a clever woman, but also an
: extremely cunning one. Mind you, he reflected, anyone who had lived for 11
: years with such a man as Bruce Banks would have had to be cunning simply to
: survive.
: 他知道時機一定要抓得很準，因為他不自在地察覺到，他面前的這個女人不但
: 聰明，而是非常狡猾。不過，他後來想想，要能跟布魯斯這種男人一起生活十
: 一年絕對要有點本事，狡猾成了她的生存之道。
: (這句我翻了很久都覺得翻不好，特別是後面部份...)
: 麻煩大家指教了....

他知道時機一定得抓準，因為他不自在地意識到，眼前要對付的這個女人不但聰明而且
極為狡詐。但話說回來，要和布魯斯．班克這樣的男人在一起過上十一年，不奸詐點根
本活不下去。

以上，除 2. 外純粹亂入。 囧rz

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