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Cathy，女，春都MTIer，专业翻译爱好者
昨天段落参考译文：
The hold of the week on our lives loosens, and our place in the cycle becomes in turn less memorable.
一周时间制对人们生活的影响力已经被削弱了，而今天是星期几的概念也变得模糊不清。
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The cat’s miaow
招财“喵”
英文部分选自经济学人20150702期讣告版块
Tama-chan
猫站长小玉
The cat’s miaow
招财“喵”
Tama, stationmaster of Kishi station and vice-president of the Wakayama Electric Railway, died on June 22nd, aged 16
贵志站站长及和歌山电力铁路公司副社长小玉于6月22日逝世，享年16岁
As soon as she was born, Tama-chan (“Little Treasure”) knew she was divine. Most cats presume it; she was sure of it. Her immediate situation—whelped by a stray in the workers’ waiting room at Kishi station, on a rural railway line in western Japan—did not augur brightly. But as soon as her eyes opened, she saw what she was. Rolling languorously on her back, she admired her white underside; delicately twisting her neck to wash, she noted the black and brown bars on her back. She was a tortoiseshell, or a calico cat to Americans. They had been four in the litter; only she carried the propitious marks.
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甫一出生，小玉（意为“小宝贝”）就知道自己是天选之子。大多数猫都会这样认为，但小玉却对此十分笃定。小玉并非踩着五彩祥云出生——她出生在日本西部乡间铁路线上的贵志站候车室，是流浪猫的后代——并不意味着什么好兆头。但是一睁眼，她就看清了自己的命运。她懒洋洋地仰躺着，欣赏自己的白肚皮；她灵巧地扭过头梳洗，注意到了自己背上黑色和棕色的色块。她是一只三色猫，也就是美国人所称的花斑猫。流浪猫一共产下四只小猫，只有小玉身上带有吉祥的图案。
Tortoiseshells had long been prized in Japan. In another age she would probably have been a temple cat, leading a contemplative life among maple and ginkgo trees, killing mice and, in exchange, earning the regard of monks and pilgrims. Tales were legion of poor priests or shopkeepers who had shared their few scraps with the likes of her and had, in return, found riches. Or she might have been a ship’s cat, since tortoiseshells had the power to keep away the ghosts of the drowned, whose invisible bodies filled the sea and whose flailing, imploring hands were the white crests of the waves. But Tama, being modern, preferred trains.
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三色猫一直受日本人的珍爱。在旧时，小玉可能会成为寺庙里的吉祥物，在枫树和银杏树间思考猫生，为寺庙除鼠患，也会因此赢得僧侣和朝圣者的尊敬。这句话留给大家啦~又或者，小玉会成为镇船吉祥物，因为三色猫拥有一种力量，可以驱赶溺亡者的幽灵。相传，大海里到处都是溺亡者的鬼魂，而白色浪尖便是他们挥舞求救的手。但小玉是只现代的小猫，她更喜欢火车。
In 21st-century Japan the mystic power of her breed was still invoked everywhere. Children wore tortoiseshell charms as amulets to keep them well. Nervous students cramming for exams put pictures of cats much like her on their bedroom walls. Most ubiquitous of all, the Maneki-neko, or beckoning cat (almost always a tortoiseshell), waved outside shops, restaurants and gambling parlours to draw customers in. These plastic cats stared rudely at one and all, where she appraised people with a green-eyed and sleepy gaze; their paws sawed up and down, where she made a virtue of curled immobility. In betting places they held up big gold coins to show they could bring good fortune. With a combination of punctuality, divinity and good manners, she achieved the same.
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在21世纪的日本，人们仍然处处信奉三色猫的神秘魔力。孩子们将三色猫饰物当作护身符佩戴，以保平安。紧张的考生们在突击备考时会将像小玉这样的三色猫的照片挂到卧室墙壁。而最常见的三色猫吉祥物就是招财猫，也叫招手猫（几乎都是三色猫），蹲在商店、餐馆和赌场门前招手，吸引顾客进店。这些塑料猫愣愣地盯着所有人，而小玉则用绿色的眼睛懒洋洋地打量着人群；塑料猫的爪子不停上下挥舞，而小玉则是蜷着身子一动不动。在赌场，这些猫举着大块金币，向人们显示它们能带来好运。而小玉依靠守时、神力和良好做派也同样为车站带来了好运。
She was trained young by her mother, Miiko, outside the grocer’s shop by Kishi station. They would laze there in the sun to bewitch passers-by into suddenly needing a bag of rice or a bottle of mirin, and in exchange the grocer, Toshiko Koyama, gave them food. The bargain seemed a good one; the grocer prospered. Tama, too, grew sleeker as she improved her powers.
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小玉从小就跟着母亲以子（Miiko）待在贵志站旁边的杂货店外。两只猫就懒洋洋趴着晒太阳，而行人们就会像着了魔一样，突然想要买一袋米或者一瓶甜酒。作为交换，店主小山敏子（Toshiko Koyama）就会给母女二猫喂食。双方合作默契；杂货店生意兴隆，而小玉的毛发也随着她的魔力增大而愈发鲜亮。
From there, it was only natural that she should save Kishi station. The little halt sat on a line, nine miles long and with 12 somnolent stops, between Wakayama City and Kishigawa. By 2006 it was losing 500m yen ($4m) a year. It should have been closed, but the customers said no; so it was sold to the Wakayama Electric Railway, which laid off the last man at Kishi to try to save some money. Mr Koyama became informal station-keeper, and the next year Tama was appointed stationmaster.
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从杂货店发迹，小玉拯救贵志站也是顺理成章。小站坐落在一条九英里长连接和歌山市和贵志川的铁路线上，全线十二个站点多少都有些冷清。到2006年，这条线路一年要损失5亿日元（400万美金）。原本要关停该站，但是旅客们不同意；于是这个站被卖给了和歌山电气铁路公司。为节约成本，公司解雇了最后一位在贵志站任职的员工。（杂货店店主）小山先生成了非正式的站台负责人，而次年，小玉被任命为站长。
A train with whiskers
长着胡子的火车
She kept strict hours: 9am to 5pm on weekdays, with only Sundays off. In exchange she was given a stationmaster’s cap in her own size, always worn at a jaunty starlet angle; a stationmaster’s badge; as much tinned tuna as she could nibble at; and eventually her own office, with basket and litter-tray, in an old ticket booth. The work was not demanding; if it had been, she would have disdained to take the job. But by snoozing most of the day on the ticket barrier, or rubbing against the legs of passengers as they arrived, she increased traffic on the branch line by 10% in her first year. People would travel just to be greeted by her smooth and lucky purr.
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小玉站长严格遵守工作时间：工作日朝九晚五，只有周天休息礼尚往来，她获得了一顶按照她的尺寸定制的站长帽，总是像明星那样俏皮地歪戴着；一枚站长徽章；还有金枪鱼罐头管够；最后还有了她自己的办公室，一间老的售票亭，里面放着一只猫窝和一个猫砂盘。工作并不繁重；否则她也就不愿做这份工作了。但是，即便成天在检票处打盹，不过是在等乘客们到站的时候去蹭蹭腿，上任第一年她就使得支线的客流量增加了10%。人们到这站来，只是为了听听她圆润又吉利的呜呜声。
As the years passed more and more people came to the station, and rode on the train, because of her. Tourists flocked from all over Japan. The president of the WER thought she had probably injected more than a billion yen into the local economy. In 2009 a special bewhiskered cat-train, the Tama-densha, began to run on the line, covered with cartoons of her and with her image all over the seats. The next year the station was rebuilt in the shape of her head, with dormer windows for her eyes, and a café opened up with her portrait iced on cupcakes. A shop offered Tama bags, notebooks, key-fobs and figurines.
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数年间，越来越多的人慕名前来乘车，只为在贵志站一睹小玉的猫颜。日本各地的游客蜂拥而至。和歌山电铁的社长估计，小玉约为当地创造了十亿多日元的收益。2009年，贵志川线正式运行猫咪主题列车“小玉专列”，车身内外及座位上均装饰有小玉的卡通形象。次年，贵志站按照小玉的模样改建，车站顶上的老虎天窗做成了小玉的猫眼样式。车站新开的咖啡厅也推出了装饰有小玉头像糖霜的纸杯蛋糕。游客还可在纪念品商店买到袋子、笔记本、钥匙扣、雕像等周边。
She took all this with equanimity. According to the Japanese principle of promotion by seniority, she rose effortlessly to super-stationmaster and honorary division chief. She was made an operating officer of the WER in recognition of her contribution to profits, the first female to be so honoured, and then became company vice-president. Each step was accompanied by gatherings of her devotees, presentations of certificates and extra stripes on her cap. Coolly tolerant, she allowed herself to be dressed in a velvet cloak with lace and white plumes, and to be hoisted in the air by jubilant WER executives.
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如此种种，小玉皆处之泰然。按照日本的年资晋升制，小玉轻而易举地当上了贵志站的超级站长以及和歌山电铁的名誉部长。此外，为表彰它在会社创收方面做出的贡献，会社还将小玉任命为运营官，会社的首位“女性”运营官，还在不久后担任了会社的副社长。小玉的升迁之路十分顺遂，每往上走一步便收获更多猫粉的拥护，每多得一份任职文书便给“乌纱帽”多添一道绶带。不过小玉总是气定神闲，非常配合，既身披蕾丝和白羽装饰的丝绒披风，也让喜气洋洋的会社高管将自己举高高。
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每次这种重要场合，应该都会举办这样的仪式，要猫咪小玉穿着华服，然后把它举起来庆祝，拍照发新闻进行公关。
At her funeral, attended by thousands at the station, the president of the railway company announced that she would be honoured as a goddess and buried in a Shinto shrine. Honour where honour was due. Meanwhile, her deputy Nitama (“Tama the Second”) assumed her duties at the station; and the Tama-densha ambled on down the line, joined now by the Toy Train and the Strawberry Train, as her worshippers in suits continued to follow the moneymaking path pointed out by the beckoning cat of Kishi, Tama the Divine.
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数千人齐聚贵志站，只为送小玉最后一程。葬礼上，会社社长表示要将小玉尊为神祇，长久供奉于神社。此番追谥，乃实至名归。而小玉的部下“二玉”也将承袭遗志，担任贵志站的新站长。如今，途径贵志川线的乘客不仅能继续搭乘“小玉专列”，还能尝试新开行的“玩具专列”和“草莓专列”。即便本猫已逝，贵志依旧沿着小玉指点的致富之路继续前进。贵志的招财猫小玉当真是一只神猫。
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Gretle，爱翻译，爱生活
Alex，不务正业的理工男
Mosy，绘本、演讲、戏剧英文教育践行者
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Luc，男，在北京，喜欢睡觉
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感想一
奥莉，梦想讲相声的中二病患者，猫是本体。
要说爱猫人士哪里最多，日本第一当之无愧，第二就是英国。所以这次英国人为日本猫专门发出一期讣告，一点也不令人意外。
猫咪可以说是日本的国民宠物，曾经大热的“猫咪后院”游戏，里面有一只猫就是以小玉为原型，身穿站长制服坐在火车里，最喜欢的玩具是纸板火车，是一只不常来做客的稀有猫咪。日本人对猫咪的喜爱从他们拍了多少有关猫的电影就能看出来。其中两部最为人熟知的要数《猫咪物语》和《猫的报恩》了，《猫咪物语》里真实的故事让人感到温暖和治愈，里面有在店门口和小玉一样睡觉招揽顾客的“招财猫”，有在农场里和奶牛一起生活的猫，也有遭到遗弃重新寻到温暖的猫，还有坚强生活的三脚猫。
对于猫这种神奇的物种，我是见到就立刻喜欢上了。从小学到现在，我的生活里几乎没离开过猫，猫带给我的温暖比我给他们的要多得多。不爱猫的人可能觉得爱猫人士很疯狂，但是爱上猫的人就知道猫有多可爱！所谓“猫奴”不过是对猫咪喜爱得无法自拔的一群人。许多人对猫可能存在误解，要么以为是很可怕的生物，因为猫咪有着锋利的爪子，要么以为是很软萌的动物，会很粘人任你撸。其实每只猫咪都有着独特的个性，要经过长时间的相处才会了解。
我有三只猫，都是白猫，朋友们都说是复制粘贴来的。其实仔细观察区别还是挺大的，尤其是猫咪的眼睛，每只猫眼睛里都藏着一个宇宙，在我家可以看到三个宇宙了。我只养过田园猫，也就是土猫，虽然品种猫颜值很高，但是流浪猫大多数都是田园猫，支持领养代替购买，田园猫养得好颜值也超高的，扯远了~~
其实田园猫是最早进入人类生活的猫咪品种，所以田园猫是最通人性的一种猫，和主人能有很好的交流。虽然每只猫咪的个性都不一样，但可以肯定的是，如果从小养大，猫咪的个性和主人的相处模式有着很大的关系。据我观察，越得到主人关爱和陪伴的猫咪，性格会越好哦~
现在我能骄傲地说，我家猫一叫我就知道他想干嘛，带拐弯的音通常是在撒娇，拖得老长的叫声是在要吃的，嗷呜嗷呜的叫声是兴奋，声音很高的叫声是叫你起床或者要进房间。事实上，猫咪只对人类喵喵喵和呼噜呼噜，这是猫咪俘虏人类的“小手段”。猫咪之间的交流根本不通过喵喵叫，只在有威胁时发出哈气声，或者打架的时候尖叫，很有趣。
猫咪真的是太有趣的生物，而且他们慵懒的生活方式让人羡慕。平时压力这么大，工作这么忙，看着只要睡睡觉、呼噜呼噜就能得到喜爱的猫咪解压不少。猫咪呼噜的频率能让人放松，让人的心跳也渐渐平静下来。这也是为什么养猫对于抑郁症患者有着很好的治愈作用吧。
说到猫真的会停不下来，猫虽然不会像狗狗一样听你的命令，但的确好像以更平等的方式跟你相处。他们永远都有自己的个性，想干的事情呢是一定要做，被骂了下次也一定会再犯的。但是只要听见你回家的声音，永远都会马上到门口迎接，一开门，几只毛茸茸的脑袋立刻伸出来。你一进门马上就围着你蹭你的腿，闻你身上的气味，想借此知道你今天都干嘛了。你在忙活的时候会默默的陪着你，冬天在你身上陪你，夏天在地上陪你。还有时候神经兮兮的，精神高度集中不知道在观察或者思考什么，这时候你要上去轻拍一下他，他能以光速飞出去，你就笑的前仰后合。
养猫的乐趣就在这些地方吧，当然很可惜我们的城市生活限制了猫咪的活动范围。要是看过BBC的纪录片《猫咪的秘密生活》就会知道，猫咪自由活动范围甚至能达到十几公里，他们会自己出去遛弯再回到家里。不过环境不同，为了猫咪的安全，家养似乎也算得上一种不错的选择了。
猫生短暂，我们注定要目送他们离开，但这也意味着他们用了他们的一生来陪伴我们。小玉一生陪伴了那么多人，还吃了那么多金枪鱼罐头，可谓猫生满足了~想到这些也就不那么难过了。自称猫咪是本体的我，墓志铭也都想好了。
“我去喵星了，想我了就给我发信号哦。”
再配上一只猫舔屁屁的图，此为发信号的正确姿势。
感想二
Claire，进进退退，摇摇摆摆，探索世界ing
万物有灵
读到这篇文章时，我最先想到的是每天在校园里看到的猫猫狗狗。它们似乎无处不在: 宿舍楼下，食堂门口，图书馆附近，教学楼前，草丛里不知何时会冒出一只，车棚里的车座上也常有它们的印迹，骑车去上课时总见它们如老友般在路边漫步，打个招呼又各奔前路。来到这里已有一年多，新的生活中常有某些事物如洪水般向我涌来，而这些小生灵们成了为数不多，像一支锚一样能让我抓住，保持平静和定力的存在。我不擅长语言表达，不擅长书写，所以常常羡慕普鲁斯特式的人，能把生命中最细微的事物、最幽微的感觉如数记录。总希望等我站在未来回头看时，这些生灵和它们给我的感觉能依然鲜活。说到这里，我很想向大家推荐英国作家吉米·哈利的“万物”系列，包括《万物既伟大又渺小》（All Things Great and Small）、《万物有灵且美》（All Things Bright and Beautiful）等。在乡间做兽医的哈利记录了各种充满灵气、奇妙有趣的动物：拒绝打针的小牛，疯狂追车的狗狗，策划暴动的老猫……哈利平实又有趣的叙述下是对生命的敬畏和赞叹，对生活的满腔热情，每个相信万物有灵的人都定能从中收获欢乐与感动。
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