内容简介

小说《最漫长的旅程》是由美国著名畅销小说家尼古拉斯·斯帕克斯于2013年出版的一本现代爱情小说。该小说讲述了大学生索菲娅和牛仔卢克在一次牛仔比赛中偶然相遇，两人一见倾心，并迅速坠入爱河。然而，家庭背景、生活环境有着极大差异的两人，在未来和理想方面都产生了许多冲突，两人的爱情也充满了艰难和挑战。在一次意外中，他们救了遭遇车祸、身受重伤的老人艾拉，并得知了艾拉与他已故妻子露丝之间不受战争影响的动人爱情故事。艾拉与妻子的爱情深深地鼓舞着卢克和索菲娅，使他们跨越重重的阻碍，共同走向美好的未来。

本次翻译实践节选了小说《最漫长的旅程》中的第四、第五两个章节，分别翻译了两对恋人相见到相识的初始故事，为读者进一步了解原作者对于美好爱情的诠释打下了基础。

第四章以索菲娅的视角进行叙述，讲述了在一次牛仔竞技比赛后的派对上，索菲娅偶遇卢克，并在其帮助下避开了前男友的纠缠，两人一见倾心。之后，两人同游牧场，并在卢克的卡车上进行了深入的交谈，卢克的帅气和沉稳深深地吸引了索菲娅。分开前，两人都对对方产生了好感，并约定第二天去卢克家的牧场参观、骑马。

第五章则从艾拉的角度，描述了他在遭遇车祸、昏昏沉沉之际，似乎看见了逝去多年的妻子露丝。露丝温柔地安慰他，鼓励他坚持下去，一如多年前。两人一起回忆了从相识到相爱，再到求婚的点点滴滴，即便是在遭遇战争，艾拉不得不入伍的情况下，露丝也不曾放弃过两人之间的爱情。

INTRODUCTION

The Longest Ride is a love story, published by famous American novelist Nicolas Sparks in 2013. It tells that the university student Sophia and the cowboy Luke met by chance after a cowboy competition, and then they fell in love with each other at first sight. However, their different family background and living environment had caused many conflicts on their future and their own dream. Therefore, their love is also full of difficulties and challenges. In an accident, Sophia and Luke saved a seriously injured man, Ira, and unintentionally heard about the love story between Ira and his deceased wife Ruth. The fetching story which had never been influenced by the war  deeply inspired Luke and Sophia to break all obstacles, and have a happy life.

This translation practice extracts the chapter four and chapter five of the novel The Longest Ride to respectively translate the beginning stories of the two couples, enabling readers to further understand the original author’ s interpretation of beautiful love.

From the view of Sophia, the chapter four tells the story that Sophia and Luke met by chance in a party after a cowboy competition. With the help of Luke, Sophia kept away from the entanglement by her ex-boyfriend. Later, they went around the pasture and had a conversation in Luke’s truck. In the end of the encounter, they were all attracted to each other, and decided to make an appointment the next day in Luke’s farm.

The chapter five describes from Ira’s angle of view that he seemed to catch sight of his deceased wife Ruth when he was dizzy and sleepy after the car accident. Ruth comforted him gently, and encouraged him to persevere in life, just like many years ago. They looked back upon dribs and drabs from their acquaintance to their marriage. Even though in the face of war, and Ira had to join the army, Ruth had never gave up their love.