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《外婆说她很抱歉》这部小说是由瑞典受欢迎小说家弗雷德里克·贝克曼创作的。在这部小说中，作者以7岁小女孩的视角描述了外婆和她七岁外甥女之间那暖人心房却又荒诞离奇的故事。外婆很疯狂并在生活中会做任何事来保护和引导埃尔莎。7岁的埃尔莎是一个聪明的小女孩，她给人一种与同龄人“不同”的感觉。她最好也是唯一的一个朋友就是外婆。  

   这次翻译实践选择了小说的三个章节，分别是啤酒，百合花和清洁剂。这三个章节通过不同场景的描写传递出外婆和埃尔莎之间深厚的感情。在第四章中，外婆总是喜欢寻宝，因此她总是让埃尔莎完成任务和保护城堡。外婆告诉她，在觉醒之国和在梦乡，每个人都是与众不同的并且没有人需要跟别人一样。在第五章中， 当埃尔莎的外婆去世，留下了一封封表达歉意的信，她通过描述自己想象的世界，来表达自己的内心想法。在第六章中，因为埃尔莎表现不好，所以埃尔莎的妈妈被叫去学校。怀孕的妈妈总是忽略一些关于埃尔莎的事情，她的父母离婚了。她们住在新组合的家庭里。她的母亲再次怀孕有了哈非。埃尔莎感受到了来自这个新生儿的威胁并且同时也失去了爸爸的关爱。

  关键词：关系  使命  想象

INTRODUCTION

The novel My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is written by Fredrik Backman who is a celebrated Swedish male writer. From the perspective of 7-year-old girl, in this novel, the writer talks about a heartwarming quirky tale that begins with the relationship between a grandmother and her 7 -year -old granddaughter. Granny is crazy and will do anything to protect and guide Elsa through life. The 7–year- old Elsa is a smart little girl who comes across as “different” from her peers. Her best and only friend is her grandmother. 

This translation practice focuses on three chapters, namely “Beer”, “Lilies”, and “Cleaning agents”. The three chapters offer various scenes which transmit the profound relationship between Elsa and grandmother. In the fourth chapter，Grandmother has always loved treasure hunts., so she always lets Elsa to complete the mission and protect the castle. Grandmother tells her in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. In the fifth chapter, when Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, through portraying imagination world, which actually expresses the inner world. In the sixth chapter, Elsa’s mother is summoned to school because Elsa misbehaves again. This pregnant mother always ignores some of Elsa's things, Her parents have got divorced. They live in new blended families. Her mother has been pregnant again with Halfie . Elsa feels threatened by the new baby, and lost in her dad's new life.

  Key Words: relationship; mission; imagination