4、 comes the hour, comes the woman是什么意思？
"It was a time when the economy was a really big story, all hell was breaking loose — repossessions, unemployment, every day we had to write features news stories and do our columns," he said. "She introduced herself saying she wanted to get into journalism. I thought 'comes the hour, comes the woman' and I hired her."
原譯：他說：“當(dāng)時，經(jīng)濟確實是大新聞，都亂了套了，重新占有啦，失業(yè)啦，每天我們都得寫新聞特寫和專欄。她自我介紹說，她想搞新聞。我想，‘時候一到，女人就來’，這樣，我雇用了她。”
改譯：他說：“當(dāng)時，經(jīng)濟確實是重頭新聞，到處亂哄哄的，回復(fù)產(chǎn)權(quán)啦，失業(yè)啦，每天我們都得寫新聞特寫和專欄。她自我介紹說，她想搞新聞。我想，‘她來的正是時候’，這樣，我就雇用她了。”
點評：
1、(all)hell breaks (或is broken, 或is let)loose意為“大亂起來，鬧翻天”。
2、 repossessions譯“重新占有”不明確，應(yīng)改為“恢復(fù)產(chǎn)權(quán)”。
3、comes the hours, comes the woman，還有另一種說法，comes the hour,comes the man,意思都一樣，在這里可譯為“來的正是時候”。
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