听人家背地里谈论，孔乙己原来也读过书，但终于没有进学，又不会营生：于是愈过愈穷．弄到将要讨饭了。幸而写得一笔好宇．便替人家抄抄书，换一碗饭吃。可惜他又有一样

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问题听人家背地里谈论，孔乙己原来也读过书，但终于没有进学，又不会营生：于是愈过愈穷．弄到将要讨饭了。幸而写得一笔好宇．便替人家抄抄书，换一碗饭吃。可惜他又有一样坏脾气，便是好喝懒做。坐不到几天．便连人和书籍纸张笔砚，一齐失踪。如是几次，叫他抄书的人也没有了。孔乙己没有法，便免不了偶然做些偷窃的事。但他在我们店里，品行却比别人都好，就是从不拖欠，虽然间或没有现钱，暂时记在粉板上，但不出一月，定然还清，从粉板上拭去了孔乙己的名字。

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答案 From the gossip that I heard, it seemed that Kong Yiji had studied the classics but never passed the official examinations and, not knowing any way to make a living, he had grown steadily poorer until he was almost reduced to beggary. Luckily he was a good calligrapher and could find enough copying work to fill his rice-bowl. But unfortunately he had his fallings too: laziness and a love of tippling. So after working for a few days he would disappear, taking with him books, paper, brushes, and inkstone. And after this had happpened several times, people stopped employing him as a copyist. Then all he could do was resort to occasional pilfering.

解析此处“谈论”其实是指人们的闲言碎语，故译为gossip较贴切。
  这里“进学”不是指学业上有进步，而是指科举时代童生应岁试、科试而取中入县学成了秀才，即考取了功名，故译作pass the official examination。
  翻译时补充主语He，以满足英语句子的形式构架。
  用包含头韵的laziness and a love of tippling译汉语四字结构“好喝懒做”，是以音韵形式弥补结构形式在翻译中的缺失。其中，tippling又与前面failings构成尾韵，形成内容上的回环。
  “书籍纸张笔砚”亦即常说的“文房四宝”，可以翻译为 "the four treasures of the study(writing brash，inkstick, inkstone and paper)”。
  “没有法”、“免不了”都可找到直译，但未必就是佳译和妙译。这里用all he could do将两种意思都合于其中。

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