Question

英语高手们，谁能帮我翻译一下雪莱的这句话啊~~~

"It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible, that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as to seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet.?"

用翻译工具的译句就不要发上来了，谢谢咯~~

Answer 1

诗是不能翻译的，译诗是徒劳的，这“犹如把一朵紫罗兰投入坩埚，企图由此探索它的色泽和香味的构造原理”
这句话是我们翻译书的卷首语呢！

Answer 2

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as to seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet.
把紫罗兰投进坩埚，以便有可能发现其颜色和气味的正式本原，此举之明智，堪比寻求把诗人的创作从一种语言输入到另一种语言。

提醒——
句子的正常结构是：To cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor were as wise as to seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet.

Answer 3

企图把诗人的创作从一种语言搬移到另一种语言,就好比把一朵紫罗兰投入坩埚,来化验出它的颜色和香味的数据.