"看"的各種各樣的翻譯方法

朱自清（Zhu Ziqing）的《背影》（The Sight of Father’s Back）

原文：我看那邊月臺的柵欄外有幾個賣東西的等着顧客。走到那邊月臺，須穿過鐵道，須跳下去又爬上去。父親是一個胖子，走過去自然要費些事。我本來要去的，他不肯，只好讓他去。

譯文：I caught sight of several vendors waiting for customers outside the railings beyond a platform. But to reach that platform would require crossing the railway track and doing some climbing up and down. That would be a strenuous job for father, who was fat. I wanted to do all that myself, but he stopped me, so I could do nothing but let him go.

張培基先生在這裏沒有用普通的see，watch，look，而是用了catch sight of（看到，瞥見）。用sight來表達“看見”的詞組常用的有以下幾種：
* at first sight 乍一看，一見之下；立即
At first sight the difficulty looks greater than it really is.
乍看起來困難較大，但實際上並非如此。

* at（或on，upon）sight 一見（就）
The guard had orders to shoot on sight.
哨兵奉命見對象就開槍。

* catch sight of 看到，發現；意識到
catch sight of oneself in the mirror 在鏡中看到自己

* in（或within）sight 看得見，被見到
No vehicle is in sight.
車子一輛也看不見。

* in sight of 在看得到……的地方；到看得見……的程度
We came in sight of the shore at midday.
中午時分，我們見到了海岸。

* lose sight of 不再看見
We lost sight of the boat in the fog.
霧中，我們再也看不到那條小船。

原文：他和我走到車上，將橘子一股腦兒放在我的皮大衣上。於是撲撲衣上的泥土，心裏很輕鬆似的，過一會說，“我走了；到那邊來信！”我望着他走出去。

譯文：After boarding the train with me, he laid all the tangerines on my overcoat, and patting the dirt off his clothes, he looked somewhat relieved and said after a while, “I must be going now. Don’t forget to write me from Beijing!” I gazed after his back retreating out of the carriage.

“我望着他”譯爲I gazed after his back“看着他的背影”。總結一組近義詞吧~
Look; gaze; glance; glare; ogle; peep; scan; stare

* look 看；注視
Look at this painting!
看這幅畫！

* gaze （長時間）凝視，注視（具有吸引力的人或物）
We gazed at the majesty of the mountains.
我們凝望着雄偉的山脈。

* glance 掃視；瞥見；匆匆一看
I glanced back over my shoulder to make sure that no one was following me.
我朝背後瞥了一眼，以確信沒有人在跟蹤我。

* glare 怒目而視
John glared at me when I mentioned his wife.
我提到他妻子時，約翰憤怒地瞪着我。

* ogle 送秋波，拋媚眼；色迷迷地看
She is fed up with being ogled by strange men.
她極其厭煩被陌生男人色迷迷地盯着看。

* peep 快速地看；瞥見
She peeped at him through her fringe.
她透過額發瞥了他一眼。

* scan 瀏覽；掃視；審視（有時可與glance互換使用）
She was anxiously scanning the newspaper to see if her name was mentioned.
她急切地瀏覽着報紙，看自己的名字有沒有被提到。

* stare （長時間地，有時指無禮地）盯着看，注視
He could not help staring at her.
他忍不住盯着她看。