经典翻译欣赏（二）段落41. He had always liked this mosque. It was gracious, and the arrangement pleased him. The courtyardentered through a ruined gatecontained an ablution tank of fresh clear water, which was always in motion, being indeed part of a conduit that supplied the city（E. M. Forster: A Passage to India)译文：他一向喜欢这所清真寺。这寺院很清幽，他喜欢里面的布局。院门已经朽坏。进得门来是一个院落，院落里有一个斋戒沐浴池，一池清澈的活水，不断地流动。实际上，这是城里水流过的一段沟渠。（石幼珊译） 赏析：译者对原文第三句结构上的处理，最让人欣赏。译者先将a ruined gate译成一个小句置前，然后以进得门来引入下文，嗣后的小句，都从其前面小句的最后一个词生发开来，而顾及到being in
