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이 책은 영어책만 가지고 있고, 번역본은 없는데, 번역본 미리보기를 몇 장 보고 좀 갸우뚱해져서, 미리보기에 있는 몇 페이지와 원문을 비교해 보게 되었네요. 책제목은 잊었는데, 어느 번역가가 번역과 번역가에 대한 책 번역후기에, '번역된 책에서 오역을 찾아내서 지적하는 것보다 쉬운 일은 없다'라고 하셨더군요. 맞는 말씀 같은데, 그래도 너무 쉽다면 좀 문제가 있지 않을까 싶네요. '가장 추운 겨울'도 아니고 '콜디스트 윈터'라고 지나치게 충실하게 원제를 살린 것에 비한다면 번역은 좀. 파트 1의 제목 'a Warning at Unsan'이 '운산에서 얻은 교훈'으로 번역되어 있는데, 당연히 '운산에서의 경고'가 맞겠죠. It was the warning shot the American commander in the Far East, Douglas MacArthur, did not heed, the one that allowed a smaller war to become a larger war. Just to make sure everyone knew that of all American units in country, the Cav got there first, some troopers, armed with paint and brushes, painted the Cav logo all over town. They could not have been closer as friends, having been through so much together. In Pyongyang Lieutenant Mayo had managed to procure a bottle of russian bubbly from a large store of booze liberated from the Russian embassy, ... ...반합에 나누어 마셨다. 다음 문장 Vile, but good, they decided.는 번역에서 누락. In his own mind Richardson was the old guy in his unit.. He often thought of the men he had started out with three months earlier, a period that seemed... 리처드슨은 월쉬를 불러 격려하고 자축했다. ...not quite beliving their good luck. ...to save some South Korean outfit that was getting kicked around. Still, the word was out:there was going to be a victory parade in Tokyo, and the Cav, because it had fought so well for so long in the Korean campaign, and because it was a favorite of Douglas MacArthur's, the overall commander, was going to lead it. They wre supposed to have their yellow cavalry sccarves back for the parade, and the word coming down was that they better be prepared to look parde-ground sharp, not battlefield grizzled:You couln't, after all, march down the Ginza in filthy uniforms and filthy helmets. The men of the Cav were planning to strut a bit when they passed MacArthur's headquarters in the Dai Ichi Building. They deserved to strut a bit. 그럼에도 불구하고, 한국전에서 오랜 기간 매우 잘 싸웠으며 총사령관 맥아더가 가장 선호하는 제1기병사단이 선도를 맡게 되는 승전 퍼레이드가 도쿄에서 있을 것이라는 말이 나왔다. 그들은 퍼레이드를 위해 노란색 기병대 스카프를 다시 지급받게 될 것이며, 병사들은 전장의 회색빛 모습이 아니라 퍼레이드 장소에 걸맞게 깔끔한 모습으로 보이도록 준비하는게 나을 거라는 말이 나왔다. 어쨌든 더러운 군복과 더러운 헬멧을 쓴 채 긴자 거리를 행진할 수는 없는 일이니까. 기병사단의 병사들은 그들이 맥아더의 본부가 있는 다이이치 빌딩을 지나갈 때 조금 으스대며 걸으리라 계획했다. 그들은 조금 으스대며 걸을만한 자격이 있었다. Betting pools were set up on when they would ship out. Boyd, who had graduated West Point only four years before, wanted this command badly, but he was made nervous by its recent history. “Lieutenant, do you know who you are in terms of this platoon?” one of the senior officers had asked. No, Boyd answered. “Well, Lieutenant, just so you don’t get too cocky, you’re the thirteenth platoon leader this unit has had since it’s been in Korea.” Boyd suddenly decided he didn’t feel cocky at all. 불과 4년전에 육사를 졸업했던 보이드는 이 명령을 간절히 원했었지만, 최근의 소대 역사를 듣게 되자 그는 불안해졌다. "중위, 자네가 이 소대에서 어떤 위치에 있는지 아나?”그의 상관중 한명이 물었다. 아뇨, 보이드는 대답했다. “음, 중위, 자네가 너무 자신만만해하지 않도록 하는 말인데, 자네는 이 소대가 한국에 온 이래 13번째 소대장이다.” 보이드는 갑자기 전혀 자신만만하게 느껴지지 않게 되었다. Should they take the ones they would wear on parde in Tokyo, or winter clothes? Many of them knew a little about the big meeting just two weeks earlier on Wake Island, ...... He obviously intended to go all the way to the Yalu, to China's border, brushing aside the step-by-step limits Washing thouht it had imposed but was afraid of really imposing. A prohibition issued by the Joint Chiefs themselves against sending American troops to any province bordering China seemed not to slow MacArthur down at all. His confidence about what the vast Chinese armies everyone knew were poised just beyond the Yalu River would or would not do was far greater than that of top officials for the Truman administration. Later some of the senior people in Washington would look at the moment when the UN troops reached Pyongyang and before they went on to Unsan as the last chance to keep the war from escalating into something larger, a war with china. (..considered...the best of the Korean commanders) Milburn immeadiately reported the new intelligence to Eight Army headquarters. From there, it was sent to Brigadier General Charles Willoughby, Douglas MacArthur's key intelligence chief, a man dedicated to the proposition that there were no Chinese in Korea, and that they were not going to come in, at least not in numbers large enough to matter. That was what his commander belived, and MacArthur's was the kind of headquarters where the G-2's job was first and foremost to prove that the commander was always right. The drive north to Yalu, involving a limited number of Americans, South Korean, and other UN troops spread far too thinly over a vast expanse of mountain range, was premised on the idea of Chinese abstinence. If MacArthurs's headquarters suddenly started reporting contact with... 밀번은 즉각 제8군 사령부에 새로운 정보를 보고했다. 제8군 사령부로부터 정보는 맥아더의 핵심 정보참모였던 찰스 윌로비 준장에게 전달되었는데, 윌로비는 중공군은 한국 내에 없으며, 중공군은 개입하지 않을 것이며 최악의 경우 개입하더라도 문제가 될만한 규모는 아닐 것이라는 생각에 몰두해 있었다. 그 생각이 그의 지휘관이 믿는 것이었으며, 맥아더의 사령부에서 정보장교의 임무는 무엇보다도 먼저 지휘관이 언제나 옳다는 사실을 증명해야만 하는 것이었다. 제한된 숫자의 미군, 한국군, 유엔군이 광대한 산맥에 거쳐 아주 드문드문하게 펼쳐진 상태로 압록강으로 향하는 북진은 중공군의 자제를 전제로 한 것이었다. 만약 맥아더 사령부에서 별안간 중공군과....
The entire First ROK Division might be trapped. One of the offices asked where they were going. Keiser answered that he couldn't tell them, but it would be a place they like. The speculation began:Tokyo, Hawai, perhaps States, or even some base in Europe. He had never understood why the brass had thought the ROKs could lead the way north in the first place. Because Miller's regiment had been in so many battles for so long, the green troops of July and August had, through attrition, been replaced by the green troops of October. ...vowed keep an eye on each other. "We were damn near annihilated that very first night," Miller said. In World War II, you always knew what your objective was and who was fighting on your left and right. In Korea, you were always fighting blind and were never sure of your flanks, because, likely as not, the ROKs were there. 번역에서 가장 불만스러웠던 것은, North Koreans는 '인민군'으로, ROKs는 '남한군'으로 거의 일관되게 번역되고 있다는 점이네요( 한편 Chinese army는 '인민해방군'이 아니라 '중공군'으로 번역). 고유명사를 존중하려 했다면 '인민군'에 어울리게 '국군'으로, 객관성을 중시했다면 '남한군'에 걸맞게 '북한군'으로 했어야 하지 않을까 싶네요.
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