吧主的坚持和奉献让人肃然起敬

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又过来看看，桂猪兄坚持啊

新来乍到，请元老们谅解和关照。
我喜欢瓦尔特指挥的作品已多年。才发现这个园地，是我眼拙。
楼主的奉献，令人感动。感动之余，不敢藏私，唯有真言。
瓦尔特指挥的作品，风格流畅，极具19－20世纪之交古典音乐的韵律和美感。或许可以说，他是伟大的古典浪漫情怀的稀缺遗存。
上面瓦尔特《主题与变奏》一段文字的誃译，确实是意译。惜不大流畅，有些不合瓦尔特音乐风格，似乎可以译得更加晓畅和通透些。
楼主＝（？）译者，可否将原文帖上来欣赏，朋友们疑义相与析？先行谢过！


英译本如下：
While thus my outward Lebensraum expanded, I was vouchsafed
the good fortune to discover new land in my very own domain,
yes, in my own soul: I found Bruckner. Strange, that I had
to grow almost fifty years before recognizing a genius who, at
about the same age, had begun to create his great works. He wrote
his Mass in F-minor when he was forty-four and the Third, which
marks the beginning of his important symphonies, at the age of
forty-nine. I had known Bruckner's works for many years without
really coming close to them. I expended a good deal of zealous effort
on occasional performances of his symphonies in Munich,
Berlin, and Vienna. But with all my love of his themes, with all
my admiration of the wealth and sublimity of his inspiration, I had
felt "outside." His form had been unintelligible to me; I had considered
it out of proportion, exaggerated, and primitive. The emotional
substance of his music had stirred me by its soulful force
and depth and delighted me by its occasional Austrian charm, but
I had not been able to feel at home on his soil. To move without
restraint within the monumental edifice of Bruckner's work had
seemed to be denied me. All at once, a change came over me. The
increased maturity and deeper tranquillity gained during my illness
may have had sdmething to do with it. For Bruckner, though
he is a pure musician and though his symphonies, having their origin
in elemental musical sources, are so far removed from thought
associations, yet demands a certain fundamental spiritual frame
of mind before he can be understood and loved. The Gothicism
of the Cologne Cathedral had remained unfathomable to me;
that of Bruckner's symphonies for a kind of musical Gothicism
is here involved was now revealed to me. I recognized in the
melodic substance, in the towering climaxes, and in the emotional
world of his symphonies the great soul of their creator, pious and
childlike. This stirring recognition, in turn, made me comprehend
effortlessly the substance and form of his music. I can hardly express
in words the importance Bruckner's work has since gained
in my life, to what degree my admiration for the beauty and symphonic
power of his music has increased, what ever more richly
flowing source of exaltation it has grown to be.

桂猪阁下：
我的冒昧提问，引来你实在而谦逊的惠复，谢谢了！
看您贴的英文原文，知您翻译的不易——原文夹杂了德文词，行文似乎也不像是英美语系人所为，有些佶屈聱牙，富于抽象哲思，确实难译为汉语。
不怕献丑，我试译两句，抛砖引玉，请直言批评。
原文：
While thus my outward Lebensraum expanded, I was vouchsafed
the good fortune to discover new land in my very own domain,
yes, in my own soul: I found Bruckner. Strange, that I had
to grow almost fifty years before recognizing a genius who, at
about the same age, had begun to create his great works.
桂译：
其间于是我的外部生存空间（Lebensraum）拓展了，我有幸就在我自身领域内发现了新大陆，是的，就在我自身灵魂中：我找到了布鲁克纳。神奇的是，在我认可一位天才之前我得成长差不多50年，而他开始创造他的伟大作品差不多在相同年纪。
拙译：
于是，我（精神）的生活空间向外拓展了，我获赐良机，于私己界域发现了一片新地。是的，在我灵魂中，我找到了布鲁克纳。出乎意料，差不多在我长到五十岁以后，我才体认到一位天才，他在同样年纪就开始创造其伟大作品了。
注：
outward Lebensraum，直译为外部生存空间，不错。但在此处，不能如是。因为，一是，可能与德国纳粹的拓展外部空间混同，而瓦尔特恰是德裔美籍指挥，必须要考虑此区别；二是，在这里的语境下，直译不合其本意：瓦尔特的精神生活空间有待扩展，他的生存空间并没有受到压迫。
new land，在此译为“新大陆”不妥，因为 New world 被音乐界约定俗成地译为了新大陆。
其他词句的誃译，类似，要考虑上下文和音乐性、历史性、汉语节奏和顺畅性。
待砖！