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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / Common Usage | | English term or phrase: fun and mystifying thing | The fun and mystifying thing is that my thankfulness to both groups melds: rarely a day goes by when I do not apply what I learned from mechanics, photographers, electricians, journalists, chemists, and carpenters, as well as all the stuff that translators, lexicographers, philosophers, linguists, publishers, and grammarians have taught me.
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19 mins confidence:   既有趣而又令人难解的（事）
Explanation:
既觉得很有意思、又在不知不觉中发生，至于为什么，还真说不清楚。
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Asker: 这句话不好解的是，fun是从名词转为形容词使用，而mystifying是从动词现在分词转为形容使用的，两者的原本词性差异很大。我想，重点是在is that之后所说的my thankfulness to both groups melds。有些翻译者没有专业的实务经验，所以倾向于信赖后者那个group；有些翻译者原本就是专业出身的，所以倾向于信赖前者那个group；各自感激的对象往往依据翻译者本身的素养而不同。这位翻译者作者说的却是，他对属于两个不同groups的人士的感激已经融为一体，分不清谁对他的帮助更大。那么，把这fun and mystifying thing翻译成“既有趣又令人迷惑的事情”应该是正确的。谢谢！
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