本帖最后由 橄榄Chan 于 2022-11-25 09:57 编辑

Did you know that the cornflower is the most beautiful of Minecraft’s many flowers? Well, sure, it's my highly personal opinion, but it’s true! Its bright petals lift the spirits of even the weariest villager, while its deep blue dye is fit for royalty. It even puts a spring in your step when stewed. That, dear reader, is why I... I mean we ... are crowning it today as our item of the month.
我跟你说，矢车菊在 Minecraft 的众多花卉中可是首屈一指的娇艳。呃，当然这只是我个人的一点小看法，不过我可不是张口就来！看见它亮色的花瓣，即便是最劳倦的村民也会精神焕发；它所制成的深蓝色染料，彰显贵族气质；把它炖着吃，还能助你跳得更高。为此，我⋯⋯哦不，我们，决定捧它为我们的本月物品。

Cornflowers have not always been a part of Minecraft’s rich collection of flowers – it wasn’t until the Village & Pillage Update, in April 2019, that these beautiful blooms arrived in the Overworld – alongside lilies of the valley and wither roses.
矢车菊并不是一开始就存在于 Minecraft 那些品类繁多的花里面，到了 2019 年 4 月发布的《村庄与掠夺》更新，这种艳丽的花朵才扎根主世界，与它同道的还有铃兰和凋灵玫瑰。

To find cornflowers, you’ll want to seek out plains biomes. If you’ve got a flower forest biome nearby, which contains many different flowers of all kinds, you’ll find it there too. But cornflowers generally like wide open spaces and so they’re easy to find in the plains. You’ll also find them in mountain meadows.
如果想找矢车菊，可以到平原群系上走走；如果身边有百花齐放的繁花森林群系，也可以到那里去看看。不过矢车菊通常喜欢开阔的空间，所以在平原上会更容易找到，此外也可以在草甸中找到。

Once you find one, you can grab it by hitting it with any item or even your hand. But if you like to do things the complicated way, you could also push a block over the flower with a piston. Once you’ve got one, we recommend putting it in a flowerpot and admiring it. But if you must, then you can easily convert it to blue dye in a crafting grid, or stir it into a suspicious stew for a jump boost.
找到矢车菊后，可以使用任意物品甚至空手击打，来把它摘下。要是你喜欢把问题复杂化，可以试试用活塞把方块推到花上面。摘到花后，我们建议把它栽到花盆里欣赏。如果有需要，也可以把它放入合成网格，轻松制成蓝色染料；或者是煮成迷之炖菜，吃了就能获得跳跃提升效果。

In the real world, cornflowers got their name because they used to be a common weed in crop fields. They’re native to Europe, but while they can now be found distributed quite widely across the world, they’re actually endangered in their native habitat by the mass use of weedkillers on European farms.
在现实世界中，矢车菊的英文 cornflower 得名于“玉米（corn）地里常见的杂草”。矢车菊原产于欧洲，虽然现在发现其已经广泛分布于世界各地，但原产地的矢车菊却正遭受欧洲农场大量使用杀虫剂所带来的威胁。

Cornflower petals are actually edible, though they don’t have a lot of nutritional value or flavor. When they’re added to food, it’s mainly to bring their beautiful blue colour. They’re also used to dye some food products, and show potential for cleaning up contaminated soil.
矢车菊其实是可以吃的，虽然没太多营养，也没什么味道。往食物里加入矢车菊主要是图它那抹漂亮的蓝色。此外它还可用于食物上色，同时也显现出了净化受污染土壤的潜力。

Cornflowers also appear widely in folklore – worn by young men in love. If the flower quickly faded, it showed that the man’s love wasn’t returned. It’s also used as a political emblem in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia.
矢车菊也常出现在民间故事中。恋爱时的男子会佩戴矢车菊，如果花瓣很快就凋谢，则预示那男人付出的爱不会换来回报。矢车菊在德国、奥地利、瑞典、芬兰、爱沙尼亚也被用作黨的标志。

In Minecraft, though, it’s just a pretty flower. So gather as many as you like, and decorate your home with their bright blue blessings.
不过说了这么多，矢车菊在 Minecraft 中也只是一朵漂亮的花，所以放手去收集，用它们的亮蓝庇佑来装点你的家吧。




【橄榄Chan（aka Olvcpr423）译自官网 2022 年 11 月 24 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Cornflower；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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矢车菊的确挺好看的，可是我在现实中种不出来，只能在MC里观赏了

话说真的有人生存的时候带活塞出去采花吗

本帖最后由 Stone_ingot 于 2022-11-26 08:54 编辑

更正：cornflour:玉米淀粉，不是穗宗之菊

感谢指出

原文在这里玩了 flower 和 flour 的谐音双关，我觉得译文里也应该要有所体现，而不是把原文照搬过来，即应该译情意、译气势，而不是译字面，为的是让读者得到跟读原文相近的体验。照字面译当然也是对的，但这样的话原文的那种乐趣无法传递过来。这个副标题真正核心的部分是 flower 与 flour 的谐音，而不是 cornflour 的实质意义（玉米淀粉），毕竟矢车菊和玉米淀粉基本没有什么关系可言。

基于此观点，我最初的想法是寻找与“矢车”音近的汉语词语，然后把它用作副标题里的翻译（XX菊），但无果，所以只能退而求其次用了“玉米菊”，起码保证了最后一个字读音相同（就像原文所做的那样）。本文不是严谨的学术文献或技术文档，作为为适应译入语而做的一点改编（变通？），我个人认为这是可以接受的。这是我的一点思路，还请指教！

其实翻译这块我不是特别懂
要我翻的话就是玉米淀粉，但是你说的也很有道理，这样看来玉米菊也很好~

涨知识了....

本帖最后由 橄榄Chan 于 2022-12-26 01:20 编辑

今天整理资料的时候给我雷了一下


好吧，虽说我之前就已经看出了副标题里面的 Not to be confused… 句式是出自维基百科的消歧义模板，但着实没想到副标题 Not to be confused with cornflour 这一整句话居然就出现在“矢车菊”条目里面，邓肯直接拿过来当双关用了，直接不演了