The academy said the award of 8 million Swedish crowns ( about 6.8 million yuan) was for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies. 瑞典皇家科学院称,之所以将800万瑞典克朗(约680万元人民币)的诺奖奖金颁给他,是因为他以记忆的艺术,唤起了人类最难以捉摸的命运。
In an announcement in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy cited Mr. Modiano's ability to evoke the most ungraspable human destinies in his work. 瑞典学院在斯德哥尔摩发布声明,称莫迪亚诺有能力在他的作品中唤起最为莫测的人类命运。
In it nothing had ever happened, the events of a million years ago were just as phantom and ungraspable as the events of now, or the events of the next ten minutes. 在那里无事发生过,一百万年前的事件虚幻而不可捕捉正像此刻的事件,或是之后十分钟发生的事件一样。
If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars. 如果分析一下,他认为埋藏的那部分财宝,只不过是一把真分币和一大堆可观不可及、光亮闪闪的块票而已。