Free Hospital for Children

[원문]:The inaugural event of the season was a charitable ball thrown by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish on Monday night, August 30, to raise funds for the city's new Free Hospital for Children. It had become fashionable at that time to hold parties at the city's grand hotels. Mrs. Fish's party was to take place at the Waldorf-Astoria. (The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld)


[원문역]:사교계 시즌을 여는 행사는 8월 30일에 스타이버선트피시 부인이 주선하는 아동자유병원 신축기금 마련 자선무도회였다. 당시에는 도시의 특급 호텔에서 파티를 여는 게 유행이었다. 피시 부인의 파티는 월도프 아스토리아 호텔에서 열릴 예정이었다. (살인의 해석, 비채출판사)


[정역]:사교계 시즌을 여는 행사는 8월 30일 월요일 밤에 스티브상 피시 부인이 주최하는 무료아동병원원 신축기금 마련 자선무도회였다. ...하략


[comments]::1)A mediocre baseball player as he is, he will be expected to bunt at least. If he failed in the attempt, too, what would become of him? As in the case of a literary world, too frequent a bungling translator might be liable to hear audiences curse "Drop dead!"


2)I am tempted to comfort the translator on the one hand, saying, "Don't be discouraged. You are not to blame but the English language is." It's not your fault that you've picked the definition of the adjective 'free' on its top list but the adjective which has so many different definitions.


3)Although freedom is the most cherished value of all the human values, you're not supposed to translate the proper noun Free Hospital for Children into the Korean version as "Hospital of Freedom for Children." I would like to advise to the translator "you use your linguistic sense." How dare you make such a mistake? Didn't you see hints from the words "raise funds" "charitable" on your way?


4)In the case of Free Hospital for Children, the attribute of freedom from charges has become the name of the hospital. To elaborate, the designation speaks to the visitors and its beneficiaries to the effect that "this is a children's hospital taking no charges for their medical care.