核心问题
When Della revived, she complained that I had scared her and that she could have gotten hurt when she fell over. (Hillary, Living History)
[原译]黛拉苏醒过来后,抱怨我吓坏了她,还说幸好晕倒时没有受伤。(希拉里,《亲历历史》)
译者把 could have gotten hurt 译为“没有受伤”,对吗?
词典解答
译者既误解了全句的句子结构,也误解了 could have gotten hurt 的意义。get hurt 是及物动词 hurt 的被动式。have gotten 是 get 的完成式。could have gotten hurt 在这里表示 Della 推测过去可能受了伤,至于她是否真的受了伤,她本人并不确切地知道。
再从句子结构来看, and that she could have gotten hurt ...是 complained 的第二个宾语从句(从连词 that 可以看出),也就是 Della 抱怨的另一个内容,因此,这一从句绝不是“幸好没有受伤”。
[试译]黛拉苏醒过来后,抱怨我吓坏她,还抱怨说她晕倒时可能受了伤。