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中 国 翻 译 Chinese Translators Journal 译作鉴析 林纾译 《李迫大梦》片段赏析* 王东风 中山大学 《李迫大梦》是清末民初著名翻译家林纾于 standing within a few years, built of small yellow 1907 年出版的译作 （张俊才，1982: 30 ），其合作 bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows 者是魏易，收于他们的译文集 《拊掌录》之中。 and gable fronts, surmounted with weather-cocks. 该作译自美国著名文学家、素有美国文学之父 In that same village, and in one of these very 之称的华盛顿· houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time- 欧文 （Washington Irving ，1783- 1859 ）的著名短篇小说Rip Van Winkle （今译 《瑞 worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years 普· · since, while the country was yet a province of Great 凡 温克尔》）。林纾一生中究竟翻译了多少 书，至今还是个谜，说得最少的是 “成书的共有 Britain, a simple good-natured fellow of the name 一百五十六种；其中有一百三十二种是已经出版 of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van 的”（郑振铎，2009: 247 ）；说得最多的是 “多至 Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days 二百零六种”（见刘绍唐，1978: 140 ）。林纾由于 of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege 古文造诣高深，语言表达优美，其译文深受清末民 of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of 初的读者的喜爱。本文选择删改相对较少的 《李 the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed 迫大梦》中的一个片段，让我们来欣赏一位古文大 that he was a simple good-natured man ; he was, 师对来自异域风情的独特体验。 moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient hen-pecked WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up obsequious and conciliat