英译中国古典名著选读

Contents
Unit 1　The Poems Selected from The She King1
Text A　James Legge’s Version3
Text B　Wang Rongpei’s Version23
Unit 2　The Selected Tang Poems32
Text A　Witter Bynner’s Version33
Text B　Xu Yuanchong’s Version42
Unit 3　The Selected Song Lyrics46
Text A　Xu Yuanchong’s Version47
Text B　Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version59
Unit 4　The Selected Yuan Qu Songs63
Text A　Gu Zhengkun’s Version65
Text B　Zhou Fangzhu’s Version77
Unit 5　Instructor Wang Secretly Makes His Escape; Shi Jin Gets His Defences into Shape (excerpt)81
Text A　John Dent-Young & Alex Dent-Young’s Version82
Text B　Sidney Shapiro’s Version94
Unit 6　Kongming Borrows Cao Cao’s Arrows Through a Ruse; Huang Gai Is Flogged Following a Secret Plan (excerpt)99
Text A　Moss Roberts’s Version100
Text B　C. H. Brewitt-Taylor’s Version112
Unit 7　The Cadaver Demon Three Times Mocks Tripitaka Tang; The Holy Monk in Spite Banishes Handsome Monkey King (excerpt)119
Text A　Anthony C. Yu’s Version121
Text B　W.J.F. Jenner’s Version131
Unit 8　Pursuing the Dream136
Text A　Cyril Birch’s Version138
Text B　Wang Rongpei’s Version155
Unit 9　The Rejected Suit164
Text A　Chen Shih-Hsiang, Harold Acton & Cyril Birch’s Version166
Text B　Xu Yuanchong & Frank M. Xu’s Version179
Unit 10　The Painted Skin186
Text A　Herbert A. Giles’s Version188
Text B　John Minford’s Version197
Unit 11　 Lin Ru-Hai Recommends a Private Tutor to His Brother-in-Law and Old Lady Jia Extends a Compassionate Welcome to the Motherless Child (excerpt)202
Text A　David Hawkes’s Version204
Text B　Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version213
Unit 12　At the Foot of Mount Li the Traces of an Ancient Emperor; By the Side of Lake Ming the Song of a Beautiful Girl (excerpt)217
Text A　Harold Shadick’s Version219
Text B　Yang Hsien-yi & Gladys Yang’s Version229
Key to the Exercises233