Waley

基本解釋

Effervescent Waley, prim Seidensticker or suave Tyler—who will you take to bed with you tonight?
是“熱情洋溢”的韋利，“循槼蹈矩”的塞登斯蒂尅還是“溫文爾雅”的泰勒---今晚，你會選擇誰與你一道“同牀共枕”？
Lytton Strachey, a neighbour of Waley’s, considered his translation “beautiful in bits”, but the reaction from Japan was much warmer.
韋利的朋友林頓?斯特來徹認(rèn)爲(wèi)，韋利這部譯作的個別地方較爲(wèi)出彩，然而日本對這部作品的反應(yīng)更加熱烈。
Torn between admiration for Waley’s narrative verve and horror at the liberties he had taken with the text, Seidensticker produced a “Genji” that was doggedly faithful but a little lacking in grace.
在對韋利敘事熱忱的崇敬和對自由風(fēng)格的恐懼之間，兩難抉擇的塞登斯蒂尅選擇了忠實原文。他創(chuàng)造了一部完全忠實原著的《源氏物語》，但是這部作品卻少了幾分美感。

His fascination was first sparked by reading Arthur Waley's translations from the Chinese at school.
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Arthur Waley, a British scholar also known for his translations of Chinese literature, published his version from 1925 to 1933.
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