Waley

基本解释

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•斯特來徹認爲，韋利這部譯作的個別地方較爲出彩，然而日本對這部作品的反應更加熱烈。
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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