昨天把TVB马浚伟和钟嘉欣主演的看完了, 感到非常的感动,也非常的震惊. 一部, 看尽多少人间情爱, 写尽当时清朝多少的世风日下,世态炎凉. 当看到最后蒲松龄在一鬼一狐的相伴下日复一日,年复一年地写着, 直到其最终完稿, 我更是心潮澎湃.
是的, 是一本不可多得的好书. 当时初中学了那篇课文以后, 我就去书店买了这本书来看. 由于当是文言文水平不高,所以看得似懂非懂, 直到高中以后,在暑假重读这本书, 才感到意境幽辟, 情刻入骨. 特别是里面一些描写鬼怪狐妖的文章, 如, 和等, 在深夜孤独下读时, 真有一种让人心神恍惚, 似假弥真的感觉. 等后来看了电影版的, 虽然这部电影拍得不错, 然而却把原文的很多内容及细节改了, 意境比起原文更是逊色不少, 缺乏原文描述的神秘悚人的鬼魅气息.
被誉为我国古代文言短篇小说中成就最高的作品集, 老舍曾评论这本书: “鬼狐有性格, 笑骂成文章.” 看完这部电视剧, 总觉得要写点什么来纪念一下.头左思右想, 最后还是翻译了下面的的一篇文章, 以作纪念.
深圳大学 赖小琪
狼
一屠晚归，担中肉尽，止有剩骨。途中两狼，缀行甚远。
A butcher was on his way back home late in the afternoon. Inside his carrying poles there were only some pig bones left. Two wolves were stalking him for a long time.
屠惧，投以骨。一狼得骨止，一狼仍从。复投之，后狼止而前狼又至。骨已尽矣，而两狼之并驱如故。
The butcher felt kind of frightened and cast some bones to them. One wolf gained the bone and stopped, while the other was still following. The butcher cast bones again and stopped him, but the former wolf came again. After all the bones were ran out, two wolves stalked the butcher as usual.
屠大窘，恐前后受其敌。顾野有麦场，场主积薪其中，苫蔽成丘。屠乃奔倚其下，弛担持刀。狼不敢前，眈眈相向。
The butcher felt greatly anxious, for fear that he would be attacked by the two wolves, with one in front and the other at back. He looked around the spot a wheat field where the owner had stacked firewood as a small mountain. The butcher came to the firewood, put down his carrying poles and held a long knife in his hands. The wolves were staring at him without approaching him.
少时，一狼径去，其一犬坐于前。久之，目似瞑，意暇甚。屠暴起，以刀劈狼首，又数刀毙之。方欲行，转视积薪后，一狼洞其中，意将隧入以攻其后也。身已半入，止露尻尾。屠自后断其股，亦毙之。乃悟前狼假寐，盖以诱敌。
After a while, a wolf went away, leaving the other sitting in front of the butcher like a dog. The sitting wolf kept his gesture for a long time and seemed like sleeping leisurely. The butcher stood up all of a sudden and hacked the wolf’s head. Then he hacked the wolf’s body several times to kill him. Then he intended to leave, but when he turned around to the back of the firewood, he discovered the other wolf was digging the firewood to attack him at the back. Now the wolf’s body had already been half into the wood and only his hip and tail were outside. The butcher then hacked the wolf’s back and killed him. Not until then did he realize the former wolf was only misleading him by pretending to sleep.
狼亦黠矣，而顷刻两毙，禽兽之变诈几何哉？止增笑耳。
The two wolves were cunning, but both were killed in a short time. How many tricky means can animals play? All these tricky means can only turn out to be funny jokes for human beings. |
