塞缪尔.约翰逊的《致切斯特菲尔德伯爵书》是英国散文史上的经典名篇。这封信语言优雅精美,对仗工整,看上去彬彬有礼,实际却处处讽刺。但对译者而言,原文越精彩,翻译就越困难。作者对辜正坤教授和黄继忠先生译的文言文版本进行了详细的对比分析,认为两个译本虽不能说尽善尽美,但实属难得的佳作,且通过对比能更好地提高翻译水平。 Samuel Johnson’s “Earl of Chesterfield” is a famous classic in English prose history. This letter elegant and beautiful language, on the battle integrity, looks polite, but actually satire everywhere. But for the translator, the more wonderful the original is, the more difficult it is to translate. The author compares the classical Chinese version translated by Professor Gu Zhengkun with Mr. Huang Jizhong and concludes that the two translations, although not perfect, are a rare masterpiece and can better improve the translation level through comparison.