我永远忘不了1990年冬天,那年我二十岁,第一次打开人民文学出版社出版的十一卷本《莎士比亚全集》。从第一卷首篇《暴风雨》开始,总是“朱生豪译”几个字出现在剧名下面。我觉得惊异,那时我已读过一些英国古典文学名著,还从未见过朱生豪三个字,给他译本做校订的方平、方重、吴兴华等大名早如雷贯耳。怎么那些大名鼎鼎的翻译家都屈尊给朱生豪做校订工作?如果他们去翻译的话,不会比朱生豪翻译得更好? I will never forget the winter of 1990, when I was twenty years old and for the first time opened the 11 volumes of The Complete Works of Shakespeare published by People’s Literature Publishing House. From the first volume of the first “Storm” began, always “Zhu Shenghao translated” a few words appear below the title. I was surprised. At that time, I had read some famous British classical literature, but I had never seen the words of Zhu Shenghao. The names of Fang Ping, Fang Zhong and Wu Xinghua, who edited him, were as early as possible. How famous translators deign to Zhu Shenghao doing school work? If they go to translation, it will not translate better than Zhu Shenghao?