“人民教育”八月号“关于改进语文教学”一文中,編者提出了一系列的問題。其中提到把古文譯成現代文的問題:“这些文章翻得好不好?还能不能保持原文的艺术价值?”正好,我在写“廉頗藺相如列傳”的課时計划时,接触到了这个問題,现在把我自己的看法提出来与大家商榷一下。我認为,把古文譯成現代文,并以現代文进行教学,这样做并不好。如果要教古典文学,还是教原文比較好。譯成現代文是必要的,但不能作为教学的范文,只能附在后面作为参政。以上是总的看法。以下談談我对“廉頗藺相加列傳”那課譯文的具体意見。第一,現代文沒有充分表現出藺相如惊人的机智和勇敢。例如,在“完壁归赵”的故事中,原文借他自己的話这么来表現:“大王必欲急臣,臣头今与壁 In the August issue of “People’s Education” on Improving Chinese Teaching, the editor raised a series of questions. Which referred to the question of translating classical Chinese into a modern one: “How well can these articles turn or not to maintain the artistic value of the original?” Just when I wrote the lesson plan of “Lian Po Lin Hsiang-ju Biography,” I came across this Question, now put my own views put forward to discuss with you. I think it is not good to translate classical Chinese into modern Chinese and to teach in modern Chinese. If you want to teach classical literature, or teach the original text is better. Translated into modern text is necessary, but not as a teaching model, can only be attached to the back as a political participation. The above is the general opinion. Let me talk about my specific comments on the translation of “Lian Bi Lin”. First, modern Chinese did not fully demonstrate the alarming wit and courage of Lin Hsiang-ju. For example, in the story of “End of the Wall to Return to Zhao,” the original text expresses in his own words: "The king must urgently minister,