众所周知,林琴南不懂外文,只是靠着别人口述,自己笔录的方式翻译了上百种外国作品。其中一九○四年(光绪三十年甲辰)十月由商务印书馆出版的《英国诗人吟边燕语》成为莎士比亚以文学面貌与中国读者谋的第一面。虽然理论上说早在一八五六年传教士慕维廉(WilliamMuirhead)在翻译T As we all know, Lin Qinnan do not understand foreign languages, just rely on others dictation, transcribed hundreds of foreign works by their own transcripts. Among them, “The poem Yinbianyan, a British poet,” published in October by Commercial Press in 1904, became the first aspect of Shakespeare’s pursuit of Chinese literature by readers. Although theoretically speaking as early as 1856, missionary William Muirhead translated T