民初有一位在《上海西报》工作的外国记者,中文不错。可是,有些中国成语或引经据典的词汇,他老是摸不着头脑,有时不免糊涂。例如,他翻译“胡适先生,驰骋文坛”这句话,就变成“胡适先生经常在写字桌上跑马”。在将中文译成外文时,由于外国人常常照字直译,往往变得驴唇 In the beginning of the Republic, there was a foreign reporter who worked in “Shanghai West News”. However, some Chinese idioms or quotations from Codex vocabulary, he always scratching their heads, and sometimes confused. For example, he translated the phrase “Mr. Hu Shi, galloping literary world,” and that “Mr. Hu Shi often runs his horse on the writing desk.” When translating Chinese into foreign languages, foreigners often become ass lips because they often translate literally