作为晚清最早以个人身份访问英国的近代知识分子,王韬在三年的时间内详细考察了英国的政治、经济、军事等各个方面,对英国形成了相当全面的认识,在游记《漫游随录》中塑造了一个真实可感的英国形象。可以说,王韬对英国的认识代表了当时国人对英国认识的最高水平。基于近二十年与英国传教士合作译书的独特经历,他深深意识到学习西方的必要性;正因为如此,在他笔下,英国被有意无意地美化成为一个理想国,其目的自然是为近代中国树立一个学习的榜样。 As a modern intellectual who first visited Britain in the late Qing Dynasty, Wang Tao inspected the British political, economic and military aspects in detail in three years and formed a fairly comprehensive understanding of Britain. "In shaping a real image of the United Kingdom. It can be said that Wang Tao’s understanding of Britain represented the highest level of people’s understanding of Britain at the time. Based on the unique experience of the translation missionary works with British missionaries in the past twenty years, he deeply realized the necessity of learning from the West. As a result, in his works, Britain was consciously or unknowingly landscaped into a country of ideals, whose purpose was naturally For the modern China to establish a learning model.