周作人是鲁迅的二弟,现代散文家、诗人、翻译家。“五四”时期,与其兄并驾齐驱,同为新文化运动的代表人物。“五四”运动前夕,陈独秀、胡适等人主编《新青年》杂志,曾向周作人约稿。周作人便翻译了一篇日本作家江马修的小说,标题为《小的一个人》。对于这个小说的中文译名,周作人不甚满意,但无论怎样总是译不好,最后无可奈何,就这样交给了编辑部。那一期《新青年》的轮值主编是北 Zhou Zuoren is Lu Xun’s second brother, modern essayist, poet, translator. “May Fourth ” period, keep pace with his brother, with the new cultural movement representative. On the eve of the May Fourth Movement, Chen Duxiu and Hu Shih were the chief editors of New Youth Magazine, who wrote the manuscript to Zhou Zuoren. Zhou Zuoren translates a novel written by a Japanese writer Jiang Maoxiu entitled “A Small One.” Zhou Zuoren was not satisfied with the Chinese translation of the novel, but no matter how he could not always translate it, he finally gave it to the editorial department. That issue of “new youth” is the rotating editor north