说来奇怪,谈文学翻译令我汗颜,令我追悔。事情得从头简单说一说。“回想当年”在我可不是一件愉快的事。抗战复员后,1947年谢文通先生讲授专题课《失乐园》,一口牛津音,念得纯正娴熟,抑扬顿挫,弥尔顿诗作的音韵、节奏、气势一下子将我吸引住了,虽然那时侯我其实是似懂非懂的;后来跟来北大讲学的 Strange to say, literary translation made me ashamed, remorse me. Things to be simple to talk about from scratch. “Looking back then ” in me is not a pleasant thing. After the Anti-Japanese War demobilization, in 1947, Mr. Xie Winton taught the topic course “Paradise Lost,” an Oxford sound, read purely adept, cadence, Milton’s poetic rhythm, rhythm, momentum attracted me all of a sudden, although at that time Hou I actually know how to understand; then came Peking University lectures