起初,只是被这一行诗--To change your language you must change your life——所吸引或刺激,才找来原文,开始揣摩。既而,搬出那本陪我多年的英汉字典,开始阅读。而真正让我动念头去翻译,是因收到朋友办的民刊上,这首《Codicil》的汉译诗有诸多让人不解之处。比如,诗中第二、三句被译为“一种是雇佣文人帮闲的散文,我用它/流亡……”此处明显有误。 At first, it was only this line of poem - To change your language you must change your life - to attract or stimulate, only to find the original text, began to try to figure out. Then, I moved out of the English-Chinese dictionary that accompanied me for many years and began to read. And really let me move to translation, is received by the friends of the private magazine, the first “Codicil” Chinese translation of poetry has many puzzling places. For example, the second and third sentences in a poem are translated as “one is a prose for hiring a literati and I use it / exile ....” There is a clear mistake here.