明清小说 · 中英对照

修仙与武侠的老祖宗，中英对照着读。

明清神魔、侠义小说的全新英译：原文在左，译文在右，逐段对照；人名、官职、地名和典故都有注释。

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对照版式

纷纷五代¹乱离间，

Amid the welter of the Five Dynasties¹, all chaos and scattering,

一旦云开复见天。

one day the clouds broke and the sky was seen again.

草木百年新雨露，

A hundred years of new rain and dew on the grass and trees;

车书²万里旧江山。

ten thousand miles of the old hills and rivers, one in axle and script².

寻常巷陌陈罗绮，

In common lanes and alleys silks and gauzes are on show;

几处楼台奏管弦。

from tower and terrace, here and there, come pipes and strings.

天下太平无事日，

All under heaven at peace, the days without a care,

莺花无限日高眠。

amid endless orioles and blossoms, men sleep till the sun is high.

1Five Dynasties 五代五代The five short-lived dynasties that followed one another in northern China between the fall of the Tang in 907 and the founding of the Song in 960.
2Axle and script 車書车书From the old saying ‘carts run on one axle width, books are written in one script’: a figure for an empire made whole again.

摘自第一回开篇诗。原文在上，英译在下，逐句对照；注释用朱色标出，中国的小说刻本四百年来都是这样加评点的。

石玉昆 · 清 · 1879 年 · 武侠源头

已完结

包公断案，“南侠”展昭入宫护驾，五位江湖义士结为兄弟。后来的武侠小说，就是从这部公案侠义书里长出来的。

「我若将太子谋死，天良何在？」

寇珠奉命勒死太子 · 第一回

修炼、宗门、法宝、游侠，都不是网文发明的，它们来自这些书。