明清小說 · 中英對照

修仙與武俠的老祖宗，中英對照著讀。

明清神魔、俠義小說的全新英譯：原文在左，譯文在右，逐段對照；人名、官職、地名和典故都有註釋。

每部書的前五分之一免費，不用註冊帳號。

對照版式

紛紛五代¹亂離間，

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

一旦雲開復見天。

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;

車書²萬里舊江山。

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

尋常巷陌陳羅綺，

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

幾處樓臺奏管弦。

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

天下太平無事日，

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

鶯花無限日高眠。

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.

摘自第一回開篇詩。原文在上，英譯在下，逐句對照；註釋用朱色標出，中國的小說刻本四百年來都是這樣加評點的。

石玉昆 · 清 · 1879 年 · 武俠源頭

已完結

包公斷案，「南俠」展昭入宮護駕，五位江湖義士結為兄弟。後來的武俠小說，就是從這部公案俠義書裡長出來的。

「我若將太子謀死，天良何在？」

寇珠奉命勒死太子 · 第一回

修煉、宗門、法寶、遊俠，都不是網文發明的，它們來自這些書。