“时方晚秋，气象肃穆，略带忧郁，早晨的阴影和黄昏的阴影，几乎连接在一起，不可分别。岁将云暮，终日昏暗，我就在这么一天，到西敏大寺去散步了几个钟头。古寺巍巍，森森然似有鬼气，和阴沉的季候正好调和；我跨进大厅，觉得自己已经置身远古，相忘於古人的鬼影之中了。”（“On one of those sober and rather melancholy days， in the latter part of Autumn， when the shadows of morning and evening almost mingle together， and throw a gloom over the decline of the year， I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey. There was something congenial to the season in the mournful magnificence of the old pile； and， as I passed its threshold， seemed like stepping back into the regions of antiquity， and losing myself among the shades of former ages.”）这是夏济安先生译的美国作家华盛顿·欧文《西敏大寺》的第一段译文。十几年前我写过文章称讚夏先生的译笔令人叹服。事隔数年，内地有人细细核对原文，说是夏先生的中译还是略有瑕疵，写文章怪我过份捧夏。我相信夏先生为了迁就译文流畅力求文采，有些小地方落笔太浓，描之惟恐不足。我也相信夏先生跟所有从事翻译工作的人一样，偶然会错解原文的意思，无心而失手。做过十数年或数十年翻译工作的人都深知此中甘苦，珠玉纷陈之中不忍心在小处挑剔了。

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