"Okay, who is the person who translated "Alive"?" Zhuang Yan asked helplessly.

Wang Lijian said: "Didn't I tell you last time that I would go to Mr. Gu Hongming, if it didn't work, can I tell you about it?"

Zhuang Yan was a little surprised: "Did you really succeed in talking?"

"It's not too difficult, Tang Shenggong himself is very interested. Wang Lijian said, "The translation work has already begun, and it will be delivered in about two or three weeks." ”

"So fast?"

Zhuang Yan felt a little incredible, and translating was not a simple matter. Some people may think that translation is enough to translate word by word, but in fact, translation may sometimes be more difficult than originality.

Some of the slang, colloquialisms, and dialects used in the Chinese, as well as some dialects that are not commonly used, are very difficult to translate into foreign Chinese.

And there is no fixed pattern for the translation of some things, it is basically how the translator understands it, then how to translate.

For example, "Journey to the West" has a version called "Monkey King" in the United States, the Chinese meaning is actually the meaning of the monkey king, the reason for this situation is because of the difference between the two cultures, "Journey to the West" when the book was written in China advocating the description of deeds, while the United States was popular for personal heroism.

Similarly, "Water Margin" is translated as "One Hundred and Five Men and Three Women", and it is the same.

Zhuang Yan remembers seeing a case where a Chinese poet Dai Wangshu wrote a poem called "Eye", and it was difficult to translate it into English.

Eye, a simple word, it is said that translating into English is a very simple thing, but there is a big difference between Chinese and English, that is, compared to English, there is no plural form of nouns in Chinese. So, should this eye be translated as a singular eye or a negative eye? I am afraid that even Dai Wangshu, who is also a translator, can hardly say well.

The translation work is not simple, and his "Alive" is not as good as the original version of the previous life, and the number of words has been doubled several times.

Gu Hongming's translation has only started for more than a week, and in another two or three weeks, it will only be like this for a month. After calculation, the workload of translation is more than 10,000 words a day, Zhuang Yan is a little skeptical, can Gu Hongming's old bones be able to withstand it?

However, Wang Lijian disagreed: "Tang Shenggong is well-read and knowledgeable, and English is equal to his mother tongue, so it shouldn't be a problem." ”

Since Wang Lijian said so, Zhuang Yan only nodded: "Okay, I'll wait for good news, but this matter is also thanks to you, Brother Wang, I really didn't expect to really find Gu Hongming." ”

Wang Lijian laughed, laughing a little inexplicably, thinking that he had something to say, but Wang Lijian just said: "Thank you, it's my own work, okay, don't talk about it, you just arrived in Jinling, go back and rest early." ”

Zhuang Yan was a little confused, and he didn't know what the reason for his weird smile just now was, so he could only respond: "Okay, I'll hang up first." ”

After ending the call with Wang Lijian, Zhuang Yan hugged the bag on his shoulder, got up from the bench and walked towards the unit where he lived. It was now more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was still high overhead, so his original flight would not arrive until dark, but then because of the time difference, he chose this afternoon flight.

When he left the United States, it was eight o'clock in the morning in New York, and it was nearly twenty hours along the way, and it was only afternoon, and it felt like the biological clock had begun to invade him. But fortunately, he slept on the plane for a while, so he is in good shape now. He was going to go back and stay up again, stay up until the night and sleep again, so that the jet lag could adjust.

After returning home, Zhuang Yan heard the sound of laughter from the living room as soon as he opened the door, Zhuang Yan smiled, thinking that Chen Jiaqing should be playing on the sofa with Xiaoying.

However, the laughter soon stopped, and they should have noticed the movement of Zhuang Yan opening and closing the door. Sure enough, Xiao Ying ran out with a smile, saw Zhuang Yan, and shouted, "Uncle Zhuang Yan, you're back." ”

When Zhuang Yan saw the little girl, his first reaction was of course to be happy, but then he saw her little face painted colorfully, and her pupils immediately became bigger.

It's colorful, it's really not an exaggeration at all, I don't know if it's watercolor or something else, I can't understand what is painted, but there is no empty space on the whole face.

"You-"

Zhuang Yan opened his mouth and was about to ask what was going on, when another person ran out of the living room, it was a woman, and her face was also full of colors. Zhuang Yan was stunned again, although this woman couldn't see her appearance anymore, but her long purple hair and extremely tall figure were definitely not Chen Jiaqing.

And I don't know what's going on, Zhuang Yan always feels that he has seen this long purple hair somewhere.

Yan Zi stood at the entrance of the Yongdao Road, looking at the man who walked in a little stunned. Chen Jiaqing shared a house with a man, she knew it, so she was not surprised to hear Xiaoying call her uncle.

But when Xiaoying shouted "Uncle Zhuang Yan" just now, her heart chuckled, because she was not unfamiliar with the name Zhuang Yan.

On the bookshelf in her study, there was a book signed by Zhuang Yan, but it was a friend who helped her line up to get it, and she didn't go because she was a little busy when she signed it.

She was just stunned just now, she didn't expect that it would be that Zhuang Yan, there are so many people with the same name in the world, and it is normal to have one more person named Zhuang Yan.

But when she walked to the entrance and saw the man standing at the door wearing slippers, her jaw was about to drop. Because standing in front of her is Zhuang Yan, the author of "Alive" and "Metamorphosis", a Chinese pioneer writer.

Although there are some differences between the real person and the photo, Yan Zi still recognized it at a glance, this is Zhuang Yan himself, she doesn't believe that there will be two people in the world who look so similar, have the same name, and both live in Jinling.

"Are you?" Zhuang Yan asked, looking at the colorful woman in front of him.

Yan Zi paused for a moment, but Xiaoying turned her head to look at her, and then said to Zhuang Yan: "Uncle Zhuang Yan, this is the boss of my mother's company, my mother is not here, she is here to play with me." ”

Hearing Xiao Ying's words, Zhuang Yan frowned, Chen Jiaqing was not there, and he also entrusted Xiao Ying to a woman with dyed purple hair? Looking at the other party's purple hair, Zhuang Yan felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it, and he was also a little prejudiced in his heart, and he said in his heart How could Chen Jiaqing be so irresponsible.

But he didn't want to think about it, when he was in the old rental house, didn't Chen Jiaqing also entrust Xiaoying to him. How can you trust him and not others?