查尔斯·狄更斯(CharlesDickens)是19世纪英国杰出的现实主义作家,英国文学史上最伟大的小说家之一。林纾是我国以古文翻译外国小说的第一人,也是翻译狄更斯作品的第一人。从1907至1909年,林纾和魏易合作,先后翻译了狄更斯的五部小说:分别是《滑稽外史》(现译为《尼古拉斯·尼可贝》NicholasNickleby)、《孝女耐儿传》(现译为《老古玩店》TheOldCuriosityShop)、《块肉余生述》(现译为 Charles Dickens is an outstanding 19th-century British realist writer and one of the greatest novelists in the history of British literature. Lin Shu is the first person to translate foreign novels in ancient Chinese and the first to translate Dickens’ works. From 1907 to 1909, Lin Shu co-operated with Wei Yi and translated five of Dickens’s novels: “Comical History” (now translated as “Nicholas Nickleby”), “Filial Piety” (Now translated as “old curio shop” TheOldCuriosityShop), “piece of meat remaining life” (now translated as