翻译首重吃透原文。如果原文没有吃透,只顾依样画葫芦,逐字对译,难免满纸荒唐,不知所云,这只能称为死译。另有一种,原文并不难理解,但囿于原文的形式,亦步亦趋,结果通篇翻译腔,诘屈聱牙,难以卒读,这就是所谓硬译。还有一种,看来倒也文从字顺,唯独缺少原作的意境,尝尝淡而无味;无以名之,姑妄称之为淡译。死译、硬译及淡译虽各有特点,但有一个显著的共同处,就是三者均着重在形似上下功夫,而忽视了文学翻译贵在传神的要旨。今试各举一例: Translator first echoes the original text. If the original does not eat thoroughly, just follow the same example, literal translation, it is inevitable full of absurd, unintelligible, this can only be called death. There is another one, the original is not hard to understand, but in the form of the original text, follow the trend, the result of the translation of the cavity, 诘 flexor teeth, it is difficult to read, this is the so-called hard translation. There is another, it seems down from the text Shun, but the lack of original mood, taste light and tasteless; Although there are some characteristics of dead translation, hard translation and light translation, there is a remarkable common ground that all three focus on the similarities and neglect the essence of literary translation. An example of this test every move: