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Lecture Five On C-E Prose Translation 1. The Prose Translation by Lin Yutang Passage I: 闲情记趣（节选） 余忆童稚时，能张目对日，明察秋毫，见藐小微物，必细察其纹理，故时有物外之趣。夏蚊成雷，私拟作群鹤舞空。心之所向，则或千或百，果然鹤也。昂首观之，项为之强。又留纹于素帐中，徐喷以烟，使其冲烟飞鸣，作青云白鹤观，果如鹤立云端，怡然称快。于土墙凹凸处，花台小草丛杂处，常蹲其身，使与台齐；定神细视，以丛草为林，以虫蚁为兽，以土砾凸者为丘，凹者为壑，神游其中，怡然自得。(摘自《浮生六记》第二卷) The Version: The Little Pleasure of Life I remember that when I was a child, I could stare at the sun with wide, open eyes. I could see the tiniest objects, and loved to observe the fine grains and patterns of small things, from which I derived a romantic, unworldly pleasure. When mosquitoes were humming round in summer, I transformed them in my imagination into a company of storks dancing in the air. And when I regarded them that way, they were real storks to me, flying by the hundreds and thousands, and I would look up at them till my neck was stiff. Again, I kept a few mosquitoes inside a white curtain and blow a puff of smoke round them, so that to me they became a company of white storks flying among the blue clouds, and their humming to me the song of storks singing in high heaven, which delighted me intensely. Sometimes I would squat by a broken earthen wall, or by a little bush on a raised flower-bed itself, and there I would look and look, transforming in my mind the little plot of grass into a forest and the ants and insects into wild animals. The little elevations on the ground become my hills, and the depressed areas became my valleys, and my spirit wandered in that world at leisure. Passage II: 桃花源记 陶渊明 晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近；忽逢桃花林，夹岸数百步，中无杂树，芳草鲜美，落英缤纷。渔人甚异之。复前行，欲穷其林。林尽水源，便得一山。山有小口，仿佛若有光。便舍船，从口入。 The version: The Peach Colony During the reign of Taiyuan of Chin, there was a fisherman of Wuling. One day he was walking along a bank. After having gone a certain distance, he suddenly came upon a peach grove which extended along the bank for about a hundred yards. He noticed with surprise that the grove had a magic effect, so singularly free from the usual mingling of