| 1 | However, after i had read The Opium War, i felt like reading more about China, so i borrowed Waley's translation of Chinese poetry. | |
| 2 | One week later, i went to Arthur Waley, an English sinologist of the early20th century, and borrowed his The Opium War, which surprised me again. | |
| 3 | Indeed, Waley' s stature in Japan is such that Heibonsha, another publisher, recently released a retranslation of Waley' s "Genji" back into Japanese. | |
| 4 | 在对韦利叙事热忱的崇敬和对自由风格的恐惧之间,两难抉择的塞登斯蒂克选择了忠实原文。他创造了一部完全忠实原著的《源氏物语》,但是这部作品却少了几分美感。 Torn between admiration for Waley' s narrative verve and horror at the liberties he had taken with the text, Seidensticker produced a "Genji" that was doggedly faithful but a little lacking in grace. | |
| 5 | His work attracted the attention of the pre-eminent Chinese scholar and translator, Arthur Waley, who became his mentor and friend, and named him as his literary executor. |