这两日是读书的好时节，一段董卿朗读《红楼梦》选段的视频也悄悄登上热搜榜，无论是朗读者的呈现，还是书的内容，都让看客大呼精彩。

　　“满纸荒唐言，一把辛酸泪;都云作者痴，谁解其中味”，正如董卿所说的，《红楼梦》是读不尽的，是一个院子里的儿女情长，更是一个朝代的盛衰兴亡。今年也是央视版《红楼梦》开播30周年，便借着这股东风说一说节目中“宝黛初见”这个片段。

　　壹

　　一语未了，只听外面一阵脚步响，丫鬟进来笑道：“宝玉来了!”黛玉心中正疑惑着：“这个宝玉，不知是怎生个惫懒人物，懵懂顽童?”——倒不见那蠢物也罢了。心中想着，忽见丫鬟话未报完，已进来了一位年轻的公子。

　　译文：

　　The words were hardly out of her mouth when they heard footsteps in the courtyard and a maid came in to announce, "Baoyu is here."

　　Daiyu was wondering what sort of graceless scamp or little dunce Baoyu was and feeling reluctant to meet such a stupid creature when, even as the maid announced him, in he walked.(杨宪益&戴乃迭)

　　While they were speaking, a flurry of footsteps could be heard outside and a maid came in to say that Bao-yu was back.

　　'I wonder,' thought Dai-yu, 'just what sort of graceless creature this Bao-yu is going to be'.(霍克斯)

　　解析：

　　此时，两人还未相见，黛玉已经借着母亲和王夫人的描述脑补了宝玉的形象——“惫懒人物”、“懵懂顽童”，对见他这事儿并不多上心。这也与后文的熟悉感形成了对比。

　　从译文中可以看出，杨戴把黛玉心中所想事无巨细地体现出来，用graceless scamp(淘气鬼)、little dunce(愚笨的人)和stupid creature来形容宝玉，层层递进，水到渠成地表现了黛玉不情愿的情绪。而霍克斯则直接抹去了黛玉的情绪，只用what sort of graceless creature将她的疑惑译了出来。

　　相对于下文中的反转，英大倾向于杨戴的译文，把不情愿的情绪的表现出来更为贴切。

　　这里，两个版本的creature都选得很妙，就像宝玉说的，“女儿是水作的骨肉，男人是泥作的骨肉”，虽然说的是人，可不就是个“生物”嘛!

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　　黛玉一见，便吃一大惊，心下想道：“好生奇怪，倒像在哪里见过一般，何等眼熟到如此!”

　　译文：

　　His appearance took Daiyu by surprise. "How very strange!" she thought. "It's as if I'd seen him somewhere before. He looks so familiar."(杨戴)

　　Dai-yu looked at him with astonishment. How strange! How very strange! It was as though she had seen him somewhere before, he was so extraordinarily familiar.(霍克斯)

　　解析：

　　短短几句话表现了黛玉初见宝玉的思绪，似曾相识的熟悉扑面而来，这让黛玉极为惊讶。但身为女儿家，她没有表现出来，只是暗暗地在心中想。在程度的把握上，霍克斯的叠句和“extraordinarily”比杨戴的更好。除此之外，两个版本的译文大同小异。

　　比较明显的不同是杨戴用了第一人称表现黛玉的惊讶，而霍克斯则用了第三人称。英大私以为，杨戴的处理方式更好，原文本来就是黛玉的主观感受，用第一人称让读者更有代入感，与下文中宝玉的反应形成呼应。