霍译：

‘If he read thirty books of the Poetry Classic,'said Jia Zheng, ‘ it would still be tomfoolery. No doubt he hopes to deceive others with this sort of thing，but he does not deceive me....'

4)邢夫人王夫人带领尤氏凤姐并族中几个媳妇，两溜雁翅站在贾母身后侍立。（第七十一回）

杨译：

...and Madam You，Xifeng and some other daughters-in-law, headed by Lady Xing and Lady Wang, ranged themselves behind her on both sides to wait on the guests.

霍译：

Lady Xing and Lady Wang stood in attendance behind Grandmother Jia's chair，with You-shi, Xi-feng and a number of other Jia ladies fanning out to left and right behind them.

5)只见他里头穿着……越显的蜂腰猿背，鹤势螂形。众人都笑道：“偏他只爱打扮成个小子的样儿，原比他打扮女儿更俏丽了些。” (第四十九回）

杨译：

...she revealed a... With her slender build she looked thoroughly neat and dashing.

"She loves dressing up like a boy,"they teased."And that costume suits her better than a girl's."

霍译：

She had on a... The whole ensemble greatly enhanced the somewhat masculine appearance of her figure with its graceful，athletic bearing.

The others laughed ：

‘She loves dressing up as a boy. Actually she looks even more fetching in boy's clothes than she does as a girl.'

例3的“掩耳偷铃”是贾政对宝玉学习《诗经》的态度，表现了他满脑子的《四书》、《五经》、科举、八股。短短一句话，借助这个生动妥帖的比喻，就使贾政沽名钓誉、颐指气使的封建家长形象跃然纸上。例4的“两溜雁翅”意即“象两排展翅飞翔的大雁似的”，把贾母八旬大寿人席时的礼法秩序和壮观场面活现出来。例5用“显的”作喻词，仅用 “蜂腰猿背，鹤势螂形”这八个字就把湘云穿戴打扮成“小子的样儿”刻画了出来。显然，这些暗喻的修辞效果是不容忽视的，但是两个译本却采取了令人遗憾的忽视态度。

当然，就暗喻的翻译而言，两译本带给读者更多的不是遗憾，而是架起了沟通原作与译文读者的桥梁，创造出许多与原作如影随形的妙语佳喻：

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