霍译：

Deducing that the old lady on the couch must be Grandmother Jia，Grannie Liu hurried up to her and made her an antique curtsey.

'Your servant, my lady!'

5)……熙凤……因笑道：“天下真有这样标致的人物，我今儿才算见了 ！况且这通身的气派，竟不象老祖宗的外孙女儿，竟是个嫡亲的孙女，怨不得老祖宗天天口头心头一时不忘。......”（第三回）

杨译：

"Well," she cried with a laugh,"this is the first time I've set eyes on such a ravishing beauty. Her whole air is so distinguished! She doesn't take after her father, son-in-law of our Old Ancestress, but looks more like a Jia. No wonder our old Ancestress couldn't put you out of her mind and was for ever talking or thinking about you …"

霍译：

'She's a beauty, Grannie dear! If I hadn't set eyes on her today，I shouldn't have believed that such a beautiful creature could exist! And everything about her so distingue! She doesn't take after your side of the family, Grannie. She's more like a Jia. I don't blame you for having gone on so about her during the past few days —...'

《红楼梦》运用名词的第三个特色是：不成话之话。

6) 袭人定了一回，哭道：“不知紫鹃姑奶奶说了些什么话，那个呆子眼也直了，手脚也冷了，话也不说了，李妈妈掐着也不疼了，已死了大半个了！……”（第五十七回）

杨译：

Making an effort to calm herself Xijen sobbed, "I don't know what your Miss Zijuanys been telling him，but the silly boy's eyes are staring, his hands and feet are cold; he can't speak, and when Nanny Li pinched him he felt nothing. He's more dead than alive!…"

霍译：

Aroma made an effort to control herself and answered tearfully:

'I don't know what Her ladyship here can have said to him, but that simpleton of ours just stares into space without speaking, his hands and feet are icy-cold, and when Nannie Li pinches him, he doesn't seem to feel anything. He looked half dead when I left...'

以上举例，从“紫鹃姑奶奶”到死了“大半个”，从“神仙姐姐”到“剩忘八”，都可谓千古未闻的奇文。对于这样的“奇文”，为了再现原著本色，还译文读者以原汁原味的艺术享受，笔者认为，译者无权进行形式上和意义上的篡改。当然，更不应该随意删除。

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