0803翻译就英法联军远征中国给巴特勒上尉的信.docx

0803翻译：就英法联军远征中国给巴特勒上尉的信（雨果/程增厚）Translation: Letter to Captain Butler on Anglo-French Troops Expedition to China (Victor Hugo/Cheng Zenghou – translator to Chinese)(assembled by: alexcwlin; reviewed by: Adam Lam)先生:To Captain Butler?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------您征求我对远征中国的意见。You ask my opinion, Sir, about the China expedition.您认为这次远征是体面的，出色的。多谢您对我的想法予以重视。在您看来，打着维多利亚女王和拿破仑皇帝双重旗号对中国的远征，是由法国和英国共同分享的光荣，而您想知道，我对英法的这个胜利会给予多少赞誉? You consider this expedition to be honourable and glorious, and you have the kindness to attach some consideration to my feelings; according to you, the China expedition, carried out jointly under the flags of Queen Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon, is a glory to be shared between France and England, and you wish to know how much approval I feel I can give to this English and French victory.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------既然您想了解我的看法，那就请往下读吧： Since you wish to know my opinion, here it is:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------在世界的某个角落，有一个世界奇迹。这个奇迹叫圆明园。There was, in a corner of the world, a wonder of the world; this wonder was called the Summer Palace.艺术有两个来源，一是理想，理想产生欧洲艺术；一是幻想，幻想产生东方艺术。Art has two principles, the Idea, which produces European art, and the Chimera, which produces oriental art.圆明园在幻想艺术中的地位就如同巴特农神庙在理想艺术中的地位。The Summer Palace was to chimerical art what the Parthenon is to ideal art.一个几乎是超人的民族的想象力所能产生的成就尽在于此。All that can be begotten of the imagination of an almost extra-human people was there.和巴特农神庙不一样，这不是一件稀有的、独一无二的作品；It was not a single, unique work like the Parthenon.这是幻想的某种规模巨大的典范，如果幻想能有一个典范的话。It was a kind of enormous model of the chimera, if the chimera can have a model.请您想象有一座言语无法形容的建筑，某种恍若月宫的建筑，这就是圆明园。Imagine some inexpressible construction, something like a lunar building, and you will have the Summer Palace.请您用大理石，用玉石，用青铜，用瓷器建造一个梦，用雪松做它的屋架，给它上上下下