Notes on Classical Chinese Translation of Calm

Rong's comments on classical Chinese translation are as follows:

Translation:

Ban Chao, a native of Pingling County, Fufeng County, is the youngest son of Ban Biao, the magistrate of Xuxian County. He is ambitious and informal, but he respects his parents and is cautious. He often does hard work at home and doesn't take it as a shame. Ban Chao is eloquent and well-read. (Emperor Hanming) In the fifth year of Yongping, Ban Chao's brother Ban Gu was recruited as a school boy by the court and went to Luoyang with his brother and his mother.

Because of his poor family background, he was often employed by the government and made a living by copying books, which took a long time and was very hard. He once stopped his work, threw his pen aside and sighed, "As a gentleman, although he doesn't have any extraordinary strategies and talents, he should always follow the example of Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian and make meritorious deeds abroad. How can he always copy what he has written? " Colleagues around laughed at this. Ban Chao said: "How can ordinary people understand the mind of people with lofty ideals?"

Later, he went to western countries and finally made a contribution. Finally, he met a man who said to him, "Dear Elder, although you are an ordinary scholar, you will be shut out from Hou in the future." Ban Chao wants to know.

The fortune teller pointed to him and said, "Your chin is like a swallow, and your head and neck are like a tiger. Swallows can fly and tigers eat meat. This is the fate of Wan Li. " After a long time, Ming Di once asked Ban Gu, "Where is your brother now?" Ban Gu replied, "I am helping the government copy books to support my mother." So Ming Di appointed Ban Chao as an official of Lantai. Later, he was dismissed because he made a mistake.

In sixteen years, the emperor sent him and his colleague Guo Yao to the Western Regions.

When Ban Chao arrived in Shanshan, he was treated with courtesy, and then he suddenly became sloppy and neglected in management. Ban Chao said to his subordinate officials, "Don't you realize that the courtesy of being lenient with us is sparse?" This must be the reason why the Xiongnu emissary came, and he hesitated and didn't know where to go.

Smart people can detect things before they happen, and now the situation is very clear. So he called the waiter from the western regions and lied to him: "The Xiongnu emissary has been here for several days. Where are they now? "The waiter in the western regions looked panicked and confessed all the specific situations.

Ban Chao said, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained? The best way now is to attack the Huns with fire in the dark, so that they don't know how many troops we have, and they will be very shocked and afraid, so that they can be completely destroyed. Destroy these enemies, Shanshan will fall into the tourist trap, and we will be finished. " They said, "Good.

"At night, he led the officers and men to the Huns' camp. Just as the wind was howling, Ban Chao asked ten people to hide behind the enemy's house with drums and agreed with them: "When you see the fire, you must beat the drums and shout together." The rest of the people were all armed to the teeth and ambushed on both sides of the door.

Ban Chao then set fire to the wind, and people in front of and behind the house beat drums and shouted together. The enemy was frightened out of the camp. Ban Chao personally killed three people, and the officers and men killed more than 30 Xiongnu messengers and subordinates, and all the remaining more than 100 people were killed by fire. Ban Chao summoned Wang Guang of Shanshan to show him the head of the Xiongnu messenger. Shanshan shocked the whole country and was frightened.

Precautions:

1, fix: pay attention.

2, filial piety: filial piety to parents, be cautious.

3. efforts: make efforts.

4, shameless: things with low labor are not shameful. Shame: Adjectives are used arbitrarily. Be ashamed of ...

5, dabbling: extensive reading.

6, solid: refers to Ban Gu, the main author of Hanshu.

7. Yi: Go again when you arrive.

8. Proofreader: official name, responsible for collating books and correcting mistakes.

9, for the official servant book: hire the official government to copy books and so on.

10, exit: stop.

1 1, ambition: ambition strategy.

12, An: Why, where.

13, textual research: same as "inkstone".

14, imp: nobody, mediocrity.