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When the door opened Bajie said, “I am a monk on my way to the west. I would like to ask for a donation of food and lodging.” The man gave him some food and told him the pilgrims would be welcome to stay with him.

作者将“化缘”翻译为ask for a donation of food and lodging，译文简单但准确，这种处理方法非常值得我们学习。同时，“取经者”被翻译为pilgrim，单词在《剑桥词典》中的释义是：a person who makes a journey, which is often long and difficult, to a special place for religious reasons

可以看到，这一解释能很好地描述唐僧师徒的状态。

又比如在金角大王和银角大王那一章有这样的句子：

Gold Horn said, “I hear that the Sage is a holy man who is of perfect virtue, and his flesh could bring infinite longevity to whosoever that eats it. Let’s not let them pass.”

金角大王将唐僧称为the Sage（智者，圣人），并说吃了唐僧肉可以长生不老。提到“人肉”，很多人可能会翻译human meat，但这是不对的，因为meat只能指“动物的肉”。如果是人肉，要说 human flesh ，《朗文词典》对flesh的定义是：the soft part of the body of a person or animal that is between the skin and the bones

因此作者用flesh来指“唐僧肉”是非常准确的。书中这种例子还有非常多，值得我们研究学习。

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