China's greatest translator showed us the beauty of words
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Xu Yuanchong Profession：translator Lived：1921-2021 Birthplace：Nanchang，Jiangxi Education：National Southwest Associated University |
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a great translator.Xu Yuanchong，one of the world's most famous Chinese translators，died at the age of 100 on June 17，2021.Xu devoted （投入） himself to translation for more than 60 years.He published more than 100 translated novels，anthologies and plays in Chinese，English and French，reaching millions of readers all over the w（2）orld
orld
.A translated work should be just as beautiful as the original （原作），Xu said.He used his creativity to make this p（3）
ossible
ossible
.Instead of directly translating words from one l（4）anguage
anguage
to another，he changed the translated wording when necessary to make the text readable and relatable to readers.He translated Chinese poems into rhyming verses （押韻的詩句） in b（5）oth
oth
English and French.Thanks to his translations，English and French-speaking readers are able to better u（6）
nderstand
nderstand
Chinese literature.In 2014，Xu b（7）
ecame
ecame
the first Asian winner of the Aurora Borealis Prize for Outstanding Translation of Fiction Literature （北極光杰出文學翻譯獎），one of the world's h（8）ighest
ighest
prizes for a translator.Xu was hard-working.He lived in an old house near Peking University.Every day，he would translate about 1，000 words，working u（9）
ntil
ntil
3 to 4 am，then sleep for about three hours and get up at 6 am to c（10）ontinue
ontinue
working.He often quoted （引用） a verse from English poet Thomas Moore's The Young May Moon： "And the best of all ways to lengthen （延長） our days is to steal a few hours from the night."
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