Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Chapter 2 Part 3

King Zhou of the Shang, the Son of Heaven, was ecstatic after hearing what Shang Rong had to say, and he said, ‘Your words are extremely good.’ And so this was what he commanded of the Officers of the Yellow Gate: ‘Summon the Four Greater Barons before me; the other Barons I shall greet outside.’

When the Four Greater Barons received their summons to see the King, they tidied their dress, and wore their best jade; they walked through the Gate past the ? of Nine Dragons. When they reached the Courtyard, they heard a loud cry instructing them to pay their respects to the King, and they all prostrated themselves before him. The King said, very gently, ‘You have all very kindly made your way to pay me tribute, and you have helped me greatly in my endeavours. Even though you were physically afar, yet it seems as if you are always working hard beside me; how noble your deeds are! I am extremely happy with all this!’

2 comments:

S. Boyd Taylor said...

So sad to see that you stopped translating this back in 2007. This is the best translation I've stumbled across, free or otherwise. Do you have any more of it?

Dennis Lee said...

Actually I'm quite interested in the Nezha part of the novel... mainly because I'm doing translation of Sword Art Online Progressive 1 now...haha

There is also a more interesting, parody version of the Nezha part on tianya forum. You can read that if you are interested.. http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-no17-56068-1.shtml

不知道你现在是做什么的?中文应该还不错吧?