霍譯：

‘If he read thirty books of the Poetry Classic,'said Jia Zheng, ‘ it would still be tomfoolery. No doubt he hopes to deceive others with this sort of thing，but he does not deceive me....'

4)邢夫人王夫人帶領(lǐng)尤氏鳳姐并族中幾個媳婦，兩溜雁翅站在賈母身后侍立。（第七十一回）

楊譯：

...and Madam You，Xifeng and some other daughters-in-law, headed by Lady Xing and Lady Wang, ranged themselves behind her on both sides to wait on the guests.

霍譯：

Lady Xing and Lady Wang stood in attendance behind Grandmother Jia's chair，with You-shi, Xi-feng and a number of other Jia ladies fanning out to left and right behind them.

5)只見他里頭穿著……越顯的蜂腰猿背，鶴勢螂形。眾人都笑道：“偏他只愛打扮成個小子的樣兒，原比他打扮女兒更俏麗了些。” (第四十九回）

楊譯：

...she revealed a... With her slender build she looked thoroughly neat and dashing.

"She loves dressing up like a boy,"they teased."And that costume suits her better than a girl's."

霍譯：

She had on a... The whole ensemble greatly enhanced the somewhat masculine appearance of her figure with its graceful，athletic bearing.

The others laughed ：

‘She loves dressing up as a boy. Actually she looks even more fetching in boy's clothes than she does as a girl.'

例3的“掩耳偷鈴”是賈政對寶玉學習《詩經(jīng)》的態(tài)度，表現(xiàn)了他滿腦子的《四書》、《五經(jīng)》、科舉、八股。短短一句話，借助這個生動妥帖的比喻，就使賈政沽名釣譽、頤指氣使的封建家長形象躍然紙上。例4的“兩溜雁翅”意即“象兩排展翅飛翔的大雁似的”，把賈母八旬大壽人席時的禮法秩序和壯觀場面活現(xiàn)出來。例5用“顯的”作喻詞，僅用 “蜂腰猿背，鶴勢螂形”這八個字就把湘云穿戴打扮成“小子的樣兒”刻畫了出來。顯然，這些暗喻的修辭效果是不容忽視的，但是兩個譯本卻采取了令人遺憾的忽視態(tài)度。

當然，就暗喻的翻譯而言，兩譯本帶給讀者更多的不是遺憾，而是架起了溝通原作與譯文讀者的橋梁，創(chuàng)造出許多與原作如影隨形的妙語佳喻：

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