Newly Compiled High School Classical Chinese Translation and Explanation

Author: Yi Weinong
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Publishing Date: 2004-10-01
Features: To complement the use of the full-time ordinary senior high school textbooks (experimental revised edition), we have specially compiled this comprehensive edition of New High School Classical Chinese Translation and Explanation. Based on the new textbooks and teaching reference materials, this book has become an organic whole of two-in-one. Where the new textbooks and teaching reference materials explain clearly, this book directly records and explains accordingly; where they are not clear, this book provides in-depth explanations; where they are not covered, this book supplements the content; where there are disagreements with the new textbooks or teaching reference materials, this book first clarifies its own views before quoting the perspectives of the new textbooks or teaching reference materials for discussion. When there are contradictions between the new textbooks and teaching reference materials, they are combined where possible. If they cannot be combined, the new textbooks take precedence, but the perspectives of the teaching reference materials are also quoted; the reverse is also true. This book consists of two main parts: "Text Translation and Explanation" and "Unit Knowledge Classification." Each text translation and explanation in the book includes three sections: "Title Explanation," "Author (or Work) Introduction," and "Translation and Explanation." The title explanation covers the interpretation of the text title and historical background, while the author (or work) introduction focuses on introducing the author's thoughts and the historical value of the work. The translation and explanation is the key part of the text, including translation, annotations, and comments. During translation, the text below is strictly aligned with the text above. The "⊙" in parentheses before the text indicates annotations, while the text after "⊙" indicates comments. Please note that we hold a negative attitude toward annotations in small parentheses. The "Unit Knowledge Classification" summarizes and generalizes the homophones, homographs with different meanings, word class collocation, synonymous compound words, partial sense compound words, polysemy, fixed structures, sentence patterns, idioms and allusions, famous lines from poems and prose, and rhetorical devices of the unit, facilitating students' learning and review. This book emphasizes the explanation of classical Chinese grammar and syntax, as well as the structure, content, and writing characteristics of the text, striving to enable readers who are unfamiliar with classical Chinese to learn how to translate classical Chinese and understand the senior high school classical Chinese textbooks after reading this book. The book also incorporates new research findings, draws on the strengths of various schools of thought, and adheres strictly to translation, successfully solving difficult issues such as subject-verb inversion, object-predicate inversion, attributive postposition, prepositional structure (prepositional phrase) as a complement, as well as the translation of poems and lyrics. It saves teachers a lot of preparation time, and students can easily master senior high school classical Chinese with just a little guidance from the teacher. Self-taught learners can also quickly become proficient in classical Chinese with just one book in hand.