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Chinese translation: 动物寓言（集）

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English term or phrase:	bestiary
Chinese translation:	动物寓言（集）
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02:40 Apr 16, 2006

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English term or phrase: bestiary

Puyang River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Translate this page ]... and Guanyenshan (官岩山), where legend says Yu the Great (Yu (Xia dynasty ruler)) ordered the opening of a channel for the Puyang River. Some of these names appear to come from the Shanhai Jing 山海经: A Chinese Bestiary). ...
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寓言（集）

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寓言（集）

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Note added at 11 mins (2006-04-16 02:51:57 GMT)
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金山词霸上解释：动物寓言，常有道德寓意

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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-04-16 09:57:36 GMT)
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应该译成“民间故事集”

可能那位英文作者理解错了

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stonejohn
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related to this forum discussion: http://www.proz.com/topic/44416 (但是变成了一条死路!) 我本来就是认为把山海经当作bestiary有一点不太合适.

bestiary? 英文的意思我都搞不太清楚!
1 here is a 'bestiary' (= glossary of miraculous birds and beasts?) that refers to classical myth:
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/BESTIARY.html; 2 dictionary definition = a type of medieval natural history book with moralistic or religious fables about real and mythical animals
3 ""山海经"是中国古代地理名著.内容主要是地理方面的民间传说,其中保存了很多远古的神话.......精卫填海,夸夫逐日反映了中国远古人民战胜大自然的强烈愿望和顽强的斗争精神"(北京语言学远编'文言读本'商务印书馆,北京,1980)"山海经大约成书与战国时代,秦汉时有忧增补." 跟上述二者都不一样?
4 山海经属'Records of Marvels'? 'It records strange phenomena and deities of the mountains and rivers, as well as the sacrifices to them.' (Lu Xun "A Brief History of Chinese Fiction")

山海经属'志'还是'集'? Angus 的建议令我想到'志怪'...其实我这方面的知识非常浅薄.不好意思. 我觉得Angus提出的建'神仙誌"也很不错.谢谢大家的热情与耐心!

bestiary 主要是欧洲中世纪的东西,还是'动物寓言集'最正确.

Sorry, two questions here. 搞的有一点混乱.

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寓言（集）

stonejohn

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神仙誌

Angus Woo

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神仙誌

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山海經 in fact is a collection of descriptions of both real and imaginary animals and of some deities, even geography.

Therefore I suppose it's a sort of 誌.

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