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杨宪益译本充分还原了萧伯纳犀利而诙谐的语言风格，表现力极强。
作者简介
萧伯纳（Bernard Shaw,1856—1950）
1925年诺贝尔文学奖获得者，现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家。
擅长写作辩论式对话，意在引发读者思考，是集幽默与深刻为一体的语言大师。
译者简介
杨宪益（1915—2009）
中国著名的翻译家、外国文学研究专家、文化史学者、诗人。他从事翻译工作近50年，着力中文作品英译，内容遍及《离骚》《红楼梦》等中国古典文学，及鲁迅、巴金等现当代名家，被誉为“翻译了整个中国的人”。
The historical drama Caesar and Cleopatra tells a variety of stories that happened between Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra during his expedition in the Roman Empire. In Caesar and Cleopatra, the outstanding playwright George Bernard Shaw created bright and complex characters and depicted their witty dialogues to express Shaw's political ideals. Satirize the turbulent reality of European imperialism spreading across the globe at that time.
In "Flower Girl", Eliza agreed to the experiment of phonetician Sijins, and changed as a famous door. George Bernard Shaw used the Flower Girl to attack the decadent and conservative sense of hierarchy in British society at that time. After its publication in 1912, Flower Girl was an immediate success and was adapted as a stage play on Broadway in 1956 and as a film starring Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady in 1964, winning eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Yang Xianyi's translation fully restores Shaw's sharp and witty language style, with strong expression.
About the author
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and is one of the most outstanding modern writers of realistic drama.
He is good at writing argument-style dialogues, intended to provoke readers to think, and is a master of language integrating humor and profound.
Translator's introduction
Yang Xianyi (1915-2009)
He is a famous Chinese translator, an expert in foreign literature, a scholar of cultural history and a poet. He has been engaged in translation work for nearly 50 years, focusing on English translation of Chinese works, covering Chinese classical literature such as Li SAO and A Dream of Red Mansions, as well as modern and contemporary famous artists such as Lu Xun and Ba Jin, and is known as "the man who translated the whole of China".
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