中国文化源远流长、博大精深，几千年的流传积淀，为后人留下了无数智慧的结晶。
“得知千载上，正赖古人书。”这些浩如烟海的古史典籍、文学名著，即使历经千年，也依然是中国智慧的源头活水，至今都为人们所用。
讲好中国故事、传递中国声音，一直无数翻译工作者努力在做的事情。
那么如果要用英语介绍这些名著典籍，你知道你知道怎么说吗？今天我们就一起来学习下这些经典名著的英译名吧。
四大名著Four Great Classical Novels
其他常见译名：
Four Masterpieces of China
Fouric
the Four Classic Novels
1、《西游记》Journey to the West
Journey to the West is the first Romantic chapter novel about gods and demons in ancient China. There are 100 copies of Journey to the West in the existing Ming Publications without the author's signature. Wu Yuxuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Chengen of the Ming Dynasty.
《西游记》是中国古代第一部浪漫主义章回体长篇神魔小说。现存明刊百回本《西游记》均无作者署名。清代学者吴玉搢等首先提出《西游记》作者是明代吴承恩。
其他常见译名：
The Journey to the West
Pilgrimage to the West
The Monkey King
2、《红楼梦》Dream of the Red Chamber/ The Story of the Stone
Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese ancient chapter novel, also known as The Story of the Stone, has been listed as the first of the fourical works in China. It is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer of the Qing Dynasty.
《红楼梦》，中国古代章回体长篇小说，又名《石头记》，被列为中国古典四大名著之首，一般认为是清代作家曹雪芹所著。
其他常见译名：
A Dream of Red Mansions
The Dream of the Red Chamber
3、《三国演义》Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Romance of theThree Kingdoms is one of the four famousical works in China. It is the first full-length historical Romance novel in China. The author is Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.
《三国演义》是中国古典四大名著之一，是中国第一部长篇章回体历史演义小说，作者是元末明初的著名小说家罗贯中。
其他常见译名：
The Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms
4、《水浒传》Water Margin
“Water Margin”is one of the four famous works in China, is a long chapter novel with the Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty as the main background and type of heroic legend.Authors or editors are generally regardedas Shi Nai'an. Most of the existing publications are signed by one or both of them, Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong.
《水浒传》，中国四大名著之一，是一部以北宋末年宋江起义为主要故事背景、类型上属于英雄传奇的章回体长篇小说。作者或编者一般被认为是施耐庵，现存刊本署名大多有施耐庵、罗贯中两人中的一人，或两人皆有。
其他常见译名：
Outlaws of the Marsh
All Men Are Brothers
Tale of the Marshes
Men/Heros of the Marshes
The Marshes of Mount Liang
四书The Four Books
《大学》The Great Learning
《中庸》The Doctrine of the Mean
《论语》The Analects of Confucius
《孟子》The Words of Mencius
五经The Five Classics
《诗经》The Book of Songs
《尚书》The Book of History
《易经》The Book of Changes
《礼记》The Book of Rites
《春秋》The Spring and Autumn Annals
其他名著《弟子规》Standard for Students
《三字经》Three-character Scripture
《道德经》 The Classic of the Virtue of the Dao/ The Book of Lao Zi/Dao De Jing
《史记》Records of the Grand Historian
《资治通鉴》 History as a Mirror
《孙子兵法》 The Art of War
《本草纲目》 Compendium of Materia Medica
《聊斋志异》 Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio
《西厢记》 The Romance of West Chamber
《世纪新说》New sayings of the World
《徐霞客游记》Travels of Xu Xiake
《山海经》 the Classic of Mountains and Rivers / Mountain and Sea Classics
各种文学作品类型的英语表达文学，文学作品，文献：literature
书籍：book
著作，作品：work
小说：novel, fiction
散文：prose
诗歌：poetry
诗：poem
寓言：fable
故事：story
神话：myth
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