《人间词话》英译（一百一十四）

（毛文锡）词比牛、薛诸人，殊为不及。叶梦得谓：“文锡词以质直为情致，殊不知流于率露。诸人评庸陋词者，必曰：此仿毛文锡之《[赞成功]而不及者。”其言是也。<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

[Mao Wen-hsi’s] tz’u cannot be compared favorably with those of such writers as Niu Ch’iao and Hsueh Chao-yun. Yeh Meng-te says: ‘Wen-hsi considered a basic, direct [style best for] expressing his feelings fully, without realizing at all that this could become too trite and obvious. Those critics commenting on ordinary low-class tz’u might easily say, “This resembles Mao Wen-hsi’s ‘Tsan ch’eng kung’ but is slightly inferior…”’