我去找个OCR，看能不能识别成英文文本。

好吧 剽悍的人儿.

When a young bamboo sprouts. it is only an inch
long. but the joints and leaves are already latenL in it. All
naLure grows this way. whether it be cicadas and snakes. or
bamboos that shoot up a hundred feet high. Nowadays the
artists construct a bamboo. joint by joint and leaf hy
leaf. Where is the bamhoo?Therefore in paintinS bambaos,
one must have bamhoo formed in one' s breast; w at the
time of painting, one concentrates and sees what one wants
to paint. Immediately one follows the idea. handles one' s
brush to pursue the image just seen, like a hawk
swoaping down on a rabbit. With a moment's hesitation, it
蛮可以的~


ok.

would be lost. This is what Yu - k'o taught me.
undersiood what he meant. but could not carry it
ou[. That is because my hand refused to obey me.
through lack of practice. There are things with which
you are vaguely familiar; you seem to know it. but
when you want to paint it. you丑re at a loss. This is
true not only of painting bamboo - [My brother]
Tse - yu cannot paint; he merely understands the
idea. I understand not only the idea. but also have
leamed the technique.

When Yti -k'o started to paint hamboos, he did
not think highly of it himself. but people from all places
came with their silks atnd crowded his doorstep to beg
for his paintinSs. Yu - k' o was quite annoyed and
throwing the silks to the lloor, said anSrily, "I am Soinf;
to cut these up and have them made into stockings. "
- When Yti - k ' o retumed from Yangchow ( modem
Yang - hsien in Shensi) and I was at Hsuchow. he
wrote to me, "Recendy I have been telliW! scholars
that my school of ink bamboo has moved over to Hsu-
chow. and Lhat collectors should all go there. I am sure

all the material for stockings will come to you naw "
He added two lines in postscript that he wished t。
paint a bamboo grove Len ihousand feet high on a
piece of Goose Valley silk. I said to him that for that
one would require two hundred and fifty feet of silk.
and that I knew he was tired of paintiW; but only
wanted to Set Lhe silk. Yu -k' o could not reply and
only said that he was talkiry; nonsense and that there
were no bamboo groves ten thousand feet high any-
way. I answered for him with two linea from a poem:

'There are bamhoos ten thousand feet high. when you
look at their shadows cast by the moonlight. " Yu - k' 。
laughed and said. "Su always knows how to argue. hut
if I had two hundred and fifty pieces of silk I would
buy a farm in the country and retirejHe gave me
this paintinS; of the Valley of YuntanS L tall bam-
boos]aⅡd said to me it is only several feet hi8h.
but the bamboos appear to be ten thousand feet in
height -
Yu - k' o died on January 20. 1079. On Ju-
ly 7 0f that year I was sunning my coUection at

好较真的孩纸 我喜欢 . 爱你

Hu -chow. I came upon this painting and burst into

汉译英和英译汉不是一个境界啊~明天把那一小段英文译了去，也好给人家一个交代~

嘿嘿 加油吧 亲 我相信你可以的.

去淘宝了一下，这书简体本的没有了~只有孔夫子二手书有~繁体的要50+大洋~
回头去书店再找些文言文和英语翻译的书看~

64L 开始抄录过来的版本有些问题 （如：latent 变了 latenL），可能是我的电脑看不清楚。请留意！

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