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《怀旧》是鲁迅最早的一篇小说，但因为是用文言所写，且直到鲁迅身后才收入《集外集拾遗》，所以远不如他的白话小说那样受到英译者的关注。
海外学者最早将《怀旧》译成英文的是美国汉学家威廉·莱尔（William A.Lyell）。莱尔的译文作为附录发表于他1976年出版的研究专著《鲁迅的现实观》（Lu Hsun's Vision of Reality），后又收入他1990年出版的鲁迅小说全译本——《狂人日记和其他小说》（Diary of a Madman and Other Stories）。总体来说，莱尔的译文比较准确。但也有几处问题，最为严重的是两处。
第一处的原文是：“予……知耀宗曾以二十一岁无子，急蓄妾三人，而秃先生亦云以不孝有三，无后为大，故尝投三十一金，购如夫人一，则优礼之故，自因耀宗纯孝。”莱尔的译文是：
I remembered that in the past Yao-tsung, having reached the ripe old age of twenty-one without having sired a son, had taken three pretty concubines into his household.Baldy had also started mouthing the saying “There are three things that are unfilial and to lack posterity is the greatest of these” as if to justify Yao-tsung's conduct.The latter was so moved by this that he gave Baldy twenty-one pieces of gold so that he too could buy a secondary wife.Thus I concluded that Baldy's reason for treating Yao-tsung with such unusual courtesy was that the latter had shown himself to be thoroughly fil
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