In his third year at university, he started to learn translation. In those days, nobody worried too much about copyright, so he bought a second-hand English-language magazine and translated a number of short stories into Chinese, which he then sent to the family section of the Central Daily newspaper. After a number of tries, his work was finally accepted.
在政戰升上三年級後，賴世雄又開始學習翻譯工作，當時著作權法尚未實施，他從中華路的二手英文書報攤，選購有小說的英文雜誌進行翻譯，並試著寄給中央日報家庭版。