Our prize represents recognition by our fellow translators of the quality of our translation, to be sure, but the significance goes beyond that. More importantly, the prize shows that the translation community in the US is gradually beginning to understand the difficulties involved in translating contemporary Chinese literature. Because languages like French or Italian are similar to English in many ways, they are much easier to translate than Chinese.
這個獎代表的不僅是我們的翻譯同行對我們翻譯的肯定，更重要的是，美國翻譯界逐漸瞭解中國當代文學英譯的困難，法文或義大利等語言，由於與英文有許多相似之處，相形之下，要容易多了。