First, translation is a very thankless undertaking. You've got to serve two masters, so to speak-the original text and the translated text. But most people think rather lowly of translation and translators.
第一，翻譯是非常不討好的工作，要侍奉兩個主人，即原著和譯文，但一般人對翻譯及譯者的評價並不高。