I have been looking at Giles 'examination papers and they are a joke. Some of the passages for translation would be from joke books or whatever he happened to be reading at the time, and even the papers on history were a bit of a joke.
我曾經調出翟理斯教授當年的考卷來看，發現試卷上的題目竟出自中國笑話，或許那碰巧是他當時手邊正在讀的東西。