浮生六記Preface
Yun. I think, is one of the loveliest women in Chinese literature.
芸，我想，是中国文学中最可爱的女人。
She is not the most beautiful，for the author, her husband, does not make that claim, and yet who can deny that she is the loveliest?
她并非最美丽，因为这书的作者，她的丈夫，并没有这样推崇。
She is just think one of those charming women one sometimes sees in the homes of one’s friends, so happy with their husbands’ that one cannot fall in love with them .
但是谁能否认她是一个可爱的女人？她只是在我们朋友家中有时遇见有风韵的丽人，因与其夫伉俪情笃，令人尽绝倾慕之念。
One is glad merely to know th