傅雷

Fù Léi
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Fu Lei (1908–1966), translator of French literature

Examples

HSK 4
Fù Léi fānyì le hěnduō Bā'ěrzhākè de xiǎoshuō.
Fu Lei translated many of Balzac's novels.
HSK 6
Fù Léi xiě gěi érzi de xìn, hòulái biānchéng le yì běn shū.
The letters Fu Lei wrote to his son were later collected into a book.

Tips

history
Born in 1908 near Shanghai, he studied in Paris and translated more than thirty works, among them Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe and much of Balzac. He held that a translation should catch the spirit of the original rather than copy its form, which he called 神似. He and his wife died in 1966.

In Pop Culture

傅雷家书 Fù Léi jiāshū
Fu Lei's Family Letters
His letters to his son 傅聪, a concert pianist abroad, on art, music and how to live; published in 1981 and still widely read.

Stroke Order

傅 fù
雷 léi