一九八五年是林则徐诞生二百周年,特撰写此文以示纪念。林则徐是中国近代史上的卓越思想家和伟大爱国者,也是开始放眼世界,力求了解西方,探求新知的先驱,他在鸦片战争期间倡导组建翻译班子,从事外文报纸和书刊的迻译工作,为中国近代翻译史揭开了光辉的一页。 The year 1985 is the two hundredth anniversary of Lin Zexu’s birth, specially written to commemorate this article. Lin Zexu, an outstanding thinker and great patriot in modern Chinese history, was also a pioneer who began to look into the world and sought to understand the West and seek new knowledge. He advocated the formation of a translation team during the Opium War and engaged in the translation of foreign newspapers and books. Translation history opened a glorious page.