2009年11月23日凌晨,著译等身的翻译大家杨宪益先生因病医治无效,驾鹤西归,享年九十四岁。宪益先生同他的英籍夫人戴乃迭上世纪50年代初就在外文出版社从事诸多的中国古典名著的翻译工作。那时我也刚进外文出版社从事外文书籍的装帧设计,便同宪益先生有间接的接触,他同戴乃迭合 In the early hours of November 23, 2009, Mr. Yang Hsien-yi, who translated all the translations, was invalid because of his medical treatment and flew to the West. He was 94 years old. Mr. Xian Yi, together with his British wife, Gladys, is a translator of many Chinese classics in a foreign language publishing house in the early 1950s. At that time, I also just entered the foreign language publishing house engaged in the design of foreign books binding, it has an indirect contact with Mr. Xian, he and Dai Ni Diego