1.第1句直译为 A Dream of Red Mansions is written in the 18th century and it is a famous Chinese classical novel,稍显平淡没有重点,将句首的“……写成于18世纪”处理成状语,用过去分词短语writtenin the 18th century来表达,将后一分句“是中国著名的古典长篇小说”处理成主干,句子主次更分明。2.第2句可直译为 The novel consists of 120 chapters with the first 80 being written by... and the left 40 by...,但稍显繁冗、生硬。将该句转译为由两个并列结构和一个介词结构组成的简单句,结构会更明了,即将句首的“小说共计120回”译为介词短语in this 120-chapter novel,“前80回的作者是......,后40回由......完成”则译成并列结构 the first 80 chapters were written by... and the left 40 by...,后一个并列结构可承前省略“由......完成”(were written)。3.第3句后一分句中的“展示了清朝封建社会的兴衰”的核心是“展示兴衰”(reveal the rise and fall),“兴衰”前的定语“清朝封建社会的”较长,可按英语表达习惯处理成后置定语,而“清朝”和“封建社会的”则可按照与中心词的关系越紧密越靠近中心词的表达习惯,译作the feudalsociety in the Qing Dynasty。4.分析最后一句的结构可发现,后一分句“其中最成功的当属……”属于对前半句内容的补充说明,故可将其处理成修饰前一分句内容的非限制性定语从句,译作amongwhich the most successful is... directed by Wang Fulin in 1987。