1840年,广东出版了一本《意拾喻言》。“意拾”,即粤语“伊索”的音译,“喻言”就是“寓言”。译者以富有文采的浅显文言译出了八十二则寓言,这是近代中国第一部忠于原著的《伊索寓言》译本。译者是英国人,书上的署名是“蒙昧先生著,门人懒惰生编译”,其实译者的真正姓名是罗伯 In 1840, Guangdong published a book entitled “Meaningful Sayings.” “Yi pick”, that is, Cantonese “Aesop” transliteration, “Yu language” is “allegory.” The translator translated eighty-two allegories in plain, rich and literary texts, the first translation of the “Aesop’s Fables” loyal to the original in modern China. Translator is British, the book’s signature is “obscurantism with a doorman lazy compilation”, in fact, the translator’s real name is Roberts